Aiming towards building a list of the best of straightforward, analog, murky Death Metal…

1.Possessed - Seven Churches

2.Death Strike - Fuckin' Death

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Entombed - Nihilist (1987-1989)

5.Sadus - Illusions / Chemical Exposure

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Here's a little list displaying my personal favorite death metal albums, based on the same idea as my heavy metal list, thus stressing the raw and the genuine. For me death metal has to be crushing,…

1.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

2.Suffocation - Pierced From Within

3.Cynic - Focus

4.Septicflesh - Εσοπτρον

5.Death - Symbolic

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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Pretty self-explanatory, with a couple caveats: first, this is mostly just a list of my favorite metal bands in approximate order (after the top 10 or so the order matters far less), with extra weight…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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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…

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

4.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

5.Death - Human

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1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4.Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges

5.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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These are my rankings for all times of what personally like. Regardless of the style and year. Can someone to his appeal grutine and they are great ... Please comment if you wish.
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1.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

2.Evoken - Antithesis Of Light

3.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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1.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

2.Unleashed - Across The Open Sea

3.Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

4.Mercyful Fate - In The Shadows

5.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

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Essentially I composed this list as a note-to-self not to take my negative first impressions so seriously. Most of these tend to be works I initially rated a couple points (/10) lower, because the music…

1.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

2.Anthrax - Stomp 442

3.Cathedral - Kingdom of Ends

4.Hypocrisy - Catch 22

5.Intruder - Psycho Savant

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1.Carcass - Heartwork

2.Sepultura - Arise

3.Morbid Angel - Covenant

4.Cynic - Focus

5.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Korn - Follow The Leader

4.Evanescance - Fallen

5.Morbid Angel - Covenant

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Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their…

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Accept - Stalingrad

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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1.Death - Human

2.Opeth - Still Life

3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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The choice of albums was made according to aesthetic criteria, taking into account only musical merits of the recordings.
Neither popularity among fans nor commercial success (or unsuccess) of the albums…

1.Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5.Death - Symbolic

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The only one. No order particularly, except the order I thought of them in.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Vader - Litany

3.Monstrosity - Millennium

4.Malevolent Creation - Retribution

5.Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory

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