DEATH METAL Albums RANKED From 1996 (Cannibal Corpse! In Flames! 49 Albums!)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Welcome, metalheads, to a spine-chilling journey through the annals of Death Metal history. In this video, we delve into the ferocious landscape of 1996, a year that saw the release of some of the most brutal and groundbreaking albums in the genre.
Join us as we embark on an epic quest to rank and dissect the most savage Death Metal albums of 1996. From the relentless barrage of blast beats to the guttural growls that could awaken the dead, we leave no riff unturned in our pursuit of metal greatness.
1996 marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of Death Metal, witnessing the rise of bands that pushed the boundaries of extremity and innovation. As we delve deep into each album, we'll assess their impact, musical intricacy, and their lasting legacy within the realm of extreme music.
Prepare to be engulfed in a whirlwind of chaos and brutality as we navigate through the sonic landscapes of Death Metal's darkest hour. From the crushing heaviness to the intricate technicality, these albums have left an indelible mark on the hearts of metalheads around the globe.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Cryptopsy - None So Vile
00:52 Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbecue
01:26 Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
01:56 Angelcorpse - Hammer Of Gods
02:20 Cenotaph - Epic Rites (9 Epic Tales And Death Rites)
02:56 Immolation - Here in After
03:31 Asphyx - God Cries
04:01 Asphyx - Embrace The Death
04:30 Deeds Of Flesh - Trading Pieces
04:57 Mortification - EnVision EvAngelene
05:40 Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooos and Kon-Fus-Ion
06:17 Avulsed - Eminence in Putrescence
06:40 Kataklysm - Temple Of Knowledge
07:10 Opeth - Morningrise
07:44 A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
08:15 Abhorer - Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt
08:46 Adramelech - Psychostasia
09:17 Gorefest - Soul Survivor
09:56 Dying Fetus - Purification through Violence
10:18 Grave - Hating Life
10:47 Sarcofago - The Worst
11:24 Sadist - Tribe
12:07 Massacre - Promise
12:38 Gates Of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
13:04 Hypocrisy - Abducted
13:34 Vomitory - Raped In Their Own Blood
14:02 Nyctophobic - War Criminal Views
14:32 Iniquity - Serenadium
14:53 Decameron - My Shadow...
15:29 Quo Vadis - Forever
15:55 Jungle Rot - Skin Of The Living
16:31 Damnation - Rebel Souls
17:06 Agony Conscience - Look Into The Silence
17:44 Sacrilege - Lost In The Beauty You Slay
18:10 Windham Hell - Window Of Souls
18:40 In Flames - The Jester Race
19:10 The Chasm - From The Lost Years
19:34 Demence - Total démembrement
20:01 Arch Enemy - Black Earth
20:39 Catasexual Urge Motivation - The Encyclopedia of Serial Murders / 連続殺人大百科
21:13 Apophis - Down In The Valley
21:44 Fleshcrawl - Bloodsoul
22:11 Centinex - Malleus Maleficarum
22:37 Carcass - Swansong
23:20 Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
23:41 Sacramentary Abolishment - River Of Corticone
24:15 Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
24:47 Cannibal Corpse - Vile
25:22 Monstrosity - Millenium
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A fact about Monstrosity : Millennium is that is was recorded at the same time and studio as VILE was. Corpsegrinder recorded his vocals simultaneously
Cryptopsy, Immolation, In Flames, Edge of Sanity, and Opeth are on my top tier.
It was quite the year.
Yeah, I agree with this. Here In After, None So Vile, Crimson, and The Jester Race are all time classics and favorites for me.
Morningrise too, although I think that was still an album before Opeth fully found their sound.
Most of those were S-Tier for me. I put Opeth at A-tier, but after their 3 album run with Candlelight records, their next two Still Life and Blackwater Park are S-Tier.
Happy to see Canorous Quintet get some respect, that album is extremely underrated and fantastic Melodeath.
