DEATH METAL Albums RANKED From 1997 (Six Feet Under to In Flames)

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  • Welcome, metal warriors, to a relentless expedition through the catacombs of Death Metal history. In this video, we delve deep into the sinister abyss of 1997, a year that bore witness to the unleashing of some of the most harrowing and influential albums in the genre.
    Join us as we embark on an odyssey to rank and dissect the most menacing Death Metal albums of 1997. From the thunderous drum assaults to the cavernous growls that echo through the void, we leave no riff unexamined in our quest for metal supremacy.
    1997 served as a crucible for Death Metal, birthing bands that pushed the boundaries of brutality and innovation. As we meticulously analyze each album, we'll evaluate their impact, musical complexity, and enduring legacy within the realm of extreme music.
    Prepare to be consumed by a vortex of darkness and despair as we traverse through the sonic landscapes of Death Metal's darkest hour. From the suffocating atmospheres to the relentless aggression, these albums have left an indelible mark on the souls of metalheads worldwide.
    00:00 Intro
    00:10 Children of Bodom - Something Wild
    00:56 Carcariass - Hell On Earth
    01:25 Deicide - Serpents Of Light
    01:58 Caducity - Whirler Of Fate
    02:18 Septicflesh - The Ophidian Wheel
    02:45 Vader - Back To The Blind
    03:21 Shub Niggurath - The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)
    04:08 Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
    04:38 Belphegor - Blutsabbath
    05:02 Vital Remains - Forever Underground
    05:30 Crown Of Thrones - Eternal Death
    06:08 Centinex - Reflections
    06:37 Fleshgrind - Destined for Defilement
    07:07 Martyr - Hopeless Hopes
    07:44 Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy Of The Beast
    08:19 Decrepit - Acrimonium
    08:42 Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood
    09:15 God Dethroned - The Grand Grimoire
    09:43 Unleashed - Warrior
    10:16 Infestdead - Hellfuck
    10:53 Fleshcrawl - Bloodred Massacre
    11:14 Dismember - Death Metal
    11:47 Edge Of Sanity - Infernal
    12:25 Edge Of Sanity - Cryptic
    13:06 Pyrexia - System Of The Animal
    13:40 Sadist - Crust
    14:08 Illdisposed - There's Something Rotten... in the State of Denmark
    14:51 Pessimist - Cult Of The Initiated
    15:16 Sacrilege - The Fifth Seasons
    15:57 Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
    16:33 Necrophobic - Darkside
    17:11 Obituary - Back from the Dead
    17:36 Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
    18:18 Six Feet Under - Warpath
    18:47 Mortal Decay - Sickening Erotic Fanaticism
    19:16 Gates Of Ishtar - The Dawn Of Flames
    19:56 In Flames - Whoracle
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 114

  • @MetalTrenches
    @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +3

    MORE Death Metal Rankings By Year: ua-cam.com/play/PLGt4fzX5jyue8mCsxJT9dKYnIvAFfteK0.html&si=NGIM2i0wW6kQ_V6D

    • @newwaveinfantry8362
      @newwaveinfantry8362 Місяць тому +1

      You forgot Lombricor - Repugnance. I don't blame you. It's absurdly underrated.

  • @pretty_in_casts
    @pretty_in_casts Місяць тому +25

    Entering Y2K-late-90s era of death metal

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +10

      Major shifts happening

    • @PapaPaegan
      @PapaPaegan Місяць тому +2

      My personal favorite era, but also tying in to when I got into death metal.

    • @captweirdbeard
      @captweirdbeard Місяць тому +1

      When metal production was at its peak. Punchy and organic without being as clinically crisp as stuff is nowadays.

  • @ryanhoover8130
    @ryanhoover8130 Місяць тому +18

    Keep the series going! 2000-2010

  • @grimeyshred
    @grimeyshred Місяць тому +7

    i love how diverse Edge of Sanity - Infernal is. Their discography is top tier for me.

  • @darksideinferno3454
    @darksideinferno3454 Місяць тому +7

    My favorite's are Deicide, Vital Remains, Hypocrisy and In Flames!
    Another great Ranking Video!
    Thanks as always Mister Trenches!!
    💀🤘💀🤘💀🤘

  • @dorg024
    @dorg024 Місяць тому +8

    So happy to see Gates of Ishtar on these lists. Im not the biggest melodic death metal guy but they friggin rock and deserve more attention.

