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    Top 100 Death metal albums

    1 Death
    Symbolic (1995)
    9.25
    2450
    2 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson (1996)
    9.13
    974
    3 Dissection
    Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)
    9.08
    1186
    4 Be'lakor
    Stone's Reach (2009)
    8.96
    1220
    5 Sepultura
    Arise (1991)
    8.93
    1420
    6 Death
    Human (1991)
    8.93
    1706
    7 Gojira
    From Mars To Sirius (2005)
    8.92
    1205
    8 Sepultura
    Beneath The Remains (1989)
    8.88
    1249
    9 Septicflesh
    Communion (2008)
    8.88
    1066
    10 Insomnium
    Winter's Gate (2016)
    8.86
    897
    11 Bolt Thrower
    Those Once Loyal (2005)
    8.84
    627
    12 Morbid Angel
    Altars Of Madness (1989)
    8.83
    975
    13 Carcass
    Heartwork (1993)
    8.82
    1163
    14 Insomnium
    Above The Weeping World (2006)
    8.82
    1007
    15 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson II (2003)
    8.79
    518
    16 Death
    Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
    8.79
    1569
    17 Amorphis
    Under The Red Cloud (2015)
    8.77
    1053
    18 Amorphis
    Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)
    8.75
    1072
    19 Cynic
    Focus (1993)
    8.73
    766
    20 Atheist
    Unquestionable Presence (1991)
    8.73
    582
    21 Amon Amarth
    With Oden On Our Side (2006)
    8.72
    1790
    22 Cryptopsy
    None So Vile (1996)
    8.68
    546
    23 Nile
    Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005)
    8.67
    832
    24 Swallow The Sun
    The Morning Never Came (2003)
    8.67
    669
    25 Amorphis
    Queen Of Time (2018)
    8.67
    897
    26 Entombed
    Left Hand Path (1990)
    8.66
    606
    27 Carcass
    Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious (1991)
    8.66
    728
    28 Obituary
    Cause Of Death (1990)
    8.65
    620
    29 Be'lakor
    Of Breath And Bone (2012)
    8.65
    1114
    30 The Chasm
    Procession To The Infraworld (1999)
    8.65
    26
    31 Bloodbath
    Nightmares Made Flesh (2004)
    8.65
    743
    32 Shylmagoghnar
    Emergence (2014)
    8.64
    250
    33 Suffocation
    Pierced From Within (1995)
    8.64
    398
    34 Necrophagist
    Onset Of Putrefaction (1999)
    8.64
    418
    35 Dismember
    Like An Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
    8.64
    444
    36 Necrophagist
    Epitaph (2004)
    8.64
    545
    37 Amon Amarth
    Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)
    8.64
    1861
    38 Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
    A Virgin And A Whore (2001)
    8.64
    525
    39 Morbid Angel
    Covenant (1993)
    8.64
    725
    40 Immolation
    Close To A World Below (2000)
    8.64
    316
    41 In Mourning
    Shrouded Divine (2008)
    8.63
    470
    42 Swallow The Sun
    New Moon (2009)
    8.63
    610
    43 Edge Of Sanity
    Purgatory Afterglow (1994)
    8.62
    416
    44 Mors Principium Est
    The Unborn (2005)
    8.62
    374
    45 Bolt Thrower
    ...For Victory (1994)
    8.62
    432
    46 Be'lakor
    Vessels (2016)
    8.62
    780
    47 Dawn
    Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) (1998)
    8.62
    147
    48 Dissection
    The Somberlain (1993)
    8.62
    691
    49 Gojira
    The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
    8.61
    880
    50 Nocturnus
    The Key (1990)
    8.61
    284
    51 Garden Of Shadows
    Oracle Moon (2000)
    8.61
    101
    52 Vital Remains
    Dechristianize (2003)
    8.61
    233
    53 Suffocation
    Effigy Of The Forgotten (1991)
    8.61
    397
    54 Nile
    In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
    8.61
    585
    55 Pestilence
    Consuming Impulse (1989)
    8.61
    315
    56 Sacrilege GBG
    The Fifth Season (1997)
    8.61
    23
    57 Pestilence
    Testimony Of The Ancients (1991)
    8.61
    309
    58 Septicflesh
    Sumerian Daemons (2003)
    8.6
    541
    59 Quo Vadis
    Day Into Night (2000)
    8.6
    214
    60 Quo Vadis
    Defiant Imagination (2004)
    8.6
    263
    61 Obscura
    Cosmogenesis (2009)
    8.6
    579
    62 Omnium Gatherum
    New World Shadows (2011)
    8.59
    705
    63 Omnium Gatherum
    Beyond (2013)
    8.59
    630
    64 Daylight Dies
    Dismantling Devotion (2006)
    8.59
    175
    65 Rapture
    Futile (1999)
    8.59
    160
    66 Persefone
    Spiritual Migration (2013)
    8.59
    475
    67 Beyond Creation
    The Aura (2011)
    8.58
    307
    68 An Abstract Illusion
    Woe (2022)
    8.58
    401
    69 Kalmah
    Swampsong (2003)
    8.58
    546
    70 Lykathea Aflame
    Elvenefris (2000)
    8.57
    188
    71 Gorguts
    Obscura (1998)
    8.57
    317
    72 Kalisia
    Cybion (2009)
    8.57
    418
    73 Necrophobic
    The Nocturnal Silence (1993)
    8.57
    204
    74 Cattle Decapitation
    Monolith Of Inhumanity (2012)
    8.57
    370
    75 Kalmah
    Swamplord (2000)
    8.57
    549
    76 Slugdge
    Esoteric Malacology (2018)
    8.56
    347
    77 Death
    Leprosy (1988)
    8.56
    1283
    78 Bolt Thrower
    The IVth Crusade (1992)
    8.56
    400
    79 Witherscape
    The Northern Sanctuary (2016)
    8.55
    311
    80 Torture Squad
    Pandemonium (2003)
    8.55
    44
    81 Possessed
    Seven Churches (1985)
    8.55
    440
    82 Gates Of Ishtar
    At Dusk And Forever (1998)
    8.55
    73
    83 Evoken
    Antithesis Of Light (2005)
    8.55
    165
    84 Persefone
    Core (2006)
    8.55
    235
    85 Scar Symmetry
    Holographic Universe (2008)
    8.55
    529
    86 Dragged Into Sunlight
    Hatred For Mankind (2009)
    8.55
    121
    87 Dominia
    Divine Revolution (2006)
    8.55
    99
    88 Deicide
    Deicide (1990)
    8.54
    520
    89 Mercenary
    11 Dreams (2004)
    8.54
    211
    90 Akercocke
    Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
    8.54
    245
    91 Arsis
    A Celebration Of Guilt (2004)
    8.54
    200
    92 Swallow The Sun
    Hope (2007)
    8.54
    484
    93 Swallow The Sun
    Songs From The North I, II & III (2015)
    8.54
    480
    94 Evoken
    Quietus (2001)
    8.54
    134
    95 Entombed
    Clandestine (1991)
    8.54
    408
    96 Amorphis
    Skyforger (2009)
    8.54
    1087
    97 Morbid Angel
    Blessed Are The Sick (1991)
    8.54
    669
    98 Scar Symmetry
    Pitch Black Progress (2006)
    8.54
    413
    99 Hypocrisy
    Virus (2005)
    8.54
    528
    100 Kalmah
    They Will Return (2002)
    8.54
    509