Nice to hear The Chasm and Cenotaph mentioned in this list
Amazing video man you are the king of high effort videos
Another Fantastic Death Metal ranking Video!
Thanks as always for your great work Mister Trenches!
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My favorite is Pan.Thy.Monium for its "WTF" factor but without being lame or cheesy
Oh an Brave Murder Day but for me it's more Doom than Death
I hope you cover the Japanese melodic death metal band Intestine Baalism’s debut record when you do the 1997 list, because it has very quickly become one of my favourite death metal albums of all time, despite the somewhat rickety production.
Indeed I did
@@MetalTrenches Can’t WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIT! 🤘🏻
Always love getting some new albums to check out from these videos
Love thise DM rankings keep em up 🐐🐐🐐
ABSOLUTELY agree with you on Swansong. I actually really dig that album.
It feels relieving to see Grave's Hating Life, Sarcofago's The Worst & Massacre's Promises at least being ranked a little higher than Meh lol.
I never thought any of those were as bad as people claimed of them to be, but also understand feelings of dissatisfaction when expecting a certain product from a fan's perspective.
I remember reading about Massacre's Promises after just after buying the cassette at a record store the other day and honestly was kind've surprised of how much the band completely disowns the album.
That being all said, nice to hear a pros/cons approach over just bashing something without fully understanding it. Appreciate the effort you put into these videos Metal Trenches! 🤘🏻
None So Vile is one of my favorite death metal albums of all time, nothing but bangers
A similar series for 90s Black Metal would be amazing!!
As someone who started their journey with death metal in 1990, I have enjoyed this series immensely. Thank you!
None so vile is the best death metal record of 96'. I love these videos,,& your content you're so down to Earth which as a ,47 yr old metal head I can appreciate
Really glad abducted by hypocrisy was added to the list
Great list❤
That Iniquity album is a fucking ripper and deserves to be right next to None So Vile at the top
Angel corpse….. 😢
Trading Pieces and NSV at perfection is absolutely based
1996 was a better year I think for death metal than 1995. A lot of older bands were starting to get more creative and we also got debut albums from more well known bands. You left out Brutality’s In Mourning. That album would go in B-Tier. Here’s my ranking of these albums I’ve heard:
S - Cryptopsy - None So Vile, Edge of Sanity - Crimson, Immolation - Here in After, Hypocrisy - Abducted, In Flames - The Jester Race
A - Angelcorpse - Hammer of Gods, Cenotaph - Epic Rites (9 Epic Tales and Death Rites), Kataklysm - Temple of Knowledge, Opeth - Morningrise, Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path, Vomitory - Raped in Their Own Blood, Quo Vadis - Forever, Jungle Rot - Skin the Living, The Chasm - From the Lost Years, Centinex - Malleus Maleficarum, Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn’t Live Here, Cannibal Corpse - Vile, Monstrosity - Millennium
B - Mortician - Hacked Up for Barbecue, Asphyx - God Cries, Asphyx - Embrace the Death, Deeds of Flesh - Trading Pieces, Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence, Arch Enemy - Black Earth, Carcass - Swansong
C - Mortification - EnVision EvAngeline, Grave - Hating Life
D - Sarcofago - The Worst, Massacre - Promise
It definitely covers a lot of ground
Banger of a ranking.
@@Cwin-ny6bp Thank you, I can’t wait for the 1997 list. There’s going to be banger albums there as well.
Me encantan los 90s!!
My brotha I can’t believe you mentioned down in the valley I fucking worship that album I own an original cd! Despite the length it is beautiful and makes such an interesting listen every time!!!
Milenium and None So Vile are my favorites by far
24:16 hah awesome to include this one. Amazingly I found the CD of this for $1 around 20 years ago.
I honestly love the first 2 Kataklysm records, Sylvain sounds like a madman and the music's brutal but I understand why you don't like them, thanks for the video as usual, I always find new bands I like thanks to you
I've always really like how all over the place mixes are when you go back to this era.
