My Top 10 Death Metal Albums Of All Time 

I recognize the Scream Blood Gore cover even when it's only 3 pixels.

The End Complete is so underrated! and Eaten Back to Life is one of the greatest death metal debuts of all time. Pierced from Within is Suffocation's best work imo, and i feel like the first three Deicide albums are god tier.

1. Gorefest - Mindloss 2. Brutal Truth - Extreme Condition Demands Extreme Response 3. Bolt Thrower - The IV Crusade 4. Autopsy - Severed Survival 5. Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine 6. Grave - Soulless 7. Death - Human 8. Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon 9. Obliveon - Nemesis 10. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul...For Me Your Flesh

What a selection of absolute masterpieces on show here Ryan! It’s so, so hard to narrow it down to just 10, so having the honourable mentions is a must! Also, if you’re anything like me, it can change from year to year, mood to mood, if that makes sense!! Great video & good to see you Ryan!!🤘🏻

So knowledgeable. This is the best of this kind of list I’ve found online. Introduced me to some absolutely fantastic music. I’m relatively new to death metal (in terms of brutal and old school) and my car is filling up with CDs but it’s always the same recommendations online. But you knocked it out of the park even with your honourable mentions. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

as a Swede that got into the scene in 91, I am excited that you put Entombed, Dismember and Grave in your top 10. Great list!

Here are some of my favourite death metal albums. Death - Symbolic Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked Cannibal Corpse - The Bledding Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery Cryptopsy - None So Vile Morbid Angel - it's hard to choose one but more of the early eara Death - The Sound Of Perseverance Death - Human

Awesome list. So many great albums you could easily make 5 top 10's :) Here's mine : 10: Decapitated " The Negation" 9 : Entombed " Clandestine" 8 : Pestilence " Consuming Impulse" 7 : Grave " You'll Never See" 6 : Immolation " Close To A World Bellow " 5 : Asphyx " The Rack " 4 : Suffocation " Pierced From Within " 3 : Obituary " Cause Of Death " 2 : Death " Human " 1 : Bolt Thrower " War Master "

Great list. Thanks.

Awesome list man

Greetings from Pennsylvania Ryan!! Great vid!!! 😎 👍

Very informative, quite an expert.

Amazing list. I love all the albums you showe. Personally I would add one more to it. Paradise Lost "Lost Paradise" For me it is one off the most "morbid & sinister " Death Metal albums ever.

Great list dude.

Love that everything here is 90's, and that's totally appropriate. It's definitely the golden era. I couldn't put together a top 10, but I do know that if I could only have 3 DM albums, they would be Entombed - Clandestine, Dismember - LAEFS and Deicide - S/T.

Pretty cool list man! Gotta have SBG at #1 for sure. Glad to see Cross The Styx get some love.

FInally - a death metal tier list on RU-vid from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Cross The Styx - absolutely top tier. What a great list. (Although I would personally put Pierced From Within and None So Vile right at the very top 😁)

Nice vid ,new subscriber....good to see a genuine fan doing a RU-vid vid instead of a trendy poser who's only been into metal for 5 yrs but thinks they are an expert on underground death and black metal

What a good taste. Great video.

God damn, this video should be a mandatory watch for all Death Metal fans. The order may change, but all the greats are mentioned!

Glad to see The End Complete in this list. That has always been my favorite Obituary album. The guitar tone and production has such a thick, heavy sound. It seems like it usually takes a back seat to Cause of Death for most people. 🍻

Great video.. Most of all of these are on my top 20 video I posted a while ago. Love these album. Just missing a couple that you showed in the honorable mentions. Enjoyed the video bro!

Just subbed wow u have a great collection

I lost my death metal virginity to 'Scream Bloody Gore' \m/ (although I have listened Possessed before Death) Great video!

Excellent choices i bought all these during their release 👍 😀

Great man!!

Good video! I'm surprised how many well known albums were in that list, will you do another one for more underrated releases? Or maybe a Black metal/Grind one?

