Assemblage: Best Death Metal Debut (VOTE TWICE!)

Assemblage 11.18.21	I know there's a lot here but I wanted there to be a good representation. It's hard personally to narrow it down to 10 or 15 for people to vote on so I just went with extra, while keeping the strongest contenders up top. If you want to nominate an album as one of your votes, by all means do so and I'll add it under Bolt Thrower. I guess I'll get this started and vote for Effigy and Dawn of Possession. :)
porcupinetheater 11.18.21	Gimme Severed Survival, DiGiorgio’s playing on that is fucking gruesome
Assemblage 11.18.21	Sweet, what's your second pick!?
Casavir 11.18.21	Hallucinations. Terminally underrated album.
Dwap 11.18.21	It can only be Death, right? Right?
porcupinetheater 11.18.21	Oh woah hmm, second prob Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Sharenge 11.18.21	I've only heard two of these albums - where should I start?
Assemblage 11.18.21	Good choice also, Casavir, would you guys prefer to put two votes toward the same album? I'll allow it if that's what you want to do.
Assemblage 11.18.21	@Sharenge, if you haven't heard these two already, I'd say start with 2 and 7 :p
Assemblage 11.18.21	@porcupine, I put you down for both, but if you want me to do two votes for Autopsy since it wasn't established at first, lemme know.
Sevengill 11.18.21	where... where is Cynic? second vote goes to Incantation
porcupinetheater 11.18.21	Nah I'm down to spread the love around, lord knows there's plenty of sweet options
Assemblage 11.18.21	Damn, good point Seven, I'll add it.
Sevengill 11.18.21	thank fam I feel like death metal has an unusually high rate of classic debuts. like, bands that nailed it with something innovative and awesome the very first time.
DavidYowi 11.18.21	Cynic easy. Most of these bands (mainly Immolation, Death, Gorguts, Morbid Angel) topped their debut with flying colors
Sevengill 11.18.21	true, some kept going up for the absolute win. I'm thinking Entombed, Carnage, Deicide, Incantation, Dismember, Possessed, Cynic, Sarcofago...like, how many power metal bands' debut is their "classic" though? thrash? just a hunch.
Assemblage 11.18.21	For sure, I'm also always surprised at how quickly so much of it came out in just a two year period early on. Pre-Internet and somehow the sound and underground culture of dm just practically exploded overnight. So amazing to me, and just about every major band brought something good. At Yowi: I'm kinda in the middle with you there as well, because a lot of debuts aren't even my first or second favorites by a lot of these bands (the exception really being Effigy) and do tend to be some of the harder albums to get into for me. Like, I still haven't given Altars it's super fare due but I'm late to Morbid Angel in any case. DoP is very successful for me because I can just jam that whenever and love it as much as the first time even though Immo has exceeded it. Oh, I gave you two votes on Cynic btw, DY.
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	nespithe bro?
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	im not gonna vote but my top 3 out of this list would be altars, deicide s/t, severed survival
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	onward to golgotha cums pretty damn close though but i might dig the 2 following albums a bit more. even though i have golgotha 5'd but not those lol
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	i own 16 of these on CD :D
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	i can tell ya right now nobodys gonna vote for vader or benediction lol. prolly not deicide either so i may just be their lone vote since that record changed my life
sonictheplumber 11.18.21	props to benediction though, i think theyre in that awkward space where theyre slightly overrated by death metal boomers but a tad underrated by the younger dm crowd, theyre definitely bolt thrower derived but their early shits solid as hell. vader i am not really a fan of at all but i love the necrolust demo
Sevengill 11.18.21	oh yeah, Demilich. one of the all-time one-and-dones alongside...come to think of it, I'd vote Garden of Shadows or diSEMBOWELMENT second but those are melodeath and death-doom and idk the parameters here.