I don't love it, but I do agree that Swansong is hella underrated. The band themselves seems to be aware of its reputation and like to play that up. The one time I saw them Jeff said "We're going to play something off Swansong now. Please don't leave."
For a long time Wikipedia classified Hypocrisy’s Abduction as blackened death metal. It’s really weird in retrospect. Cool to see that one included, as that was definitely a significant death metal album for me in my formative era with the genre for some reason.
Pretty rich list, but for me, Gorefest and In Flames switch places for this one - I find Soul Survivor crystal sounding and very rock classic-inspired, meanwhile In Flames always felt really forced and generally more boring than other melodic bands.
Also, very nice to see Avulsed and Jungle Rot so high!
nice tierlist but i missed Brave Murder Day by Katatonia definitely one of my top 3 along with morningrise and none so vile of 1996
We can agree that this was the best year even though you didn't include my favourite: Brave Murder Day by Katatonia
I love Swansong! Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody, Generation Hexed, Black Star, R**k The Vote….
Definitely a shift in tone but it kicks ass imo.
I would have to say None so vile, hacked up for bbq, and here in after are my favs from this year👍🏼
Most of the first wave Stockholm Swedish Death Metal Bands fell off really hard and really fast at some point by the mid-90s.
I tend to be a 1994 kind of guy but 96 is solid.
Glad to see people giving A Canorous Quintet some love. Also loved all the Swano projects (Edge and Pan). Surprised about Angelcorpse. It was one of my favorites that year. And that Gorefest release...geez...it was so bad. Other stuff I played a lot: Cryptopsy, In Flames, Hypocrisy, Dying Fetus, and Kataklysm. Never heard that Sadist release. Going to have to give it a spin, but that piece you played sounded like ass. :)
1996 was for me listening all the 1995 and 1994 that I didn't as a kid until The Jester Race :p
Glad to see jungle rot in that list. Im 40 now from milwaukee, they were one of the first death metal bands I got into. Skin the living and slaughter the weak are classics in my book.
Brutality-In Mourning?!
I'm sorry that almost 50 albums wasn't enough for you. Let me dance like a monkey too.
@@MetalTrenches Please dont dance. 50 albums is a lot, of course. Just thought you did not liked this fantastic album as you included older albums from Brutality in your previous ranked videos.
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Lol my country mates Gorefest get slapped hard. Personally i think Soul Survivor is still pretty listenable but it's a far cry from the greatness of False, i agree
I still consider Soul Survivor their best album, maybe rivaled by False, but still for me it was the pinnacle of how death 'n roll can sound smooth and eclectic.
The guitarwork on "Millenium" is absolutely fantastic. For me this album is an early TDM waypaver.
It's not really early lol. It's like a decade into the genre.
@@timgonzales2891 Who then started TDM around 1986/87?
A criminally underrated album from '96 is Christ Denied "Got What He Deserved". Surprised you missed it because Dave Rotten from Avulsed does vocals. Also Voluptuously Minced from the Cenotaph in Turkey.
Honestly i like the Artwork from Abducted. Weird but i like it, whole Record is fantastic one of my favourites from Hypocrisy.
Angelcorpse at Meh? WHAAAAAT? I know this sort of thing is subjective, but that is just preposterous to me - that record is pushing perfection
I seem to like Massacre's Promise more than other people do. In my opinion it's not that bad, it has lot of groove and I know that many like to throw the Pantera card around a lot because of the groove and this is not an exception. 😆 But I like it a lot even it is not clearly as amazing as the debut. Solid B-tier for me.
Mortician are quite possibly my least favourite Death Metal band of all time.
I've never made it all the way through one of their albums.
They're just so unbearably dull.
