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A List Of Great Debut Albums

A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.

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2.Aarni - Bathos
3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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Created by Erik M. on 30.11.2012



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BurbotsRevenge's Top 50 Death Metal Albums

A list of my favourite death metal albums of all time, one listing per band, hopefully you may discover some new bands/albums from this list. They're not in any exact order but my real favourites are there in the top 5. Death metal ftw!

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2.Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
3.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
4.Death - Spiritual Healing
5.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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Created by BurbotsRevenge on 04.03.2010



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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)

So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials list when it comes to that style. There are some unorthodox choices as well in the mix that aren't just full-on tech death, some bands also incorporate grind, black, core elements or even jazz. Hope you'll all find something that suits your taste! The list is ordered by years. Feel free to comment and give recommendations! Just refrain from telling me an album shouldn't be featured here... All the albums here are deliberately hand-picked and if it made the list, it's for a reason.

Personal absolute favorites of mine have a ★ beside the genre. And my pics of best album for each year are identified by (best of xxxx) beside the albums.

🇨🇦 = From Canada, My Country! We're quite good at Technical and Brutal Death Metal... Trust me. I mean, you'll see for yourself.

-Guib-

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Guib's Best Tech/Brutal/Prog Death Metal Album Picks

Best Of 2023:
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Best of 2024 So Far:
Exist - Hijacking The Zeitgeist

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TAGS: Technical Death Metal, Melodic Tech-Death, Brutal, Atmospheric, Progressive, Blackened Tech-Death, Technical Thrash, Deathgrind, Deathcore, Symphonic, Dissonant Tech-Death, Experimental, Avantgarde, Grindcore, Jazz

Last Updated: May 7th, 2024

1.Atheist - Piece Of Time
2.Nocturnus - The Key
3.Atrocity - Hallucinations
4.Death - Human
5.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

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Created by Guib on 17.10.2011



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The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)

*** 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 death, death-thrash, and blackened death. LPs ONLY. *** /\ UNDER CONSTRUCTION /\

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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Created by saw_you_drown on 08.04.2015



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Classic Death Metal Top 100

1.Carcass - Heartwork
2.Entombed - Clandestine
3.Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
4.Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
5.Gorefest - False

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Created by Alexbridger on 14.03.2011



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O' Canada! (Ordered By Years)

Good day folks! T'day, I just wanted to share the best of what Canada has to offer when it comes to Metal, eh. It seems a lot of people don't yet know that Canada's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the heavy stuff and I'll show you just how much!

The main goal here is to help people discover the history of Canadian Metal through time and amazing releases. To do so, I'll be listing a single album per band and order the list by year of release from oldest to newest then I'll identify the genre for each of them. Note that the albums chosen aren't necessarily the best of each band but my personal favorites and in my humble opinion, good points of entry into a band's discography. I will try to fill each gaps in years over time and add new bands as I discover them. (So this list is permanently under construction).

Also, as always in my lists, releases with a ''★'' are the ones I believe you shouldn't miss because of their impact, uniqueness or just because they are my favourites.

There is a lot of different styles, I did my best to diversify so there should be something interesting for everyone!

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To my fellow Canadians, if you have recommendations or wanna point out obvious albums I might have missed, please feel free to let me know. To everyone else, I hope you'll like this virtual musical trip to the great white north! Enjoy. Oh and you're really all welcome to suggest albums.

- Guib -

Last Update: April 15th, 2024

1.Moxy - Moxy
2.Triumph - Just A Game
3.Rush - Moving Pictures
4.April Wine - The Nature Of The Beast
5.D.O.A. - Hardcore '81

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Created by Guib on 24.07.2023



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200+ Favorite Albums

Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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Created by Qualeen on 30.09.2021



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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)

1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2.Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
3.Nocturnus - The Key
4.Sinister - Cross The Styx
5.Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

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Created by sgtrobo on 30.07.2022



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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 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.

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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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



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Top 25 Albums Of 1991

Favorite releases from 1991

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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Created by Dangerboner on 02.03.2010



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Halloween-in'

A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2.Slayer - South Of Heaven
3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.King Diamond - Abigail

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Created by Qualeen on 31.10.2022



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400+ Favorite Songs

Last updated on 11 April 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
3.Wintersun - Wintersun
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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Created by Qualeen on 10.10.2021



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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 revered eras of death and thrash metal, vastly influencing the sonic imprint that was to be copied for generations to come, and his skills were far and beyond just the engineering.

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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Created by qlacs on 09.12.2023



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Essential Music For Phone

Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel
2.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
3.Abbath - Abbath
4.Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
5.Æther Realm - Tarot

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Created by em6568 on 13.07.2023



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My Favorite Album Covers

Mind map:

Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox stuff = win
Black and white = win, sometimes

Last updated on 29 July 2023.

1.Emperor - Reverence
2.Wintersun - Wintersun
3.The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure
4.Dissection - Live Legacy
5.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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Created by Qualeen on 29.03.2023