Storm In A Teacup 11.18.21	#9! Entombed Left Hand Path
BAT 11.18.21	suffocation or cynic
Muzz79 11.18.21	Altars of Madness
Assemblage 11.18.21	Yeah for parameters I mainly had in my mind stuff closest to osdm, and maybe not too much after mid-90's era. So like even though it's not on here Gorement - The Ending Quest counts, Moribund etc, but then also I was kinda straying away from a lot of the one and dones because of the sheer amount and I tend to see those less as "debuts" compared to bands with a little more depth to their discography. But hey, if it's requested by those who find it deserving on the list, it's no prob for me to add it. I didn't think many would go for Benediction and really 26-30 were just tossed in just in case cause you never know. I know it doesn't compete with some of the more "legit" records like 1-10 but I just didn't know what I should/shouldn't leave out. For instance, I could see a vote or two being cast for Serpent Temptation even though it probably isn't going to win or anything, it's still good to have there imo.
Assemblage 11.18.21	Also, I strayed away from basically any of the super awesome modern releases, since that's like its own beast anyway and I don't know how fair it is to compare say, a banging osdm revival debut like Tomb Mold to the og releases with a 20 year gap but that's just how I was thinking about it. If you guys think it it doesn't matter too much cause a debut is a debut, then I'll probably add it for you.
dedex 11.18.21	Focus Nespithe
Avagantamos 11.18.21	nespithe and onward to golgotha
0xME 11.18.21	Nespite or Severed Survival
Dewinged 11.18.21	Gonna go with Carnage myself too. Incredible album. Atrocity coming close.
ShadowRemains 11.18.21	nespithe
TheNotrap 11.18.21	Altars of Madness
Gnocchi 11.18.21	Cynic Focus This is kind of hard to pin down...
Coast 11.18.21	Suffocation Death
Artuma 11.18.21	suffo
Demon of the Fall 11.18.21	Onward to Golgotha
Koris 11.18.21	So many amazing ones here, but I've gotta go with Focus
Elynna 11.18.21	Dismember & Demilich
DaveTrane 11.18.21	cynic
JeremiahBullfrog 11.18.21	Suffocation pls
zakalwe 11.18.21	Morbid Visions for me please
loulou 11.18.21	cynic
rellik009 11.18.21	demilich
mechamagica 11.18.21	Nespithe
GhandhiLion 11.18.21	Archaeaeon Archaeaeon
DavidYowi 11.18.21	Does Demilich count if they only made one album?
TheHamburgerman 11.18.21	slowly we rot and considered dead. focus is probably my actual favorite album of this list but i refuse to consider it death metal
Coolishtiger 11.18.21	Gotta go with Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
LeddSledd 11.18.21	Cynic runners-up would have to be Demelich and Suffocation
Colliiiin 11.18.21	Demilich but only because it's prob my fave DM album. Dismember, Cynic and Morbid Angel are all basically tied.
worthlessscab 11.18.21	add another stellar classic, At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours second vote goes to Morbid Angel
Assemblage 11.18.21	I got your votes in from last night! after konking out to the new Paysage d'Hiver lol. For ShadowRemains, TheNotrap, Gnocchi, Artuma, Demon of the Fall, DivergentThinking, DaveTesseract, JeremiahBullfrog, zakalwe, loulou, rellik009, mechamagica, Coolishtiger, I gave you each one vote for your respective choices. Comment back if you want to double your vote on your original choice or use your other vote for a secondary album. For Ghandi, I think you meant the Mitochondrion album so I double voted you once I added it. With all the votes for Nespithe I included a couple more in a similar vein (Timeghoul, Infester). I'm going to let single albums go through but at the behest of a request as they are suggested. Use your voting power!
KManoc1 11.18.21	I vote Morbid Angel.
CygnusX1 11.18.21	Cynic Death
Kusangii 11.18.21	Dismember
Gnocchi 11.18.21	in that case (2nd vote pwr etc) Demilich Nespithe and you can add my name for voting "weight" haha.
DavidYowi 11.18.21	2nd vote for Demilich
rage11111ro 11.18.21	Obituary Mitochondrion
Assemblage 11.18.21	More than surprised at all the Cynic votes!
