Top 10 Favorite OSDM Releases

[V.V.V.V.V.]

FUCK, forgot Amorphis...

 

[waif]

Does Tales count?

 

[skeptik]

I'm not ranking them.

Possessed - Seven Churches
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Molested - Blod-Draum
Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
Asphyx - The Rack
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Morpheus Descends should of been on mine goddamn it! Same with Morbid Angel...

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I'm not ranking them

Pussy

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Morpheus Descends is honestly not good enough to be on a best of OSDM list. They're kvlt and true for sure, but not that good.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Asphyx - The Rack
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
At The Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Unleashed - Shadows in the Deep
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Morpheus Descends is honestly not good enough to be on a best of OSDM list. They're kvlt and true for sure, but not that good.

I beg to differ. Chronicles Of The Shadowed Ones is one of the most killer things I've ever heard. The shitty production did such to the music to make the release incredible in my eyes. It's like Ownward to Golgotha recorded on a bus stop and I love it. If they had continued to record the second album in the same fashion as Ritual of Infinity I would totally agree with you. On a side note, Morpheus Descends has some of the best death metal drumming I've ever heard. And they're not that unknown, pretty much every death metal fan I know from New York has considerable knowledge of them. I actually know the drummer, but not on friendly terms

 

[MasterOLightning]

The lack of Altars of Madness here reeks of fail.

And no, I haven't heard that many of these. But AoM is better than Nespithe, Deathcult, Soulside Journey, and Karelian Isthmus.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Actually, not a lot is better than The Karelian Isthmus, Nespithe and Deathcult.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I beg to differ. Chronicles Of The Shadowed Ones is one of the most killer things I've ever heard. The shitty production did such to the music to make the release incredible in my eyes. It's like Ownward to Golgotha recorded on a bus stop and I love it. If they had continued to record the second album in the same fashion as Ritual of Infinity I would totally agree with you. On a side note, Morpheus Descends has some of the best death metal drumming I've ever heard. And they're not that unknown, pretty much every death metal fan I know from New York has considerable knowledge of them. I actually know the drummer, but not on friendly terms

Oh yeah well MY RIP OF CHRONICLES OF THE SHADOWED ONES IS FROM AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE CD. So die! btw I find them to be quite good, but not suitable for my list imo.

 

[The Black Prince]

I'm going to take a slightly different tack and go with my favorite albums of or in the style of the first couple of generations of death metal (I would not consider The Red in the Sky is Ours or Nespithe or, well, any of the albums listed by the first couple of posters to be 'old school' simply because those albums are far too advanced when viewed in relation to the genre's early history).

My picks (in no particular order)

Possessed Seven Churches
Sorcery bloodchilling tales
Deicide Deicide
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Sepultura Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Master Master
Mortuary Blackened Images
Mortem Decomposed by Possession
God Macabre The Winterlong

 

[The Ozzman]

I thought Possessed was more death/thrash?

 

[Manic Ferocity]

So...?

 

[The Ozzman]

So that counts when regarding OSDM? I thought it was supposed to be straight death metal...?

 

[The Black Prince]

Seven Churches is the first death metal album, period, so why shouldn't it count?

 

[Manic Ferocity]

A lot of old school death metal is very thrashy.

 

[Life Sucks]

1. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
2. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
3. Demilich - Nespithe
4. Necrophibic - The Nocturnal Silence
5. Adramelech - Psychostasia
6. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
7. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
8. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
9. Cadaver - In Pains
10. Sinister - Cross the Styx

As I always say when making such lists, I'm sure it would look a bit different on another day.

 

[The Ozzman]

A lot of old school death metal is very thrashy.

In that case:

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Deicide - Deicide
ATG - Red in the Sky
Possessed - Seven Churches
Demilich - Nespithe
Suffocation - EotF
Suffocation - PfW
Nocturnus - The Key
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Obituary - Cause of Death

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Oh yeah well MY RIP OF CHRONICLES OF THE SHADOWED ONES IS FROM AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE CD. So die! btw I find them to be quite good, but not suitable for my list imo.

So is mine, one of my good friends and band mate has it. SO SUCK ON THAT! It's not too hard to find if you get to any metal club in Brooklyn. A lot of people I know gave money to Morpheus Descends to record Chronicles Of The Shadowed Ones and were never paid back You'll hear some funny stuff if you ask anyone in the NYDM/PDM legion/club (w/e they call it now) about that band. A lot people hold grudges...