Agreed
Kataklysm's Temple of Knowledge is my favorite album of all time....any band.....any genre. I can understand why you don't like the vocals, but to me, Sylvain is brilliant with his phrasing. He writes these long passages with very odd vocal patterns that don't strictly follow the beat of the song, but still work. You said he sounds like a crazy person yelling at no one. He actually does suffer from a schizophrenia spectrum disorder which played a role in his dismissal from the band. I love the way these songs are put together. They're strong as stand alone cuts and work as an album. The drumming is great. I also like the post Sylvain stuff.
I like Carcass' Swan Song. Keep on rotting in the free world is a great song. There's a riff in tomorrow belongs to nobody that I can't not head bang to.
Good lord that Grave album cover is atrocious. Having said that, my favorites are Edge of Sanity, In Flames, and Hypocrisy
Broke my heart with Here in After… that album needs to be higher Immolation are the GOAT
I love that album as well.
Same here, one of the best from them, but Metal Trenches don't like necessarily Doomy Stuff and that album has some of the atmosphere
I remember my nan would tuck me into bed and throw on morticians hacked up For barbecue.
You should do a death metal albums ranked video for 1997 and put albums on it like in flames whoracle and six feet under warpath
I mean it's pretty obvious that we're going there...
@@MetalTrenches I wish you could feature katationia sounds of decay ep on it
I still feel like you underrate Here In After, which actually won some large poll for the top Immolation record with fans, significantly, but overall it’s a pretty solid list. I don’t think albums like Gorguts’ Obscura would exist in the same way without Here In After laying the groundwork. I know it’s a matter of opinion, so I’m not meaning that as an attack. Just my $0.02.
For 1997, I'd like to know your thoughts about Tortura Insomniae by Ebony Tears.
I love having Jungle Rot getting a decent rating, but Lunar Strain is always the only decent album by In Flames (in my opinnion). And yep, Swansong is okay and this is coming from a guy brought up on Symphonies.
Edge of sanity my god😤😩🤘
Are you into war metal? Would be cool to hear your opinion on the genre and its classics
Oh my God - Sylvain Houde is a BEAST! Meh? No way!
Yes way, Ted
Some people get it some people dont. I get it and Temple of Knowledge is easily their best album.
Tanks for name avulsed
I never get bored of these Tier lists from you. A chunk of bands I’ve never heard. I’m gonna agree with most of this. Swansong is very much a ok record. Vile…. It’s George’s debut and it’s got good songs but horrible production.
Cryptopsy None So Vile being at Perfection, yes, correct
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@@justarandomdude8138 Thank you, O good man
@@jazzel5756 no problem
12:30 honestly considering the absolute LOATHING this album gets I'm surprised it's at OK lol
Calling Hacked up for Barbecue"s production “bad” is just straight up wrong. That album has incredible production compared to half the stuff on this list. The guitars and bass blend so smoothly, and thats the point.
Different strokes, my dude
My top 5 from 96...
None So Vile
Psychstasia
Hammer of Gods
Here In After
Temple of Knowledge
Millennium
(Yes, I know that's 6 😁)
Thank you man! Loving these lists, even though you misranked Mortician 😂 Listening and adding a lot of these to my death metal playlist (check it out for those interested)
We just rank them differently is all. There is no right or wrong answer
@@MetalTrenches I'm just playing around, haha. Keep up the good work. Look forward to 97 🤘🏻
Not gonna lie, when you read Catasexual Urge Motivation I laughed out loud.
I've never listened to almost any of these bands, but just listening to the clips, your taste and mine on the vocals are the exact opposite. I find the guttural pukey vocals unlistenable but I like the Emtombed style vocals, you seem to like the exact opposite. Different strokes.
Any chance you can do a Death N Roll ranking?
I'm pretty sure he doesn't like low gutterals that much.
Mortician fans watching your tier list be like ''😡''
Kinda disappointed at your rating for the Sacrilege album, but the following album (The Fifth Season) definitely overshadows it, including but not limited to the vocal department
💩 take on Mortician but ig it's not for everyone. Everything else on point 👌😁
Do this with thrash metal
I already kind of did, just not by year.