Gnocchi 11.18.21	I'm not. In a list full of pot. 5's, that boi is a 5.5 : ]
TheHamburgerman 11.18.21	Ow totally forgot about nocturnus. pluck away my vote for gorguts and put it on the key, easily one of the best death metal albums ever.
Assemblage 11.18.21	I gotchu Hamburger!
Hyperion1001 11.18.21	hard choice but i gotta say nespithe and dawn of possession. both came out of the gate fully formed and completely idiosyncratic.
0xME 11.18.21	10 still having 0 votes makes me happy (sorry sonictheplumber)
ReiniEden 11.18.21	Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Shuyin 11.18.21	Gorguts for sure
dbizzles 11.18.21	This is fucking hard, gonna go with my gut and probably most-played: Carnage - Dark Recollections (pretty dumb we didn't get a 2nd album and got a bunch of less-good albums from other less-good bands, but whatever) Deicide - Deicide (eat shit, 0xME)
DominionMM1 11.19.21	14 and 32
evilford 11.19.21	Demilich - Nespithe Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Atari 11.19.21	9 and 14
Assemblage 11.19.21	I was hesitant to put Labyrinth Constellation assuming it would dominate the votes and take away from the older debuts, but we'll see how it goes. If there's an x1 by your name it means those users still have an additional vote. You can vote for the same album twice, or divvy it to another. I didn't want to make every "single album" comment automatically a double vote just because it would disproportionately scale the results toward those dropping a comment and leaving. If you want a double vote, comment as so, or else I'll leave it as a single for the time being. Keep it up!
sonictheplumber 11.19.21	KISS - the elder
Koris 11.19.21	I'll give my other vote to Demilich then :]
Casavir 11.19.21	The Red in the Sky is Ours will be my second vote.
MetalMarcJK 11.19.21	#1. Cynic - Focus #2. Mortification - Mortification
facupm 11.19.21	Focus.then effigyñ
Dedes 11.19.21	I can easily give my first vote to Like An Everflowing Stream. From there my body goes into convulsions at the fucking quality on this list. Idk vote 2 is prolllly Labryinth Constellation.
Assemblage 11.19.21	Hey Dedes, have you considered Convulse's 'World Without God'? XD
combustion07 11.19.21	4 and 33 for me. Tough calls though tbh
R4zor3dge 11.19.21	Effigy and Focus for me. Everflowing rules too though
Meridiu5 11.19.21	Gorguts! Bring on the GUTS
Demon of the Fall 11.19.21	Oh TWICE - okay I'll go with Red Sky in addition to Gologtha then.
mechamagica 11.19.21	i will give my second vote to red in the sky as well
Freddykidd 11.19.21	Cynic & Autopsy! (Depending on my mood)
DePlazz 11.19.21	2 votes for 25
TheSonomaDude 11.19.21	3 and 45 are my votes. both need way more attention i guess. should be self explanatory
Assemblage 11.19.21	Great votes guys, I updated the tallies again! Meridiu5 I gave you two votes on Guts because of the enthusiasm :)
Assemblage 11.19.21	Surprised there's no votes for Cannibal or Malevolent Creation thus far. There's nothing glaringly missing from the list though, right? I didn't scour too much but I feel like a couple known classics are missing.
Keyblade 11.19.21	imma go with Nespithe and Gorement - The Ending Quest
TheHamburgerman 11.19.21	this is a great list, i give it 7 out of 9 burgurs
Assemblage 11.20.21	Surprised in all honesty! Thanks Hamburgers, but no list is complete unless it has fries and a shake! XD. If this list falls off and the votes are still tied after a few days, I think I'll do a tiebreaker list with all the votes from here ordered top to bottom and then have you vote between the top two there.