About time we saw Cross The Styx in a top 10

Good stuff!! I'm a bit more partial to doomy death metal myself (but not over doomy ..still love the blasty stuff CC, Deicide, Vital Remains etc) so my list would be: Autopsy - Mental Funeral Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade Morbid Angel - Covenant Obituary - Cause Of Death Asphyx - The Rack Death - Leprosy Entombed - Clandestine Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox Paradise Lost - Gothic Carcass - Necrotism Demilch - Nespithe Also.. it came a bit later but "Burning Inside - The Eve Of The Entities"

Good list dude.....👍 Most lists like these should have a few crossovers that are on everyone's lists and then the rest is where the personal tastes take over. My buddies and I did one of these with a top 20 and we all had very few crossovers.....🤣 That was a few years ago and I went back and looked at my list and saw that some of my picks would change based on my listening habits since then. Not just bands but different albums from the same bands. For instance I had IVth Crusade from Bolt Thrower, but now I may go with In Battle There is No Law or Those Once Loyal. My favorite Death album is forever changing as well but Human has gotten the most play from me lately. Cause of Death will always be on my top 10 no matter, but I like it when people change it up and The End Complete is a really good album...👍 I always liked Indecent and Obscene over Like an Everflowing Stream, but Stream is a great album as well. Surprised to not see an Immolation album on your list, but that's because they're one of my favorites, so I'm biased. I have a few weird ones that are on my list and it's not that they're obscure to knowledgeable death metal fans, but they just aren't thought of when people are thinking about DM bands. Sentenced- Shadows of the Past Gorefest- Mindloss Vomiturition- A Leftover Demigod- Slumber of Sullen Eyes Adramelech- Psychostasia Remember my list was a top 20. 🤘🤘

nice mentions in this video. I never really got into pure DM but recently getting into the old skool Florida bands. my favorite style in metal is thrash/death (sepultura, sodom, demolition hammer etc)

Well I've got a few albums to check out now. I'm not as deep into death metal but here's my favourites so far: Opeth - Ghost Reveries This album straight up sounds like a haunted castle. Opeth created such dark, enchanting soundscapes. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding Honestly, there's like 3 other CC albums that could be here, but I chose The Bleeding because it's the most varied album they've ever done imo. And Chris Barnes sounds incredible. Gorguts - Obscura I literally just listened to this yesterday and it's the first time an album has actually unsettled me. But it also moved me in such a way that I can't quite explain. There's such a tragic feel to it. I'm still processing it, but it's immediately shot up to one of my favourite albums of all time. Death - Individual Thought Patterns This is never considered their worst album but I rarely see it high up on people's lists and I don't understand why. It's Death's most unique album imo, which is saying a lot. It's jazzy, melodic, heavy and intricate. Chuck fucking rocked too hard.

Here’s mine 1. Morbid Angel- Formulas Fatal to the Flesh 2. Death-Human 3. Cannibal Corpse-Gallery of Suicide 4. Obituary-Cause of Death 5. Deicide-Legion 6. Bolt Thrower-The 4th Crusade 7. Carcass-Heartwork 8. Misery Index-Traitors 9. Suffocation-Effigy of the Forgotten 10. Nocturnus-The Key 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Interesting list, completely different direction then what id have picked. It suprised me that u consider Dying Fetus Tech Death, i wouldve never put them in that slot

Respectable list

Good choices

Man, agreed with your list 100%

Death for sure! Sick awesome AF! Vader is worth mentioning also

8:19 Now and forever is the first death metal song I ever heard on my own and holy shit I was hooked

