Death Metal Starter Kit

[MetalDad74]

Or how best to spend $100...

OK, so, here's the deal. I grew up listening to thrash mostly (36 years old now). Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Anthrax. Didn't branch out a lot. I was a bit sheltered. But I have been listening to some death metal on the satellite radio and some samples online (weak, I know, but it's what's available now) and I am very interested in getting into it. Strangely enough, I just got a $100 gift cert to Amazon and I am going to spend it on a death metal starter kit. Let's assume I won't be able to add to it for a few months, so it should have some classics and new stuff for a well-rounded introduction.

So basically, what are the first 10 albums that a beginning death metal fan should own...?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

1. Incantation- "Golgotha" (Onward to Golgotha)

2. Autopsy- "Torn from the Womb" (Mental Funeral)

3. Morbid Angel- "Fall from Grace" (Blessed are the Sick)

4. Deicide- "Repent to Die" (Legion)

5. At the Gates- "Kingdom Gone" (The Red in the Sky is Ours)

6. The Chasm- "A Portal to Nowhere" (Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph)

7. Immolation- "Nailed to Gold" (Here in After)

8. Demilich- "When the Sun Drank the Height of the Water" (Nespithe)

9. Demigod- "Slumber of Sullen Eyes" (Slumber of Sullen Eyes)

10. Gorguts- "Orphans of Sickness" (The Erosion of Sanity)

11. Dismember- "Override of the Overture" (Like an Ever-flowing Stream)

12. Suffocation- "Liege of Inveracity" (Effigy of the Forgotten)

13. Molested- "Along the Misty Morass" (Blod Draum)

14. Order from Chaos- "There Lies Your Lord...Father of Victories" (An Ending in Fire)

15. Bolt Thrower- "World Eater" (Realm of Chaos)

16. Infester- "Chamber of Reunion" (To the Depths...In Degradation)

17. Obituary- "Chopped in Half" (Cause of Death)

18. Asphyx- "The Rack" (The Rack)

 

[Vossyrus]

Being that you primarily listened to thrash, I think Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness would be a good starting point.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I take no credit for that list.

 

[MetalDad74]

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness is definitely one I was already considering. The other bands listed above - some I know and others I don't. I must say that I prefer buying whole albums instead of songs. So which of those listed would be on the short list?

 

[Master_Yoda77]

The albums are in parantheses.

 

[Tonka Time]

Carcass - Necroticism

 

[skeptik]

This should be a good start for somebody coming from a thrash background:

Possessed - Seven Churches
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness or Abominations of Desolation
Master - Master
Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
Nocturnus - The Key
Deicide - Deicide
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Massacre - From Beyond
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Mortuary - Blackened Images
Merciless - The Awakening
Asphyx - Embrace the Death

For newer albums, try maybe:

Nominon - Recremation
Tribulation - The Horror
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Terrorama - Horrid Efface and Omnipotence
Pentacle - Under the Black Cross
Ares Kingdom - Return to Dust and Incendiary
Nocturnal Graves - Satan's Cross
Assaulter - Salvation Like Destruction
Vanhelgd - Cult of Lazarus

 

[CF87]

fuck

 

[Mort Divine]

I'd like to toss out Massacra - Final Holocaust and Insanity - Death After Death in addition to what Dodens recommended

EDIT: wat death by death ... as opposed to

 

[Cythraul]

I'll second the Massacra recommendation.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yep, but I'd say Enjoy the Violence is better. Is that controversial?

 

[Mort Divine]

Yeah, Enjoy the Violence is good, but it drags a bit at times. Final Holocaust is just nonstop fucking riffs.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

thanks guys. I need to check out more of this shit

 

[Satanstoenail]

So basically, what are the first 10 albums that a beginning death metal fan should own...?

I'm 37, so you should ignore all the children's recs and heed my worldly advice only. You need most of the classics with a stand out newer style album:

Death - Spiritual Healing
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick or Alters of Madness (the former is my fave)
Deicide - Deicide
Obituary - Cause of Death
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Carcass - Nectroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Decapitation - Organic Hallucinosis

 

[Mort Divine]

that Decapitation album should never be recommended to anyone

 

[Satanstoenail]

that Decapitation album should never be recommended to anyone

You like Tegan and Sara.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Tried to make this fairly rounded out in style and covering multiple periods of death metal.

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness or Blessed are the Sick
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Decapitated - Nihility
Death - Scream Bloody Gore or Spiritual Healing
Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw and Carnage Done
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Vehemence - Helping the World to See
Carnage - Dark Recollections OR Entombed - Left Hand Path

These aren't necessarily the best of the best, but generally are strong releases that serve as a good gateway if you will.

 

[Mort Divine]

You like Tegan and Sara.

Which somehow prevents me from judging metal properly?

 

[Episteme]

I'm 37, so you should ignore all the children's recs and heed my worldly advice only. You need most of the classics with a stand out newer style album:

Death - Spiritual Healing
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick or Alters of Madness (the former is my fave)
Deicide - Deicide
Obituary - Cause of Death
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Carcass - Nectroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Decapitation - Organic Hallucinosis

I approve with most of this list, but I'd change Testimony of the Ancients to Consuming Impulse and Organic Hallucinosis to Winds of Creation.