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Top 25 Classic Death Metal Debuts


3 caveats
1. Death metal album (not just debut from band that became death metal, like Carcass)
2. Released calendar year 1999 or earlier
3. By a band with more than 1 album (1-album wonder list is elsewhere)

Yes, there are a few bands conspicuous in their absence. For whatever reason, I just never really got into them.
I don't dislike them, but I don't regard them as highly as most folks do

EDIT - I stayed away from death/thrash combo albums, more for convenience's sake. So Malleus Maleficarum, Illusions, Seven Churches, Serpent Temptation, etc are not on this list, but they'll be on the next list I make (top 25 Brutal thrash/death-thrash albums)

Created by: sgtrobo | 30.07.2022






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30.07.2022 - 17:55
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Nice choices! Awesome to see Necrophobic in first place
Those death metal bands of the late 80s and early 90s really caught lightning in a bottle with their incredible debuts! My favorites:
1. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
2. Autopsy - Severed Survival
3. Entombed - Left Hand Path
4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
5. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
6. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
7. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
8. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
9. Desultory - Into Eternity
10. Possessed - Seven Churches
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30.07.2022 - 22:35
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Good list following your criteria I have come up with my ranking:

1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
3. Entombed - Left Hand Path
4. Autopsy - Severed Survival
5. Atheist - Piece Of Time
6. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
7. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
8. Gorguts - Considered Dead
9. Cynic - Focus
10. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
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30.07.2022 - 22:36
sgtrobo

Written by F3ynman2000 on 30.07.2022 at 17:55

Nice choices! Awesome to see Necrophobic in first place
Those death metal bands of the late 80s and early 90s really caught lightning in a bottle with their incredible debuts! My favorites:
1. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
2. Autopsy - Severed Survival
3. Entombed - Left Hand Path
4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
5. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
6. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
7. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
8. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
9. Desultory - Into Eternity
10. Possessed - Seven Churches


I've been a death metal fan for, quite literally, 35 years and I still have not listened to Demigod. WTF is wrong with me? Ok, enough of this stupidity, I'm listening to them now.
EDIT - oh christ, edited...that was badass. How could I have missed out on that
Side note - great call on Desultory. Into Eternity ended up being the name of a Canadian prog/tech melodeath band that had quite a few absolute badass releases. I didn't put Possessed on there because I considered them brutal/death thrash and I wanted to keep away from that for this list (Merciless, Sadus, Oppropbrium/Incubus, etc)

EDIT - decided to include Possessed because fuckit, why not
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30.07.2022 - 22:37
sgtrobo

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 30.07.2022 at 22:35

Good list following your criteria I have come up with my ranking:

1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
3. Entombed - Left Hand Path
4. Autopsy - Severed Survival
5. Atheist - Piece Of Time
6. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
7. Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
8. Gorguts - Considered Dead
9. Cynic - Focus
10. Obituary - Slowly We Rot


Considered Dead was SO close to making it...I went back and forth between that and Massacre. Great list BTW
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31.07.2022 - 09:33
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Man, your criterias are hard to fit , very hard list to make! We don't have much stuff in common but I haven't listened to everything on yours yet, I've been meaning to check the Deeds Of Flesh debut and Iniquity for a while now. Anyways, here's my top 10, I hesitated a lot in adding Brodequin's debut (released in 2000) but this is what I ended up with:

1. Cynic - Focus
2. Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn Of Dreams
3. Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
4. Supuration - The Cube
5. Disgorge (MEX) - Chronic Corpora Infest
6. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
7. Skinless - Progression Towards Evil
8. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
9. Mangled Torsos - Drawings of the Dead
10. Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy Of The Beast
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01.08.2022 - 00:56
sgtrobo

Written by Guest on 31.07.2022 at 05:42

Good list. Im gonna add some great debuts, but only those not-mentioned by anyone so far. I'll stretch the time limit to before year 2000 including that year.

1. Cenotaph - The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows
2. Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden
3. Brutality - Screams of vanquish
4. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
5. Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
6. Broken Torso - The Ultimate Abhorrence
7. Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
8. Atrocity - Hallucinations
9. Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
10. Decapitated - Winds of Creation


some great additions there definitely. I had to cut it off at 1999. It was too "symmetrical" and 2000 adds stuff and makes the list that much harder to create:P

Written by Roman Doez on 31.07.2022 at 09:33

Man, your criterias are hard to fit , very hard list to make! We don't have much stuff in common but I haven't listened to everything on yours yet, I've been meaning to check the Deeds Of Flesh debut and Iniquity for a while now. Anyways, here's my top 10, I hesitated a lot in adding Brodequin's debut (released in 2000) but this is what I ended up with:

1. Cynic - Focus
2. Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn Of Dreams
3. Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
4. Supuration - The Cube
5. Disgorge (MEX) - Chronic Corpora Infest
6. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
7. Skinless - Progression Towards Evil
8. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
9. Mangled Torsos - Drawings of the Dead
10. Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy Of The Beast


I had to make it a bit challenging!
Great call out on Skinless, forgot their debut was pre-2000. Trample the Weak is one of my favorite BDM albums of all time
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