pov: death metal albums

Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Demilich - Nespithe
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Gorguts - Obscura
Nihilist - 1987-1989

These are both great lists.

I love how varied these lists can be

today...

Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Vader - De Profundis
Grave Desecrator - Insult (hey I'm a sucker for Brazilian death metal run thru the Sepultura-izer)
Krisiun - Black Force Domain

Convulse - World Without God
Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

man I love Ghost Reveries, haven't played it in way too long.

well always ride for that Convulse. got to see them in 2013, sick.

alien monolith god is such a fucking keeper. p bold to have it on a pov but I support this boldness

I don't have my record collection at hand so will probably forget something important:

Morbus Chron - Sweven
Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
!.T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
Gorguts - Obscura

hmmmmm....

Adramelech - Psychostasia

Also I like how the OP lists 3 bm albums, followed by doom and thrash

Actually scratch Adramelech and replace it with

Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden

p bold to have it on a pov but I support this boldness

On a different day, I could have gone a bit more canonical and included some Death and Autopsy. Very much a POV in the moment.

Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Death - Human
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Immolation - Failures for Gods

Picking a new 5 only from things I've discovered in the three years since my last list:

Asphyx - Last One on Earth
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Khanus - Flammarion
Undergang - Misantropologi

Off the top of my head:

Gorguts - Obscura
Death - Human
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans (death doom counts, right?)
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (still early, but whatevs)

Mine would all be classic era:

Entombed - Clandestine
Death - Human
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

xpost Tomb Mold looking like a Best of Decade for me.

Nocturnus - The Key
Autopsy- Mental Funeral
Demilich - Nespithe
Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety
Carcass - Necrotism - Descanting the Insalubrious

I know all of those except the Cadaver. though that might be one I bought and forgot about.

good choices!

I know very little dm. Must take notes.

how have i never replied to this thread before

morbus chron: sweven
obituary: cause of death
gorement: the ending quest
aeternus: ... and the seventh his soul detesteth
unleashed: odalheim

Damn now that's variety!

been revisiting a bunch of stuff from the last decade that i think still holds up. plus obituary and gorement

I am unwell so won't compile a five yet but I have to mention Corpse Garden here, that album of theirs was so truly sick

Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
Sepultura – Beneath The Remains
Death – Human
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick
Obituary – Cause Of Death

Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Convulse - World Without God
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Assück - Anticapital / Blindspot / +3

Cynic really getting the shaft here

that Convulse fucking rules.

I just got Mental Funeral on vinyl.

NSV is in my top 5.

Terrorizer!!

good list

yes fuckin terrorizer!

still getting used to Sandoval having dreds

ok resisting the temptation to google Pete Sandoval dreads

He apparently did it for his girlfriend.

terrorizer is THE GREATEST

riff they ride out at the end of "world downfall" is a personal fav

did they invent the 'horrors of war/modern society' collage album cover with that record?

granted Terrorizer at this point is Pete and the dudes from Monstrosity, but their new alb was good, and they do such a good job of recreating the WD album live....but I saw them live last year and it was just an endless barrage of grind, people going nuts, my friend Kelly standing next to me just being enthralled (she had never heard them before).

so many ppl air drumming...

also, another monstrosity is hardly the worst thing I can think of

I got to see them a few years ago, one of their first shows after they reformed. it was a lot of fun.

bought myself a terribly printed Monstrosity shirt that doesn't fit anymore.

then i went home and bought what I thought was an EP of new stuff they released but it turned out to be a hip hop act. then the album dropped a few years later (2018?)

yea, I saw em touring that last record. fun show. sick leads.

hell yeah. gotta pull that one out again

these are just the ones I'm listening to now and enjoying tf out of, not my favs

Brutality - When the Sky Turns Black
Morpheus Descends- Ritual of Infinity
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Benediction - Scriptures

Digging this Morpheus Descends. The kind of raw old-school DM I can get behind.

yeah, I literally just finished spinning again. even by 90s standards they weren't bringing 'new' ideas to the table, just doing the ideas very well and gritty, earthy style.

blood red throne is great. tchort is great

yeah, my metal cruise friends got me into them. they actually waged a multi-year campaign to get them booked on the boat and succeeded many years later.

this album is especially dope. i was playing it on a 9 am drive and wanted to leap out of my car and jump on someone. I waited until I got to a red light.

Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety

btw methanietanner I checked this out and enjoyed it a lot, kind of funny how different it was to what came later. it feels like the musical expression of a video nasty, the feeling of being in a basement surrounded by people you don't trust and no idea how to escape.

Glad you dug it and that's a good description of its uh unique appeal.

yea, few death metal albums I've heard that are truly that filthy sounding....

putting this shit here cos i'm lazy and this is a thread that becomes active when one of us posts in it.

so I've decided to give Therion another shot. literally my only experience with them was Theli 15 years ago, and it didn't gel with me at all, so I destroyed the cd and actually killed some of the people in the band.

anyway, years later, I'm starting back over, and started with Beyond Sanctorum, which is totally my shit. good old school death metal with atmosphere.

also got Lepaca Kliffoth to get something in the transition period, and am digging this, almost on the same level I dig Sentenced's North from Here.

what albums of theirs are the best? I am totally cool with the more orchestral stuff, actually very curious about it, also wondering if there's any other 'old' stuff worth a shit in their catalog similar t Beyond Sanctorum.

I don't have time to listen to it all myself so don't tell me to do that or I will be forced to ask you politely to leave.

ok i cheated and picked up Vovin and this is some good shit

The debut is good too if you like Beyond Sanctorum.

morbus chron: sweven
obituary: cause of death
gorement: the ending quest
aeternus: ... and the seventh his soul detesteth
unleashed: odalheim

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, September 14, 2020 9:15 PM bookmarkflaglink

that Unleashed is not fuckin' around at all, holy shiiit

i looove that album