Absolutely Essential Grind

i need some forest metal.

hmm, lets see what I have so far...

Alcest - that album with the cover of the little girl playing with a flute. Don't bother asking me the name it's quite long. Just gooogle it it's a every popular record.
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (essential forest metal)
Agalloch - Pale Folklore, The Mantle, Of stone wind and pillor, the white ep.
The Morningside - the wind, the trees, and the shadows of the past
opeth - the morningside
Elvenking's debut
Ulver's debut
and maybe some empyrium
 
That Ulver song with the recording of someone running over leaves and twigs for 3 minutes is tr00 forest metal.
 
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Not exactly grind but essential nonetheless. In fact, I'm suspicious of any grindcore fan that doesn't fully appreciate these two albums. They rule!
 
A lot of goregrind/slam stuff you'll probably like (first two are just grindcore but they're great):

Discordance Axis - Discography
GridLink - Amber Gray
Lithuria - World Ending Pestilence
Carcass - Discography
Gorerotted - Only Tools and Corpses
General Surgery - Necrology
Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis - Satyriasis and Nymphomania
Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw and The Carnage Done
To Separate the Flesh From the Bones - Utopia Sadistica
Last Days of Humanity - Putrefaction in Progress
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Impaled - Mondo Medicale
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
Regurgitate - Sickening Bliss
Repulsion - Horrified
Exhumed - Gore Metal
Impetigo - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale
Mortician - Chainsaw Dismemberment
Devourment - 1.3.8.
Ingested - Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering
Putrid Pile - The Pleasure in Suffering
Abominable Putridity - In the End of Human Existence
Condemned - Desecrate the Vile
Katalepsy - Musick Brings Injuries
Kraanium - The Art of Female Sodomy
 
Scald, from Ireland, are one of the few grind bands I can appreciate. Brutal Truth is probably the best of the legendary ones, along with early Carcass and Terrorizer.

Also, a bit of a death/grind affair, the Lykathea Aflame album is interesting.