Either way, people should read his post. There are so many gems that people overlook due to poor representations of this genre.
I have two absurdly long OSDM lists, one I think is from MP and one is from...someone else, forget who. Maybe HellMike?
Anyhow.
Absu - Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L
Adramelech - PsychoStasia
Afflicted - Prodical Sun
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Anatomia - Dissected Humanity
Antropomorphia - Necromantic Love Songs
Ares Kingdom - Return to Dust
Asphyx - The Rack, Last One on Earth
Atheist - Piece Of Time, Unquestionable Presence
Atrocity (Ger) - Hallucinations, Todessehnsucht
Authorize - The Source Of Dominion
Autopsy - Severed Survival, Mental Funeral
Banished (US) - Deliver Me Unto Pain
Baphomet (US) - The Dead Shall Inherit
Belial (Fin) - The Gods of the Pit pt. II (Paragon So Below)
Bloodbath - Breeding Death
Bolt Thrower - everything they did was great to pretty good
Brutality - Screams Of Anguish
Burial (Hol) - Relinquished Souls
Carbonized - For the Security
Carcass - first 3 albums
Carnage (Swe) - Dark Recollections
Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey
Centinex - Subconscious Lobotomy
Ceremonial Oath - The Book of Truth
Ceremony (Hol) - Tyranny From Above
Church Bizarre - Sinister Glorification
Cianide - first 2 albums
Convulse - World Without God
Creepmime - Shadows
Crematory - Wrath From The Unknown, Denial
Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
Crypt Of Kerberos - World of Myths, The Macrodex of War
Dark Millennium - both albums
Darkified - A Dance On The Grave
Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
Death Strike - Fuckin' Dead
Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
Deicide - first 2 albums
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Demilich - Nespithe
Depravity (Fin) - Silence Of The Centuries
Derkéta - Goddess of Death
Desultory (Swe) - Into Eternity
Disgrace (Fin) - Grey Misery
Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Dissect (Hol) - Swallow Swouming Mass
Divine Eve - Upon These Ashes Scorn The World
Edge Of Sanity - up to Crimson
Enigmatic - Two Days of April
Entombed - first 2 albums
Epitaph - Seeming Salvation
Eternal Solstice - The Wish Is Father To The Thought
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Excrement - Scorched
Excruciate - Passage Of Life
Fester - Silence
Fleshcrawl - Descend Into The Absurd
Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
Funebre (Fin) - Children of the Scorn
Funerus - Festering Earth
Furbowl - Those Shredded Dreams
Goatlord (US) - Reflections Of The Solstice
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Goddefied - Abysmal Grief
Gorefest - Mindloss, False
Gorement - Darkness Of The Dead
Gorguts - first 2 albums
Grave - first 2 albums
Grotesque - In The Embrace Of Evil
Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
Hetsheads - We Hail The Possessed
Hypocrisy - first 2
Illdisposed - Four Depressive Seasons
Immolation - first 2 albums (others are pretty good too)
Imprecation (US) - Theurgia Goetia Summa
Incantation - first 3 albums
Infester (US) - To The Depths, In Degradation
Internal Decay (Swe) - A Forgotten Dream
Inverted - The Shadowland
Malevolent Creation - first 2 albums
Massacra - Final Holocaust, Enjoy the Violence
Massacre (US) - From Beyond
Master (US) - first 2 albums
Miasma (Aut) - Changes
Molested - Blod Draum
Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
Moondark - The Shadowpath
Morbid Angel - first 2 albums
Mordicus - Dances From Left
Mortem - first 3 albums (haven't heard the most recent one)
Mourning (Hol) - Greetings From Hell
Mythic - Mourning In The Winter Solstice
Mythos - Pain Amplifier
Necrony - Pathological Performances
