The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)

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The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)

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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 /\
163.
1.
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
1996
163.
2.
Death - Symbolic
1995
163.
3.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
1991
163.
4.
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
1991
163.
5.
Death - Human
1991
163.
6.
Carcass - Heartwork
1993
163.
7.
Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
1993
163.
8.
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
1995
163.
9.
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
1989
163.
10.
Obituary - Cause Of Death
1990
163.
11.
Death - Leprosy
1988
163.
12.
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
1989
163.
13.
Kataklysm - Sorcery
1995
163.
14.
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
2000
163.
15.
Entombed - Left Hand Path
1990
163.
16.
Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
1998
163.
17.
Desultory - Bitterness
1994
163.
18.
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
1991
163.
19.
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1996
163.
20.
Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene
1994
163.
21.
Gorguts - Obscura
1998
163.
22.
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2005
163.
23.
Sinister - Hate
1995
163.
24.
Demilich - Nespithe
1993
163.
25.
Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
1993
163.
26.
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
1993
163.
27.
Sinister - Cross The Styx
1992
163.
28.
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
1998
163.
29.
Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
1999
163.
30.
Autopsy - Severed Survival
1989
163.
31.
Brutality - Screams Of Anguish
1993
163.
32.
Entombed - Clandestine
1991
163.
33.
Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
1999
163.
34.
Deicide - Deicide
1990
163.
35.
Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
1991
163.
36.
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
1991
163.
37.
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
1991
163.
38.
Suffocation - Breeding The Spawn
1993
163.
39.
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991
163.
40.
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
1989
163.
41.
Malevolent Creation - Retribution
1992
163.
42.
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
1995
163.
43.
Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
1992
163.
44.
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
1998
163.
45.
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
2003
163.
46.
In Flames - The Jester Race
1996
163.
47.
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
1991
163.
48.
Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum
1993
163.
49.
Immolation - Here In After
1996
163.
50.
Gorguts - Considered Dead
1991
163.
51.
Deeds Of Flesh - Reduced To Ashes
2003
163.
52.
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
1992
163.
53.
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1987
163.
54.
Behemoth - Demigod
2004
163.
55.
Death - Spiritual Healing
1990
163.
56.
Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
2000
163.
57.
Vader - De Profundis
1995
163.
58.
Possessed - Seven Churches
1985
163.
59.
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
1992
163.
60.
Carnage - Dark Recollections
1990
163.
61.
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
1992
163.
62.
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
1991
163.
63.
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
1994
163.
64.
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
2001
163.
65.
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
1994
163.
66.
Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon
1993
163.
67.
Deicide - Legion
1992
163.
68.
Morgoth - Cursed
1991
163.
69.
Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos
1989
163.
70.
Asphyx - The Rack
1991
163.
71.
Gorefest - False
1993
163.
72.
Nocturnus AD - The Key
1990
163.
73.
Deeds Of Flesh - Mark Of The Legion
2001
163.
74.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
1993
163.
75.
Suffocation - Souls To Deny
2004
163.
76.
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
1999
163.
77.
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
1991
163.
78.
Fleshcrawl - Descend Into The Absurd
1992
163.
79.
Immolation - Close To A World Below
2000
163.
80.
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
1992
163.
81.
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
2005
163.
82.
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
1991
163.
83.
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
1994
163.
84.
Impetigo - Horror Of The Zombies
1992
163.
85.
Atheist - Piece Of Time
1989
163.
86.
Grave - Into The Grave
1991
163.
87.
Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
1992
163.
88.
Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
1993
163.
89.
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
1991
163.
90.
Merciless - The Awakening
1990
163.
91.
Cancer - Death Shall Rise
1991
163.
92.
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
2004
163.
93.
Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
1995
163.
94.
Decapitated - Nihility
2002
163.
95.
Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
1999
163.
96.
Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
1993
163.
97.
Benediction - The Grand Leveller
1991
163.
98.
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
2009
163.
99.
Vader - Litany
2000
163.
100.
Cynic - Focus
1993
163.
101.
Dismember - Indecent And Obscene
1993
163.
102.
Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
1992
163.
103.
Hypocrisy - Abducted
1996
163.
104.
Desultory - Into Eternity
1993
163.
105.
Asphyx - Last One On Earth
1992
163.
106.
Monstrosity - Millennium
1996
163.
107.
Opprobrium - Beyond The Unknown
1990
163.
108.
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
1998
163.
109.
Grave - You'll Never See...
1992
163.
110.
Behemoth - The Apostasy
2007
163.
111.
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002
163.
112.
Dying Fetus - Killing On Adrenaline
1998
163.
113.
Massacre - From Beyond
1991
163.
114.
Morbid Angel - Domination
1995
163.
115.
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
2011
163.
116.
Krisiun - Conquerors Of Armageddon
2000
163.
117.
Angelcorpse - Exterminate
1998
163.
118.
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
1993
163.
119.
Necrophagia - Season Of The Dead
1987
163.
120.
Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
1993
163.
121.
Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
1992
163.
122.
Kataklysm - Temple Of Knowledge (Kataklysm Part III)
1996
163.
123.
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
1991
163.
124.
Sentenced - North From Here
1993
163.
125.
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
1998
163.
126.
Fleshcrawl - Impurity
1994
163.
127.
Vital Remains - Into Cold Darkness
1995
163.
128.
Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
2001
163.
129.
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
1991
163.
130.
Obituary - The End Complete
1992
163.
131.
Hate - Anaclasis: A Haunting Gospel Of Malice & Hatred
2005
163.
132.
Jungle Rot - Slaughter The Weak
1997
163.
133.
God Dethroned - Bloody Blasphemy
1999
163.
134.
Septicflesh - Mystic Places Of Dawn
1994
163.
135.
Miasma - Changes
1992
163.
136.
Adramelech - PsychoStasia
1996
163.
137.
Benighted - Identisick
2006
163.
138.
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
1998
163.
139.
Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past
1991
163.
140.
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
2009
163.
141.
Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption
2006
163.
142.
Unleashed - Shadows In The Deep
1992
163.
143.
Convulse - World Without God
1991
163.
144.
Pyrexia - Sermon Of Mockery
1993
163.
145.
Morgoth - Odium
1993
163.
146.
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
2002
163.
147.
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
1998
163.
148.
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
2005
163.
149.
Exhumed - Gore Metal
1998
163.
150.
Impaled - Mondo Medicale
2002
163.
151.
Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons
2003
163.
152.
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
2012
163.
153.
Disma - Towards The Megalith
2011
163.
154.
Unleashed - Midvinterblot
2006
163.
155.
Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh
1990
163.
156.
Vomitory - Raped In Their Own Blood
1996
163.
157.
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
2006
163.
158.
Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt
2004
163.
159.
Deceased - The Blueprints For Madness
1995
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160.
Vital Remains - Forever Underground
1997
163.
161.
Cenotaph - Riding Our Black Oceans
1994
163.
162.
Sorcery (Swe) - Bloodchilling Tales
1991
163.
163.
Messiah - Choir Of Horrors
1991
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14.04.2016 - 15:06

