Early 90's Death Metal

[secretface]

Hey metalheads, I need some help finding some albums I should own. My fave metal is the early 90's death metal so maybe you can help me out. My favorites in no particular order are:

Cannibal Corpse (Tomb of the Mutilated/The Bleeding)

Carcass (Necroticism/Tools of the Trade)

Morbid Angel (Blessed are the Sick/Covenant)

Death (Human/Individual Thought Patterns)

Deicide (Legion/Once Upon the Cross)

Entombed (Lefthand Path/Clandestine)

Suffocation (Effigy/ Pierced from Within)

Those seem to me to be the cornerstones of the genre at that time. I was wondering if theres anybody I missed out on from that time. Please list band and album because sometimes a band will deviate there style tremendously (ie: Carcass-Heartwork/Swansong). Of course I have a bunch of albums from other bands in that time frame but I dont feel as though they were as significant as the ones I listed. So please list bands and albums you think were major influences on the scene from the early 90's. Thanks in advance!

 

[wicked_child]

obituary - any album. owning the full discog is worth it.

 

[secretface]

DOH!!! Forgot them and Napalm Death. The End Complete is my fave by Obituary.

 

[Lunarfall]

Cryptopsy - None So Vile (highly recommended)/Blasphemy Made Flesh
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created.... Master
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence/Elements
Cynic - Focus
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow/Crimson
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains/Arise

 

[nad]

I love early '90s death metal. Not really a fan of the genre anymore but I still love the original stuff. My favourites:

Morbid Angel - Domination
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Cynic - Focus
Entombed - Clandestine
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Carcass - every stinkin' album, including Swansong
Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox, The Spectral Sorrows, Purgatory Afterglow, Crimson, etc.

 

[Din Of Win]

I'm a sucker for those Gothenburg Death Metallers:

Dark Tranquility: 'The Gallery'
At The Gates: 'Slaughter of the Soul'


Seriously though...

BOLT THROWER! 'In Battle There is no Law' 'Relm of Chaos' (I guess technically these 2 are from the 80's, but it's 88 and 89)

 

[ManOnStreet]

1) Pestilence - Testimony, excellent album...
2) Monstrosity
3) Impious .

 

[BlackMetalAkaz]

Mortician?

BOLT THROWER! 'In Battle There is no Law' 'Relm of Chaos' (I guess technically these 2 are from the 80's, but it's 88 and 89)

Oh yes Bolt Thrower rules!

 

[Zanzibar Delgado]

Demilich - Nespithe
Atheist - discography
Cynic - Focus
Death - discography

many more that I can't think of at the moment.

 

[Col Pruse]

awesome. Those albums in the original post are basically what I listened to sophomore and junior year of high school.

like someone said, don't forget Obituary. Slowly We Rot, their first is my favorite.

I didn't listen to much Cannibal Corpse after The Bleeding, I thought that album was far superior to any of their other stuff. Maybe check out Six Feet Under. It's the original singer from Cannibal Corpse and guys that were probably in all the other bands at one point or another.

 

[joeydavidson]

There's loads of good albums but these are all mandatory listening;

incantation - onward to golgotha
demilich - nespithe
atheist - piece of time
atheist - unquestionable presence
at the gates - gardens of grief
at the gates - the red in the sky is ours
at the gates - with fear i kiss the burning darkness
pestilence - spheres
morbid angel - blessed are the sick
morbid angel - covenant
suffocation - effigy of the forgotten
entombed - left hand path
dismember - like an ever flowing stream
carnage - dark recollections
obituary - cause of death
deicide - deicide
deicide - legion
gorguts - considered dead
gorguts - erosion of sanity
atrocity - longing for death
immolation - dawn of possession
immolation - here in after
autopsy - mental funeral
unleashed - where no life dwells
Amorphis - the karelian isthmus
cianide - the dying truth


80's death and grind;
pestilence - consuming impulse
pestilence - malleus maleficarum
death - leprosy
massacra - final holocaust
possessed - seven churches
hellhammer - apocolyptic raids
boltthrower - realm of chaos
carcass - reek of putrification
carcass - symphonies of sickness
morbid angel - altars of madness
napalm death - scum
naplam death - from enslavement to obliteration
autopsy - severed survival

 

[MaskedJackal]

I'll try to pick out some records that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

Brutality - Screams of Anguish. Some of the best blast parts you've ever heard and some of the best slow parts you've ever heard. And cheggit: AUDIBLE BASS!

Bolt Thrower - IVth Crusade. This record is a war machine. Doomy, steady-chugging stuff.

Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream. Cornerstone of the Swedish style.

Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense. Heavy but avant-garde Finnish death metal. Keys, violins.

Nocturnus - The Key. WAYYYYY underrated. Singing drummer, sci-fi lyrics, full-time keyboardist, and two guitarists who can tear it off. As heavy as Morbid Angel with three times the nerdiness. Go listen to "Droid Sector" RIGHT NOW!

 

[Stickk]

Wow, I can't believe you didn't say Possessed.

 

[Enmesarra]

at the gates - terminal spirit disease & slaughter of the soul
cryptopsy - none so vile
entombed - left hand path
suffocation - pierced from within
soilwork - the chainheart machine (not early 90s, but anyway)
malevolent creation - eternal
hypocrisy - abducted
edge of sanity - crimson
dissection - storm of the light's bane & the somberlain


this would be a short list of total awesomeness in the 90s, mostly early & mid 90s.

 

[MaskedJackal]

Wow, I can't believe you didn't say Possessed.

I thought I saw that mentioned here. Looking over it again, guess not.

Possessed - Seven Churches. Where it all began. Oh yes. Get it. Oh yes.

 

[nad]

Possessed - Seven Churches. Where it all began. Oh yes. Get it. Oh yes.

Yes. Absolutely. Total landmark for extreme metal. But, technically speaking, it is from the '80s.

If we're talking about that stuff then pick up Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion while you're giving yourself a history lesson in awesome.

 

[IconBasser]

you'll definitely like Illogicist [a modern italian tech-death band]

 

[Hector_G]

CORONER!!!!!!! Their album Mental Vortex had amazing production and great songs. You need to get that.

Also... while I don't quite think it falls into the death metal category (I'd say totally thrash) but some of the most intense and amazing riffage... Kreator.
Extreme Aggression(1989) and Coma Of Souls(1990) has more guitar madness than any of the regurgitated garbage that any of the new bands coming out these days.

And how about some EXIT 13.

 

[Hector_G]

awesome. Those albums in the original post are basically what I listened to sophomore and junior year of high school.

Indeed. High school was all about this stuff.
The very first song I ever learned on bass was The End Complete. Super easy and awesome. And on bass.... come on... that some crushing power right there.


Also addendum to my last post.

Pungent Stench.
Brutal Truth.

 

[MaskedJackal]

CORONER!!!!!!! Their album Mental Vortex had amazing production and great songs. You need to get that.

One of my favorites, but not death metal. I will say, however, that Ron's vocal delivery at points on the Grin record comes close.