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Necros Christos - Trivne Impvrity Rites
Necrovation - Breed Darkness Blood
Nihilist (Swe) - demos
Nirvana 2002 - demos
Nocturnal Graves - Satan's Cross
Nocturnus - first 2 albums
Nominon - everything
Nuctemeron (US) - A Time The World Forgot
Obituary - first 2 albums
Obsecration - The Inheritors Of Pain
Pestilence - everything but Spheres
Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
Polluted Inheritance - Ecocide
Possessed - Seven Churches, Beyond the Gates
Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness
Resurrection (US) - Embalmed Existence
Revenant (US) - Prophecies of a Dying World
Rigor Mortis (US) - Rigor Mortis (not immolation)
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
Runemagick - all their pure DM albums
Sargatanas (Mex) - The Enlightenment
Seance - both albums
Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom
Sentenced - first 2 albums
Slaughter (Can) - Strappado
Sorcery (Swe) - Bloodchilling Tales
Sororicide - The Entity
Soulburn - Feeding On Angels
Suffocation - first 3 albums
Symphony of Grief - Our Blessed Conqueror
Thanatos (Hol) - Emerging From The Netherworlds
The Chasm - everything
Therion (Swe) - first 2 alums
Tiamat - first 2 albums
Torchure - both albums
Unanimated - both albums
Uncanny - Splenium For Nyktophobia
Unleashed - first 2 albums
Utumno - Across the Horizon
Vader - first album
Vomiturition - A Leftover
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments
Abhorrence (Fin) - Vulgar Necrolatry
Abhorrence (Fin) Abhorrence
Abhoth - Forever to be Vanished There In
Abhoth - The tide
Absorbed (Esp) - Unreal Overflows
Absu - The Temples Of Offal
Absu - Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absurd (Swe) - Drained of Body Chemicals
Absurd Existence - Angelwings
Accidental Suicide Deceased
Accursed (US) - Meditations Among The Tombs
Acheron (US) - Satanic Victory
Acheron (US) - Lex Talionis
Acrostichon - Engraved In Black
Adversary (Swe) - Remains of an Art Forgotten
Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Afterlife (US) Surreality
Agonized (Fin) - Gods....
Agressor (Fra) - Towards Beyond
Altar (Hol) - Youth Against Christ
Altar (Swe) - Ex Oblivione / The Fragile Concept of Affection
Amaymon - Amaymon/Purulence Split CD
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Amputation - Slaughtered In The Arms Of God
Anathema (UK) - The Silent Enigma
Ancient Rites - Evil prevails
Ancient Rites - Uncanny / Ancient Rites
Antestor - Martyrium
As Serenity Fades - Lowering Sunset
Asgard (Fra) - To A Golden Age
Asphyx - The Rack
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
At the Gates Gardens of Grief
At the Gates - Gardens of Grief/In the Embrace of Evil
Atheist - Piece Of Time
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atrocity (Ger) - Todessehnsucht (aka Longing For Death
August Moon - Rosegardens
Authorize - The Source Of Dominion /)
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Banished (US) - Deliver Me Unto Pain
Baphomet (US) - Unreleased LP 1990
Baphomet (US) - The Dead Shall Inherit
Belial (Fin) - Never Again
Benediction - Subconscious Terror
Betrayer (Pol) - Necronomical Exmortis
Betrayer (Pol) Calamity
Bloodstone (Swe) - Hour Of The Gate
Bluuurgh... - In My Embrace
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Brutality - Screams Of Anguish
Brutality - When The Sky Turns Black
Burial (Hol) - Relinquished Souls
Cadaver - In Pains
Carbonized (Swe) - For The Security
Carbonized (Swe) - Disharmonization
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious
Carcass Heartwork
Carnage (Swe) - Dark Recollections
Cartilage (Fin) - In Godly Flesh
Cartilage - Ex Oblivione / The Fragile Concept of Affection
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Cauterizer - Then the Snow Fell...
