1.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

2.Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Hellhammer - Satanic Rites

5.Bathory - The Return Of The Darkness And Evil

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The best death metal albums pre 2000, in alphabetical order.
Work in progress.

1.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

2.Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil

3.Asphyx - The Rack

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Asphyx - Embrace The Death

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1.Testament - The Legacy

2.Overkill - Taking Over

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Sodom - Persecution Mania

5.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

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This is a list about my 25 favorite Death Metal Bands and their Discography.

1.Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life

2.Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth

3.Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

4.Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

5.Cannibal Corpse - Vile

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Death is the best death metal band, and all of their albums could tie for first place. Chuck Schuldiner was a genius and innovator, and an amazing guitarist. These are currently my favorite Death albums.

1.Death - Human

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Death - Leprosy

4.Death - Spiritual Healing

5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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My personal rankings of the legendary Death's studio albums.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Spiritual Healing

3.Death - Symbolic

4.Death - Human

5.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

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Aiming towards building a list of the best of straightforward, analog, murky Death Metal

1.Possessed - Seven Churches

2.Death Strike - Fuckin' Death

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Entombed - Nihilist (1987-1989)

5.Sadus - Illusions / Chemical Exposure

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*** MAX 3 ALBUMS PER ARTIST!!! (Except Death) Also... While extra weight will be given to classic death metal albums, this list will also include exceptional examples of melodic death, death-grind, technical/progressive death, death-thrash, and blackened death. LPs ONLY. *** /\ UNDER CONSTRUCTION /\

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

4.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

5.Death - Human

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A bunch of albums with a big circle on the cover

1.Karnivool - Sound Awake

2.Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Pentagram - Pentagram

5.Russian Circles - Empros

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Hail the Metal Beginnings

1.Venom - Black Metal

2.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

5.Possessed - Seven Churches

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From Favorite to least favorite

1.Death - Leprosy

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Death - Spiritual Healing

5.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

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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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Metal albums from 1987

1.Anthrax - Among The Living

2.Artillery - Terror Squad

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Candlemass - Nightfall

5.Toxik - World Circus

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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