What are your top ten Death Metal releases?
Here's my list. Let's see yours:
01. Morbid Angel - "Altars of Madness" (1989)
02. Death - "Human" (1991)
03. Suffocation - "Pierced From Within" (1995)
04. Immolation - "Close To A World Below" (2000)
05. Suffocation - "Despise The Sun" E.P. (1998)
06. Carcass - "Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious" (1991)
07. Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall" (2014)
08. Morbid Angel - "Blessed Are The Sick" (1991)
09. Death - "Individual Thought Patterns" (1993)
10. Morbid Angel - "Covenant" (1993)
https://metal.academy/lists/single/125
Here's my top 10 that I remember were my favorites of the genre before my departure from death metal:
10. Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest (1999)
9. Threat Signal - Under Reprisal (2006)
8. Revocation - The Outer Ones (2018)
7. Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (2018)
6. Nightrage - A New Disease is Born (2007)
5. Cynic - Focus (1993)
4. In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans (2012)
3. Avatar - Hail the Apocalypse (2014)
2. In Flames - The Jester Race (1996)
1. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995)
OK, here we go:
1. Autopsy - Mental Funeral (1991)
2. Incantation - Diabolical Conquest (1998)
3. Cianide - A Descent Into Hell (1994)
4. Terrorizer - World Downfall (1989)
5. Venenum - Trance of Death (2017)
6. Rippikoulu - Musta seremonia (1993)
7. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)
8. Coffins - Buried Death (2008)
9. Autopsy - Severed Survival (1989)
10. Fleshcrawl - Descend Into the Absurd (1992)
1. Obituary - Slowly We Rot (1989)
2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)
3. Obituary - Cause of Death (1990)
4. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (1991)
5. Gorguts - Colored Sands (2013)
6. Death - Scream Bloody Gore (1987)
7. Deicide - Deicide (1990)
8. Immolation - Close To A World Below (2000)
9. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death & Be Still (2020)
10. Autopsy - Mental Funeral (1991)
Limited to one release per artist for me
1. Veiled in Scarlet - Atonement (2018)
2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)
3. In Flames - Come Clarity (2006)
4. Insomnium - Above the Weeping World (2006)
5. Death - Spiritual Healing (1990)
6. Septicflesh - Codex Omega (2017)
7. Vader - Revelations (2002)
8. Dismembered - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991)
9. Entombed - Clandestine (1991)
10. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion (2019)
I'm gonna give an honorable mention to Still Life by Opeth because I still consider it death metal but I know many don't so I'll keep it off the list.
Hmmm... your number 1 release isn't even on Metal Academy. I guess I'll have to fix that.
Sorted. Veiled in Scarlet 
Sorted. Veiled in Scarlet
Thanks Ben! They're a fantastic melodeath band from Japan with influences of power metal and symphonic metal, I recommend them to fans of the more melodic side of the genre.
Here's my updated list:
01. Morbid Angel - "Altars of Madness" (1989)
02. Death - "Human" (1991)
03. Suffocation - "Pierced From Within" (1995)
04. Immolation - "Close To A World Below" (2000)
05. Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
06. Suffocation - "Despise The Sun" E.P. (1998)
07. Carcass - "Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious" (1991)
08. Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall" (2014)
09. Morbid Angel - "Blessed Are The Sick" (1991)
10. Death - "Individual Thought Patterns" (1993)
https://metal.academy/lists/single/125