Favorite Death Metal Albums

[Serge...]

Being the death metal aficionado that I am, I was interested in what everyone's favorite death metal albums were. Be it Swedish, American, Progressive, Melodic, Gore, or Children of Bodom, list what death metal dominates your CD player.

My personal favorites:
Decapitated - Nihility
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (fuck yeah, Chrisz)
Death - Symbolic, Individual Thought Patterns, Human, and basically all the albums but Scream Bloody Gore
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Children of Bodom - All (Don't get started with the genre, it doesn't matter)
Malevolent Creation - The Will to Kill
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Atheist - Piece of Time
Opeth - Morningrise, MAYH, Still Life
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet
Dying Fetus - All
The Haunted - Made Me Do It

That's all I can think of at the moment!

 

[ScottG]

My personal favorites:
Decapitated - Nihility
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Atheist - Piece of Time
Opeth - Morningrise, MAYH, Still Life

Great stuff. You might be interested to know that Necrophagist is redoing that album with real drums and they are also recording a new one with a full band.

My list:

Morbid Angel - everything
At The Gates - Slaughter of The Soul
Carcass - Necroticism, Heartwork
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse, Testimony of The Ancients
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust
Entombed - Clandestine
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
Insomnium - In The Halls of Awaiting
Theory In Practice - Colonizing The Sun
Armageddon - Crossing The Rubicon


As you can see, I don't care for much in the way of simple, straightforward, brutal death metal.

 

[Connauch]

Cynic-Focus (questionable, death metal vox though for the most part)
Atheist-Unquestionable Presence
Quo Vadis-Forever
Amon Amarth-Vs the World
Finntroll-Jaktens Tid/Midnattens Widunder
Children of Bodom-Follow the Reaper
Hollenthon-With Vilest of Worms to Dwell
Dark Tranquility-Damage Done
Ephel Duath-The Painters Pallete

 

[Serge...]

Oh yeah, forgot Atheist's Unquestionable Prescence and Cynic's Focus.

Scott, I am aware of Necrophagist's recording of the second album and I can't wait. I'm sure that if they keep recording new albums, they will become one of the biggest and best death metal bands out there.

I also want to add, that if anyone has any bands to recommend to me that I'd like (going by my list), be sure to mention them. Always looking for something new to get into.

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

Im pretty new to the genre, but i sometimes love it, sometimes cant listen to it...depends on the time

Opeth- BwP (one of my favourite albums of all time) Still Life, D1, Mayh
Death - SOP, Human
Meshuggah - Nothing, DEI, Chaosphere (mabey not exactly death, but who cares)
Nile - In their darkened shrines
Cryptopsy - ...atyb and nsv
CoB - FtR and HTDR

and some more that i forgot.

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

oh wait i forgot Soilwork and Cynic!

 

[Marre79]

At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Carcass - Heartwork & Necroticism
Carnal Forge - The More You Suffer
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
Deathchain - Deadmeat Disciplines
Dew-Scented - Impact
Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever & This Is Hell
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
Grave - Back From The Grave
Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity
The Crown - Crowned In Terror & Possessed 13
Insomnium - In The Halls Of Awaiting
Soilwork - Chainheart Machine & Steel Bath Suicide
Amon Amarth - Versus The World & The Crusher
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery & Damage Done
Norther - Dreams Of Endless War & Mirror Of Maddness

Well, there's much more, but I will not list them all here

 

[SilentRealm]

im very new so i have to list Opeth - mayh. still life, blackwater park and deliverance.

if you had fav black vox albums i'd say COB (I'm only familiar with hatebreeder so far), ETOS (a virgin and a whore and chaotic beauty)

 

[The Metal Chick]

Children of Bodom are my all time favorite (and they are so NOT black metal)
but also Opeth, Hollenthon, and..I guess Arch Enemy.

 

[Mayberry's Finest]

Opeth - BWP, Still Life, MAYH

Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Decapitated - Winds of Creation

Death - SoP

Dark Tranquility - The Gallery, Damage Done

Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait

dISEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into the Peripheral

The Haunted - One Kill Wonder

Gorguts - Obscura

 

[karelrulez]

Opeth - MAYH

Opeth - Still Life

Opeth - Blackwater Park

 

[The Yngster]

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Soilwork - Chainheart Machine, A Predators Portrait

Kalmah - Swampsong

Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed

Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper, Hatebreeder (shut up genre nazis)

In Flames - Whoracle

Opeth - Black Water Park

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Darkane - Rusted Angel
Death - Human, Leprosy
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance and ITDS
Cryptopsy - None So Vile, Whisper Supremacy, And Then You'll Beg
Aeternus - Ascension Of Terror
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Cynic - Focus
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients

I probably forgot some, heh.

 

[theodyssey]

oh, off the top of my head...

Amon Amarth- Versus the World

Arch Enemy-wages of sin, anthems of rebellion

As I Lay Dying-Frail words collapse

Behemoth- Zos Kia Cultus (they have lots of death metal influence on this, moreso than black metal)

Bloodbath- All

Children of Bodom- All

Dark Tranquillity- The Gallery, Damage Done

Dies Irae- Immolation

Edge of Sanity- Crimson II

Finntroll- Jaktens Tid

God Dethroned- The Grand Grimoire, Bloody Blasphemy, and Into the Lungs of Hell

Haggard- And thou shalt trust...the seer, Awaking the Century

The Haunted- All

Mors Principium Est- Inhumanity

Nightrage- Sweet Vengence

Possessed- Seven Churches

Raise Hell- Wicked is My Game

Susperia- Vindication (it's close enough... can be black or death metal... whatever)

Therion- Of Darkness...., Symphony Masses

Witchery- Restless and Dead, Symphony for the Devil



ok, so not off the top of my head. But this is the main ones i like.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Kalmah-They Will Return
Opeth-Morningrise, Still Life
Mors Principium Est
Cryptopsy-Whisper Supremacy
Children of Bodom-Hatebreeder
In Flame-Whoracle
Nile-In Their Darkened Shrines
Arch Enemy-Wages of Sin
Vader-Revelations

 

[arglebargle]

Where do you people get the silly idea that Children Of Bodom is death metal??

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

its melodeath

 

[The Yngster]

Its neo-classic power black death i dont really care metal

 

[ThePhilosopher]

People need to realize that there's a big difference between death metal and melodic-death/whatever metal.

Favorite DEATH metal albums:
Immolation-Close to a World Below
Origin-Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
Morbid Angel-Blessed Are the Sick
Suffocation-Pierced from Within
Gorguts-Obscura
Suffocation-Effigy of the Forgotten
Death- all of them
Atheist-all of them
Cryptopsy-None So Vile
Cryptopsy-Whisper Supremacy
Vital Remains-Dechristianize
Dying Fetus-Destroy the Opposition


Melodic Death/Everything else death related

Opeth-all of them
The Chasm-Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
Vehemence-God Was Created
Cynic-Focus
Dissection-Storm of the Lights Bane
Dissection-The Somberlain (Dissection was brilliant, listen to them or die)
Celtic Frost-Morbid Tales/To Mega Therion
At the Gates-Terminal Spirit Disease
At the Gates-Slaughter of the Soul
Enslaved-Below the Lights
Theory in Practice-Colonizing the Sun
Carcass-Heartwork
Martyr-Warp Zone

 

[theodyssey]

Dude... who the hell really cares if there is a "difference between death metal and melodic death"? There is a fucking difference between V and the odyssey... fuckin' everyone stop bitching about labels. And i know some people refuse to call bodom death metal because they don't like death metal but they like bodom, that's bullshit. you like the band, they have death metal elements. What does it mater what they are labeled?