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The @gents Old School Death Metal / Not So Old School Grindcore List


Bands listed alphabetically, One album per band (With the exception of Carcass and Napalm Death who appear in the Grind and Death Metal sections). Some bands may not be pure old school (Death / Thrash, Doom Death / Death Doom and early Brutal / Technical Death Included) I have also Included some of the more extreme Thrash releases that pre-dated the genre but undoubtedly help pave the way for things to come, I included these as I wish to give a general summary of the way Death Metal began and evolved throughout the 80's and 90's.

The Grindcore section is not exclusive to old school grind, Im just adding all the good grind albums I know of.

PS: I'm open to Suggestions so if you have any more albums to recommend i'd be glad to check them out.

PPS: Thanks go to Array, Marcel, Oaken, Crucifux and Alex Lemon for various recommendations.

Created by: @gent_-_orange | 18.09.2011



1. Old School Death Metal (Late 80's - 90's)
2. Abhorrence - Abhorrence [EP]
Finland.
3. Acrostichon - Engraved In Black
The Netherlands.
4. Adramelech - PsychoStasia
Finland. More from this band: Pure Blood Doom.
5. Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Sweden.
6. Altar / Cartilage - Ex Oblivione / The Fragile Concept of Affection [Split]
Sweden / Finland.
7. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Finland. More from this band: Tales from the Thousand Lakes
8. Anata - The Infernal Depths Of Hatred
Sweden.
9. Anathema - Serenades
UK. More from this band: The Silent Enigma, Eternity.
10. Anascara - God Machine
Germany.
11. Apophis - Heliopolis
Germany. More from this band: Down in the Valley, Gateway to the Underworld.
12. Asphyx - The Rack
The Netherlands. More from this band: Last One on Earth, Death... The Brutal Way, Asphyx / Hooded Menace Split.
13. At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Sweden. More from this band: With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness.
14. Atheist - Piece Of Time
USA. More from this band: Unquestionable Presence, Elements
15. Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Germany. More from this band: Hallucinations.
16. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
USA. More from this band: Severed Survival.
17. Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
USA.
18. Belial - Never Again
Finland.
19. Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon
UK. More from this band: Subconcious Terror, The Grand Leveller.
20. Bloodstone - Hour of the Gate
Sweden.
21. Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos
UK. More from this band: In Battle their is No Law!, War Master, The IV'th Crusade, ...For Victory, Those Once Loyal.
22. Brutality - Screams Of Anguish
USA.
23. Burial [NED] - Relinquished Souls
The Netherlands.
24. Cadaver - ...In Pains
Norway. More from this band: Hallucinating Anxiety, Necrosis.
25. Cancer - Death Shall Rise
UK. More from this band: To the Gory End.
26. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
USA. More from this band: Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth Tomb of the Mutilated.
27. Carbonized - For The Security
Sweden. More from this band: Disharmonization.
28. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
UK. More From this Band : Reek of Putrefaction, Symphonies of Sickness.
29. Carnage - Dark Recollections
Sweden.
30. Carnifex [FIN] - Decadence [Demo]
Finland.
31. Catacomb - The Years of Morbidology
France.
32. Centinex - Reflections
Sweden. More from this band: Subconscious Labotomy, Malleus Maleficarum, Reborn Through Flames.
33. Cemetary - An Evil Shade Of Grey
Sweden.
34. The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph
Mexico. More from this band: From the Lost Years, Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph, Procession to the Infraworld.
35. Comecon - Converging Conspiracies
Sweden. More from this band: Mega Trends in Brutality.
36. Convulse - World Without God
Finland.
37. Creepmime - Shadows
The Netherlands.
38. Crematory [SWE] - Denial [Compilation]
Sweden.
39. Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
Sweden.
40. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Canada. More from this band: None so Vile, Whisper Supremecy, And then you'll Beg.
41. Cynic - Focus
USA. More from this band: Traced in Air, Carbon Based Anatomy.
42. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Norway. More from this band: A Blaze in the Northern Sky.
43. Dark Millennium - Ashore The Celestial Burden
Germany.
44. Death - Leprosy
USA. More from this band: Scream Bloody Gore, Spiritual Healing, Human.
45. Deceased - Luck Of The Corpse
USA.
46. Decomposed - Hope Finally Died...
UK.
47. Deeds Of Flesh - Inbreeding The Anthropophagi
USA. More from this band: Trading Pieces, Path of the Weakening.
48. Deicide - Deicide
USA. More from this band: Legion, The Stench of Redemption.
49. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
Finland.
50. Demilich - Nespithe
Finland. More from this band: The Four Instructive Tales of Decomposition, Regurgitation of Blood, The Echo, Somewhere in the Bowels of Endlessness (All Demo's).
51. Depravity - Silence Of The Centuries
Finland.
52. Depresy - A Grand Magnificence
Slovakia. More from this band: Sighting.
53. Desecrator - Subconscious Release
UK.
54. Desultory - Bitterness
Sweden. More from this band: Into Eternity, Counting our Scars.
55. Disaffected - Vast
Portugal.
56. Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Australia. More from this Band: Although I am showing this album its recommended you go for their self titled compilation which includes this album plus all of their demo's and EP's.
57. Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
USA.
58. Disharmonic Orchestra - Expositionsprophylaxe
Austria. More from this band: Not to be Undimensional Conscious.
59. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Sweden. More from this band: Indecent and Obscene, Massive Killing Capacity, Where Ironcrosses Grow, The God that Never was, Dismember.
60. Dissection - The Somberlain
Sweden. More from this band: Storm of the Lights Bain.
61. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Sweden. More from this band: Nothing but Death Remains, Unorthodox, The Spectral Sorrows, Purgatory Afterglow, Crimson II.
62. Electrocution - Inside The Unreal
Italy.
63. Entombed - Left Hand Path
Sweden. More from this band: Clandestine, Wolverine Blues, Morning Star.
64. Epitaph - Seeming Salvation
Sweden.
65. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Sweden. More from this band: Mirrorworlds.
66. Excruciate - Passage Of Life
Sweden.
67. Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine
USA.
68. Fleshcrawl - Bloodred Massacre
Germany. More from this band: Descent into the Absurd, Impurity, Bloodsoul.
69. Funebre - Children Of The Scorn
Finland.
70. God Macabre - The Winterlong
Sweden.
71. Gorefest - Mindloss
The Netherlands. More from this band: False.
72. Gorement - The Ending Quest
Sweden.
73. Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
Canada. More from this band: Considered Dead, Obscura, From Wisdom to Hate.
74. Grave - Into The Grave
Sweden. More from this band: You'll Never See.
75. Grotesque - Incantation
Sweden.
76. Gutted - Bleed for us to Live
USA.
77. Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
USA.
78. Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum
Sweden. More from this band: Penetralia, The Fourth Dimension.
79. Immolation - Failures For Gods
USA. More from this band: Dawn of Possession, Here in After, Close to a World Below, Unholy Cult, Harnessing Ruin.
80. Impaler [UK] - Charnel Deity
UK.
81. Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene
USA. More from this band: Onward to Golgotha, Upon the Throne of Apocalypse, Diabolical Conquest, Decimate Christendom.
82. Infester - To The Depths, In Degradation
USA.
83. Iniquity - Serenadium
Denmark.
84. Internal Decay - A Forgotten Dream
Sweden.
85. Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy Of The Beast
Japan. More from this band: Banquet in Darkness, Ultimate Instinct.
86. Jungle Rot - Slaughter The Weak
USA.
87. Jumpin Jesus - The Art of Crucifying
Germany.
88. Kataklysm - Sorcery
Canada.
89. Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
Sweden. More from this band: Brave Murder Day.
90. Krabathor - Cool Mortification
Czech Republic. More from this band: Lies.
91. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Germany. More from this band: Terrible Certainty, Extreme Aggression, Coma of Souls.
92. Liers In Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art [EP]
Sweden.
93. Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Sweden. More from this band: The Apostate.
94. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
USA. More from this band: Retribution.
95. Massacra - Enjoy The Violence
France. More from this band: Final Holocaust.
96. Massacre - From Beyond
USA.
97. Master - On The Seventh Day God Created... Master
USA. More from this band: Master.
98. Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather
Switzerland.
99. Miasma - Changes
Austria.
100. Megaslaughter - Calls From Beyond
Sweden.
101. Merciless - The Awakening
Sweden. More from this band: The Treasures Within, Unbound.
102. Mercyless - Coloured Funeral
France.
103. Molested - Blod-Draum
Norway.
104. Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
USA. More from this band: Millennium, In Dark Purity.
105. Morbid - Year Of The Goat
Sweden.
106. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
USA. More from this band: Altars of Madness, Covenant, Domination, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh, Gateways of Annihilation, Heretic.
107. Mordicus - Dances From Left
Finland.
108. Morgoth - Odium
Germany. More from this band: Cursed.
109. Morgue - Eroded Thoughts
USA.
110. Mortuary [MEX] - Blackened Images