Cemetary - An Evil Shade Of Grey
Cenotaph (Mex) - The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrows
Cenotaph (Mex) - Riding Our Black Oceans
Centinex - Subconscious Lobotomy
Cerebral Fix - Tower Of Spite
Ceremonial Oath - The Book Of Truth
Ceremonium - Into The Autumn Shade
Ceremony (Hol) - Tyranny From Above
Cianide - The Dying Truth
Cianide - A Descent Into Hell
Coffin Texts - Gods of Creation, Death & Afterlife
Comecon - Megatrends in Brutality
Comecon - Converging Conspiracies
Convulse - World Without God
Convulse Reflections
Corpse (Swe) - Black Dawn
Creepmime Shadows
Crematory (Swe) - Wrath From The Unknown
Crematory (Swe) Denial
Crematory (Swe) - Netherworlds of the Mind
Crimson Thorn Plagued
Crimson Thorn Unearthed
Crypt of Kerberos - World Of Myths
Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
Cynic (US) Focus
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Darkified - A Dance on the Grave
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death - Leprosy
Death Human
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Deceased - The Evil Side Of Religion
Deceased - Luck Of The Corpse
Decollation - Cursed Lands
Defecation - Purity Dilution
Deformity (Swe) - Sickly Obsessed
Deicide Deicide
Deicide Legion
Delirium (Hol) Zzooouhh
Demented Ted - Promises Impure
Demigod (Fin) - Unholy Domain
Demigod (Fin) - Demo Rehearsal 1991
Demigod (Fin) - Demigod / Necropsy
Demigod (Fin) - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Demilich Nespithe
Deny the Urge - Subsequent Confrontation
Depravity (Fin) - Silence Of The Centuries
Desultory (Swe) - Into Eternity
Deteriorate - Rotting in Hell
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Disgrace (Fin) - Beyond The Immortalized Existence
Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Dominus (Dnk) - Sideral Path Of Colours
Dominus (Dnk) - A View to the Dim
Edge of Sanity - Nothing But Death Remains
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Edge of Sanity - Spectral Sorrows
Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox
Electrocution - Inside The Unreal
Embrionic Death - Regurgitate The Dead
Embryo (Swe) - Damnatory Cacophony
Embryonic - The Land Of The Lost Souls
Engraved (Swe) - Before The Tales
Enigmatic - Two Days of April
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed Clandestine
Epitaph (Swe) - Seeming Salvation
Eternal Darkness (Swe) - Twilight In The Wilderness
Eternal Solstice - The Wish Is Father To The Thought
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Eulogy - The Essence
Evocation (Swe) - Evocation
Excruciate (Swe) - Passage of Life
Exmortis (US) - Fade From Reality
Expulsion (Swe) - Veiled in the Mists of Mystery
Expurgate - Forbidden Ruler
Fatal (US) - A Somber Evocation of Nihilism
Feretrum - From Far Beyond
Fester (Nor) - Winter Of Sin
Fleshcrawl - Descend Into the Absurd
Fleshcrawl Impurity
Funebre (Fin) - Children of the Scorn
Funeral Feast (Swe) - Demo #1
Furbowl - Those Shredded Dreams
Furbowl - The Autumn Years
Gangrena - Infected Ideologies
Genocídio (Bra) Genocídio
Ghoul (US) - We Came For The Dead
Ghoul (US) - Maniaxe
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Goddefied - Abysmal Grief
Goreaphobia - Morbidious Pathology
Gorefest - Erase
Gorefest - Horrors in a Retarded Mind
Gorefest Mindloss
Gorement - The Ending Quest
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Gory Blister - Spoilt by Greed
Grave - Into The Grave
Grotesque (Swe) - In the Embrace of Evil
Grotesque (Swe) - Gardens of Grief/In the Embrace of Evil
Hetsheads - We Hail The Possessed...
House of Usher - On the Very Verge
House of Usher - When Being Fucked With
Hypocrisy (Swe) Penetralia
Hypocrisy (Swe) - Pleasure Of Molestation
Hypocrisy (Swe) - Osculum Obscenum
Hypocrisy (Swe) - Inferior Devoties
Hypocrisy (Swe) - The Fourth Dimension
Illdisposed - Four Depressive Seasons
Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
Immortalis - Indicium De Mortuis
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene
Incubus (US) - Serpent Temptation
Incubus (US) - Beyond the Unknown
Infester (US) - To the Depths... In Degradation
Insanity (US) - Death After Death
Internal Decay - A Forgotten Dream
Judecca - Beyond, What The Eyes Can't See...
