Top 10 Greatest Death Metal Albums Of All Time
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2023
- Listing the best death metal albums ever made. Includes a bonus top 10 elitist/purist list, crucial gateway albums for the youth, and a couple of modern classics.
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Cool to see some love for Death SH, great album, never understood why some dislike it.
10. Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon (93')
9. Gutted - Bleed for Us to Live (94')
8. Vomitory - Redemption (99')
7. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (89')
6. Taetre - The Art (98')
5. Gorguts - Considered Dead (91')
4. Carnage - Dark Recollections (90')
3. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (91')
2. Entombed - Left Hand Path (90')
1. Death - Symbolic (95')
Finally some love for the great Vomitory's "Redemption"
Finally some love for the great Vomitory's "Redemption"
Glad to see some Gutted love 🤘🏻
I agreed, and nodded in the affirmative, when you summarized your thoughts on: “Spiritual Healing”. I’ve been saying, similar things, for decades(now). 😎
Glad to see you added Black Breath to the modern classic mentions. You and I chatted about BB a few years ago after you finished a gig in San Francisco with Gatecreeper. You spotted me wearing a BB shirt and we chatted for a bit about the band. Great band for sure. Cheers and happy new year!
Great list! Hilarious descriptions.
Top 10 lists are gold. I always come away with a few excellent records I've never heard of before 🤘🏼
Great episode as always, nice to see Amorphis getting some love. I see you stick to one album per band, which is good in that it allows you to cover more. My list shows my fandom of Death (the first band of that type I got into in the 80s), Opeth and Gojira. I picked Ghost Reveries solely based on emotional connection -- I saw them live for the first time that tour.
Morbus Chron is in my alltime list, as well as Blood Incantation. Though I probably should revisit as that seems a bit high, spurred by the excitement of discovery at the time. I also have Gatecreeper's Deserted in my top 100. Usually it's hard for 21st century bands to make a dent in all-time lists as the pioneers take precedence. But I think the production didn't get totally figured out until the 90s. There's also all kinds of technical thrash metal I love from the 80s, but most of 'em sound like they were recorded in a garbage can.
1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Death - Symbolic
4. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
5. Death - Human
6. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
7. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
8. Opeth - Still Life
9. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
10. Morbus Chron - Sweven
11. Death - Sound Of Perseverence
12. Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
13. Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
Bubbling under: Entombed, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Cynic, Malevolent Creation, Repulsion, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, At the Gates, Darkthrone, Suffocation, Autopsy, Imperial Triumphant, Hellwitch, Sadus, Dissection, Atheist, Dismember, Grave, Omnivortex.
Nice list. Opeth definitely got me into death metal. Morbus chron was cool to see on here too. Im not sure which new bands you’re hinting at being not true or cheap or something (and I probably listen to a lot of them) but I will say, I have a co worker whose opinion on death metal I hold in the same regard as the friend of yours that you mentioned and I enjoy how hes pretty open to all the new “trendy” bands. He grew up with the possessed vocalist (they actually recently stopped mid set at their show in Austin when they saw him in the crowd and shouted him out) and is about as “true” as I can imagine someone who listens to the genre. His open mind and support of the momentum the genre has seen is awesome. Figured it was worth sharing that.
First time seeing your channel and I gotta say, I love your list. Spiritual Healing is also my favorite Death album. Spheres is a trip of an album, that most people just don’t understand. The only inclusion that I would’ve added is Cynic’s “Focus.” Otherwise our lists are pretty similar. Good shit bro, I subbed.
@@sothis1448 Classic case of “my music taste is superior so your opinion is invalid.” Go hug your Sarcófago and Blasphemy records in your closet, and cry yourself to sleep knowing people have different opinions than you do.
LMFAO @@sothis1448
None So Vile is awesome, love the first one too. Surprising it's on your list, if you don't like slap bass. New Spirit Adrift album is great stuff!
