Best Death Metal Album EvAR!?!111

[skeptik]

I picked Altars of Madness, though Covenant is probably one of the best DM albums ever created.

Also, how can you be lacking Scream Bloody Gore? It's not that good at all (Leprosy destroys it), but neither was that Possessed album and it's still legendary.

GET OUT.

 

[Necromunchkin]

I love "Seven Churches" but don't consider it death metal. Death-ish thrash? Sure, and effectively the single most important album that inspired death metal (including the very term) but it doesn't hit that point where it truly surpasses gnarly, thrashy metal. For me the dividing line is Repulsion. Which I note is NOT on the list *grumble*

 

[skeptik]

Genre originators always have traces of their predecessors though (see: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Venom, Metallica, Possessed, Bathory, Celtic Frost, etc.).

 

[lurch70]

I love "Seven Churches" but don't consider it death metal. Death-ish thrash? Sure, and effectively the single most important album that inspired death metal (including the very term) but it doesn't hit that point where it truly surpasses gnarly, thrashy metal.

that's if you listen to your metal going backwards in time.

in 1985 ... Seven Churches was not only Death Metal it was death itself.

 

[skeptik]

that's if you listen to your metal going backwards in time.

in 1985 ... Seven Churches was not only Death Metal it was death itself.

Despite not having even been thought of by 1985, this is exactly how I feel.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'll take Darkness Descends over Seven Churches any day of the week. Although, yeah, Seven Churches did create that death metal sound, it was still very much thrash at the same time...and Darkness Descends sounds more sinister to me.

Also, the drumming on Seven Churches is ridiculously sloppy and totally bothers me for some reason.

 

[lurch70]

SC was sloppy no doubt ... but so was DD ... the production on in is pretty bad ... and while Hoglan was a God in the making the rest of the band was pretty all over the place. We Have Arrived was better in some ways than DD.
But I would not call Dark Angel Death Metal ... no way ... they fall into that "Slayer" uncategorizable category.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Agreed.

 

[Dmanx Pit]

Onslaught was in that category as well.

I own a copy of Seven Churches, it's probably the most important album in the development of death metal and a required listen. But as far as actually putting it on for the hell of it, I'll usually reach for Onslaught and Dark Angel immediately after "The Exorcist".

 

[lurch70]

speaking of Possessed, they are playing here next week ... i should check them out

 

[Krilons Resa]

Best DM album of the 80's: Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness

Besides the Grotesque demos.