1. Morbid Angel - Covenant The most complete death metal album for me: thick guitar tone, relentless riffage and drums that sounds like an army marching. 2. Brutality - Screams of Anguish Mixes the thick production of old school death metal with the melodies of tech death. The solos are out of this world. 3. Gorement - The Ending Quest Unlike most OSDM records, this one has a melancholic vibe going for it instead of an infernal one. Unique and overlooked. 4. Death - Individual Thought Patterns Chuck and the boys need no introduction. This is basically the perfect tech death record and maybe has the best basslines in all of extreme metal. 5. Autopsy - Severed Survival Absolutely rancid atmosphere and like “Individual Thought Patters” incredible bass by DiGiorgio. 6. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours Surrealistic, innovative and non-cheesy melodeath with violin solos and a progressive edge. 7. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Out of all the albums on here, this one has the “oldest” feel to it. Early riff festival and the most thrashy approach on here. This album also features Martin van Drunen’s best “psycho vocals”. 8. Bolt Thrower - …For Victory This wouldn’t be a complete list without the bri’ish menace. Impressive how they managed to make the riffs so doomy yet so melodic and catchy at the same time. 9. Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs and Kon-Fu-Sion Side project of extreme metal legend Dan Swanö. Trippy atmosphere: It’s like jazz and death metal musicians took LSD together. 10. Demilich - Nespithe Old school weirdness at its finest: mind melting riffs that sound like backwards jazz with distortion and alien-like burps. Honorable Mentions: - Edge of Sanity - Crimson - Entombed - Left Hand Path - Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity - Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity - Xysma - Yeah

don't you mean Jeff Wagner? Good picks! Nice to see Tools of the Trade!! Surprised no Crawl EP though ;)

Good top 10 death metal list simply cant exist without Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Death, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Carcass, CC (also didnt get why SFU is mentioned in some comments as crap, they are golden), Entombed/Entombed A.D. ,Grave, Suffocation, Immolation what I would like to see is top 10 in every dm subgenre, dm is rich enough to make separate. Also there are classics, but there are good new players too, my fav is Cruciamentum (everything is gold) and Assatur (launched first album, golden)

I am not a huge fan of DM, but I appreciate a lot of classics, some technical (as a guitar player) or creepy/dissonant stuff. I love black metal so much more, but here are my absolute DM favourites (yes, Ulcerate 2 times): Ulcerate - Everything is fire Death - Human Entombed - Left Hand Path Portal - Ion Darkthrone - Soulside Journey Cynic - Focus Gnaw Their Tongues / Dragged into Sunlight - NV Necrophagist - Epitaph Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

Disincarnate - "Dreams of the Carrion Kind" Mithtras - "On Strange Loops"

Im still relatively new to death metal. Iv only been listening to it for two years. Here are mine in no particular order... *Human by Death:* I love all their albums but this is the sweet spot as it still has the brutal riffs of their earlier albums but also the more technical proggy sound on their later albums. *Annihilation of the Wicked by Nile:* It's a brutal, technical masterpiece! The vocals are insane and the drumming and guitar work are spectacular! I love the production as well and I love the ancient Egyptian theme. Lashed to the Slave stick might be my favourite death metal song of all time! *Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower:* It was one of the first death metal albums I bought so nostalgia is playing a big part. But I love the grove, the production and the riffs... the fucking riffs ❤. This album was a great way to go out on. *Last One on Earth by Asphyx:* The best guitar tone in extreme metal and imo Martin van Drunen is the best vocalist in death metal and his best performance was on this album. I love how it's slow and doomy which may not be to everyones taste but I love it for that. *None So Vile by Cryptopsy:* Brutal, technical, groovy and Satan himself on vocals. What's not to love? *Nightmares Made Flesh by Bloodbath:* This got me into death metal and I love it just as much now as I did back then. As great as Mikel was on vocals Peters was better. Sorry. It has everything I want in a death metal album with heavy riffs, groove, killer vocals and perfect production. *KILL by Cannibal Corpse:* As much as I love the Barnes era, I prefer the Corpsegirnder era from the mid 2000's onwards. Brutal while also being catchy as hell! *Necroticism by Carcass:* While Heartwork is probably my favourite it's more of a melodeath album than a full blown death metal album. Nectroticism is a perfect death metal album from start to finish. I love how they used clipps from a documentary to introduce each song. It makes the album sound more creepy. As much as I love Heartwork and their later stuff, I often wonder what would of happened if they stuck to this sound. *Covenant by Morbid Angel:* Got to have some Morbid Angel on here and this is their masterpiece! Lions Den, God of Emptiness, World of Shit need I say more? The guitar work is brilliant and the groove 😚🤏 *Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation:* This blew my mind when I first heard it. It sounds like flesh being ripped apart but the technicality is the reason why I keep coming back.