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Pretty comprehensive death list, still I miss a bunch of essentials here that you may like in case you never tried them:
Lykathea Aflame - 2000 - Elvenefris
Massacra - 1992 - Signs Of The Decline
Neglected Fields - 2000 - Mephisto Lettonica
Nocturnus - 1990 - The Key
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Lots of killer shit on here no doubt, cant agree with symbolic being so high though. Death peaked early on IMO.
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List brings back a lot of memories - believe it or not I was a big death metal guy in the late 80s , early 90's , thanks for the list!
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Written by Tomas Piller on 14.04.2016 at 15:06

Pretty comprehensive death list, still I miss a bunch of essentials here that you may like in case you never tried them:
Lykathea Aflame - 2000 - Elvenefris
Massacra - 1992 - Signs Of The Decline
Neglected Fields - 2000 - Mephisto Lettonica
Nocturnus - 1990 - The Key

I love Elvenfris, prob just missed the cut...And not quite sure how I overlooked the Key. Top 100, prob top 50 material for sure! Def gonna check out the others. Thanks!
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Thumbs up especially for having Warmaster at such high rank.
The other Bolt Thrower albums found are appreciated as well -- though I really miss The IVth Crusade here.
That said, you cannot just add it as I see it. You have already four Bolt Thrower albums, violating your first list rule.
So, you have to kick out Realm of Chaos first. And which of the remaining four (including IVth Crusade) to kick out next is a difficult task. I cant help you here I guess (though I would probably pick Those Once Loyal).
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