First time watching one of your videos, I like your laid back styling :) You've earned a subscriber
My personal top 10 death metal would be, in no particular order:
Death - Symbolic (Gotta have that in there)
Necrophagist - Epitaph (I play their stuff, hence the love for it)
Suffocation - Pierced From Within (Incredibly technical, brilliantly written)
Cryptopsy - None So Vile (Unbelievable album)
Gorguts - Obscura (So damn weird)
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire (Ditto, Withered and Obsolete is the best song ever)
Immolation - Here In After (Christ's Cage is so damn emotional sounding)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (Obviously)
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream (Ditto)
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation (Vogg is a MONSTER on Blessed)
loved seeing bw park Nate. it was my gateway to not just death metal but opeth as a band too. deliverance, ghost reveries became instant classics to me, as well. ps. i hope to see you in munich when you come here in '24. stock xxxl shirts i like em bigger haha i'll get a bunch
Amorphis is an utterly overlooked death metal band at this point. Thanks!
Hey there Nate.. again you didn't suprise me with your musical taste and make me delighted by putting Spheres and Jester Race ( there is not a weak second of it :D ) into that top 10.. but I owe you a big thanks because your video I have a chance to listen Morbus Chron / Sweven.. God, what an album and how on earth that I missed this! Also what an album cover art done by Raul Gonzales.. all album is great but especially I am obsessed with the song "Towards a Dark Sky".. anyways thanks man & cheers! Speak of something different, may I suggest you to check out Pentagram aka Mezarkabul ! (not death metal)
Merry Fucking Christmas Nate!!! GREAT lists AND I Second ALL of it !!!!
On Christmas Day, nice!
1.Obituary -Cause Of Death
2.Bolt Thrower -Those Once Loyal
3. Death -Spiritual Healing
4. Carcass -Necroticism
5. Entombed -Clandestine
6.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
7.Morbid Angel -Blessed Are The Sick
8.Benediction -Transcend The Rubicon
9. Pestilence -Consuming Impulse
10. Massacre -From Beyond
@sothis1448 Thankyou for your input, you may now go back to your mom's basement!
Awesome list!
@Cornelius798 Cheers mate!
Honestly, a very valid top 10. Even if I don't like certain album choices, you picked the right bands.
My personal list with no order'd be:
*) Opeth - Ghost Reveries
*) Death - Symbolic
*) Carcass - Surgical Steel
*) Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
*) In Flames - The Jester Race
*) Morbid Angel - Domination
*) Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
*) Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
*) Entombed - Left Hand Path
*) Obituary - Cause of Death
Love seeing Spheres on here. Such a slept on album.
1. Leprosy Death
2. The Bleeding Cannibal Corpse
3. Once Upon a Cross Deicide
4. Heart Work Carcass
5. Cause of Death Obituary
6. Reign Supreme Dying Fetus
7. Human Death
8. Covenant Morbid Angel
9. Kill Cannibal Corpse
10. Pierced from Within Suffocation
10. Suffocation- effigy of the forgotten
9. Asphyx- the rack
8.Immolation- here in after
7.incantation- onward to Golgotha
6. Baphomet- the dead shall inherit the earth
5.Entombed - left hand path
4. Dismember- indecent and obscene
3. Death- spiritual healing
2. Deicide- self titled
1. Morbid angel- altars of madness
My list, some brutal shit here.
The Rack doesn’t get enough love
Hey man! Spirit Adrift is great im just exploring the band and i was pleasantly surprized . I like that you are situated between Sabbath/Iron Maiden and the Thrash movement of the 80s, its heavy metal that combines both.. from what i could tell from the album ''Ghost at the Gallows' - i liked Hanged Man's Revenge. The signing is also great you don't use the ugly/punk voice that thrash or death metal does.
Black Breath remain one of my favorite bands ever. As you said, served as a fantastic gateway into death metal. Got into them around the same time as YAITW which also got me more into raw black metal. Both great bands, wish Black Breath would return someday.
Autopsy "Severed Survival" & Slaughter "Strappado" are missing on this list...
Haha, I swear, I never see anyone talk about Morbus Chron, I just showed their debut in my 10 underrated Death Metal albums video. Sweven rules as well. Great picks, Spiritual Healing is my favorite Death album. That Cryptopsy is the greatest Brutal Death metal album. Amorphis first to albums are perfection. Opeth My Arms Your Hearse is my favorite but it is the first album I heard by them. That Carcass Heartwork is their best IMO although the majority would frown and say Narcotism is.. but that is technically Grind if we are splitting hairs. I have honestly never just sat down and listened to Pestilence Spheres but I will definitely give it a spin, I probably have not removed that LP from it's sleeve in decades so I will let breath. Great list and video.