Pestilence-Consuming Impulse Cannibal Corpse-Tomb of the Mutilated Carcass-Necrotisism Suffocation-Effigy of the Forgotten Death-Human Cattle Decap.The Anthroposcene Ext. Archspire-Relentless Mutation Obituary-Cause of Death Napalm Death-Utopia Banished Monstrosity-Imperial Doom

1. Living Sacrifice - Nonexistent 2. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines 3. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage 4. Napalm Death - Utilitarian 5. Obituary - Back from the Dead 6. Gatecreeper - Deserted 7. Opeth - Blackwater Park 8. Entombed- Left Hand Path 9. Hath - All That Was Promised 10. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

utopia banished was my highschool disc on repeat!

IMO your honorable mentions were better that the actual top 10, but it’s a good list anyways

I absolutely trust the opinion of someone wearing a Grave T shirt

Glad to see Cross The Styx there, killer!

The new Obituary album, "Dying of Everything", is my new favorite album from them.

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All great bands and album. I would have love to see Seance Fornever laid to rest album in your list.

Abhorrence-Evoking the abomination and Vader-The ultimate incantations,masterpiece both.

Scream Bloody Gore and Symbolic are tied top for me

Nice touch with the red carpet on the wall and the candles i wanna smoke pot at your home

Being a 40+ dude still into death and constantly checking on new bands (atm we got kinda death metal renaissance going on, love it !!!) I can totally co-sign this list... Wouldn't make exactly the same list, but the presentation wins ! Salute bro 👊😎

One of the 1st death metal CDs I ever heard and still my favorite of all time. DEICIDE. The demonic vocals is what makes it my favorite.

yes I agree this albums are surely masterpiece but my opinion "nobody ask but". vital remains - dechristianize vader - de profundis nile - vile niolotic rites morbid angel - altars of madness hate ethernal - upon desolate sands aeon - aons black unleashed - midvinterblot

Excellent list. I prefer "Blessed are the sick" or "Altars of madness" to "Covenant". From Napalm Death, my favorite is "Harmony corruption"

Your honorable mentions were way better than your top 10. 😄

Surprised Nocturnus hasn't been mentioned by anyone (from the comments I skimmed over at least). But Death, you can't go wrong as their entire catalog is damn legendary. After that it's a grab bag with Carcass, Obituary, etc. Throw in some tech death like Decapitated or perhaps some prog death such as Opeth (Blackwater Park FTW) and there you go.

Jeah, I d name Deicide 1st and Entombed Left.... and Dismember as good picks, but I d have chosen Leprosy from Death. I also would have mentioned The Crowns Deathrace King, since I think its most prob. the best melo death album ever to come out.

1. Death - Human 2. Cryptopsy - None So Vile 3. Suffocation - Pierced From Within 4. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul 5. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson 6. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness 7. Cynic - Focus 8. Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt 9. Gorguts - Colored Sands 10. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

10. GORGUTS - The Erosion Of Sanity 5. CARCASS - Necroticism 9. DEMILICH - Nespithe 4. PESTILENCE - Consuming Impulse 8. SUFFOCATION - Effigy Of The Forgotten 3. SINISTER - Cross The Styx 7. IMMOLATION - Dawn Of Possession 2. CRYPTOPSY - None So Vile 6. INCANTATION - Onward To Golgotha 1. MORBID ANGEL - Altars Of Madness

Top ten death metal bands of all time,Death,Morbid Angel,Pestilence,Deicide,Obituary,Atheist,Carcass,Cannibal corpse,Entombed,Dismember,Malevolent Creation.....

10 - Deicide - Deicide 9 - Cannibal Corpse - Kill 8 - Decapitated- Nihility 7 - Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus 6 - Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 5 - Opeth - Morningrise (not my fav Opeth album, but i do not consider Deliverance to be Death metal) 4 - Cryptopsy - None so Vile 3 - Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked 2 - Hypocrisy - Virus 1 - Bloodbath - Nightmares made flesh If i didn't limit myself on 1 band on the list, i'd just have a bunch of Hypocrisy, Nile and Bloodbath albums.

