Assemblage: Ranked: Proto-Death and Death in the early 80's

CottonSalad 12.21.21	whoa - solid list my friend. Will check 11 indeed
Assemblage 12.21.21	Well sput, let me know where I fucked up. I listened to 62 albums chronologically from '82 to '86 to get to this, leaving out much more that didn't really fit the mould for what I had in mind. This was really just inspired by me wanting to begin ranking the death metal albums by year, and since '87 is really the beginning flight of the genre I wanted to get this out of the way. Basically I went through the charts and my ratings and if it showed up under the "dm" tag on the charts in 80's I gave it a listen, even though it's like a tertiary tag for a lot of these bands. Also, it will probably be easier ranking when doing it by year rather than mashing five years in one, so I'm looking forward to it even though the number of albums increase. Is the argument for Seven Churches as contentious nowadays as it was before, or are we in more or less agreeance that it's the "first full-length death metal" release, here?
Hyperion1001 12.21.21	no its absolutely right. not only did seven churches pioneer the aesthetic and attitude of death metal, it's just plain better than any of the other proto-dm albums. the only records that i would say are missing from this are morbid saint and dark angel, ive heard multiple of the old school guys talk about how important those two records were, especially for upping the "speed" of extreme metal at the time.
botb 12.21.21	Posting to check some of these. 1 is legendary but the drummer has always irked me on it
Assemblage 12.22.21	Thanks for the thoughts Hyp and botb. Funny, the last three I had in my list to check for '86 before I posted were Destruction, DA's Darkness Descends and Onslaught, but considering they seemed mostly fully thrash I posted before trying those out. Morbid Saint is in my batch of albums for '88 :) Interesting to hear those as being influential. :P
Uzumaki 12.22.21	Commenting for bookmark.
Assemblage 12.25.21	Updated with some new stuff after Poison #37. Didn't get a chance to listen to all of them yet, but the list will be adjusted in time with proper positions. Not sure what Minotaur is like. The Xecutioner Demo '86 is one of my favorite things here. Incredible. Been working my way through '87 but so far it's been dominated by thrash. Some good solid thrash, but thrash nonetheless.
Assemblage 01.02.22	Doing a slight bump on this list to see if anyone knows, or have heard 48. Left a link for ya'll to investigate. Pretty nuts imo.
zaruyache 01.02.22	Master's unreleased 1985 album rips too.
parksungjoon 01.02.22	genocide (pre-repulsion) props for insanity
MetalMarcJK 01.02.22	DUDE! I have that Savage Death EP! I did tape trading back in the 80’s for about a year (86-87), and one of the dudes from the band sent it to me. I still have the note he included, as well. They’re from New Jersey. Oh, yeah...solid list, homie!
Assemblage 01.02.22	Fucking epic Marc!! I liked it and want to listen again, but from my soundoff you can see I was confused about some things. I'm gonna check out Genocide for sure since that never came up on my end, thanks park! I'll also have to give Master's unreleased '85 a go to. I have been sufficiently lacking in their discog as well. Tell me I'm not the only one thrown off by the straight 'Infernal Death' intro riff on Evil Dead by Savage Death. I thought I was listening to a SBG demo at first.
sonictheplumber 08.29.22	sad that this wasnt featured bro