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100 Greatest Death Metal Albums

Background: Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal known for its aggressive sound, guttural vocals, distorted guitars, and fast, complex rhythms. Featuring intricate riffs, blast beats, and unconventional song structures, it creates a dark, chaotic ambiance. Themes often explore mortality, violence, and horror, often with graphic imagery. Emerging in the mid-1980s with pioneers like Death and Possessed, it has since branched into diverse substyles such as technical, melodic, brutal, and progressive death metal. Despite its intensity, the genre is admired for its energy, technical skill, and creativity.

Criteria: These Death Metal Albums were chosen for their musical and lyrical creativity, originality, technical skill, influence, and popularity within the genre.

Edited By: Lew
Last Updated: 2026-06-09
  1. Altars Of Madness (1989) Morbid Angel
  2. Symbolic (1995) Death
  3. Seven Churches (1985) Possessed
  4. My Arms, Your Hearse(1998) Opeth
  5. Individual Thought Patterns (1993) Death
  6. Covenant (1993) Morbid Angel
  7. None So Vile (1996) Cryptopsy
  8. Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) Nile
  9. Slaughter Of The Soul (1995) At The Gates
  10. Heartwork (1993) Carcass
  11. Human (1991) Death
  12. Jester Race (1996) In Flames
  13. Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious (1991) Carcass
  14. Focus (1993) Cynic
  15. Deicide (1990) Deicide
  16. Revelations of Oblivion - (2019) Possessed
  17. Unquestionable Presence - (1991) Atheist
  18. Blessed Are The Sick - (1991) Morbid Angel
  19. The Bleeding - (1994) Cannibal Corpse
  20. The Gallery - (1995) Dark Tranquility
  21. Effigy of the Forgotten - (1991) Suffocation
  22. Close To A World Below - (2000) Immolation
  23. Obscura - (1998) Gorguts
  24. Like An Ever Flowing Stream - (1991) Dismember
  25. Nespithe - (1993) Demilich
  26. Pierced From Within - (1995) Suffocation
  27. Left Hand Path - (1990) Entombed
  28. The Stench of Redemption - (2006) Deicide
  29. Clandestine - (1991) Entombed
  30. World Downfall - (1989) Terrorizer
  31. Slowly We Rot - (1989) Obituary
  32. Symphonies of Sickness - (1989) Carcass
  33. Here In After - (1995) Immolation
  34. Severed Survival - (1989) Autopsy
  35. Tales from A Thousand Lakes - (1994) Amorphis
  36. Consuming Impulse - (1989) Pestilence
  37. Horrified - (1989) Repulsion
  38. Hidden History of the Human Race - (2019) Blood Incantation
  39. Piece of Time - (1990) Athiest
  40. Crimson - (1996) Edge of Sanity
  41. Tomb of the Mutilated - (1992) Cannibal Corpse
  42. Stare Into Death And Be Still - (2020) Ulcerate
  43. The End Complete - (1992) Obituary
  44. The Satanist - (2014) Behemoth
  45. Colored Sands - (2013) Gorguts
  46. Leprosy - (1988) Death
  47. Demigod - (2004) Behemoth
  48. Cause of Death - (1990) Obituary
  49. Legion - (1992) Deicide
  50. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse - (2021) Ad Nauseam
  51. Mental Funeral - (1991) Autopsy
  52. Morbid Visions - (1986) Sepultura
  53. Cancer Culture - (2022) Decapitated
  54. Onward to Golgotha - (1992) Incantation
  55. Dark Recollections - (1990) Carnage
  56. Damage Done - (2002) Dark Tranquillity
  57. Ascetic Reflection - (2022)Altars
  58. L'Enfant Sauvage - (2012) Gojira
  59. The Apostasy - (2007) Behemoth
  60. Codex Omega - (2017) Septicflesh
  61. In Their Darkened Shrines - (2002) Nile
  62. The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos - (2018) Sulphur Aeon
  63. Fiction - (2007) Dark Tranquillity
  64. Decline - (2016) Vermin Womb
  65. The Way of All Flesh - (2008) Gojira
  66. Nihil quam vacuitas ordinatum est - (2015) Ad Nauseam
  67. Swampsong - (2003) Kalmah
  68. The Malkuth Grimoire - (2015) Alkaloid
  69. Heirs to Thievery - (2010) Misery Index
  70. A Monument to Silence - (2021) Alustrium
  71. The Great Mass - (2011) Septicflesh
  72. Torn Arteries - (2021) Carcass
  73. Nightbringers - (2017) The Black Dahlia Murder
  74. Everything Is Fire - (2009) Ulcerate
  75. Epitaph - (2004) Necrophagist
  76. A Perfect Absolution - (2012) GOROD
  77. Alphaville - (2020) Imperial Triumphant
  78. Atonement - (2017) Immolation
  79. Trance of Death - (2017) Venenum
  80. Dasein - (2016) First Fragment
  81. Acts of God - (2022) Immolation
  82. With Oden on Our Side - (2006) Amon Amarth
  83. Retrogore - (2016) Aborted
  84. Abyssal Gods - (2015) Imperial Triumphant
  85. Visitations From Enceladus - (2020) Cryptic Shift
  86. Exodromos - (2013) Wormed
  87. Anomalies - (2005) Cephalic Carnage
  88. Pleiades' Dust - Gorguts
  89. Harmony Corruption - (1990) Napalm Death
  90. Stone's Reach - (2009) Be'lakor
  91. The Empire - (2016) Vader
  92. The Enduring Spirit - (2023) Tomb Mold
  93. The Necrotic Manifesto - (2014) Aborted
  94. Lifeblood - (2021) Brand Of Sacrifice
  95. The Wreckage of Stars - Black Crown Initiate
  96. Majesty and Decay - (2010) Immolation
  97. TerrorVision - (2018) Aborted
  98. Something Wicked Marches In - (2019) VLTIMAS
  99. Slumber of Sullen Eyes - (1992) Demigod
Altars Of Madness album cover Altars Of Madness


Symbolic album cover
Symbolic


Seven Churches album cover
Seven Churches
My Arms, Your Hearse album cover
My Arms, Your Hearse


Scream Bloody Gore album cover
Scream Bloody Gore


Individual Thought Patterns album cover
Individual Thought Patterns


Covenant album cover
Covenant


None So Vile album cover
None So Vile


Annihilation of the Wicked album cover
Annihilation of the Wicked


Annihilation of the Wicked album cover
Slaughter Of The Soul





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