Mexico.
111. My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers
UK. More from this band: Turn Loose the Swans, The Angel and the Dark River.
112. Mystic Charm - Shadows Of The Unknown
The Netherlands.
113. Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
UK. More from this band: Scum, From Enslavement to Obliteration, Utopia Banished, Diatribes, Enemy of the Music Business, Order of the Leech, Smear Campaign.
114. Necronomicon [CAN] - Pharaoh of Gods
Canada. More from this band: The Sacred Medicines.
115. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Sweden. More from this band: Darkside.
116. Necrosis - Acta Sanctorum
USA.
117. Nembrionic - Psycho One Hundred
The Netherlands.
118. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
USA. More from this band: Black Seed's of Vengeance, In their Darkened Shrines.
119. Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Sweden.
120. Nocturnus AD - The Key
USA. More from this band: Threshold
121. Nominon - Diabolical Bloodshed
Sweden.
122. Obituary - Cause Of Death
USA. More from this band: Slowly we Rot, The End Complete.
123. Obscenity - The 3rd Chapter
Germany.
124. Old Funeral - The Older Ones
Norway.
125. Order From Chaos - Stillbirth Machine
USA.
126. Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
UK. More from this band: Gothic, Shades of God.
127. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
The Netherlands. More from this band: Malleus Maleficarum, Testimony of the Ancients, Spheres.
128. Possessed - Seven Churches
USA.
129. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Austria.
130. Purtenance - Member Of Immortal Damnation
Finland.
131. Resurrection - Embalmed Existence
USA.
132. Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia [Demo]
Finland.
133. Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
USA.
134. Rottrevore - Iniquitous
USA.
135. Runemagick - Enter The Realm Of Death
Sweden.
136. Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
Sweden.
137. Sadistic Intent - Resurrection
USA.
138. Sarcófago - The Laws Of Scourge
Brazil.
139. Scum - Purple Dreams and Magic Poems
Finland.
140. Seance - Fornever Laid To Rest
Sweden.
141. Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past
Finland.
142. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Brazil. More from this band: Schizophrenia, Arise, Chaos A.D.
143. Shub Niggurath - The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon On Earth)
Mexico.
144. Sinister - Cross The Styx
The Netherlands. More from this band: Diabolical Summoning.
145. Slaughter - Strappado
Canada.
146. Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
Sweden.
147. Sororicide - The Entity
Iceland.
148. Suffer - Structures
Sweden.
149. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
USA. More from this band: Effigy of the Forgotten, Breeding the Spawn.
150. Tenebrae - Dysanchelium
Finland.
151. Thanatos - Emerging From The Netherworlds
The Netherlands.
152. Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
Finland. More from this band: Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth (Demo) You should also check out the tribute album to Thergothon titled Rising of Yog-Sothoth.
153. Therion - Symphony Masses - Ho Drakon Ho Megas
Sweden. More from this band: Of Darkness, Beyond Sanctorum.
154. The Crown - Eternal Death
Sweden. More from this band: Deathrace King, Crowned in Terror.
155. Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Sweden. More from this band: Sumerian Cry, Clouds, Wildhoney.
156. Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil
Sweden. More from this band: In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead.
157. Uncanny - Splenium For Nyktophobia
Sweden.
158. Unholy - From The Shadows
Finland.
159. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
Sweden. More from this band: Shadows of the Deep, Across the Open Sea.
160. Vader - De Profundis
Poland. More from this band: The Ultimate Incantation, Black to the Blind, Litany.
161. Vital Remains - Into Cold Darkness
USA. More from this band: Let us Pray, Forever Underground.
162. Vomitory - Redemption
Sweden. More from this band: Revelation Nausea, Blood Rapture, P.rimal Massacre
163. Vomiturition - A Leftover
Finland.
164. Winter - Into Darkness
USA.
165. Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments
Sweden.
166. Xenomorph [USA] - Empyreal Regimes
USA.
167. Xysma - Fata Morgana
Finland.
168. "Modern" Old school Death Metal (2000+)
169. Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
USA. More from this band: Stoned.
170. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
USA.
171. Ataraxy - Curse Of The Requiem Mass
Spain.
172. Bastard Priest - Under The Hammer Of Destruction
Sweden. More from this band: Ghouls of the Endless Night.
173. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
Sweden. More from this band: Breeding Death, Nightmares Made Flesh.
174. Bombs Of Hades - Chambers Of Abominations
Sweden.
