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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

The organization is based entirely on my own rating, starting with a cluster of my favorite albums in a vague order of appreciation and then descending in alphabetically organized blocks from 9/10 through 6/10 ratings.

Created by: ScreamingSteelUS | 15.04.2022



1. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2. Death - Symbolic
3. At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
4. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
5. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
6. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
7. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
8. The Faceless - Autotheism
9. Dew-Scented - Inwards
10. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
11. Death - Human
12. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
13. Suffering Hour - Dwell
14. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
15. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
16. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
17. First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
18. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
19. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
20. The Faceless - Akeldama
21. The Faceless - Planetary Duality
22. Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
9/10 from here on down.
23. Aephanemer - Prokopton
24. Aeternam - Moongod
25. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
26. Aleph - Thanatos
27. Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
28. Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire
29. Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
30. Amon Amarth - Versus The World
31. Amorphis - Circle
32. Amorphis - Queen Of Time
33. Amorphis - Skyforger
34. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
35. Archspire - Bleed The Future
36. At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
37. Atheist - Piece Of Time
38. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
39. Autokrator - Hammer Of The Heretics
40. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
41. Be'lakor - Vessels
42. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
43. Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
44. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
45. Carcass - Surgical Steel
46. Carcass - Torn Arteries
47. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
48. Cemetary - Godless Beauty
49. The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
50. Cynic - Focus
51. Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
52. Death - Leprosy
53. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
54. Death - Spiritual Healing
55. Deicide - Deicide
56. Départe - Failure, Subside
57. Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
58. Deceased - Ghostly White
59. Dethklok - The Dethalbum
60. Dethklok - Dethalbum II
61. Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
62. Duskmourn - Of Shadow And Flame
63. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
64. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
65. Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
66. Entombed - Clandestine
67. Entombed - Left Hand Path
68. Entombed - Morning Star
69. Fallensun - The Wake Of The Fall
70. Fallujah - Dreamless
71. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
72. Gorefest - Mindloss
73. Grey Skies Fallen - The Many Sides Of Truth
74. Hannes Grossmann - The Radial Covenant
75. Havengarth - The Path Through Reminiscence
76. In Flames - Black-Ash Inheritance
77. In Flames - The Jester Race
78. In Vain - Ænigma
79. Inferi - The Path Of Apotheosis
80. Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
81. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
82. The Moaning - Blood From Stone
83. Morbid Angel - Covenant
84. Novembers Doom - Bled White
85. Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens
86. Plasmodium - Towers Of Silence
87. Redemptor - Agonia
88. Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
89. Rotting Kingdom - A Deeper Shade Of Sorrow
90. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
91. Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons
92. Serdce - Timelessness
93. Sinister - Bastard Saints
94. Sinister - Hate
95. Son Of Aurelius - Under A Western Sun
96. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
97. Warforged - I: Voice
98. Withering Surface - Force The Pace
99. Abiotic - Ikigai
8/10 from here on down.
100. Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
101. Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk
102. Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
103. Aeternam - Al Qassam
104. Aeternam - Ruins Of Empires
105. Æther Realm - Redneck Vikings From Hell
106. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
107. The Alex Jones Prison Planet - Super Heavy Galactic Stuff
108. Allegaeon - Apoptosis
109. Allegaeon - Damnum
110. Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite
111. Amon Amarth - Berserker
112. Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods
113. Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
114. Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
115. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
116. Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
117. Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
118. Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