Cryptopsy aren't BDM
@@ammanus356 this is important, how old are you, if you was listening to death metal in the early 90s, then it is brutal dm
@@stevesekora Suffo started brutal dm bro... BDM is literally a sub-genre that Cryptopsy aren't part of. Cryptopsy started as OSDM, then became Tech Death, then Deathcore, and are Tech Death again...
@@ammanus356 hahaha, ok. Good luck with that.
Loved it, but don't agree with In Flames... anyways, great video, enjoyed it. Merry Christmas sir
100% agree on Dismember
Couldn’t agree more with Serpents of the Light. Love that record and may be their most melodic one. One of my favorite DM records of all time would is Morbid Angel- Covenant
Number 1 album, of all time, imo, is Carcass, Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) Its just epic, a masterpiece
I’d have to have either Mental Funeral or Severed Survival on my list. Been Caught Buttering as well. An underrated classic is Disharmonic Orchestra’s Not To Be Undimensional Conscious. The album by Winter. Definitely the Carcass album you mentioned on your “fake” list. Atheist’s first couple albums are similar if not better than the Pestilence album. Cynic also rocks. Love those pioneering jazzy albums. Does Brujeria count as a legit band? If so I think I’m putting Matando Gueros in my list. Man death metal really peaked in the early 90s. Even shittier bands like Disincarnate put out decent efforts back then.
MATANDO GUEROS rules. Definitely death metal in my book. And yup…. Very few truly great/worthwhile death metal bands nowadays compared to the first couple waves.
I am also one of the weirdos who has Spiritual Healing as my favorite Death record. Its' Scott Burns greatness reminds me of Beneath the Remains, which is always a great thing.
while I might have picked a couple different records for the old school list, I'm honestly surprised there's no Necrophagia/Killjoy or Autopsy represented on it. Big Dumb Riff bands got a LOT of people into DM in the early 90s
I knew I was for certain old when I was like "how you gonna mentioned anything after 1995 and call it oldshool?"
Serpents of the Light is the only Deicide record I've ever really gotten into.
AMORPHIS,i thought that i was the only death metal fan that i like that album a lott,i got it first in a cassette back in the 90’ s,listening to that album in that time it was like traveling on the other planets. I’m glad you like that album .
Great description. Truly a magical album + experience
So tough, but off the top of my head (favorites, as only a handful of these would have an argument to be on a more objective list):
1 Fear Factory - Soul... (assuming it's "death metal" enough)
2 Cannibal - The Bleeding
3 Morbid - Covenant
4 Suffo - Effigy...
5 Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
6 Liturgy - Dawn of Ash
7 Brodequin - Instruments of Torture
8 The Berzerker - Dissimulate
9 Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
10 SFU - Warpath
It’s easy to criticize in hindsight (I guess I’m one of those guys 😝). But I appreciate (almost) everyone who takes the time to voice their opinions. Whether I agree with you ? Or not? Either way you’ve got a new subscriber. Now my all time list ( in no particular order except for #1…
1. POSSESSED - Seven Churches
2. DEATH - Spiritual Healing
3. MORBID ANGEL - Covenant
4. CANNIBAL CORPSE - The Bleeding
5. CARCASS - Heartwork
6. PESTILENCE - Testimony of the Ancients
7. CRYPTOPSY - None So Vile
8. DISMEMBER - Indecent and Obscene
9. OBITUARY - Cause of Death
10. SEPULTURA - Beneath the Remains
(Honorable Mentions…
DEICIDE - Legion
DECAPITATED - Nihility
AT THE GATES - Slaughter of the Soul…)
It's cool that you mention the Morbus Chron album. It really is a special piece of music. Great list in general, Nate!
