Good list overall, although I don't get the megalove for Like an Everflowing Stream. It's a good Swedeath album but nowhere near the quality of Blessed are the Sick, Unquestionable Presence, War Master, or Clandestine. Even Testimony of the Ancients shits all over it imo but I'm well aware I'm on the outer with that opinion.
Indeed. The Rack fucking slays. The title track is almost everything I want from death metal; torturous, morbid and fucking disgusting. Where did it come overall?
Monster year for skullcrushing death metal. Beyond the top two it's pointless even putting these in order.
EP/demo list
Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
Septic Flesh - Temple of the Lost Race
Autopsy - Retribution for the Dead
Martire - Martire
Suffocation - Human Waste
Entombed - Crawl
Morpheus Descends - Adipocere
Dissection - Into Obscure Infinity
Crypt of Kerberos - Demo 91
Agonized - Gods...
Massive honorable mentions list, bolded stuff being my favorites
Apostasy - Sunset of the End
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Asphyx - The Rack Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Carbonized - For the Security
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Convulse - World Without God
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Dark Throne - Soulside Journey
Death - Human
Deceased - Luck of the Corpse
Entombed - Clandestine
Fates Warning - Parallels
Funebre - Children of the Scorn
Gorefest- Mindloss
Grave - Into the Grave
Hexenhaus - Awakening
Impact - Take the Pain
Magnus - Scarlet Slaughterer Massacra - Enjoy the Violence
Masacre - Reqviem
Massacre - From Beyond
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created... Master Master's Hammer - Ritual
Megaslaughter - Calls From the Beyond
Morgoth - Cursed
Mortuary - Blackened Images
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead
Root - Hell Symphony Sabbat - Envenom
Sadistik Exekution - The Magus
Samael - Worship Him
Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge
Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
Therion - Of Darkness...
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Törr - Institut klinické smrti Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
Although it didn't make the list, redoing '91 made me remember just how much I like Arise by Sepultura. Next I think I'll work on a full Top 10 demos list for 1991. Also shout-out to Impetigo's Faceless EP!
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
Devastation - Idolatry
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Dead Head - The Feast Begins At Dawn
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
Protector - A Shedding Of Skin
1. Fear of God - Within the Veil
2. Sieges Even - A Sense of Change
3. Coroner - Mental Vortex
3. Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
5. Hexenhaus - Awakening
6. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
7. Sepultura - Arise
8. Heathen - Victims of Deception