Death Metal album that is the epitomy of the genre?

[The Ozzman]

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh and/or None So Vile
Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn
Death - Human
Demilich - Nespithe
Deicide - Legion

 

[theflyingmachine]

I'd have to go with Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten. When I think of what death metal is about, that album seems to come to mind. There are plenty of other excellent releases in the genre, but so many relate more to subgenres such as slam or technical dm, and others have influence from genres such as thrash or black metal.

 

[Spiderchrist]

I'd have to go with Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten. When I think of what death metal is about, that album seems to come to mind. There are plenty of other excellent releases in the genre, but so many relate more to subgenres such as slam or technical dm, and others have influence from genres such as thrash or black metal.

I agree

 

[SomeGuyDude]

I'd have to go with Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten. When I think of what death metal is about, that album seems to come to mind. There are plenty of other excellent releases in the genre, but so many relate more to subgenres such as slam or technical dm, and others have influence from genres such as thrash or black metal.

I'll go with this.

It may not be the best album to ever fall under the "death metal" umbrella, but it's probably the purest.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

+1 on Leprosy, Effigy of the Forgotten and The Erosion of Sanity.

These two need mentioning as well ...

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Acts of the Unspeakable is my personal favorite death metal album.

 

[mutantllama]

Chaotic, evil and kickass instrumentation

 

[Spiderchrist]

All of those albums are outstanding, especially Consuming Impulse. THAT'S classic Death Metal.

 

[Personified Hatred]

This one.

 

[Zezza]

Death - Symbolic