119. Arch Enemy - War Eternal
120. Arch Of Hell - One Day
121. Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
122. Aseitas - False Peace
123. At The Gates - At War With Reality
124. At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being
125. At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
126. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself
127. Autokrator - Autokrator
128. Autokrator - The Obedience To Authority
129. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
130. Autopsy - Severed Survival
131. Azarath - Saint Desecration
132. Baruk Khazad - Axes, Beards And Mead
133. Barús - Fanges
134. Battlecross - Rise To Power
135. Battlecross - War Of Will
136. Be'lakor - Coherence
137. Be'lakor - The Frail Tide
138. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
139. Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
140. Benighted - Necrobreed
141. Beyond Creation - The Aura
142. Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive
143. Black Curse - Endless Wound
144. The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
145. Blood Red Throne - Union Of Flesh And Machine
146. Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn
147. Bloodshot Dawn - Demons
148. Bloody Cumshot - Nymphomania
149. Bloody Tyrant - 島嶼神話 (Myths Of The Islands)
150. Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
151. Bølzer - Aura
152. Bølzer - Hero
153. Burial In The Sky - The Consumed Self
154. Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life
155. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
156. Cannibal Corpse - Kill
157. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
158. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
159. Cannibal Corpse - Torture
160. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
161. Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
162. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
163. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
164. Centimani - Aegaeon
165. Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
166. Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
167. Cormorant - Diaspora
168. Cormorant - Earth Diver
169. Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds
170. Cosmovore - Into The Necrosphere
171. Countless Skies - Glow
172. Crawl - Rituals
173. Crescent - Carving The Fires Of Akhet
174. Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
175. Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
176. Cult Of Lilith - Mara
177. Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
178. Damnation Defaced - The Devourer
179. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
180. Dark Tranquillity - Moment
181. Dark Tranquillity - Of Chaos And Eternal Night
182. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
183. Deicide - Legion
184. Demilich - Nespithe
185. Dew-Scented - Icarus
186. Dew-Scented - Impact
187. Dew-Scented - Intermination
188. Dismember - Indecent And Obscene
189. Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme Of Things
190. Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
191. Earth Rot - Black Tides Of Obscurity
192. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight, And Speak The Truth
193. Entombed - Wolverine Blues
194. Entombed - Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments
195. Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front
196. Entombed A.D. - Dead Dawn
197. Equipoise - Demiurgus
198. Eternal Storm - Come The Tide
199. The Everdawn - Opera Of The Damned
200. Exlimitir - It Weighed Itself In Silver
201. Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs
202. Fallujah - -NOMADIC-
203. First Fragment - Dasein
204. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno
205. Fleshvessel - Bile Of Man Reborn
206. Fractal Gates - The Light That Shines
207. Funebre - Children Of The Scorn
208. Gateway - Boundless Torture
209. Gorguts - Considered Dead
210. Gormathon - Following The Beast
211. Gormathon - Lens Of Guardian
212. Grey Skies Fallen - The Fate Of Angels
213. Grey Skies Fallen - Introspective
214. Grey Skies Fallen - Tomorrow's In Doubt
215. Guðveiki - Vængför
216. The Haarp Machine - Disclosure
217. Hail Of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
218. Hannes Grossmann - The Crypts Of Sleep
219. Hannes Grossmann - To Where The Light Retreats
220. Hath - All That Was Promised
221. Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice
222. Horrendous - Anareta
223. Horrendous - Ecdysis
224. House Of Atreus - From The Madness Of Ixion
225. Immolation - Acts Of God
226. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
227. Impureza - La Caída De Tonatiuh
228. In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
229. Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
230. Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth
231. Inferi - Vile Genesis
232. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
233. Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave
234. Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
235. Lantern - Below
236. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
237. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
238. Master - On The Seventh Day God Created... Master
239. MaYaN - Dhyana
240. Memoriam - Requiem For Mankind
241. Memoriam - The Silent Vigil
242. Mithras - On Strange Loops
243. Montaña Sagrada - The Living Green
244. Moral Collapse - Moral Collapse
245. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
246. Morgoth - Cursed
