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    Top 100 Death metal albums

    1 Death
    Symbolic (1995)
    9.25
    2448
    2 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson (1996)
    9.13
    974
    3 Dissection
    Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)
    9.08
    1182
    4 Be'lakor
    Stone's Reach (2009)
    8.96
    1219
    5 Death
    Human (1991)
    8.93
    1704
    6 Sepultura
    Arise (1991)
    8.93
    1419
    7 Gojira
    From Mars To Sirius (2005)
    8.92
    1199
    8 Sepultura
    Beneath The Remains (1989)
    8.88
    1247
    9 Septicflesh
    Communion (2008)
    8.87
    1064
    10 Insomnium
    Winter's Gate (2016)
    8.86
    896
    11 Morbid Angel
    Altars Of Madness (1989)
    8.84
    973
    12 Bolt Thrower
    Those Once Loyal (2005)
    8.84
    621
    13 Insomnium
    Above The Weeping World (2006)
    8.82
    1006
    14 Carcass
    Heartwork (1993)
    8.82
    1162
    15 Edge Of Sanity
    Crimson II (2003)
    8.79
    518
    16 Death
    Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
    8.78
    1566
    17 Amorphis
    Under The Red Cloud (2015)
    8.77
    1052
    18 Amorphis
    Tales From The Thousand Lakes (1994)
    8.75
    1072
    19 Atheist
    Unquestionable Presence (1991)
    8.73
    581
    20 Amon Amarth
    With Oden On Our Side (2006)
    8.72
    1789
    21 Cynic
    Focus (1993)
    8.72
    764
    22 Nile
    Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005)
    8.68
    830
    23 Cryptopsy
    None So Vile (1996)
    8.68
    543
    24 Swallow The Sun
    The Morning Never Came (2003)
    8.67
    668
    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
    727
    28 Be'lakor
    Of Breath And Bone (2012)
    8.65
    1112
    29 Obituary
    Cause Of Death (1990)
    8.65
    615
    30 Bloodbath
    Nightmares Made Flesh (2004)
    8.65
    742
    31 Dismember
    Like An Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
    8.65
    442
    32 Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
    A Virgin And A Whore (2001)
    8.64
    525
    33 Immolation
    Close To A World Below (2000)
    8.64
    315
    34 Amon Amarth
    Twilight Of The Thunder God (2008)
    8.64
    1860
    35 Suffocation
    Pierced From Within (1995)
    8.64
    397
    36 Necrophagist
    Onset Of Putrefaction (1999)
    8.64
    418
    37 Morbid Angel
    Covenant (1993)
    8.64
    723
    38 Necrophagist
    Epitaph (2004)
    8.64
    543
    39 Shylmagoghnar
    Emergence (2014)
    8.63
    250
    40 Swallow The Sun
    New Moon (2009)
    8.63
    610
    41 In Mourning
    Shrouded Divine (2008)
    8.63
    469
    42 Dissection
    The Somberlain (1993)
    8.62
    687
    43 Dawn
    Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) (1998)
    8.62
    147
    44 Edge Of Sanity
    Purgatory Afterglow (1994)
    8.62
    417
    45 Mors Principium Est
    The Unborn (2005)
    8.62
    374
    46 Bolt Thrower
    ...For Victory (1994)
    8.62
    430
    47 Be'lakor
    Vessels (2016)
    8.62
    779
    48 Pestilence
    Testimony Of The Ancients (1991)
    8.61
    309
    49 Nile
    In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
    8.61
    584
    50 Vital Remains
    Dechristianize (2003)
    8.61
    233
    51 Suffocation
    Effigy Of The Forgotten (1991)
    8.61
    396
    52 Gojira
    The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
    8.61
    875
    53 Nocturnus
    The Key (1990)
    8.61
    283
    54 Quo Vadis
    Day Into Night (2000)
    8.61
    213
    55 Garden Of Shadows
    Oracle Moon (2000)
    8.61
    101
    56 Pestilence
    Consuming Impulse (1989)
    8.61
    314
    57 Obscura
    Cosmogenesis (2009)
    8.6
    578
    58 Septicflesh
    Sumerian Daemons (2003)
    8.6
    541
    59 Quo Vadis
    Defiant Imagination (2004)
    8.6
    262
    60 Sacrilege GBG
    The Fifth Season (1997)
    8.59
    22
    61 Persefone
    Spiritual Migration (2013)
    8.59
    475
    62 Daylight Dies
    Dismantling Devotion (2006)
    8.59
    175
    63 Kalmah
    Swampsong (2003)
    8.59
    545
    64 Omnium Gatherum
    New World Shadows (2011)
    8.59
    703
    65 Omnium Gatherum
    Beyond (2013)
    8.59
    629
    66 Beyond Creation
    The Aura (2011)
    8.58
    306
    67 The Chasm
    Procession To The Infraworld (1999)
    8.58
    26
    68 An Abstract Illusion
    Woe (2022)
    8.58
    400
    69 Rapture
    Futile (1999)
    8.58
    159
    70 Gorguts
    Obscura (1998)
    8.57
    318
    71 Kalisia
    Cybion (2009)
    8.57
    418
    72 Lykathea Aflame
    Elvenefris (2000)
    8.57
    188
    73 Bolt Thrower
    The IVth Crusade (1992)
    8.57
    396
    74 Necrophobic
    The Nocturnal Silence (1993)
    8.57
    204
    75 Witherscape
    The Northern Sanctuary (2016)
    8.56
    311
    76 Kalmah
    Swamplord (2000)
    8.56
    547
    77 Slugdge
    Esoteric Malacology (2018)
    8.56
    347
    78 Cattle Decapitation
    Monolith Of Inhumanity (2012)
    8.56
    367
    79 Persefone
    Core (2006)
    8.56
    234
    80 Dominia
    Divine Revolution (2006)
    8.55
    99
    81 Death
    Leprosy (1988)
    8.55
    1280
    82 Entombed
    Clandestine (1991)
    8.55
    406
    83 Mercenary
    11 Dreams (2004)
    8.55
    209
    84 Possessed
    Seven Churches (1985)
    8.55
    439
    85 Torture Squad
    Pandemonium (2003)
    8.55
    44
    86 Godgory
    Way Beyond (2001)
    8.55
    51
    87 Gates Of Ishtar
    At Dusk And Forever (1998)
    8.55
    73
    88 Dragged Into Sunlight
    Hatred For Mankind (2009)
    8.55
    120
    89 Scar Symmetry
    Holographic Universe (2008)
    8.55
    529
    90 Evoken
    Quietus (2001)
    8.54
    134
    91 Akercocke
    Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
    8.54
    245
    92 Insomnium
    One For Sorrow (2011)
    8.54
    936
    93 Deicide
    Deicide (1990)
    8.54
    511
    94 Swallow The Sun
    Songs From The North I, II & III (2015)
    8.54
    480
    95 Morbid Angel
    Blessed Are The Sick (1991)
    8.54
    666
    96 Evoken
    Antithesis Of Light (2005)
    8.54
    164
    97 Amorphis
    Skyforger (2009)
    8.54
    1087
    98 Hypocrisy
    Virus (2005)
    8.54
    528
    99 Malevolent Creation
    Retribution (1992)
    8.53
    178
    100 Vader
    Litany (2000)
    8.53
    413