Essential Death Metal
Essential Death Metal
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Morbid Angel
- Altars Of Madness
Their music was extremely innovative and way ahead of its time, classic; the best american death metal band EVER without a doubt
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Pestilence
- Consuming Impulse
Brutality before brutality meant grooovy toilet fushing boredom; still to this day has sheer intensity and power unsurpassed in the genre
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At The Gates
- The Red In The Sky Is Ours
One of my favorite metal albums of all time; for acoustic merit in accomplishing the marriage of melody and brutality beautifully
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Autopsy
- Mental Funeral
Sick and perverted dark death metal, the Swedish scene of 89-92 owes everything to this band
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Carcass
- Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass' peak in terms of putting together memorable songs with catchy and effective riffage. Not as filthy as Symphonies of Sickness, but still much more vicious than the highly overrated Heartwork. There are no fewer than six essential classic tracks on this album.
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Immolation
- Dawn Of Possession
one of the finest slabs of dark death metal ever to come out. The first four tracks alone ["Those Left Behind" in particular] are more than worth whatever you pay for it.
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Dismember
- Like An Everflowing Steam
Perhaps the most incredible thing about this album is that it was written before any of the members had graduated high school! "Override of the Overture" alone is worth the price of admission.
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Atheist
- Unquestionable Presence
One of the most challenging, yet rewarding albums ever. Some people don't like Kelly Schaefer's vocals... I challenge them to find a more fitting performance.
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Grave
- You'll Never See
Visceral nasty abstract death, another underated classic; some of the eerirest, most haunting riffs by far
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Nuclear Death
- Carrion For Worm
This more than anything defines Death Metal, extremely sick and grotesque; for raw, brutal, debauched, deprived, nihilistic, and filth soaked DEATH
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Unleashed
- Where No Life Dwells
If Celtic Frost and Autopsy formed a project band and lived in Sweden in 1991 they would sound like this, a godly album
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Incantation
- Onward To Golgotha
perhaps the album that initiated the "impenatratable wall of sound" in DM
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Morpheus Descends
- Ritual Of Infinity
When people say "death metal," this is more often than not what pops into mind. Rigid blasting roll of terrifying explosion and post-technological mysticism defines this release as a powerful statement for the genre. This band heavily influenced the New York style bands such as Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse
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Disembowelment
- Transendence into the Peripheral
for surreality, nihility and ambient brutality
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Dissection
- Storm of the Lights Bane
GOD! The harmonic nuance married to cold dissonance is breath-taking; for a black/death fusion with equal proportions of both done with true spirit
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Very pleased to see Pestilence's masterwork in the top 3 and Carcass' best and heaviest album in the top 10. Good list. Disembowelment and Dissection aren't exactly death metal but both excellent albums worthy of praise.
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Nice list. The only additions that I would suggest are Cause of Death, Obscura (the album), and maybe one of Suffocations first two. None So Vile as a possible addition also.
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I like the list, but what is Demolition Hammer doing here? Pure thrash. Edit: Wait a minute, where is Decapitated's Winds of Creation?!
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Account deleted Written by deadone on 02.03.2015 at 00:30 Oh, yes it does. At the very least to make up for the additions of crap like Dismember, Unleashed, Pungent Stench and At The Gate's worst album. The addition of bands like Hail Of Bullets, Repugnant, Hooded Menace, Bloodbath, etc. would definitely make this list a lot better.
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Account deleted Written by deadone on 02.03.2015 at 00:30 You know what? I'll make my own DM list in few days and will fill it with tones of modern stuff 
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Posts: 5824 Written by [user id=110592] on 02.03.2015 at 01:28 Yes, please. I'd look at that list. Unlike what I didn't with this one =P
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Account deleted Written by Karlabos on 02.03.2015 at 01:32 I have an exam on March 4th and will make the list afterward. In any case, you can find many of my DM favs on my previous lists, or as suggestions to lists of other people. In fact, these two are reasons I had not made the list yet but fuck them. Making list is fun 
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Account deleted Written by [user id=110592] on 02.03.2015 at 01:28 I'll support that... as long as you don't put MoRT on that one, too. 
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Account deleted Written by [user id=101272] on 02.03.2015 at 02:47 I wish I could, but it's not DM. Also, I "only" have MoRT on 2 of my lists
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Account deleted Written by [user id=110592] on 02.03.2015 at 02:53 Which is two more than deserved. But yeah, death metal list. Looking forward to that.
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Posts: 3104 Written by [user id=101272] on 02.03.2015 at 05:24 You have never been more correct. 
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Posts: 3432 Quote: Dismember's masterpiece is one of my favorites - this fun fact makes me appreciate it even more! Crazy talent!
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Great list but I'm almost shocked that there isn't any Obituary, Gorguts, Cryptopsy, Suffocation or Nocturnus, especially considering a Demolition Hammer album was added in here. I'm almost complaining, but here's a +1 anyways It's also so weird for me to read that Carcass' peak is on Necroticism, knowing that Heartwork is the release right after and it is literally and by far their best album in career. Calling it overrated is unacceptable, thank god this is all subjective. Edit: Also Decapitated? No? C'mon man.
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