Jumpin' Jesus - The Art of Crucifying
Kataklysm - The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation
Laceration (US) - Ripping Avulsion
Laceration (US) - Scabs
Lemming Project - Hate And Despise
Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
Lord Mortis - advance tape '92
Loudblast - Sublime Dementia
Lubricant - Nookleptia
Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
Magnus - I Was Watching My Death
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Massacre (US) - From Beyond
Master (US) Master
Master (US) - Unreleased 1985 Album
Mastication - Mastication
Megaslaughter - Calls from the beyond
Merciless - The Treasures Within
Merciless Death (Pol) - Sick Sanctities
Miasma Changes
Monastyr - Never Dreaming
Monstrosity (US) - Imperial Doom
Moral Decay - Aeons Of Iniquity
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Mordicus - Dances From Left
Morgoth (Ger) - Cursed
Morgue (Swe) - Gospel of Gore
Morpheus (Swe) - Son of Hypnos
Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity
Mortem (Rus) Amputator
Mortification - Mortification
Mortuary (Mex) - Blackened Images
Mourning (Hol) - Greetings From Hell
Mutilated (Fra) - Psychodeath Lunatics
Mythic - Mourning In The Winter Solstice
Necrony - Pathological Performances
Necrophobic (Swe) - The Nocturnal Silence
Necropsy (Fin) - Demigod / Necropsy
Necrosanct - Desolate
Necrovore - Divus De Mortuus
Nihilist (Swe) - Premature Autopsy
Nihilist (Swe) - Only Shreds Remain
Nihilist (Swe) - Drowned
Nirvana 2002 - Disembodied Spirits
Nocturnus - The Key
Nokturnel - Nothing But Hatred
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Obscurity (Swe) - Wrapped in Plastic
Obtruncation - The Callous Concept
Old Funeral - The Older Ones
Oppressor (US) - Solstice of Oppression
Order From Chaos - Stillbirth Machine
Pavor Pavor
Pavor - A Pale Debilitating Autumn
Pentacle - ...Rides The Moonstorm
Pestigore - Promo 1992
Pestigore - Twisted Perversions... Unbearable Delight
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Phantasm (US) - The Abominable
Phlebotomized - In Search of Tranquility
Phlebotomized - Immense, Intense, Suspense
Phlegethon - Neutral forest
Phlegethon - Fresco lungs
Possessed - Seven Churches
Protected Illusion - Festering Fairytales
Psychosis - Face
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Purtenance - Demo #1
Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
Purulence - Atrocious Execration
Purulence - Amaymon/Purulence Split CD
Pyrexia - Sermon of Mockery
Repugnant (Swe) - Epitome of Darkness
Repulsion Horrified
Resurrection (US) - Embalmed Existance
Revenant (US) - Prophecies of a Dying World
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
Rottrevore Iniquitous
Sarcasm (Swe) Dark
Sarcasm (Swe) - A Touch of the Burning Red Sunset
Seance (Swe) - Fornever Laid To Rest
Seance (Swe) - Saltrubbed Eyes
Sepultura Schizophrenia
Shub Niggurath - Evilness And Darkness Prevails
Sinister (Hol) - Cross The Styx
Sinister (Hol) - Diabolical Summoning
Sinister (Hol) Hate
Slugathor - Unleashing The Slugathron
Solstice (US) - Solstice
Sorcery (Swe) - Bloodchilling Tales
Sorrow (US) - Hatred and Disgust
Suffer (Swe) - Structures
Suffercation - Day OF Darkness
Suffocation (US) - Effigy Of The Forgotten
Suffocation (US) - Pierced From Within
Symphony of Grief - Our Blessed Conqueror
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Thanatopsis (US) - A View Of Death
Thanatos (Hol) - Realm Of Ecstacy
Therion (Swe) - Of Darkness...
Therion (Swe) - Beyond Sanctorum
Tiamat Clouds
Tiamat Wildhoney
Torchure - Beyond The Veil
Torchure - The Essence
Transgressor - Twisting Brochus
Transgressor - Ether For Scapegoat
Traumatic - The Process of Raping a Rancid Cadaver
Traumatic - The Morbid Act of a Sadistic Rape Incision
Traumatic - A Perfect Night to Masturbate
Traumatic Voyage - Traumatized
Unanimated - In The Forest of the Dreaming Dead
Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Unbounded Terror - Nest of Affliction
Uncanny (Swe) - Uncanny / Ancient Rites
Uncanny (Swe) - Splenium For Nyktophobia
Unleashed (Swe) - Across The Open Sea
Unleashed (Swe) - Where No Life Dwells
Unleashed (Swe) - Shadows In The Deep
Utumno (Swe) - Across The Horizon
Vermin (Swe) - Scum of the Earth
Victims of Internal Decay - Victims Of Internal Decay
Viogression - The Passage
Violent Dirge Elapse
Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh
Vomiturition - A Leftover
Wicked Innocence Omnipotence
Winter (US) - Into Darkness
Winter (US) - Eternal Frost
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments
Xecutioner - 1986 Demo
Now let's talk about melodic death metal.