247. Mors Principium Est - Seven
248. Neaera - Neaera
249. Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
250. The Neologist - Coming Full Circle
251. Nightfall - Cassiopeia
252. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
253. 1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind
254. 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
255. Nocturnus - The Key
256. Nocturnus AD - Paradox
257. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
258. Nox Vorago - Al Chem
259. Nyktophobia - What Lasts Forever
260. Obituary - Cause Of Death
261. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
262. Obituary - World Demise
263. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
264. Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold
265. Parius - The Eldritch Realm
266. Persefone - Spiritual Migration
267. Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
268. Phlebotomized - Deformation Of Humanity
269. Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
270. Portal - Vexovoid
271. Protector - A Shedding Of Skin
272. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
273. Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia
274. Rings Of Saturn - Dingir
275. Rings Of Saturn - Gidim
276. Ritual Dictates - Give In To Despair
277. Scarab - Blinding The Masses
278. Scarve - Luminiferous
279. Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past
280. Septicflesh - Codex Omega
281. Septicflesh - Titan
282. Shaarimoth - Current 11
283. Shaarimoth - Temple Of The Adversarial Fire
284. Shturm - Kalahia
285. Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
286. Sinister - Syncretism
287. Slugdge - Dim & Slimeridden Kingdoms
288. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
289. Slugdge - Gastronomicon
290. Stortregn - Impermanence
291. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
292. Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere
293. Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
294. Summoning The Lich - United In Chaos
295. Sxuperion - Omniscient Pulse
296. Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir
297. The Temple (NZL) - The Temple
298. Thanatos - Violent Death Rituals
299. Therion - Of Darkness
300. Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
301. Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
302. Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
303. Triumvir Foul - Triumvir Foul
304. Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis
305. Ulcerate - Vermis
306. Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil
307. Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)
308. Vader - De Profundis
309. Vader - Impressions In Blood
310. Vader - Morbid Reich
311. Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
312. Vanhelgd - Deimos Sanktuarium
313. Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos
314. Venenum - Trance Of Death
315. VLTIMAS - Something Wicked Marches In
316. Warlord U.K. - We Die As One
317. Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light
318. Wolfheart - Shadow World
319. Wolfheart - Tyhjyys
320. Wound - Inhale The Void
321. Xibalba - Años En Infierno
322. Ænimus - Transcend Reality
7/10 from here on down.
323. Aesmah - Walking Off The Horizon
324. Æther Realm - One Chosen By The Gods
325. Æther Realm - Tarot
326. Agodea - Of Stars And Madmen
327. The Agonist - Eye Of Providence
328. The Amenta - Flesh Is Heir
329. The Amenta - Revelator
330. Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
331. Amorphis - Halo
332. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
333. Anguish Sublime - Maelstrom Imperium
334. Arch Enemy - Will To Power
335. Asphyx - Incoming Death
336. Asphyx - Necroceros
337. Asphyx - The Rack
338. Atavistia - The Winter Way
339. Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
340. Autokrator - Persecution
341. Battlecross - Pursuit Of Honor
342. Behemoth - Demigod
343. Benediction - Grind Bastard
344. Benighted - Obscene Repressed
345. Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
346. The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
347. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
348. Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
349. Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
350. Bloodred Hourglass - Godsend
351. Bloody Tyrant - 孤鷹行 (Solitary Eagle)
352. Bodyfarm - Dreadlord
353. Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
354. Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
355. Bølzer - Lese Majeste
356. Bølzer - Soma
357. Burial (NED) - Relinquished Souls
358. Cancer - Death Shall Rise
359. Cancer - Shadow Gripped
360. Cangaço - Cangaço
361. Cangaço - Parabelo
362. Cangaço - Positivo
363. Cangaço - Rastros
364. Cannibal Corpse - Vile
365. Carnage - Dark Recollections
366. Castrator - No Victim
367. Chapel Of Disease - The Mysterious Ways Of Repetitive Art
368. Charnel Altar - Abatement Of The Sun
369. Convulse - World Without God
370. Corpsegrinder - Corpsegrinder
371. Cosmic Putrefaction - At The Threshold Of The Greatest Chasm
372. Dark Tranquillity - Atoma
373. Dark Tranquillity - Construct
374. Dawn Of Disease - Ascension Gate
375. Death Strike - Fuckin' Death
376. Deceased - Luck Of The Corpse
377. Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
378. Desecration - Gore And Perversion
379. Desecration - Murder In Mind
380. Desolate Shrine - Fires Of The Dying World
381. Desolate Shrine - The Heart Of The Netherworld
382. Dew-Scented - Invocation
