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Classic Death Metal Top 100


Created by: Alexbridger | 14.03.2011



1. Carcass - Heartwork
1993
2. Entombed - Clandestine
1991
3. Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
1990
4. Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
1991
5. Gorefest - False
1992
6. Massacra - Final Holocaust
1991
7. Benediction - Subconscious Terror
1990
8. Asphyx - The Rack
1991
9. Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium
1991
10. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh
1990
11. Death - Human
1991
12. Disharmonic Orchestra - Expositionsprophylaxe
1991
13. Grave - Into The Grave
1990
14. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
1991
15. Messiah - Rotten Perish
1992
16. Protector - Urm The Mad
1992
17. Obituary - Cause Of Death
1991
18. Nocturnus - The Key
1990
19. Morgoth - Cursed
1991
20. Massacre - From Beyond
1990
21. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
1990
22. Anathema - Serenades
1993
23. Cancer - Death Shall Rise
1991
24. Carnage - Dark Recollections
1991
25. Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
1992
26. Dark Millennium - Ashore The Celestial Burden
1992
27. Desultory - Bitterness
1994
28. Carbonized - For The Security
1991
29. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
1991
30. Cynic - Focus
1993
31. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
1991
32. Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine
1992
33. Gorguts - Considered Dead
1991
34. Loudblast - Disincarnate
1991
35. Mortification - Scrolls Of The Megilloth
1992
36. Morbid Angel - Covenant
1993
37. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
1992
38. Disgrace - Grey Misery
1990
39. Desecrator (UK) - Subconscious Release
1991
40. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
1992
41. Blood - Christbait
1991
42. Sinister - Cross The Styx
1992
43. Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth
1991
44. Torchure - Beyond The Veil
1992
45. Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
1992
46. Tiamat - Clouds
1993
47. Pyogenesis - Sweet X-Rated Nothings
1994
48. Terrorizer - World Downfall
1989
49. Defecation - Purity Dilution
1989
50. Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies In Red
1992
51. Immortalis - Indicium De Mortuis
1991
52. Brutality - When The Sky Turns Black
1992
53. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
1994
54. Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
1994
55. At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
1992
56. Babylon Sad - Kyrie
1993
57. BANISHED - Deliver Me unto Pain
1993
58. Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
1994
59. BLASPHEREION - Rest in Peace
1991
60. Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety
1990
61. General Surgery - Necrology
1991
62. Cemetary - Godless Beauty
1993
63. Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
1993
64. Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension
1994
65. Incubator - Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism
1991
66. Comecon - Megatrends In Brutality
1992
67. Golem - Eternity: The Weeping Horizons
1996
68. Kataklysm - Sorcery
1995
69. Mangled Torsos - Drawings Of The Dead
1994
70. Crematory - Awake
1997
71. Crimson Thorn - Unearthed
1995
72. Deceased - Luck Of The Corpse
1991
73. Deicide - Deicide
1990
74. Demilich - Nespithe
1993
75. Enchantment - Dance The Marble Naked
1994
76. Merciless - The Awakening
1990
77. MONASTYR - Never Dreaming
1994
78. Necrony - Pathological Performances
1993
79. No Return - Contamination Rises
1991
80. Ophthalamia - A Journey In Darkness
1994
81. Pyrexia - Sermon Of Mockery
1993
82. Tristitia - One With Darkness
1995
83. Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
1993
84. Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
1992
85. Repulsion - Horrified
1989
86. Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
1991
87. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991
88. Righteous Pigs - Stress Related
1989
89. Monumentum - In Absentia Christi
1995
90. SICKENING GORE - Destructive Reality
1994
91. Supuration - The Cube
1994
92. Thanatos - Emerging From The Netherworlds
1990
93. Moonspell - Wolfheart
1995
94. Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh
1994
95. Winter - Into Darkness
1990
96. Therion - Of Darkness
1991
97. Sarcófago - The Laws Of Scourge
1991
98. Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom
1991
99. Revenant - Prophecies Of A Dying World
1991
100. Sadness - Ames De Marbre
1993
101. Morta Skuld - Dying Remains
1993
102. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites
1994
103. Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past
1991
104. The Gathering - Always...
1992



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24.09.2011 - 14:30
JD
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Moonspell, and Samael are death metal?
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29.09.2011 - 11:14
Alexbridger

The first album is classical dm on my opinion and the press, no?
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16.10.2012 - 19:38
Alex F
Slick Dick Rick
A lot of good bands, but i would have used the debuts of Entombed, Asphyx, Death, Obituary, Cancer, and Morbid Angel. Also I would have used Consuming Impluse by Pestilence and Nectroticism by Carcass... but a great list regardless
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22.10.2012 - 12:54
Aristarchos

Is Cathedral death metal?
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01.12.2012 - 10:46
Alexbridger

@AlexLemon - Yes, this is the great classic dm!
@Aristarchos - No, Cathedral fall into a the category doom death metal, but for me, "Equlibrium" is the first album that brings some elements of death metal in doom metal and ... do not forget that Lee Dorian comes from Napalm Death! Influences a feel on classic dm! Thanks a lot!
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01.12.2012 - 11:48
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Alexbridger on 01.12.2012 at 10:46

but for me, "Equlibrium" is the first album that brings some elements of death metal in doom metal




Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise, Winter - Into Darkness, Necro Schizma with their demos, are just three examples of instances where elements of death metal were brought into doom and tbh a lot more death metal than what Cathedral used.
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05.12.2012 - 10:55
Aristarchos

Written by Alexbridger on 01.12.2012 at 10:46

@Aristarchos - No, Cathedral fall into a the category doom death metal, but for me, "Equlibrium" is the first album that brings some elements of death metal in doom metal and ... do not forget that Lee Dorian comes from Napalm Death! Influences a feel on classic dm! Thanks a lot!