The following albums were really formative for me and still sound unique to me today:
Nocturnus "The Key" 1990
Pungent Stench "Been Caught Buttering" 1991
Grave "Into the Grave" 1991
Atrocity "Hallucinations" 1990
10 - Opeth - Ghost Reveries, whatever you said about Blackwater Park, applies to that one and i just prefer Ghost Reveries. 9/10
9 - Edge of Sanity - Crimson. Hoooly shit. It has everything 9/10
8 - Death - Symbolic. It was the masterpiece of Death, i absolutely love it. 9.5/10
7 - Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness - for the absolutely same reasons you said. 9.5/10
6 - Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes - for the absolutely same reasons you said. 9.5/10
5 - Strapping Young Lad - Alien, is it pure Death metal? No. Is death metal a big part of it, yes, is it an absolutely insanely brutal and heavy album, yes. 10/10
4 Cryptopsy - None so Vile - absolutely the same reason as you. I only put it above Alien tho because Alien isnt entierly Death metal and this is a death metal list. 9.5/10
3 - Behemoth - Demigod - this i think is the perfect mix between Black Metal and Death metal, is it the first album to do that. It is absolutely brutal, i absolutely love it, is it a good Gateway death metal album? Hell no, do i absolutely love it, hell yes. 10/10
2 Hypocrisy - Virus. This album doesnt feel like an album to me, it feels like an experience, the structure of the album is almost like a concert, opens with a fast banger, slows down a bit, gets really brutal for a while, then it gets really soft doomie and melodic for a while, hits you right back with the brutality next and ends with a ballad. This album doesnt have a bad note in it. Peter Tägtgren deliveres the best death metal vocals, the guitar tone is amazing, the bass although quiet is audiable and it fills the void between the perfect drumming of Horgh and the guitars perfectly. 10/10 production and the lyrics on the album can be straightforward death metal lyrics, but also really deep and meaningful on other songs. Perfect album 10/10.
Honorable mentions: Obituary: Slowly we rot, Deicide: Once upon the cross, Dan Swanö: Moontower.
1 - Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh. What happens when you combine Dan Swanö's Genius, Martin Axenrot's drumming, Dan Swanö's production and Peter Tägtgren's vocals? This. This is beyond Masterpiece, while nothing really interesting happens through the album, every song can be a fucking single, every singe one is a standout. The song structures of some of the songs where really ahead of their time, the guitar tone is perfect. The drumming is insane, the (second) best death metal vocal performance by Peter Tägtgren (he has done better vocals on Hypocrisy albums). The over the top lyrics, the way the album flows, it is beyond perfect, this album isn't the heaviest, the most innovative or whatever else you might come up with, yes, but it does one thing that's perfect and it's death metal. 11/10
1, Obituary-Cause Of Death.
2, Suffocation-Effigy Of The Forgotten.
3, Death-Human.
4, Deicide-Serpents Of The Light.
5, Death-Symbolic.
6, Obituary-The End Complete.
7, Cannibal Corpse-Tomb Of The Mutilated
8, Cannibal Corpse-Butchered At Birth.
9, Malevolent Creation-In Cold Blood.
10.Hateplow-The Only Law Is Survival.
I love Pestilence repping my home country
Death Leprosy was prior to Altars and laid the foundations of DM imo
Yeah he is full of shit. Serpents of the light as the pick for Deicide😂😂😂😂
Agreed! I was lucky to see them for spiritual healing, twice, with and without James Murphy
AMORPHIS, Tales from the Thousand Lakes is my favorite Death Metal album!
Death
Morbid Angel
Entombed
Death again
Spiritual Healing & Human
Morbids first 3 albums and same with Entombed.
The rest sound the same too me.
I’m 47 and I got to see all of these bands live
The Dismember guys are all friends with entombed. Hell they recorded albums together I believe I might be wrong.
Maybe shared equipment on it. I was an old school read the liner notes. Entombed Unleashed and Morbid Angel was my first show.
Even saw em again for Clandestine which too me is better
The biggest shout out to Bloodbath. Opeth was the entry point, Nightmares Made Flesh was the destination.
Spiritual healing, based
I %100 agree about Dismember vs Entombed, the 1st half of Left hand path is sick but I get so bored with the second half, Dismember had stronger songwriting and WAAAAY more consistency to me personally, especially on Everflowing Stream.
Yeah because Life Goes On, Morbid Devourment, Bitter Loss, Truth Beyond is boring. Never understood this sentiment. I guess certain folks like you have hearing disabilities.
Death- Spiritual Healing
Cannibal Corpse- butchered at birth.
Sinister- Cross the Styx
Ressurection- Embalmed Existence
Suffocation- Effigy Of the Forgotten
I dig the hell of out of Decapitated, Opeth and Dying Fetus, but I dont think they can be considered "Contenders" in regard to the early DM classics just because of their chronological disadvantage.
SOLSTICE - debut
And SEPULTURA Beneath the remains and Arise are huge from the day, but many argue that there is too much thrash in the mix to be considered Death Metal.
