Top 10 Greatest Death Metal Songs

[Chimaera]

In your opinion, what are the top 10 greatest death metal songs ever. I don't think I've really been into death metal long enough to make my own list.

 

[Lifewithoutpain]

Obviously an impossible request as everyone here would have a list that may be similar or, more likely, significantly different.

In any case it's just asking to be flamed. I'll list some really great Death Metal songs skewed more to the classic:

Depths of Depravity - Suffocation
Saltrubbed Eyes - Seance
Unfit Earth - Napalm Death
Fall from Grace - Morbid Angel
Fathers from the Suns - Kataklysm
Paradox - Hypocrisy
Servants of the Gods - Hate Eternal
Nostalgia - Gorguts
Entranced - Disincarnate
Dead but Dreaming - Deicide
Flattening of Emotions - Death
Benedictine Convulsions - Cryptopsy
Incarnated Solvent Abuse - Carcass
Pitbull Grin - Broken Hope

It's not 10 and it's not definitive, but some really good tunes nonetheless.

 

[Mort Divine]

BAND - SONG

 

[Onder]

It would include Pestilence - Out of the Body.

 

[audiophileguy]

3 favorite dm songs ever. I'll finish my top 10 sometime later in the week

 

[Manic Ferocity]

 

[Slayed Necros]

Pretty difficult. Here's 10 of my favourites, but not necessarily what I'd call the 10 greatest ever:

Demigod - Towards the Shrouded Infinity
Merciless - Dying World
Therion - Cthulhu
Amorphis - Misery Path
Darkified - Sleep Forever
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Crypt of Kerberos - Cyclone of Insanity (7" version)
Demilich - Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without any Effort
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick/Leading the Rates
Pestilence - Out of the Body

With hounorable mentions to:

Molested - Following the Growls
Adramelech - Mythic Descendant
At the Gates - Kingdom Gone
Bolt Thrower - World Eater
The Chasm - Possessed by Past Tragedies
Necrophobic - Before the Dawn

 

[IntoPhagist]

Morbid Angel - Where the Slime live
Death - The Philosopher

 

[mutantllama]

Morbid Angel-Evil Spells
Atheist-Motherman
At the Gates-TRITSIO
Bolt Thrower-The IVth Crusade
Morbid Angel-Fall from Grace
Gorguts-Faceless Ones
Entombed-Left Hand Path
The Chasm-In Superior Torment
Death-Pull the Plug
Darkthrone-Sunrise over Locus Mortis

 

[WCannibal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6wB4lQYO4

That, and:

Incantation - Unto Infinite Twilight/Majesty of Infernal Damnation
Adramelech - The Book of the Worm
Cryptopsy - Phobophile
Dismember - Time Heals Nothing
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
Edge of Sanity - Enigma
Death - Lack of Comprehension
At the Gates - Windows
Massacra - Apocalyptic Warriors

 

[MasterOLightning]

Does anyone else think The Philosopher is a terrible song? Beavis and Butt-head were right.

 

[WCannibal]

And what's so bad about it?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm missing a lot of death metal, but from what I'm familiar with...

Akercocke - Verdelet
Atheist - Air
Atrocity - Sky Turned Red
Cryptopsy - Phobophile
Dark Millennium - Wizardry Assemblage
Death - Forgotten Past
Dismember - I Saw Them Die (before you shit on me, this is the only Dismember album I own, but I do find this song to be quite sexy)
Pestilence - Suspended Animation
Phlebotomized - Barricade
Ripping Corpse - Seduction of the Innocent

EDIT: And I'm excluding Cynic and Sadist since I love them more for their non-death metal elements.

 

[DarkBliss]

The ones I like the most.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Does anyone else think The Philosopher is a terrible song? Beavis and Butt-head were right.

Yeah, the whole album is a disaster.

 

[DarkBliss]

I've come to the conclusion that Death are indeed nothing too special, maybe save for Symbolic, which is their most interesting one musically, despite the horribly intrusive vocals.
Human is just ghastly, imo.

 

[Avigrus]

Kind of a hard question... off the top of my head;

Morbid Angel - Chapel of Ghouls
At the Gates - Raped by the Light of Christ
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Disincarnate - Monarch Of The Sleeping Marches
Suffocation - Infecting The Crypts
Massacre - Biohazard
Gorguts - Disincarnated
Grotesque - Blood Runs
Pestilence - Land Of Tears
Ignivomous - The Alchemy of Suffering
Abramelin - Grave Ideals
The Chasm - The Conjuration
Psycroptic - The Colour Of Sleep

 

[Rumpole]

All are personal favourites and most I would describe as being amongst the greatest, but it's still missing a heap.

 

[skeptik]

Some of these songs represent their respective albums as a whole as much as they do their own individual quality, though some, like Triumph of Death and The Rack, certainly stand on their own. My list was initially going to look like this, but I decided to take this a little more seriously because I thought it would be cool.

Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - The Rack
Children of Bodom - Oops I Did it Again

 

[challenge_everything]

I don't seem to have long-term favourites in DM like I do with BM, I don't know why that is. But roughly I would say the following:

The Chasm - A Portal to Nowhere
Morbid Angel - Immortal Rites
At the Gates - Through Gardens of Grief
Lykathea Aflame - To Give
Hellhammer - Messiah
Adramelech - The Book of the Worm
Amorphis - Warriors Trial
Dark Tranquillity - Silence, and the Firmament Withdrew
Gorguts - Nostalgia
Tiamat - On Golden Wings

I decided to limit myself to one Chasm track