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Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)
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…
| 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 |
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The Death Metal Essentials
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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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…
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…
| 1. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 2. | Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence |
| 3. | Sinister - Cross The Styx |
| 4. | Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes |
| 5. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
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Scott Burns
It is very hard to understate how much Scott Burns' talents have given to the world of metal music. He might disagree about the following statements, but his work defined one of the most admired and…
| 1. | Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force |
| 2. | Whiplash - Ticket To Mayhem |
| 3. | Crimson Glory - Transcendence |
| 4. | Death - Leprosy |
| 5. | Terrorizer - World Downfall |
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Top 25 Albums Of 1991
Favorite releases from 1991
Updated 9/19/20
Updated 9/19/20
| 1. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 2. | Sepultura - Arise |
| 3. | Atheist - Unquestionable Presence |
| 4. | Death - Human |
| 5. | Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments |
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Top Favourite Death Metal Albums
| 1. | Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| 2. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 3. | Behemoth - The Satanist |
| 4. | Obituary - Cause Of Death |
| 5. | Death - Leprosy |
| + 62 more |
Death Metal Classics
The best death metal albums pre 2000, in alphabetical order.
Work in progress.
Work in progress.
| 1. | Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus |
| 2. | Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil |
| 3. | Asphyx - The Rack |
| 4. | Asphyx - Last One On Earth |
| 5. | Asphyx - Embrace The Death |
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My Top 60 Favourite Death Metal Albums (including melodeath and deathrash)
I know some of the albums are more thrash than death, but I added them anyway, because I guess they could appeal to death metal fans too. Many of the albums are not so well-known, but I prefer them over…
| 1. | In Flames - Clayman |
| 2. | The Crown - Eternal Death |
| 3. | Sororicide - The Entity |
| 4. | Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum |
| 5. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
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Top 20 Death Metal Albums Of 1991
Ah,1991. Maybe best year of Death Metal.
| 1. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 2. | Bolt Thrower - Warmaster |
| 3. | Grave - Into The Grave |
| 4. | Immolation - Dawn Of Possession |
| 5. | Massacre - From Beyond |
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Brutality Evolved: Essential 1990-1995 Death Metal Classics
| 1. | Death - Human |
| 2. | Autopsy - Mental Funeral |
| 3. | Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade |
| 4. | Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated |
| 5. | Incantation - Onward To Golgotha |
| + 45 more |