  • @Hrotiberhtaz
    @Hrotiberhtaz Місяць тому +8

    97 is the year my old Death Metal band released our first real demo.

    • @fink94
      @fink94 Місяць тому

      Were can we hear it?

  • @Aces_Eights
    @Aces_Eights Місяць тому +11

    Hard disagree on Deceased. For one, although Fearless Undead Machines has elements of death metal, Deceased is more of a thrash band at heart, with a strong influence from traditional heavy metal. It is a sprawling, epic concept album that few death metal bands were attempting at the time. King Fowley's vocals are polarizing, but I find them endearingly campy. He is obsessed with all things horror, and the intent is to present the music in a way that fans of old horror movies and stories could appreciate. Fowley was one of the unsung drumming heroes in metal until he had to give them up after a stroke. Mark Adams and Mike Smith provide wonderful dueling guitar parts, and the use of old horror movie sound clips fits the atmosphere perfectly. One can say that their next album, Supernatural Addiction, is perhaps more focused. But if you want to hear Deceased's magnum opus, it's Fearless Undead Machines.

  • @Drochaigeant
    @Drochaigeant Місяць тому +8

    I frequented their 98 album At Dusk and Forever. Very cool seeing Gates Of Ishtar make an appearance. Honestly didn't know they put out 3 albums back to back.

    • @ms-06fzakuii53
      @ms-06fzakuii53 Місяць тому +2

      All their albums have a slightly different flavor too

  • @crabbuckets7506
    @crabbuckets7506 Місяць тому +6

    Was just listening to Alluvial. It's great coming back to youtube and finding this. I've been enjoying this series. You've shown me some great bands!

  • @doomusrlc
    @doomusrlc Місяць тому +8

    6:06 oh you break my heart, man 😂
    For me, Eternal Death is one of my all-time favorite albums hahaha.
    Love watching these. Saw you have through 2001 done, hope you continue beyond that!

    • @Skycladatdusk78
      @Skycladatdusk78 Місяць тому +1

      Mine too, I love their later albums too as The Crown.

  • @yg-dp7mo
    @yg-dp7mo Місяць тому +8

    happy birthday alexi laiho rest in power ❤🎸

  • @zatanoa4769
    @zatanoa4769 Місяць тому +6

    Intestine Baalism debut of course, no question

  • @Schlain666
    @Schlain666 Місяць тому +1

    Just listened to that Sacrilege album, simply amazing stuff. Thanks for the mention.

  • @Cwin-ny6bp
    @Cwin-ny6bp Місяць тому +4

    I don’t know that there’s a single death metal album from 1997 that I have a strong opinion of. I will say Warpath is fairly enjoyable to me, primarily because of Allen West’s guitar work and Chris Barnes still having decent vocals. I think if someone likes stuff like Wolverine Blues or Swan Song, it’s worth a listen (I know you like the latter and not so much the former). Six Feet Under is definitely meme worthy now, but I think they started with two pretty solid albums. I have legitimately listened to fewer death metal albums from 1997 than probably any other year. Whoracle is probably the only 1997 death metal album that I truly love, so strong agree on that one. I want to say that I don’t disagree that there probably is a lot of quality from the year, but I have heard very few of the albums compared to any other year from 1987 to about 2000 in the genre.

  • @osmankurt8492
    @osmankurt8492 Місяць тому +4

    Konkhra - Weed out the Weak is the best death metal album of 1997. Great musicianship (James Murphy ex Death/Testament guitarist-Chris Kontos ex Machine Head drummer.)

  • @ms-06fzakuii53
    @ms-06fzakuii53 Місяць тому +1

    Solid takes on these albums all around. Was hoping to hear what the shot was for Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae, but I understand it takes time to digest all this material.
    I IMPLORE you to hear your take on their 1999 album A Handful of Nothing. I'm convinced that it might be the most underrated Melodeath that draws inspiration from SotS (yeah I know, but still).

    • @ms-06fzakuii53
      @ms-06fzakuii53 Місяць тому

      And the Mind's I by DT is definitely their most underrated

  • @tomasjonsson7141
    @tomasjonsson7141 Місяць тому +5

    Another great year 🐐🐐🐐

  • @thedissonant
    @thedissonant Місяць тому +7

    Belphegor hail from Austria.

