Is Suffocation’s ‘Effigy of the Forgotten’ The Greatest Death Metal Album Ever?
Probably out of boredom, our forum members recently took the time to vote for their “Top 50 Death Metal Albums” of all time. So that their time wasn’t completely wasted, here is the list they came up with:
01. Suffocation – “Effigy of the Forgotten”
02. Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
03. Cynic – “Focus”
04. Gorguts – “The Erosion of Sanity”
05. Cryptopsy – “None So Vile”
06. Death – “Human”
07. Spawn of Possession – “Noctambulant”
08. Death – “Individual Thought Patterns”
09. Spawn of Possession – “Cabinet”
10. Lykathea Aflame – “Elvenefris”
11. Immolation – “Here In After”
12. Cannibal Corpse – “Tomb of the Mutilated”
13. Disgorge – “Consume The Forsaken”
14. Psycroptic – “The Scepter of the Ancients”
15. Cannibal Corpse – “The Bleeding”
16. Morbid Angel – “Covenant”
16. Gorguts – “Considered Dead”
18. Gorguts – “Obscura”
19. Carcass – “Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious”
20. Origin – “Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas”
21. Defeated Sanity – “Psalms of the Moribund”
22. Death – “The Sound of Perseverance”
23. Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
24. Augury – “Concealed”
25. Death – “Symbolic”
26. Morbid Angel – “Blessed Are The Sick”
27. Deicide – “Legion”
28. Immolation – “Failures For Gods”
29. Deicide – “Deicide”
30. Malevolent Creation – “Retribution”
31. Morbid Angel – “Altars of Madness”
32. Cryptopsy – “Whisper Supremacy”
33. Atheist – “Unquestionable Presence”
34. Wormed – “Planesphaerium”
35. Obituary – “Cause of Death”
36. Carcass – “Heartwork”
36. Suffocation – “Despise The Sun”
38. Immolation – “Dawn of Possession”
38. Necrophagist – “Onset of Putrefaction”
38. Deicide – “Once Upon The Cross”
41. Incantation – “Onward To Golgotha”
41. Iniquity – “Serenadium”
41. Cannibal Corpse – “Vile”
44. Carcass – “Symphonies of Sickness”
44. Death – “Leprosy”
44. Decrepit Birth – “…And Time Begins”
47. Autopsy – “Mental Funeral”
48. Dismember – “Like An Everflowing Stream”
49. Morbid Angel – “Formulas Fatal To The Flesh”
50. Demilich – “Nesphithe”
50. Broken Hope – “Loathing“
(+108 rating, 39 votes)
I think Bloodbath’s Resurrection Through Carnage should be in there
Top 20 Best Death Metal Albums Ever
1.Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life
2.Death – Scream Bloody Gore
3.Morbid Angel – Alters of Madness
4.Obituary – Slowly We Rot
5.Possessed – Seven Chruches
6.Dying Fetus – Killing On Adrenaline
7.Cryptopsy – Blasphmey Made Flesh
8.Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance
9.Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated
10.Six Feet Under – Maximum Violence
11.Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten
12.Death – Human
13.Deicide – Leigon
14.Malevolent Creation – Ten Commandments
15.Lividity – Used, Abused, Left For Dead
16.Vital Remains – Dechristianize
17.Aeon – Rise To Dominate
18.Necrophagist – Epitiah
19.Immolation – Here In After
20.Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth
think i have to disagree with both lists. :)
the fact Demilich was only #50 saddens me, deeply.
Surely this outrage will not go unnoticed!
Actually i know nothing of this genre…seems like a good place to start.
what about cephalic carnage
Some good ones in that list, but the order is all fucked up for sure.
totally high. killed by a troll.
Six Feet Under does not belong on any top DM list, unless we’re talking top worst DM albums of all time.
how many of them are actually original? maybe 5
Haha @ you and your comment.