1.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

2.Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

3.Death - Leprosy

4.Autopsy - Severed Survival

5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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I've been a fan of metal music for a little over five years now. For most of that, I've just not liked death metal. It simply failed to hook me, and I simply preferred black, doom, etc?

Over time, though, I heard a few albums that slowly made me grow more interested in the genre, and ultimately led to me growing a curiosity, then an appreciation, for the style. Anyways, this is the sequence of albums that got me hooked on exploring death metal, and what I would play for anyone I was trying to introduce the style to.

1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.Hypocrisy - Abducted

3.Opeth - Still Life

4.Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure

5.Septicflesh - Communion

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In the last several hours, I have (as is rarely the case) had a good, big breakfast + dinner.

I feel great.

...as is rarely the case. So - what have I consumed, to put this diamond-in-the-rough smile on my dial? For once, no junk. No crap. No chips, no lollies, no chocolate bars, no Great White Bread. No shark either - but indeed, some fantastic fish.

1.Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription

2.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

5.Entombed - Left Hand Path

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Updated 10/23/18

1.Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance

2.Nails - Unsilent Death

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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Top ten list of the best death metal releases in 2010

1.Desultory - Counting Our Scars

2.Hail Of Bullets - On Divine Winds

3.Immolation - Majesty And Decay

4.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

5.Entrails - Tales From The Morgue

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You know it's a rough year when this much Stoner crap makes it on lol. Fuck the 2010's.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead (Death/Doom)
The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery (Gothic)
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Avant-Garde/Gothic)

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Watain - Lawless Darkness

3.Dark Fortress - Ylem

4.Helloween - 7 Sinners

5.Sodom - In War And Pieces

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Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.

My taste is very much centred around the power of the riff. That means most of the albums on this list are thrash, death, heavy, black, or some offshoot of those genres.

1.After The Burial - Dig Deep

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Carcass - Surgical Steel

4.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

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1.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

2.Behemoth - Evangelion

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Decapitated - Nihility

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Entirely subjective viewpoint. Nothing more, and nothing less.

1.Burzum - Belus

2.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

4.Blood Of The Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual

5.Motörhead - The Wörld Is Yours

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1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Ihsahn - After

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

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Immolation is my favorite death metal band by a pretty comfortable margin, so I figured I'd throw my rankings out here.
Note - there are a few album placements here that are NOTABLY different from the average Immolation fan

1.Immolation - Close To A World Below

2.Immolation - Unholy Cult

3.Immolation - Acts Of God

4.Immolation - Atonement

5.Immolation - Majesty And Decay

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

2.Rotting Christ - Aealo

3.Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function

4.Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship

5.Dark Fortress - Ylem

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1.Watain - Lawless Darkness

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Hail Of Bullets - On Divine Winds

4.Insidious Disease - Shadowcast

5.System Divide - The Conscious Sedation

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1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

3.Overkill - Ironbound

4.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

5.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

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I rated 1st Place 10/10; 2nd-6th Place 9/10 and 7th-24th Place 8/10. So it was kind of hard for me to create this list, because there are many albums with a same ranking. There is some arbitrariness in there especially around the 12th-20th place.

1.Opeth - In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall

2.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

3.Asphyx - Live Death Doom

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.At The Gates - Purgatory Unleashed

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