Top Old School DM albums

[Spiderchrist]

What are some of your favorite old school death metal albums?
List off some of the best albums you have heard in the old school scene. There will be a little speculation on when the old school scene started. So if you believe 1985 is the start with seven churches, go from there. Or 1987 with scream bloody gore. I'd say old school dm faded away at around 92-93.

 

[morguelord]

One album to rule them all: Immolation's Dawn of Possession!!! Some others:
Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness
Cannibal Corpse-Butchered at Birth
Death-Leprosy
Obituary-Slowly We Rot
Suffocation-Effigy of the Forgotten
Deicide-S/T
I figured I'd get all the obligatory big names and basics down right off the bat.

 

[plaguewilder]

Lesser known, sort of.

Desultory-Into Eternity
Therion-Beyond Sanctorum
Unanimated-Ancient God of Evil
Vital Remains-Forever Underground
Ripping Corpse-Dreaming With the Dead
Asphyx-Last One on Earth
Sentenced-North From Here
Demolition Hammer-Epidemic of Violence
Disincarnate-Dreams of the Carrion Kind

 

[Krow]

I wont go with the obvious answers everyone should know. I'm a pretty big fan of osdm, and have a bit of fun digging through the more obscure stuff.

Necrosanct - Incarnate
Shub Niggurath - Evilness and Darkness Prevails
Torchure - Beyond the Veil
Horror of Horrors - Sounds of Eerie
Molested - Blod-Draum
Atrocity - Hallucinations
Crematory - Transmigration
Morgoth - Cursed
Uncanny - Splenium for Nyktophobia
Carnage - Dark Recollections (this doesnt get near the praise it should.)
Gorefest - False
Sickening Gore - Destructive Reality
Viogression - Expound and Exhort
Unholy - From the Shadows

 

[Lateralus14]

The best answers are

The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Possessed - Seven Churches
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha

 

[morguelord]

I like how it went all the big names, some a little lesser known, to super obscure stuff like Torchure and Shub-Niggurath. Everyone of these is straight kick ass though!

 

[Gorkon]

Death metal isnt really my thing, but Morbid Angel managed to get my interest, I would say Altars, Blessed, and Covenant are some of my favorite albums of all time. But aside from that, I dont find much appeal in the genre. Same with black metal, I just like Celtic Frost and everything else I have heard just doesnt hit the spot.

 

[Lateralus14]

If Covenant is one of your favorite albums of all time but no other death metal could grab your interest, chances are you haven't looked very hard.

 

[Krow]

Forgot one of the greatest death metal albums of all time:

Cancer - Death Shall Rise


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

Carnage - Dark Recollections is an absolute beast.

 

[Gorkon]

If Covenant is one of your favorite albums of all time but no other death metal could grab your interest, chances are you haven't looked very hard.

Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, Pestilence..Autopsy have interested me. But honestly when you look at those bands I find that they only have 1-2 truly solid albums for each band. MA put out 6 albums I could listen to front to back with ease. And I do find that many DM vocalists are incoherent, I liked Dave Vincent cause I could understand what was going on without having to try hard to decipher what im hearing...I could just enjoy the music instead.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

Cancer - Death Shall Rise

Carnage - Dark Recollections is an absolute beast.

Yes good choices, I would also like to add...

Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
Massacre - From Beyond
Suffocation - Human Waste
Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Master - S/T

 

[Balmung]

Sentenced - North From Here
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past
Demilich - Nespithe
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Leprosy
Altars of Madness

Just so, OSDM is not my top thing.

Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, Pestilence..Autopsy have interested me. But honestly when you look at those bands I find that they only have 1-2 truly solid albums for each band. MA put out 6 albums I could listen to front to back with ease. And I do find that many DM vocalists are incoherent, I liked Dave Vincent cause I could understand what was going on without having to try hard to decipher what im hearing...I could just enjoy the music instead.

Bolt Thrower are fucking awesome. Their records are all in the same vein, they don't change their style a bit through their career but the shit is so good no one cares about this.

 

[Avigrus]

There are heaps of obscure 1-2 album bands that kick ass. Might list some later when i'm not so tired.

 

[Necroraven]

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Nihilist - Premature Autopsy
Morbid - December Moon
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Vital Remains - Let Us Pray
Deicide - s/t

 

[Ascendence]

i'll try to do some outside of the obvious stuff too...

Chemical Breath - Fatal Exposure
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil (even if it's a comp)
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Cianide - The Dying Truth
Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
Desultory - Into Eternity
Merciless - The Awakening
Solstice - Solstice (death/thrash)
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Demilich - Nespithe
Convulse - World Without God
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead
Electrocution - Inside the Unreal (highly recommended for anyone who hasn't heard it)
Devastation - Idolatry (death/thrash)
Gorement - The Ending Quest
Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia (it's a demo, but they never had a full length)

hopefully a couple of these people haven't heard of. then of courses there's the bands most people know like Autopsy, Asphyx, Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, etc.

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Massacra - Final Holocaust (often considered Death/Thrash but I think the vibe is more death metal)
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
Protector - The Heritage
Carcass - Necroticism
Possessed - Seven Churches

 

[Bubbler Ripper]

Cannibal Corpse-Eaten Back To life

Immolation-Dawn Of Possession

Sinister-Hate

Possessed-Seven Churches

Sepultura-Morbid Visions

Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness

Devastation-Despensible Bloodshed

Gorguts-Erosion Of Sanity

Autopsy-Awakened By Gore

Deicide-Deicide

 

[Krow]

MOAR recommendations from bands I enjoy that havent been mentioned yet.

Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey
Nocturnus - The Key
Incubus - Beyond the Unknow
Impetigo - Horror of the Zombies
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
Sororicide - The Entity
Immortalis - Indicium de Mortuis
Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death.... Fukk You!
Xysma - Yeah (I want this bad)
Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
Unleashed - Shadows in the Deep
Cadaver - .... In Pains
Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd (fucking want this too)
Hypocrisy - Penetralia
Kataklysm - Sorcery
Belphegor - The Last Supper
Infernal Torment - Man's True Nature (greatest album art ever)
Cenotaph - The Gloomy Reflections of Our Hidden Sorrows (chasm fans, check this!)
Polluted Inheritance - Ecocide
Gutted - Bleed for Us to Live
Utumno - Across the Horizon
Morgue - Eroded Thoughts
Vomiturition - A Leftover....
Infester - To the Depths... In Degredation
Hetsheads - We Hail the Possessed

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

surprised no one said Entombed Left Hand Path yet. I know it came out in '90 but it's still what I'd classify as old school dm. A lot of early Scandinavian dm was before it turned to gayness.