  • @mindful2864
    @mindful2864 Місяць тому +3

    Trenches, you're so based for including both Shub Niggurath and Intestine Baalism in this video. 1997 was I think was an even better year for death metal than 1996 and 1995. I still need to check out Sacrilege, Fleshgrind, and Mortal Decay as I've heard great things about them. Here would be my ranking of these albums I've heard:
    S -- Shub Niggurath - The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth), Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I, Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast, Dismember - Death Metal, Necrophobic - Darkside, Gates of Ishtar - The Dawn of Flames, In Flames - Whoracle
    A -- Children of Bodom - Something Wild, Deicide - Serpents of the Light, Vital Remains - Let Us Pray, Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death, Centinex - Reflections, God Dethroned - The Grand Grimoire, Pyrexia - System of the Animal, Illdisposed - There's Something Rotten.. In the State of Denmark, Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
    B -- Septicflesh - The Ophidian Wheel, Vader - Black to the Blind, Belphegor - Blutsabbath, Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood, Unleashed - Warrior, Edge of Sanity - Infernal, Edge of Sanity - Cryptic, Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
    C -- Obituary - Back from the Dead, Six Feet Under - Warpath

  • @theovermatt
    @theovermatt Місяць тому +4

    Yeah that first Martyr album is rough, the band gets astronomically better moving into the 2000s. Warp Zone is a low-key classic.

  • @samuelblinne6040
    @samuelblinne6040 Місяць тому

    Nice list

  • @honeycomblord9384
    @honeycomblord9384 Місяць тому +1

    Glad to see Forever Underground getting some love, Vital Remains is a band I don't see get talked about all that often

  • @luisserrano5690
    @luisserrano5690 Місяць тому

    "Serpents of the light, return to where you hide
    Give us peace of mind"...That is the badass metal lyrical content that I enjoy. My all-time favorite song of Deicide. 🤘👹

  • @cbn6635
    @cbn6635 Місяць тому +2

    Cool ranking. 👍 Personally I have difficulty with the melo death stuff like In Flames and Children of Bodom (Dark Tranquillity rules though), so those albums are near the bottom for me as opposed to you. .. and I do feel you are a bit harsh on that Vader album; one of their best albums in my book.. 🤗 But other than that, I agree on most.. 🤘🤘

  • @zschokks5583
    @zschokks5583 Місяць тому +1

    Big props for mentionning Carcariass!
    Years 96 and 97 are really paling in comparison to 95 in my opinion.

  • @serialmiller1987
    @serialmiller1987 Місяць тому +1

    So glad that Pessimist made this list. Cult of the Initiated may be a bit disjointed, and I can understand why the vocals may be overbearing, but this album genuinely has a hold on me. I lov it, and got the remastered vinyl. The Final Chapter is one of my favourite death metal albums, and I go back to it at least once a year on average.

  • @adamlawson5021
    @adamlawson5021 Місяць тому +1

    Death Metal by Dismember is a great album, it slaps. I totally agree! 👍

  • @george5737
    @george5737 Місяць тому +2

    Mind’s I is so perfect from start to finish!

  • @samuelblinne6040
    @samuelblinne6040 Місяць тому

    Awesome

  • @SHlTSANDWICH
    @SHlTSANDWICH Місяць тому

    please listen to that Malevolent Creation album again and pay close attention to the drums. Derek Roddy puts on a masterclass in technical drumming

  • @DannyDeee
    @DannyDeee Місяць тому +2

    Bummer to not see Infernal Torment's Birthrate Zero on this list. That album is one of death metal's criminally overlooked albums. Also missed Broken Hope and Theory In Practice. But otherwise, cool video. Good to see Intestine Baalism get their deserved praise. Anyway, next year 1998, is when Yyrkoon releases their debut. But that one is more progressive black/thrash than the death metal approach they went for later.

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      For these lists I just search "[year] death metal albums" and go through what I see. I'll cross-reference a few sites, but no matter what things get left off. I've even seen situations where bigger names weren't on the list for no good reason. There's really no way to absolutely be sure that every single important album gets covered beyond having a complete Encyclopedic knowledge of every album ever released.

  • @annaleebliss4618
    @annaleebliss4618 Місяць тому +2

    These year by year videos remind me of my youth. I've forgotten about some of the D.M I use to listen to. I disagree with nothing because they're your opinions.

