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- Autopsy – Mental Funeral (1991) Masters of the grotesque, purveyors of filth, lords of gore and THC-ravaged servants of hellish disgust, Autopsy sounded like no-one else when they slithered from the grubby Californian shadows into the death metal spotlight at the tail-end of the 80s.
- Bolt Thrower – War Master (1991) After ambushing everyone with 1989’s classic Realm Of Chaos, Bolt Thrower proved their deathly credentials by repeating the trick.
- Decapitated – Nihility (2002) Decapitated’s latterday career has been marked by tragedy (the 2007 tourbus crash which killed drummer Vitek and left singer Covan paralysed) and controversy (rape charges were brought against all four members in 2017, before being droopped).
- Dissection – Storm Of The Light’s Bane (1995) While Sweden’s Dissection were very much black metal in terms of ideology and atmosphere, they also featured noticeable elements of the melodic death metal movement exploding in their home country, as well as classic ‘80s heavy metal.
- Cannibal Corpse – Tomb of The Mutilated
- Entombed – Left Hand Path
- Deicide – Deicide
- Possessed – Seven Churches
- Obituary – Cause of Death
- At The Gates – Slaughter of The Soul
- Death – Human
- Carcass – Heartwork
- Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
- Death - Symbolic
The macabre album cover, despicable song titles and out-of-leftfield cameo in a Jim Carrey film all added to Cannibal Corpse’s notoriety, but it’s the sheer quality of Tomb Of The Mutilated that cement its status. Backed by the monumental weight of Hammer Smashed Face’s riffs, Post Mortal Ejaculation’s sickening undercurrent and I Cum Blood’s grind...
Progenitors of the now infamous “buzzsaw” sound that set the Swedes apart from the Americans in the early ‘90s, Entombed had catchier riffs, a penchant for horror schlock and an underlying punkiness that made their debut album vastly sharper and more memorable than most. Not just brutal and dark, Left Hand Pathwas full of genuinely great tunes. Buy...
Good old Glen Benton. While other bands merely talked about evil, the Deicide frontman really threw himself into it, even branding his own forehead with an inverted cross. Deicide’s debut album sounded exactlyhow an album made by an actual maniac should sound. Complex but vicious and dripping with anti-Christian vitriol, Satan bloody loved it. Buy ...
Our Top 50 Best Death Metal Albums Ever tries to avoid bands that blurred the boundaries between thrash, death and (early) black metal, but Possessed are one of the few exceptions we had to make. Seven Churchesis a thrash album through and through – it’s just darker, heavier and more brilliantly blasphemous than anything else that existed at the ti...
The undisputed daddies of caveman death metal somehow managed to outstrip their genre-defining Slowly We Rot debut second time around. Aside from containing Obituary’s biggest, er, hit – the indelible Chopped In Half – Cause Of Deathremains one of the most crushing and grim death metal albums of all time. It’s mainly mid-paced, but it’s merciless. ...
The influence At The Gates' mighty fourth album be heard in a vast amount of metal from the last 20 years, not least the entire post-Killswitchmetalcore movement in the US. A flawless masterpiece that hammered home how distinctive the Swedes’ sound was, and how brutally effective it could be. Massive tunes, terrifying levels of aggression and preci...
Hot on the heels of its predecessor, Humanundoubtedly saw an exponential leap forward in innovation. With Chuck Schuldiner surrounded by the most virtuosic collection of members in the band’s history, it was no wonder this multifaceted masterpiece became Death’s best selling, and highest acclaimed album. Accompanied by their first music video for L...
The gore-fixated gods of grind streamlined their sound on their penultimate 90s record. The result was the finest British extreme metal album of the decade. Heartwork was also arguably the point where melodic death metal became a cohesive idea, and it still sounds fantastic all these years later. Every song has at least one unforgettable hook, geni...
Rightly hailed as a landmark for the emerging death metal Morbid Angel’s 1989 debut, Altars Of Madness, set the bar so high for the entire genre that people are still trying to match its brutal splendour more than 30 years later. Back in 1989, nobody had ever heard anything like Altars Of Madness before. The Floridans made Slayer sound like Weezer:...
There are more extreme death metal albums, musically and lyrically. But none is as visionary as Death’s sixth and penultimate album Symbolic. Since his landmark debut Scream Bloody Gore eight years earlier, Chuck Schuldiner and the revolving line-up of musicians he used to bring his vision to life had showed that death metal could evolve into somet...
Nightmares Made Flesh (2004) 88. Nuclear Death. Bride of Insect (1990) 87. Nocturnus. The Key (1990) 86. Pan.Thy.Monium.
- Symbolic (1995) Amongst the monumental acclaim and praise that surrounded Human there is something about 1995’s Symbolic that truly sets it apart from the flock.
- Human (1991) Hot on the heels of its predecessor, Human undoubtedly saw an exponential leap forward in innovation. With Schuldiner surrounded by the most virtuosic collection of members in the band’s history, it was no wonder this multifaceted masterpiece became Death’s best selling, and highest acclaimed album.
- Scream Bloody Gore (1987) The album that birthed a new generation of metalheads. Scream Bloody Gore was to inadvertently provide the embryonic blueprint for what was to become the death metal genre.
- Leprosy (1988) With Scream Bloody Gore having set a new standard in extremity, 1988’s sophomore release Leprosy would end up being the final nail in Death’s thrash-tinged coffin.
Dec 18, 2023 · Joe DiVita Published: December 18, 2023. Roadrunner / Metal Blade / Dark Descent / Spinefarm/Nuclear Blast / Combat / Giant / Wrong Again. Here is the best death metal album of each year since ...
Nov 22, 2019 · The Best Death Metal Albums of All Time. 1. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race. 2. Death - Symbolic. 3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries. 4. Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God.
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Dec 1, 2009 · MORBID ANGEL—Altars of Madness (Earache/Relativity, 1989) When it comes to musicianship, few death metal bands can compete with Florida-based veterans Morbid Angel, past or present. Altars of Madness, Morbid’s 1989 debut album, featured some of the scariest and most musically complex music in the death metal’s history.
