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    Top 100 Death metal albums

    1 Death
    Symbolic (1995)
    9.25
    2519
    2 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson (1996)
    9.13
    993
    3 Dissection
    Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)
    9.08
    1213
    4 Be'lakor
    Stone's Reach (2009)
    8.96
    1245
    5 Sepultura
    Arise (1991)
    8.94
    1440
    6 Death
    Human (1991)
    8.93
    1747
    7 Gojira
    From Mars To Sirius (2005)
    8.92
    1236
    8 Septicflesh
    Communion (2008)
    8.88
    1079
    9 Sepultura
    Beneath The Remains (1989)
    8.88
    1273
    10 Insomnium
    Winter's Gate (2016)
    8.85
    917
    11 Bolt Thrower
    Those Once Loyal (2005)
    8.85
    645
    12 Morbid Angel
    Altars Of Madness (1989)
    8.83
    1007
    13 Carcass
    Heartwork (1993)
    8.83
    1185
    14 Insomnium
    Above The Weeping World (2006)
    8.81
    1019
    15 Death
    Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
    8.79
    1604
    16 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson II (2003)
    8.77
    524
    17 Amorphis
    Under The Red Cloud (2015)
    8.77
    1073
    18 Amorphis
    Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)
    8.75
    1087
    19 Extreme Noise Terror
    Retro-Bution (1995)
    8.73
    22
    20 Atheist
    Unquestionable Presence (1991)
    8.73
    597
    21 Amon Amarth
    With Oden On Our Side (2006)
    8.72
    1804
    22 Cynic
    Focus (1993)
    8.72
    775
    23 Cryptopsy
    None So Vile (1996)
    8.69
    558
    24 Amorphis
    Queen Of Time (2018)
    8.68
    920
    25 Nile
    Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005)
    8.68
    854
    26 Swallow The Sun
    The Morning Never Came (2003)
    8.68
    686
    27 Entombed
    Left Hand Path (1990)
    8.67
    621
    28 The Chasm
    Procession To The Infraworld (1999)
    8.67
    33
    29 Blood Incantation
    Absolute Elsewhere (2024)
    8.67
    369
    30 Iotunn
    Kinship (2024)
    8.67
    230
    31 Carcass
    Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious (1991)
    8.66
    746
    32 Be'lakor
    Of Breath And Bone (2012)
    8.66
    1130
    33 Bloodbath
    Nightmares Made Flesh (2004)
    8.66
    754
    34 Obituary
    Cause Of Death (1990)
    8.65
    629
    35 Amon Amarth
    Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)
    8.64
    1885
    36 Immolation
    Close To A World Below (2000)
    8.64
    322
    37 Suffocation
    Pierced From Within (1995)
    8.64
    401
    38 Shylmagoghnar
    Emergence (2014)
    8.64
    254
    39 Morbid Angel
    Covenant (1993)
    8.64
    744
    40 Dismember
    Like An Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
    8.64
    455
    41 Necrophagist
    Epitaph (2004)
    8.64
    552
    42 Nile
    In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
    8.63
    602
    43 Suffocation
    Effigy Of The Forgotten (1991)
    8.63
    404
    44 Swallow The Sun
    New Moon (2009)
    8.63
    621
    45 Bolt Thrower
    ...For Victory (1994)
    8.63
    442
    46 Pestilence
    Consuming Impulse (1989)
    8.63
    329
    47 Necrophagist
    Onset Of Putrefaction (1999)
    8.63
    424
    48 Pestilence
    Testimony Of The Ancients (1991)
    8.63
    321
    49 Be'lakor
    Vessels (2016)
    8.62
    793
    50 Gojira
    The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
    8.62
    903
    51 Nocturnus
    The Key (1990)
    8.62
    293
    52 Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
    A Virgin And A Whore (2001)
    8.62
    528
    53 Kartikeya
    Mahayuga (2011)
    8.62
    32
    54 Dissection
    The Somberlain (1993)
    8.62
    707
    55 Edge Of Sanity
    Purgatory Afterglow (1994)
    8.61
    428
    56 Mors Principium Est
    The Unborn (2005)
    8.61
    378
    57 In Mourning
    Shrouded Divine (2008)
    8.61
    476
    58 Dawn
    Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) (1998)
    8.6
    160
    59 Vital Remains
    Dechristianize (2003)
    8.6
    241
    60 Garden Of Shadows
    Oracle Moon (2000)
    8.6
    104
    61 Septicflesh
    Sumerian Daemons (2003)
    8.6
    549
    62 Obscura
    Cosmogenesis (2009)
    8.59
    588
    63 Quo Vadis
    Day Into Night (2000)
    8.59
    219
    64 Omnium Gatherum
    Beyond (2013)
    8.59
    638
    65 Omnium Gatherum
    New World Shadows (2011)
    8.59
    710
    66 Lykathea Aflame
    Elvenefris (2000)
    8.58
    194
    67 Persefone
    Spiritual Migration (2013)
    8.58
    486
    68 Kalmah
    Swampsong (2003)
    8.58
    556
    69 Daylight Dies
    Dismantling Devotion (2006)
    8.58
    179
    70 Gorguts
    Obscura (1998)
    8.57
    330
    71 Kalmah
    Swamplord (2000)
    8.57
    555
    72 An Abstract Illusion
    Woe (2022)
    8.57
    414
    73 Kalisia
    Cybion (2009)
    8.57
    418
    74 Scar Symmetry
    Holographic Universe (2008)
    8.56
    534
    75 Beyond Creation
    The Aura (2011)
    8.56
    311
    76 Rapture
    Futile (1999)
    8.56
    165
    77 Death
    Leprosy (1988)
    8.55
    1318
    78 Swallow The Sun
    Songs From The North I, II & III (2015)
    8.55
    491
    79 Dawn Of Tears
    Descent (2007)
    8.55
    88
    80 Dominia
    Divine Revolution (2006)
    8.55
    99
    81 Mercenary
    11 Dreams (2004)
    8.55
    215
    82 Witherscape
    The Northern Sanctuary (2016)
    8.55
    315
    83 Bolt Thrower
    The IVth Crusade (1992)
    8.55
    420
    84 Cattle Decapitation
    Monolith Of Inhumanity (2012)
    8.55
    379
    85 Kalmah
    They Will Return (2002)
    8.54
    516
    86 Necrophobic
    The Nocturnal Silence (1993)
    8.54
    213
    87 Decapitated
    Winds Of Creation (2000)
    8.54
    372
    88 Persefone
    Core (2006)
    8.54
    242
    89 Quo Vadis
    Defiant Imagination (2004)
    8.54
    268
    90 Fulci
    Tropical Sun (2019)
    8.54
    26
    91 Slugdge
    Esoteric Malacology (2018)
    8.54
    355
    92 Amorphis
    Skyforger (2009)
    8.54
    1103
    93 The Monolith Deathcult
    Trivmvirate (2008)
    8.54
    126
    94 Godgory
    Way Beyond (2001)
    8.53
    53
    95 Entombed
    Clandestine (1991)
    8.53
    411
    96 Akercocke
    Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
    8.53
    246
    97 Deicide
    Deicide (1990)
    8.53
    534
    98 Morbid Angel
    Blessed Are The Sick (1991)
    8.53
    690
    99 Swallow The Sun
    Hope (2007)
    8.53
    491
    100 Autopsy
    Severed Survival (1989)
    8.53
    255