  • @robr9170
    @robr9170 Місяць тому +1

    I think Black to the Blind is one of the best Vader albums personally

  • @soakindust
    @soakindust Місяць тому +1

    Gates of Ishtar are amazing

  • @aita45
    @aita45 Місяць тому +2

    Again here, the only thing that seems off with the lists is death 'n roll being banished to the lowest point, as I immenselt enjoyed There's Something Rotten... album.
    I like your descriptions of Martyr and Dismember albums, they seem the most solid releases for me out there. And about Children of Bodom, I was never a fan of them, but I don't see their debut as spectacular. I like the '99 one way more.

  • @tomhuitema2068
    @tomhuitema2068 Місяць тому +1

    Melodeath Supremacy!

  • @thrasher6sic6
    @thrasher6sic6 Місяць тому +1

    Shub Niggurath - The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth) is the best

  • @TheSevgrinder
    @TheSevgrinder Місяць тому +2

    Whaou...Vader, Hypocrisy and Illdisposed..thise records are for me Perfection !!!! I am surprised but hey, this is my personnal taste

  • @doomusrlc
    @doomusrlc Місяць тому +3

    0:56 CARCARIASS MENTIONED

    • @doomusrlc
      @doomusrlc Місяць тому +1

      They got better with future albums, lol

  • @jamesgill3759
    @jamesgill3759 Місяць тому +2

    Carcariass should be at fantastic. Shame they get so little attention.

  • @deadliestassassin3092
    @deadliestassassin3092 Місяць тому +1

    Gates of Ishtar is my favorite on that list. Its easily their best album.

  • @Durkhead
    @Durkhead Місяць тому +2

    I saw obituary and six feet under live in 1997 awesome show for some reason there was a skinhead rap band there

  • @enzojacobsen4349
    @enzojacobsen4349 Місяць тому +1

    the fleshgrind ranking makes me sad lmaoo, i understand where youre coming from but its one of my personal fav albums

  • @TheMetalGaia
    @TheMetalGaia Місяць тому +1

    Intestine Baalism! Love that band! I think their 2nd is even better.

  • @rickdeckard2240
    @rickdeckard2240 Місяць тому +1

    Black to the Blind is in my personal top 5 death metal albums of all time. I really disagree with you about this one, I think it's by far their best, it's amaing riff after amazing riff, the production is enormous but not ridiculous as on Litany, it has that Slayer on steroids feel, and it's relentless. Really, the best deathrash album of all time in my book. One of the rare death metal albums I go back to on a regular basis in my car with Dying Fetus' Reign Supreme, Bolt thrower's Those Once Loyal, Carcass' Heartwork and Messiah's Choir of Horrors (if not considering Death's discography). De Profundis is good, but not as percusive I find.

  • @lewisb85
    @lewisb85 Місяць тому +1

    "no bad album" followed by mentioning six feet under is surely a oxymoron?

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +1

      We haven't gotten to the TRULY awful SFU albums yet...

  • @tweezersalad4075
    @tweezersalad4075 Місяць тому

    One of the years of all time

  • @vitodigiovanni4020
    @vitodigiovanni4020 Місяць тому +4

    METAL TRENCHES HYPE!

  • @flynnhale1243
    @flynnhale1243 Місяць тому

    You should do a 1998 death metal ranking video and rank opeth my arms your hearse and cannibal corpse gallery of suicide

  • @user-rr8ml4ft1x
    @user-rr8ml4ft1x Місяць тому +1

    Hallo Young man . Thanks for the Video . Belphegor is from Austria Not Germany 🤘

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      I'm aware, sometimes you just say the wrong thing when you talk on camera this month. Also I'm 37 lol.

  • @jbsmetal8419
    @jbsmetal8419 Місяць тому +1

    Black to the blind is a goated album, if De Profundis is perfection, b2tb is at least fantastic.

  • @apoplexiamusic
    @apoplexiamusic Місяць тому +1

    Martyr is the GOAT!

  • @tsf-terrorizer4599
    @tsf-terrorizer4599 Місяць тому

    Don't forget Necrophagia Holocausto de la morte when you review the year 1998

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      Too late. These have all been complete for at least a month

  • @Nerdycottoncandy
    @Nerdycottoncandy Місяць тому +2

    Chicago? Any czech background? 😀

  • @thefacelessmist
    @thefacelessmist Місяць тому

    Have done a Deicide tier list?

