Bloodbath – Resurrection through Carnage (2002) No progressive stuff, no innovation – just loud-ass, cocky death metal carnage. It’s a record that turns everything about the genre to 11. 2005’s “Altered Genesis” is filled with catchy gallop riffs, well-timed breakdowns and macho death metal aggression. The power of the riff is really important in death metal and no band knows that as well as Blood Red Throne. Buying Soliloquium music and merch is the best way to support me as a musician and content creator. My progressive death/doom metal band, for fans of Katatonia, Swallow the Sun, Daylight Dies and more. If these 25 essential death metal albums aren’t enough for you, please have a listen!īandcamp| Spotify | YouTube Listen to Soliloquium My old school death metal band, for fans of Morbid Angel, Immolation, Vader and more. Member of Desolator, Soliloquium and several other projects.
If you want more background on the music style and its sub-genres, head over to my full death metal genre guide. To me, this is a true essential death metal list, mixing styles, regions, eras and levels of brutality.
These are the classics, combined with a few newer, sub-genre-topping efforts. After realizing this annoyed some people, and that they were mostly right, I decided to create this: a list of essential death metal albums that gives you a good death metal education. I used to call my list of best death metal albums “essential death metal albums”.