175. Brutally Deceased - Dead Lovers' Guide
Czech Republic.
176. Claws - Absorbed In The Nethervoid
Finland.
177. Coffins - Buried Death
Japan. More from this band: Mortuary in Darkness, The Other Side of Blasphemy.
178. Corpsessed - The Dagger & The Chalice [EP]
Finland.
179. Cruciamentum - Convocation Of Crawling Chaos
UK.
180. Crypticus - Dedicated To The Impure
USA.
181. Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
Greece.
182. Death Breath - Stinking Up The Night
Sweden.
183. Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
USA.
184. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
Poland.
185. Demonical - Servants Of The Unlight
Sweden.
186. Desecrecy - Arches of Entropy
Finland.
187. Disma - Towards The Megalith
USA.
188. Ectovoid - Fractured In The Timeless Abyss
USA.
189. Entrails - Tales From The Morgue
Sweden.
190. Entrapment - Irreligious Abominations
The Netherlands.
191. Excommunion - Superion
USA.
192. Evocation - Apocalyptic
Sweden.
193. Fatalist - The Depths Of Inhumanity
Sweden.
194. Feral - Dragged To The Altar
Sweden.
195. Funebrarum - Beneath The Columns Of Abandoned Gods
USA. More from this band: The Sleep of Morbid Dreams.
196. Funereal - The Misery Season
USA.
197. Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
USA.
198. Graveyard [ESP] - One with the Death
Spain.
199. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
UK.
200. Grave Ritual - Euphoric Hymns on the Altar of Death
USA.
201. Hail Of Bullets - ...Of Frost And War
The Netherlands. More from this band: On Divine Winds.
202. Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
Finland. More from this band: Fulfill the Curse, Asphyx / Hooded Menace Split.
203. Horrendous - The Chills
USA.
204. Kaamos - Lucifer Rising
Finland.
205. Krypts - Unending Degradation
Finland. More from this band. Open the Crypt [Demo].
206. Lie In Ruins - Swallowed By The Void
Finland.
207. Maim - From The Womb To The Tomb...
Sweden.
208. Miasmal - Miasmal
Sweden.
209. Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil
UK.
210. Morbus Chron - Sleepers In The Rift
Sweden.
211. Morbid Flesh - Reborn In Death
Spain.
212. Morbider - When Darkness Returns
Czech Republic.
213. Mordbrand - Necropsychotic
Sweden.
214. Nader Sadek - In The Flesh
USA.
215. Necros Christos - Doom Of The Occult
Germany.
216. Necrovation - Necrovation
Sweden.
217. Process Of Guilt - Erosion
Portugal.
218. Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness
Sweden.
219. Skeletal Spectre - Tomb Coven
Sweden.
220. Sonne Adam - Transformation
Israel.
221. Stench - In Putrescence
Sweden.
222. Stench Of Decay - Where Death And Decay Reign
Finland.
223. Tormented - Rotten Death
Sweden.
224. Tribulation - The Horror
Sweden.
225. Unconsecrated - Unconsecrated Cemetary / Dark Awakening
Spain.
226. Undergang - Indhentet Af Døden
Denmark.
227. Vanhelgd - Cult Of Lazarus
Sweden.
228. Vallenfyre - Desecration
UK. More from this band: A Fragile King.
229. Vasaeleth - Crypt Born & Tethered To Ruin
USA.
230. Zombified - Zombified Slaughtermachine
Sweden.
231. Grindcore (Whenever, Just Grindcore)
232. Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
USA. More from this band: Need to Control.
233. Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
UK. More from this band: Reek of Putrifaction, Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
234. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
USA.
235. Exhumed - Slaughtercult
USA. More from this band: Gore Metal, Anatomy is Destiny.
236. Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust In Your Head
UK.
237. General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism
Sweden.
238. Haemorrhage - Apology For Pathology
Spain. More from this band: Grume, Anatomical Inferno, Morgue Sweet Home.
239. Impetigo - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale
USA. More from this band: The Horror of Zombies.
240. Impaled - Mondo Medicale
USA. More from this band: The Dead Shall Dead Remain, Death After Life.
241. Insect Warfare - World Extermination
USA.
242. Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
USA.
243. Lock Up - Hate Breeds Suffering
UK.
244. Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
USA.
245. Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery
USA.
246. Murder Construct - Results
USA.
247. Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
UK. More from this band: Scum, Harmony Corruption, Utopia Banished, Fear Emptiness Despair, Diatribes, Enemy of the Music Business, Order of the Leech, Smear Campaign.
248. Nasum - Human 2.0
Sweden. More from this band: Inhale/ Exhale, Helvete.
249. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
USA. More from this band: Prowler in the Yard, Phantom Limb, Natasha.
250. Regurgitate - Carnivorous Erection
Sweden.
251. Repulsion - Horrified
USA.
252. Terrorizer - World Downfall
USA.
253. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
Czech Republic.
254. Wormrot - Dirge
Singapore.



