pov: death metal albums

i looove that album

i've heard all eras of Unleashed, but never this album. hot fuckin' damn.

correct answer is probably five immolation albums tbh

^hi-five

man have I discovered so much lately, here's a brand new 5

Adramelech - Psychostasia
Necrophagia - Ready for Death
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
Pessimist - Slaughtering the Faithful
Killing Addition - Omega Factor

Adramelech is good for people that like artier death metal that still sounds like death metal, i.e. Demilich. Necrophagia isn't really a standout in the catalog, it was just their 'lost' album and I dig how raw it is.

Rottrevore album almost seems like a much more aggressive Obituary, but one that wasn't as into worshipping Celtic Frost. Pessimist sounds like other Pessimist and they seem like douchey people but I was really into their sound and this was the only one of theirs I hadn't heard.

Killing Addiction are Florida legends that only had one album that's really floor-punchy 90s aggressive, and have a new one due out soon.

I love Adramelech and Rottrevore. Need to check out that Necrophagia.

Oh there's a newish Adramelech demo comp for anyone who needs that.

that adramelech is a stone cold classic. but weirdly, I never checked out anything else they put out. I was satisfied. but a demo comp does sound intriguing...

Killing Addiction are awesome, great to have a new album after a 28 year wait.

Main dude Chris Wicklein was also in Druid Lord not so long ago, doom a la Winter/Gorement. Cool stuff.

I love Druid Lord. they're based 20 minutes from where I live, so I get to see them a lot (or did, prior to the pandemic). sometimes they outdraw the national act (for instance they opened for Deceased once and after their set, there were like ten people left for Deceased lol).

they're so popular here that pretty much few other local acts have really emerged cos it's a heavy shadow to be in. Intoxicated is the other band that's blown up here, but they're actually an older band that went dormant for a while. since they've been back, they've gotten almost as many bookings as Teh Lord.

Cancer - To the Gory End
Embalmed - Boiling Humans
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments

Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
Fluids - Ignorance Exalted
Putrid Pile - Collection of Butchery
Fulci - Tropical Sun

I really enjoyed Grave’s dominion viii recently, I think the consensus is that they long stopped mattering by this point, but it fucking rips imo, maybe it’s the remaster?

I don't know that one specifically, but most all Grave is pretty damn good.

also spawned one of the more hilarious Jeff Gilbert album reviews in Guitar World history, of their Extremely Rotten Live album, to which his review was merely "Yes, it is"

write-in vote for Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism, which was one of a few albums I bought in college just from the album cover.

they're more known for their more tech-deathy later stuff, but this one is just raw dumb shit with good riffs.

funebrarum are some kinda direct hit right into my brain’s idiotic pleasure zone, i can’t even be critical about any of it, really

that said, the sleep of morbid dreams is ridiculously great stuff

5 recent-ish ones of crushing brutality:

Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of Angels
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead
Imprecation - Damnatio ad Bestias
Sněť - Mokvání v Okovech
Vastum - Orificial Purge

yeah that Imprecation is great

really liked their last one too. i mean, they’re all great to some degree or other (of what i’ve heard)