| 4.5 superb |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| Anacrusis Suffering Hour |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription |
| Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred |
| Anthrax Spreading The Disease |
| Artillery Terror Squad |
| Artillery By Inheritance |
| Asphyx The Rack |
| Asphyx Last One on Earth |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Essentially a flawed masterpiece. It's not a conventional death metal album in the least, the songs are all extremely dense and sprawling in scope, and the production IS fairly bad.rBut what makes this such a fantastic album is the band's ability to consistently build off the riffs and develop them throughout the course of the songs running time. The band play with an astoinishing level of technical skill (though they never beat you over the head with it) and precision. Tomas Lindberg's vocals are at their most deranged and even emotional on this album, and the drumming manages to keep things together very impressively. The violin cameos are kind of hit and miss in quality, but when they hit, they hit hard.rIt's flawed. But it's an absolutely incredible album and deserves some respectful listens on the listener's part. |
| Atrocity Hallucinations |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Carnivore Carnivore |
| Carnivore Retaliation |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Cirith Ungol King of the Dead |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Coroner R.I.P. |
| Coroner Punishment For Decadence |
| Crimson Glory Transcendence |
| Crimson Glory Crimson Glory |
| D.R.I. Dealing with It! |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Human |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Deicide Legion |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes |
| Diamond Head Lightning To The Nations |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Discharge Why |
| Dismember The God That Never Was |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Enslaved Hordanes Land |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Forbidden Twisted into Form |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Grave Into the Grave |
| Grave You'll Never See... |
| Heathen Victims of Deception |
| Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A.D. |
| Hellhammer Demon Entrails |
| Hellhammer Satanic Rites |
| Helloween Walls Of Jericho |
| Helstar Nosferatu |
| Helstar Remnants of War |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Holy Terror Mind Wars |
| Holy Terror Terror and Submission |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immolation Unholy Cult |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| While i've never loved Incantation nearly as much as the other two major death metal bands from New York (Suffocation and Immolation), there's absolutely no denying that this is an absolutely fantastic album. This is crushingly evil, suffocating death metal. The riffs are excellent, a mix between evocative tremolo-picked riffs and crushing doom riffing, and the songs are superbly put together. The musicianship is tight and focused, perfect in executing this sound, and Craig Pillard's gutterals sound like they came from hell itself.rThis is not an obviously catchy album - this takes a lot of time to really sink in. But let it, and you'll eventually love it. |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation |
| Insanity Death After Death |
| Badly underrated death metal classic. Even though this came out in 1994, most of the music was written in 1985/86 (there are demos floating around proving this). This is death metal in the vein of bands like Possessed and Necrovore, though with a much greater degree of technicality than those two groups. The riffs are technical, yet hugely thrash-oriented, and the drumming is insanely (pun intended) fast and frantic without the mechanic blast-beat feel. There are a couple versions of the album floating around; I prefer the 1994 release since it has the original vocal style and a greater thrash-based feel, but no matter what if you're a death metal fan you owe it to yourself to track this album down. |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death |
| Jag Panzer Ample Destruction |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Katatonia Dance of December Souls |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kreator Coma of Souls |
| Kreator Terrible Certainty |
| Kreator Flag of Hate |
| Laaz Rockit Annihilation Principle |
| Manilla Road Open the Gates |
| Manilla Road Crystal Logic |
| Manilla Road The Deluge |
| Manilla Road Out of the Abyss |
| Manilla Road Mark of the Beast |
| Manowar Into Glory Ride |
| Manowar Sign Of The Hammer |
| Massacra Enjoy the Violence |
| Master On the Seventh Day God Created.... Master |
| Master Master |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Merciless The Awakening |
| One of the greatest thrash metal albums ever. This is violent, unrelenting, raw-as-fuck black/death/thrash metal, with excellent, razor-sharp riffwork, vicious snarled vocals, a gritty bass presence, and some of the most absurd tempos ever on a thrash LP. This slows down maybe a handful of times throughout and those sections are about as deadly as a shotgun blast to the face. What's not to love? |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Miasma Changes |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morgoth Resurrection Absurd |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| Necrophobic Darkside |
| Nihilist Nihilist 1987-1989 |
| Obituary Cause of Death |
| October Tide Rain Without End |
| Omen Battle Cry |
| Onslaught The Force |
| Overkill The Years of Decay |
| Overkill Feel the Fire |
| Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Queensryche The Warning |
| Queensryche Queensryche |
| Rigor Mortis Freaks |
| Sacrifice Soldiers Of Misfortune |
| Sacrifice Forward to Termination |
| Sadus Swallowed in Black |
| Sadus Illusions |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late |
| Satan Court in the Act |
| Seance Saltrubbed Eyes |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia |
| Slaughter (CAN) Strappado |
| Slaughter (CAN) Surrender or Die |
| Slayer Reign In Blood |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Haunting The Chapel |
| Slayer South Of Heaven |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Sodom Tapping The Vein |
| Sodom Better Off Dead |
| Sodom Expurse Of Sodomy |
| Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die |
| Suffocation Pierced From Within |
| Suffocation Human Waste |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm |
| Unleashed Where No Life Dwells |
| One of the greatest Swedeath albums from a band who would go on to be one of the most consistent in their field. Cold, combative, and with outstanding songwriting and arrangements. |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vio-Lence Eternal Nightmare |
| Voivod Dimension Hatröss |
| Voivod Killing Technology |
| Watchtower Control And Resistance |
| Wehrmacht Shark Attack |
| Winter (USA-NY) Into Darkness |
| Crushing, filthy death/doom metal. This sounds like Hellhammer on a bunch of downers, and while it pretty obvious takes from that well of influence (the riffs and the vocals) it is still its own beast. The feel and tone of this album is just uncompromisingly dismal. The riffs are great, the vocals a dead ringer from Tom G. Warrior, and the drums go through some really damn creative patterns. Admittedly the mix doesn't have enough guitar in it (even the demo had a better mix), but the stark, oppressive feel that the band conjures up wins out here. |