@@MetalTrenches and you did the same with Death metal
I'd swap Kataklysm & Deeds of Flesh.
That Monstrosity album sounds cool, but the album cover is terrible hahaha. WTF are those granite eggs?
Most of their covers are bad lol
That Monstrosity album is killer even if the artwork sucks!!
I don't like when albums got too noisey like catsexual urge motivation and Agony Conscience and I want to hear the music personally.
Wow I can’t disagree enough with you opinion on Arch Enemy, the he original vocalist isn’t just better he is light years better then the other one. Burning Bridges is one of the best death metal albums ever.
If we all agreed, music would be boring and metal probably wouldn’t even exist…
@@MetalTrenches hey I absolutely agree, I didn’t mean that you aren’t entitled to you opinion I just don’t agree. Great videos btw I’ve gotten into a lot of death metal watching your videos.
Fifty??? Damn haha
Mortician is the best album on here brah brah.yea everyone this is sarcasm
Whatt is but rock/metal? I googled it but I just came up with a lot of metal in butts...
It's a term that comes from Rock Radio where they play "NOTHING BUT ROCK!"
I have to disagree with Envision Evangelene, first of all I don't think it's death metal and I think the album has some bangers like Northern Storm.
...except in this very list I praised Swansong. I don't know why people feel the need to make assumptions when it's easier to just recognize that people like different albums.
@@MetalTrenches oh sorry my bad, I'll remove the stupid part of the comment
It's all good. Sometimes it just gets irritating to hear people who don't know you constantly jump to conclusions. I'm a little grumpy this morning.
Justin Horval ain't gonna be happy
I'm not here to please anyone.
@MetalTrenches lol it's a joke, mate. Horval and many others overrate the fuck out of Mortician. And that's coming from someone who loves that album. But I agree with pretty much everything you said about it.
I'm sorry but most of Dying Fetus material is basically structurally simplified Suffocation with intricate sweeps on top
Doesn’t mean someone can’t like how they put it together 🤷🏻♂️
@MetalTrenches didn't say it did mean that - I enjoy them too, but the "tech" of dying fetus is superficial and their music isn't half as complex and incredible as that early Suffo stuff
my 2 favorites death metal bands of all times
Don't disrespect the mighty Mortician.
Swansong is good. It’s just not death metal.
I don't fully agree with that. I think enough of the elements are still there. It ain't BRUTAL, but any means, but I'd still call it death metal.
@@MetalTrenches To me, it is similar to Wolverine Blues, a “death-n-roll” type thing where outside of the extreme vocals, it could pass for heavy alternative rock. A song like “Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody” musically sounds just like Quicksand or Helmet. It’s only Jeff’s vocals that distinguish it as kinda extreme, imo.
I do think both those albums are highly underrated.
At this time it’s just Immolation and Cannibal Corpse left for me.
Out of ALL of these? ...Are you sure you've given each of these a chance?
Well, I did own a lot of these albums, but not many of them came close to the classics from the early 90s for me. Sadist, Napalm Death, Asphyx, Mortician, Mystifier, Cryptopsy, Carcass, Immolation and CC were the favourites out of these. But it was not a great year for me when it comes to DM. I was not a fan of the more melodic DM either, like the Gothenburg-style. Nile was still to come, same with Morbid Angel’s Formulas Fatal to the Flesh.
Come to think of it, at this point BM was far more interesting. 1995 with Dissection, Absu, Ulver, Dødheimsgard, Varathron, Gehenna, Necromantion and 1996 with B****m, Mysticum, Marduk, Dark Funeral +++ And being from Norway I got to see many great gigs with Emperor, Dissection, Mayhem, Darkthrone and many more.
96 was not the best year for death metal lol
Pretty good year bro
crytopsy ., monstosity, dying fetus, & cannibal corpse r my favorutes jus off the top of my mind b4 watching this