What are your top ten Death Metal releases?

First Post July 24, 2021 03:45 AM

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)


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July 24, 2021 09:24 AM

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)

July 24, 2021 10:01 PM

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)

July 26, 2021 09:04 AM

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)


July 26, 2021 11:31 PM

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.

Ben
Ben
The Fallen The Horde The North The Pit
July 27, 2021 01:32 AM

Hmmm... your number 1 release isn't even on Metal Academy. I guess I'll have to fix that.

Ben
Ben
The Fallen The Horde The North The Pit
July 27, 2021 06:30 AM
August 01, 2021 06:33 PM


Sorted. Veiled in Scarlet :yum:

Quoted Ben

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.

October 26, 2021 08:04 PM

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