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30.05.2013 - 22:11
@gent_-_orange
Sorry I haven't replied earlier I just have not gotten round to altering this list until now.

Written by Alex F on 06.02.2013 at 01:26

I could recommend the band Obscenity, particularly their album The 3rd Chapter

Sorry I didn't check these out sooner, I liked it a lot, Consider it added. Thank you for the recommendation.

Written by [user id=124301] on 11.05.2013 at 04:28

Definitely my favorite list on this site. Every time I'm in a death metal slump I can always come here and be satisfied.
Try some of Ectovoid.

Thanks! and thanks again for the recommendation, cool stuff, Added.
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22.08.2013 - 13:34
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Years onwards and still one of my favorite lists of all time, so many gems I found because of it. Heck of a job you did here, @gent.
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04.09.2013 - 23:27
@gent_-_orange
Written by [user id=109200] on 22.08.2013 at 13:34

Years onwards and still one of my favorite lists of all time, so many gems I found because of it. Heck of a job you did here, @gent.

Thanks man, God know's how it got so long, I originally intended it to be around 50 albums and it just spiralled out of control, glad it did though a lot of people seem to like the list.
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10.05.2014 - 12:54
D. Monique
You may also consider the following albums:

Obliteration - Nekropsalms
Slaughterday - Nightmare Vortex
Puteraeon - Cult Cthulhu
Abscess - Dawn Of Inhumanity
Bonesaw - The Illicit Revue
Necrophagia - Harvest Ritual Vol 1: Penance
Como Muertos - Crónica Del Dolor
Machetazo - Mundo Cripta
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Loudblast - Sublime Dementia
Megascavenger - At The Plateaus Of Leng
Defecation - Purity Dilution
Gravehill - Death Curse
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14.11.2021 - 21:48
Willing to re-discover Death Metal, this list will be super helpful. Thank you @gent
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