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YET another list of my faves in the death metal genre this time in the year of our Lord Satan 2020. Haven't heard all the stuff I'd like yet and I welcome all the recommendations in the comments, cheers!

Created by: Jaro | 06.03.2021


1. Aborted - La Grande Mascarade
Modern Death
2. Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis
Modern Death
3. Æpoch - The Scryer
Progressive Death
4. Aeternam - Al Qassam
Melodic Death with MENA influences
5. Æther Realm - Redneck Vikings From Hell
Melodic Death
6. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Progressive/Brutal Death
7. Ahtme - Mephitic
Technical Death
8. Alustrium - Insurmountable
Progressive/Technical Death
9. Angerot - The Divine Apostate
Blackened Death
10. Azarath - Saint Desecration
Black/Death
11. Azath - Through A Warren Of Shadow
OSDM
12. Banisher - Degrees Of Isolation
Technical Death/Groove
13. Benighted - Obscene Repressed
Deathgrind
14. Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
Progressive/Death
15. Black Curse - Endless Wound
Death/Black Metal
16. Blasphemer - The Sixth Hour
Blackened/Brutal Death
17. Carnation - Where Death Lies
OSDM
18. Carnosus - Dogma Of The Deceased
Technical Death/Thrash
19. Contrarian - Only Time Will Tell
Progressive Death
20. Convocation - Ashes Coalesce
Funereal Death/Doom
21. Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
Technical Thrash/Death
22. Cult Of Lilith - Mara
Progressive/Technical Death
23. Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
Brutal/Technical Death
24. Darkened - Kingdom Of Decay
OSDM
25. Deeds Of Flesh - Nucleus
Brutal Death
26. Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
Brutal/Technical Death
27. Depravity - Grand Malevolence
OSDM/Brutal Death
28. Desolator - Sermon Of Apathy
Blackened Death
29. Despised Icon - Purgatory
Deathcore
30. Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
Gothic/Doom/Death
31. Earth Rot - Black Tides Of Obscurity
Blackened Death
32. Engulfed - Vengeance Of The Fallen
Blackened Death
33. Exocrine - Maelstrom
Technical Death
34. Faceless Burial - Speciation
Proggy OSDM
35. Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Black/Death
36. Foul - Of Serpents
Death/Doom
37. Gorephilia - In The Eye Of Nothing
OSDM
38. Heads For The Dead - Into The Red
Swedeath
39. Hyperdontia - Excreted From The Flesh
OSDM
40. Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities
OG Cavernous Death/Doom
41. Inferi - Of Sunless Realms
Technical Death
42. Kataklysm - Unconquered
Melodic Death/Groove
43. Katalepsy - Terra Mortuus Est
Brutal/Technical Death
44. Lantern - Dimensions
Caverncore
45. Lik (SWE) - Misanthropic Breed
Swedeath
46. Lorna Shore - Immortal
Deathcore
47. Luna's Call - Void
Extreme Prog/Progressive Death
48. Macabre - Carnival Of Killers
Circus Death
49. Madrost - Charring The Rotting Earth
Death/Thrash
50. Megascavenger - Songs In The Key Of Madness
OSDM
51. Mercyless - The Mother Of All Plagues
Death/Thrash
52. Mors Principium Est - Seven
Melodic Death
53. Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Grindcore/Death
54. Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
Melodic Black/Death
55. Necrot - Mortal
OSDM
56. Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Blackened Death
57. Perdition Temple - Sacraments Of Descension
Black/Death
58. Pile Of Priests - Pile Of Priests
Progressive OSDM
59. Plague - Portraits Of Mind
OSDM
60. Proscription - Conduit
Blackened Death
61. Putrid Offal - Sicknesses Obsessions
OSDM/Brutal Death
62. Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
Avantgarde Death
63. Rannoch - Reflections Upon Darkness
Progressive Death
64. Ripped To Shreds - 亂 (Luan)
OSDM
65. Serocs - Vore
Progressive/Technical Death
66. Sinister - Deformation Of The Holy Realm
OG Death
67. Skeletal Remains - The Entombment Of Chaos
OSDM
68. Skelethal - Unveiling The Threshold
Progressive OSDM
69. Stoned God - Incorporeal
Progressive/Death/Groove
70. Symbolik - Emergence
Technical Death
71. Temple Of Void - The World That Was
Progressive Death/Doom
72. Thanatos - Violent Death Rituals
Death/Thrash
73. The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
Melodic Death
74. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Dissonant Technical Death
75. Ulthar - Providence
Blackened Death
76. Undeath - Lesions Of A Different Kind
OSDM
77. Undergang - Aldrig I Livet
OSDM
78. Vader - Solitude In Madness
OG Death
79. Vainaja - Kiviristi
Funereal Death/Doom
80. Vampire - Rex
Death/Thrash
81. Void Rot - Descending Pillars
Death/Doom
82. Volturyon - Xenogenesis
Brutal/Swedeath
83. Vredehammer - Viperous
Black/Death
84. Wormhole - The Weakest Among Us
Techy Slam
85. Xenobiotic - Mordrake
Technical Deathcore


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