383. Disgorge - Cranial Impalement
384. Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With
385. Edge Of Sanity - Nothing But Death Remains
386. Entombed - Inferno
387. Entombed - Same Difference
388. Entombed - Uprising
389. Eonian - The Nomad
390. Ephemerald - Between The Glimpses Of Hope
391. Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
392. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
393. Exanimis - Marionnettiste
394. The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost
395. Fallujah - Leper Colony
396. Fleshcrawl - Descend Into The Absurd
397. Genocide Pact - Order Of Torment
398. Gorguts - Colored Sands
399. Gorod - Æthra
400. Grey Skies Fallen - Along Came Life
401. Heaven Shall Burn - Veto
402. Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer
403. Horrendous - Idol
404. Hypnos - The Whitecrow
405. In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
406. In Mourning - Garden Of Storms
407. Incantation - The Forsaken Mourning Of Angelic Anguish
408. Incubator - Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism
409. Jari Lindholm - Trajectories
410. Kataklysm - The Prophecy (Stigmata Of The Immaculate)
411. Katalysm - Shadows & Dust
412. Khanus - Flammarion
413. Lahmia - Resilience
414. Lantern - II: Morphosis
415. Ludicrous - Altar Boy Discocult
416. Massacre - From Beyond
417. Mefitis - Offscourings
418. Misery Index - The Killing Gods
419. The Moaning - Promo-94
420. Molten - Dystopian Syndrome
421. Morbus Chron - Sweven
422. Morost - Solace In Solitude
423. Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
424. Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
425. Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbecue
426. Mortification - Mortification
427. Nader Sadek - The Malefic: Chapter III
428. Nightrage - The Venomous
429. Noctambulist - The Barren Form
430. Noctem - Exilium
431. Noctem - Haeresis
432. Noumena - Myrrys
433. Novembers Doom - Hamartia
434. Obituary - Obituary
435. Obscura Qalma - Apotheosis
436. Omnium Gatherum - Origin
437. Orbit Culture - Rasen
438. Ouroboros - Emanations
439. Outre-Tombe - Abysse Mortifère
440. Persefone - Aathma
441. Pestilence - Doctrine
442. Psilocybe Larvae - Where Silence Dwells
443. Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
444. The Resistance - Scars
445. Rings Of Saturn - Ultu Ulla
446. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Immortal I
447. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
448. Shezmu - À Travers Les Lambeaux
449. Snorlax - II
450. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
451. Soilwork - Verkligheten
452. Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
453. Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
454. Stoned God - Incorporeal
455. Succumb - Succumb
456. Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death
457. Triumvir Foul - Spiritual Bloodshed
458. Ulthima - Symphony Of The Night
459. Umbra Vitae - Shadow Of Life
460. Unleashed - No Sign Of Life
461. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
462. Vader - The Empire
463. Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation
464. Warp Chamber - Implements Of Excruciation
465. Wolfheart - Winterborn
466. Wolfheart - Wolves Of Karelia
467. Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind
6/10 from here on down.
468. Abnormality - Mechanisms Of Omniscience
469. Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
470. Akercocke - Antichrist
471. Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
472. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
473. Behemoth - The Satanist
474. Benediction - The Grand Leveller
475. Binary Code - Moonsblood
476. Broken Hope - Mutilated And Assimilated
477. Broken Hope - Swamped In Gore
478. Burial (NED) - Frigid Cold
479. Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
480. Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
481. Descend - Wither
482. Fractal Gates - Beyond The Self
483. Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
484. Hate - Tremendum
485. Immolation - Atonement
486. Immolation - Kingdom Of Conspiracy
487. In Flames - Come Clarity
488. In Mourning - Afterglow
489. Incantation - Profane Nexus
490. Loudblast - Disincarnate
491. Masacre (COL) - Requiem
492. Massacre - Back From Beyond
493. Mordab - Into The Mordab
494. Narjahanam - Undama Tath'hur Al Shams Mn Al Gharb
495. Narjahanam - Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham
496. Nervecell - Psychogenocide
497. Obituary - Back From The Dead
498. Orbit Culture - Nija
499. The Red Shore - Lost Verses
500. Revolted Masses - Rise
501. Six Feet Under - Bringer Of Blood
502. Six Feet Under - Commandment
503. Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise
504. Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead
505. Sororicide - The Entity
506. Suffocation - ...Of The Dark Light
507. Threat Signal - Disconnect
508. Vader - Tibi Et Igni
509. Vale Of Pnath - II
510. Vomitile - Pure Eternal Hate
511. Words Of Farewell - A Quiet World



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16.04.2022 - 09:11
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Tage Westerlund
Cool list, now order to Radu review all albums
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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05.08.2022 - 01:13
Jaro
Damn, now I want to make a list like this
Without rating though, haven't listened to a lot of albums even a 2nd time.
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