OK, now it's Death Metal fans' turn...

Reccomend me some Death Metal albums PRE-1995 ONLY to get into. Bands like:

Dismember
Suffocation
Autopsy
Deicide
Morbid Angel
Immolation


Etc....remember, PRE-1995 ONLY!!!

Divine Empire is my fav death metal band. They have the speed, the vocals, and the groove. What separates them for me is the fact that they have these killer groove breakdowns and the songs just pummel.

I highly recommend Redemption as it is in fact my fav Death Metal album out there.

Im not a fan of death metal but there are a few gems within the genre.

Redemption is 1998 so I dont know if that fits the bill, but worth the check out.

Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Master - On The Seventh Day God Created...Master
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Miasma - Changes
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Atheist - Piece of Time
Demilich - Nespithe
Grave - Into The Grave
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Sentenced - North From Here
Death - Human

CANNIBAL CORPSE - The Bleeding
MORBID ANGEL - Covenant
DEATH - Individual Thought Patterns, Human
PESTILENCE - Testimony of the Ancients

Morbid Angel-Blessed are the Sick is my favorite death metal album followed closely by 'Altars of Madness'

Death-Leprosy and Human both are great albums

Deicide-s/t -Very brutal

Possessed and Sepultura are essential.

Cadaver - In Pains

Carnage - Dark Recollections

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel - Abomination of Desolation
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Incantation - Upon the Throne of Apocalypse
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum
Deicide - Legion
Vital Remains - Let Us Pray
Asphyx - The Rack
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Master - Master
Possessed - Seven Churches
Sepultura - Morbid Visions

start with some of these faves of mine...

Asphyx - The Rack
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Crytopsy - None So Vile
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Morgoth - Cursed
Grave - You'll Never See
Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge
God Dethroned - The Christhunt
Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Necrophagia - Season of the Dead
Cianide - A Decent Into Hell
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Vader - De Profundis
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Unleashed - Across the Open Sea

I love all the Death albums mentioned but my highest recommendation would go to Spiritual Healing. Not just one of my favorite death metal albums but one of my favorite albums period.

Also Obituary's Slowly We Rot and Cause Of Death are quite great.

You really are a glutton for punishment aren't you "S"?

Every time I think about that Dismember album title I want to go pee.

Some great ones already listed. Also check out:

Entombed - Left Hand Path
Hypocrisy - Penetralia

Obituary
Carcass
Entombed
Bolt Thrower
Carnage
Death
Massacre

Dismember - Indecent and Obscene
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Immolation - Dawn of Possession

and a few more to add that are must haves:

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Entombed - Clandestine
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Grave - Soulless
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

For newer bands that could be categorized from the pre 1995 era:
Gravehill - Rites of the Pentagram
Fatalist - The Depths of Inhumanity

Lurideath wrote:

Dismember - Indecent and Obscene
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Immolation - Dawn of Possession

and a few more to add that are must haves:

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Entombed - Clandestine
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Grave - Soulless
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

For newer bands that could be categorized from the pre 1995 era:
Gravehill - Rites of the Pentagram
Fatalist - The Depths of Inhumanity

I've read good stuff about Gravehill. I've been meaning to check them out.

Yeah man, they rule!

CORPSE - From The Grave

It was released in 1997, so it breaks that rule, but it sounds like it came from 1991.

Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Metanoia - In Darkness or In Light
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
Carcass - Heartwork
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Gorefest - False

Terrorizer
Napalm Death
Brutality
Monstrosity
Malevolent Creation
Sinister
Resurrection

Obituary-Slowly We Rot,Cause of Death
Death-Scream Bloody Gore,Spiritual Healing,Individual Thought Patterns
Entombed-Wolverine Blues
Ethereal Scourge-Judgment and Restoration(Released in 96 I believe but a masterpiece anyway)

Two albums I think are MUST haves:

Massacre - From Beyond
Cancer - Death Shall Rise

A bit on the thrash side, but pure death vocals:

Gomorrah - Reflections Of Inanimate Matter
Crucifer - Festival Of Death
Section Brain - Hospital Of Death

and a few others I enjoy:

Gutted - Bleed For Us To Live
Morgoth - The Eternal Fall / Resurrection Absurd
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Resurrection - Embalmed Existence
Bolt Thrower - War Master

Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth and Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes are two of my all time favorite albums. Bolt Thrower War Master is right up there too. I tend to like the less complicated, grunt-n-grind style of death metal.

Also gonna add to the list
Six Feet Under - Haunted (1995)

Pre 1995 eliminates most of the best in Christian death.