Pon 11.20.21	Demilich - Nespithe Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Heppasodge 11.20.21	In the spirit of death metal im gonna say: - Entombed - Suffocation Those two albums are absolutely godly (and Left Hand Path pre-dates Like an Ever Flowing Stream). Cynic is dm but I can't quite put them above Suffocation and Entombed in a death metal list
DavidYowi 11.20.21	"Blood Incantation - Starspawn" oh shit big brained move right here. Might sway one of my votes
Uzumaki 11.20.21	Autopsy - Severed Survival Atrocity - Hallucinations
Assemblage 11.20.21	I was waiting for the Blood Incantation haha! Give me a few and I'll update the list
evilford 11.21.21	BI is clutch yeah but I gotta stay w/ demilich and incantation
Assemblage 11.21.21	Updated and listening to the new Suffo Live album and it rips.
Casavir 11.21.21	based atrocity vote uzu
Assemblage 11.21.21	I'll allow it if you give me a 5 sentence summary on why you would consider Focus to be 2x the debut of Considered Dead. XD Nah I'm kidding, but now we're tied again! I think most of the mainstays have voted, no?
pissbore 11.21.21	How does Seven Churches not have one single vote?!? Toss my second vote to that
Coolishtiger 11.21.21	Oh i forgot I get a second vote I will go with Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Storm In A Teacup 11.21.21	Are we taking the top 12 and voting again? 🙂
Storm In A Teacup 11.21.21	Actually it would work out perfectly into a top 10 and plenty of people extra to vote for something new, and maybe only one vote to make it JUICY!
JokineAugustus 11.21.21	Growth - The Smothering Arms of Mercy
Assemblage 11.21.21	Yeah we can do a Top 10/12 list! I'm missing so many underground releases that I know were mostly one-offs but if anyone wants to give this another once over just to make sure nothing critical is missing that'd be great! One vote for the finale thread would be neat too, but I'll try to think of something to make it extra SPICY too. Keep sending in votes/ideas in the meantime! I'm glad so many participated so far.
Uzumaki 11.22.21	Hell yeah, Cas
Gnocchi 11.22.21	Might have a surprise couple of votes coming your way soon. I'll keep you posted
Assemblage 11.22.21	Yes!! I look forward to more! I hope I didn't overdo it with albums at the end.
Uzumaki 11.22.21	Brutality’s sophomore album is way better than their debut IMO. I would say the same with Asphyx, but I haven’t gotten to “The Rack” yet.
DaveT0738 11.22.21	Altar is overrated imo, great album nonetheless
Assemblage 11.22.21	I really like the Brutality debut (just my style) but I have not listened to any of their others. I actually thought that they only had the debut and their release in 2016 for some reason.
Keyblade 11.22.21	if this list was made in 2006-2008, Necrophagist would have so many votes instead of 0 lol good to see Focus still so well regarded, I've been thinking recently that opinions have waned on that over the years
Demon of the Fall 11.22.21	Gonna gladly hoover up all the shit I’m yet to check because it’s about bloody time!
pissbore 11.23.21	damn did my first comment get deleted? i could have sworn i already voted for Season of the Dead days ago, hence my "toss my other vote to Seven Churches" statement in what I thought was my follow-up comment. I must not have hit enter or something, but either way, my first vote goes to Season of the Dead, all day
TheSonomaDude 11.23.21	focus is hardly death metal imo but i would consider voting for it in a prog metal poll
pissbore 11.23.21	agreed, focus doesn't belong on here at all
Assemblage 11.23.21	Hey pissbore, I caught that too cause I was like "I honestly don't remember putting your name down" and I went up and down the thread looking for it. I was going to say something but didn't want to cause any confusion so I hit you up with two on Seven Churches. A vote for Season of the Dead is a vote to remember!! So hell yeah, I'm putting you down for that right now. Cynic totally slipped my mind making the list because I was (ahem) focused on osdm until Seven reminded me and I was like holy shit I totally forgot Cynic was a death metal band. I think they still belong here on the list, but I'm definitely surprised they absorbed so many votes. Focus is still closest to dm as a genre even if it's half parts jazz and tech, it just isn't straight osdm so it takes a little attention away from that aspect of the list. But thankfully we got a vote for Necrophagia up in here!!
Assemblage 11.23.21	Gonna do a bump on this or two to try and catch any remaining votes, and then I can take it to the Top Ten list. Get your votes and/or nominations in while you can!!