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Posted: 20 May 2023 at 7:40am By UMUR

adg211288 wrote:

Well any recommendations really. I know a few of those though it's been a while since I heard any of them.

Here's everything I've rated on RYM in the genre already, sorted by age:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/adg211288/strm_h,ss.e/death%20metal

A few of these I intend to revisit and see if my opinion has changed.

Ok, so we´re basically talking real old school death metal right? I love how you´ve sorted the list by age of the release. It makes it so much easier for me to make recommendations.

If I have to compliment the list you have already made I´d recommend the following (there are of course a lot I´ll forget but I´ll do my best Smile

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You´ve got the first three Death albums on the list, and they are of course mandatory listens if you want to understand the history of old school death metal (and the development of the genre). So far...so good.

US:
Possessed - Seven Churches (I´m not that familar with it really, but many cite it as the first death metal release, so I guess it´s one of those albums you have to have heard before you die).

Deicide - Deicide

Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life

Obituary - The End Complete

Immolation - Dawn of Possession

Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

Incantation - Onward to Golgotha

Autopsy - Severed Survival and Mental Funeral

Massacre - From Beyond

Sweden:
Entombed - Left Hand Path and Clandestine. Very different sounding albums, but both are great.

Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream

Carnage - Dark Recollections

Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells

Grave - Into the Grave

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

God Macabre - The Winterlong

Gorement - The Ending Quest

Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox (I love Nothing But Death Remains too, but Unorthodox is really something special).

Therion - Beyond Sanctorum

Norway:
You have the first Darkthrone on the list, and that´s certainly a classic Norwegian old school death metal release.

I´d recommend Cadaver too.

The Netherlands:
Gorefest - False

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse

Asphyx - The Rack

Sinister - well...everything but "Creative Killings" and "Savage or Grace". I think the rest are damn brilliant death metal.

Belgium:
Aborted - from "The Archaic Abattoir" onwards.

Germany:
Morgoth - while Odium is my personal favorite, it´s the two early EPs and Cursed that you want if you want to listen to some great old school death metal.

Atrocity - Hallucinations

Fleshcrawl - I love the debut album, but I can´t say I find the rest of their discography that interesting.

Finland:
Xysma - Above the Mind of Morbidity and Yeah.

Sentenced - Shadows of the Past and North from Here (the latter is an absolutely brilliant release).

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus and Tales from the Thousand Lakes.

UK:
Bolt Thrower - War Master and The IVth Crusade

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness, Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious, and Heartwork

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption

Benediction - The Grand Leveller

Cancer - To the Gory End