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +1

      Funny, I'm finishing the script right now

  • @samuelblinne6040
    @samuelblinne6040 Місяць тому

    Wow

  • @zvolphhasenmiau5369
    @zvolphhasenmiau5369 Місяць тому +2

    Belphegor are Austrian

  • @dozicusmaximus
    @dozicusmaximus Місяць тому

    I think I am too tough guy for this list. Haha. Melodeath isn’t really my bag.

  • @coreyrapoza5959
    @coreyrapoza5959 Місяць тому +1

    Wtf?! Where the hell is Broken Hope - Loathing? Or Dehydrated - Ideas?

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      Doesn’t it strike you as a little brain broken to watch a video covering this many albums, and then responding with this comment? Try to imagine yelling at someone in person for spending hours listening to these albums, then recording and editing this video for your entertainment… I know it’s easy to forget that there are real humans just like you on the other side of the screen, but there are. I don’t have a staff, and I’m not a machine.

    • @coreyrapoza5959
      @coreyrapoza5959 Місяць тому

      @@MetalTrenches I wasn't yelling....but come on!!! It's Broken Hope!!!

    • @coreyrapoza5959
      @coreyrapoza5959 Місяць тому

      @MetalTrenches also Deaden - Hymns Of The Sick. A recommended listen if you haven't already.

  • @jimmyfromtheblock3714
    @jimmyfromtheblock3714 Місяць тому +1

    wheres broken hopes loathing album!!!

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      This is beyond being glass half empty… this is like having a gallon jug and complaining that a teaspoon is missing.

    • @dissonanttapes
      @dissonanttapes Місяць тому

      It would just end up at the bottom of the list like every other BDM band.

  • @PROGROCK-tr9hw
    @PROGROCK-tr9hw Місяць тому

    Do 1995

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +1

      I did... I even linked the playlist at the end and in the pinned comment.

    • @PROGROCK-tr9hw
      @PROGROCK-tr9hw Місяць тому +1

      @MetalTrenches cool.Hope Suffocation pierced from within, Morbid Angel Domination and Six feet under Haunted were included

  • @WFly101
    @WFly101 Місяць тому

    WTF dude? Six Feet Under deserves S tier /s

  • @SHlTSANDWICH
    @SHlTSANDWICH Місяць тому

    you really think Children of Bodom released a death metal album?

  • @EGOR_HARDCORE96
    @EGOR_HARDCORE96 Місяць тому

    Where is jungle rot?

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      They didn't show up any of the lists I pulled from so sadly they got left behind

  • @amoe1234
    @amoe1234 3 дні тому

    Belphegor are austrian not german. ;)

  • @SHlTSANDWICH
    @SHlTSANDWICH Місяць тому

    you really think Whoracle is a death metal album? And you ranked it as perfect to boot? I understand you’re a fan of In Flames, but they don’t belong on this list

  • @NeptuneTowers
    @NeptuneTowers 18 днів тому

    Belphegor is Austrian, not German

  • @snaresoundsshit6037
    @snaresoundsshit6037 Місяць тому

    Belphegor are from Austria, not Germany! 😳 For Satan's sake! 😈

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      I knew that and for some reason flubbed it. Oops

  • @Nicolas1909_
    @Nicolas1909_ Місяць тому +2

    Maybe the weakest year in Death Metal so far. The Necrophobic and Intestine Baalism album are alright but even then I don't return to them that often.

  • @G-Manfromhalflife
    @G-Manfromhalflife Місяць тому +2

    Dude still wears a Halloween mask 💀

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому +3

      And even with that dumb mask, he puts more out into the world and draws more of a crowd than you probably ever will... Thanks for the ad revenue, "dude."

    • @G-Manfromhalflife
      @G-Manfromhalflife Місяць тому +1

      @@MetalTrenches waah waah keep crying mr insecure

  • @IlleVir
    @IlleVir Місяць тому

    Belphegor a GERMAN band?!?!?!?!?! My country just declaired war on you ⚔

    • @MetalTrenches
      @MetalTrenches  Місяць тому

      It was a mental slip. I know it’s Austria

  • @samuelmagnum6047
    @samuelmagnum6047 Місяць тому +11

    "No bad albums". Immediately mentions a bad album.

  • @richpittman666
    @richpittman666 Місяць тому +1

    mortal decay,pyrexia,malevolent creation,deicide,fleshgrind& intestine baalism, decrepit, infest dead,and wheres broken hopes loathing? but these r my favorites if rhis year