I dont get it.
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Death is amazing. He always had great drummers too. Sean to Gene.
Any Bloodbath album 🤘💀🤘
Top 10 DEATH METAL Albums :
10. IMMOLATION - Dawn Of Possession 5. DEMILICH - Nespithe
9. INCANTATION - Onward To Golgotha 4. DISMEMBER - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
8. CARCASS - Necroticism 3. SINISTER - Cross The Styx
7. SUFFOCATION - Effigy Of The Forgotten 2. CRYPTOPSY - None So Vile
6. PESTILENCE - Consvming Impvlse 1. MORBID ANGEL - Altars Of Madness
Totally agree with you on Pestilence. They don’t get the plaudits they deserve. Very influential
What's 14:18 ?
Sweven / The Eternal Resonance
Number One is Left Hand Path and then everything from Death
#1 for me is and has always been Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition. Reason is simple. So many death metal bands have albums that have 1 or 2 stand out tracks and the rest of the album is filler noise. DtO is the death metal Reign in Blood. Every song could be called "the best song on the album" with more memorable riff changes in one random song than most dm bands have in several albums. The weakest song on DtO is better than mos dm bands have in their catalog. No it wasnt the first, no it wasnt the fastest, most evil etc....what it is is the album with the best crafted songs in dm history.
Ten is brutal, I can try 25?
* Autopsy - Severed Survival
* Death - Human
* Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
* Morbid Angel - Altar of Madness
* Deicide - Deicide
* Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
* Bolt Thrower - ...for Victory
* Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
* Malevolent Creation - Ten Commandments
* Nocturnus - The Key
* Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
* Obituary - Slowly we Rot
* Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
* Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
* Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead
* Brutal Truth - Need to Control
* Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
* Benediction - The Grand Leveller
* Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
* Panzerchrist - Soul Collector
* Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
* Morgoth - Cursed
* Entombed - Left Hand Path
* Carnage - Dark Recollection
* Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
i am dismayed by the lack of Bolt Thrower
I Think Spiritual Healing, was a symbolic choice.
Deicide-Deicide, Hypocrisy-The Arrival, Nile-In Their Darkened Shrines, Opeth-Blackwater Park, Obituary-The End Complete, Cannibal Corpse-Kill, Sepultura-Arise, Vital Remains-Dechristianise, Black Breath-Sentenced to Life and At the Gates-Slaughter of the Soul.
How is there no Death…?
1. Deicide - Once Upon the Cross. 2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness. 3. Vital Remains - Dawn of the Apocalypse. 4. Krisiun - Conquerors of Armageddon. 5 - Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding. 6. Deicide - Debut. 7. Vital Remains - Dechristianize. 8. Morbid Angel - Covenant. 9. Deicide - Serpents of the Light. 10. Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth.
If this is a top ten list then you should count them down from 10. Good list though.
Interesting perspective on Death Metal. I find that musicians like yourself have a completey different outlook on Metal than the average fan who cant play. Call me an elitist or whatever but its all subjective anyway. I've heard so many arguments about who started Death Metal and your very first album you showed, Possessed - Seven Churches started it all, like it or not. Is it the greatest hell no, but like I said its all subjective and I really enjoyed your take on the genre as well 🤘😎🍻
THIS
From the few albums i have sampled in this genre the only band i can listen to is death. Some of the other stuff is just awful noise to me.
My top 10
1. Orchid - Opeth
2. Morningrise - Opeth
3. Deliverance - Opeth
4. Blackwater Park - Opeth
5. Close to a World Below - Immolation
6. Still Life - Opeth
7. Ghost Reveries - Opeth
8. Tales From the Thousand Lakes - Amorphis
9. Scream Bloody Gore - Death
10. Netherheaven - Revocation
Orchid is pretty bad. Very pretentious song writing there, especially for the length of the songs.
So glad they improved a lot.
Where's Demilich?
It’s shxtty because those first ten albums you named are great albums, but are so popularized that it’s hard to enjoy them now. As for why, I feel like we as extreme metal listeners all instinctually have this “f the mainstream” mindset built in to our souls…
Deicide: Once Upon the Cross
Death to me is not death metal. They fall in the rare uncategorizable genere same as Machine Head.
Deicide Once Upon a Cross in mid in my opinion. Also Death not Death Metal?? How so?