Dream Death mixed death and doom already in 1987
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07.12.2012 - 18:09
Alexbridger

Yep, totally agree !!!
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19.12.2013 - 09:01
Night Angel

I would place Death on much higher position by all means!
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20.12.2013 - 22:28
Erik M.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.12.2012 at 11:48



Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise, Winter - Into Darkness, Necro Schizma with their demos, are just three examples of instances where elements of death metal were brought into doom and tbh a lot more death metal than what Cathedral used.


Lol, haven't spun Equilibrium that often, but I can't remember hearing many, if any, death metal in it. So I agree with you, as PL - LP and Winter's debut both have a lot of death in them. Correctly labelled they would be doom death metal, even though Winter is slow as hell. Let's not forget Disembowelment's debut by the way.
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20.12.2013 - 22:39
Erik M.

Why the hell are all the bands capitalized? It looks awful... not to mention quite a few of the albums aren't correctly linked.

Also, the albums of Cathedral, Anathema, PL, Moonspell (WTF?! This doesn't even have death metal in it), Winter and Sadness shouldn't be in this list, as they're not death metal (primarily).
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09.01.2014 - 17:56
Alexbridger

Some bands it is not necessarily pure death metal but were now on demos and ep, so it can be classified in sub doom death metal, melodic death or slow death. At that time there were these styles and can not find that today seems misplaced, but then there was one death metal style and most of what was almost fit!
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15.10.2014 - 14:09
Alexbridger

Written by deadone on 14.01.2014 at 02:31

Nice list. Good to see Cancer and Ripping Corpse making an appearance. Takes me back to my early twenties when I thought DM was the bees kneees.

Though where's Malevolent Creation and Atheist?


Yeees, sorry. I simply forgo. This is the BIG BAND! Thanks man!
31. MALEVOLENT CREATION - The Ten Commandments 1991
87. ATHEIST - Unquestionable Presence 1991
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16.10.2014 - 01:35
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
I didn't know that you could link the band albums even with all caps
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19.10.2014 - 15:33
Alexbridger

Written by deadone on 16.10.2014 at 01:27

Good stuff!


Thanks!
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19.10.2014 - 15:34
Alexbridger

Written by Karlabos on 16.10.2014 at 01:35

I didn't know that you could link the band albums even with all caps


Yes, it can be so!
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04.02.2022 - 22:02
Redel

Great list, but man, so many typos in your album titles. You should clean that up.
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17.01.2023 - 12:22
Alexbridger

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17.01.2023 - 12:24
Alexbridger

Written by Redel on 04.02.2022 at 22:02

Great list, but man, so many typos in your album titles. You should clean that up.


Thanks man! Everything is possible, but please give me some examples so I can modify them!
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17.01.2023 - 12:25
Alexbridger

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17.01.2023 - 12:27
Alexbridger

Written by Karlabos on 16.10.2014 at 01:35

I didn't know that you could link the band albums even with all caps


Ordered from highest position (top) to lowest (bottom).
One album per line, should be entered with '|' delimiters: Band | Album | Year

GOOD LUCK !!!
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17.01.2023 - 12:32
Alexbridger

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18.01.2023 - 08:49
Redel

Written by Alexbridger on 17.01.2023 at 12:24

Thanks man! Everything is possible, but please give me some examples so I can modify them!

You will figure this out by yourself. I give you a hint. There is misspelling in the title of all albums from your list that have a broken link.
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02.02.2023 - 17:22
Alexbridger

Written by Redel on 18.01.2023 at 08:49

Written by Alexbridger on 17.01.2023 at 12:24

Thanks man! Everything is possible, but please give me some examples so I can modify them!

You will figure this out by yourself. I give you a hint. There is misspelling in the title of all albums from your list that have a broken link.



Regarding the link mistakes, it doesn't depend on me, it depends on the lack of information on the page! Thank you for the "help", have a special day!
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31.05.2023 - 00:08
Starvynth
i c deaf people
Written by Alexbridger on 02.02.2023 at 17:22

Regarding the link mistakes, it doesn't depend on me, it depends on the lack of information on the page!

That's not true. The site is not to blame that you got so many album titles wrong. Besides, Redel's hint was actually very helpful.
All the information is right there, but you may need some very special skills to make it work.

Subsconcious Terror -> Subconscious Terror
Expositionprophylaxe -> Expositionsprophylaxe
Dawn Of Possesion -> Dawn Of Possession
From Beyound -> From Beyond
Where Life Dwels -> Where No Life Dwells
DArk Recollection -> Dark Recollections
Scroll Of The Megilloth -> Scrolls Of The Megilloth

Maybe you can figure out the rest on your own?
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29.01.2024 - 14:21
Alexbridger

Thank you very much for the observation, I redid it!
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