Wait a minute, you didn't pick Arise because Sepultura had some thrash stuff in their career, but you picked the one thrashy album from the best-selling death metal band of all time - Cannibal Corpse? That reasoning seems a little odd to me, but I'll get over it, heh. Good lists overall.

What's the song in the background at 1:02

Where did you get that crisp grave shirt?

I would choose: 1. Entombed - Left Hand Path 2. Possessed - Seven Churches 3. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade 4. Carcass - Heartwork 5. Death - Leprosy 6. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 7. Hypocrisy - Abducted 8. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream 9. Sepultura - Bestial Devastation 10. Asphyx - Last One on Earth

Violent Dirge-elapse Necrophil-cannibal sex Golgotha-land of death Incest-moriar Pandemonium-devilri Betrayer-calamity Turbo-dead end Mortal Slaughter-leppers Dark Opera-day of pariah Imperator-time before time

10. Considered Dead 9. Consvming Impulse 8. Tomb of the Mutilated 7. Deicide ST 6. Cause of Death 5. Focus 4. Unquestionable Presence. 3. Covenant 2. Necroticism 1. Human.

Eaten back to life is hardcore underrated, probably my fave cannibal album!!

Cause of Death and The End Complete were Obituary’s peak. Since then, it’s been the same simplistic, repetitive riffs and songs structures.

Whats the song in the backround at 5:20?

Unborn by six feet under is one of my newer favorites

Warmaster by Boltthrower is in my top 10.

Dismember is the kings!!!!

It'a so good to see someone rank Covenant above Altars. Not that Altars is bad of course, but Promised Land/ World of Shit, come on!

What band is playing in the background ???

I could go on and on, but Massacre~ From Beyond, and Pestilence~ Mallevs Maleficarvm, def deserve a mention! Oh, and if you can afford first pressings of these albums, ie analog, go for it! You'll prolly never play a cd again!😂

Usurped is pronounced like "you-surped" 😉....good list. 👍

Not having Suffocations “Pierced From Within” in the top 3 is ridiculous. That album is a death metal masterpiece

You NEED to listen to Blackwater park by Opeth

Might be a really hot take but for me the favorite C-Corpse album is Butchered At Birth. So filthy and rotten it lives up to the bands name. Right up there with it for me is The Bleeding and Eaten Back To Life. Tomb never did much for me compared to those other 3. It got a bit more intricate but the production seems a tad flatter.

Dark is the Season is the best death metal EP ever

LAEFS dismember,I might it have up with no 1,amongst others.

1. Morgoth - Burnt Identity 2. Disgorge - Consume the Forsaken 3. Vital Remains - In Cold Darkness 4. Demonic Christ - Punishment For Ignorance 5. Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse 6. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill 7. Deeds of Flesh - Inbreeding the Anthropophagi 8. Immolation - Here in After 9. Deicide - In Torment in Hell 10. Incantation - Upon the Throne of Apocalypse

This list is all about popular and well known death metal bands. Nothing that particulary stands out and the real gems are hiden below the obscurity :)

Leprosy is the best ever Death metal album !

Altars of Madness i should be truly number one of all this m.a.

carnage dismember . period

My top 5 1 carcass necroticism 2 Death human 3 deicide deicide 4 cannibal corpse The bleeding 5 at the gates slaughter of the soul

Impaler -carnage deity, blashereion -rip, incatation - onward to golghota.

You better make a new video boy

There's no question that metal, especially death metal is one, if not the angriest form of music. The music itself is aggressive, the lyrics are mostly violent. It has a dark attitude and most members or fans look like they would kill you instantly, if they got a chance. But in fact most fans or members of death metal are the complete opposite of what the music suggests. I can just tell from my point of view, death metal is a way to let those negative feelings, that we all have out in a way that nobody gets hurt. I think the worst thing to do is, to deny the fact, that we all have darkness in our hearts. By trying to cover it up it may find a way out anyway, without being able to control it.

No Consuming Impulse? No Pestilence?

Death leprosy no 1