Top 20 Best Death Metal Albums OF ALL TIME (Vol 2)
Part 2 of my picks for the greatest death metal albums of all time! This time we’re diving into more essential classics and modern masterpieces from across the death metal spectrum, including brutal death metal, technical death metal, melodic death metal, symphonic death metal, and avant-garde extremes. #deathmetal #bestdeathmetal
00:00 Behemoth – Demigod
00:57 Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
01:41 Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done
02:22 Spawn of Possession – Cabinet
03:04 Opeth – Blackwater Park
03:50 Septicflesh – The Great Mass
04:38 The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed
05:22 Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
06:22 Carcass – Heartwork
07:20 Vader – Litany
07:39 Bloodbath – Nightmares Made Flesh
08:23 Vomitory – Blood Rapture
08:56 Soilwork – The Chainheart Machine
09:33 Portal – Vexovoid
10:23 In Flames – The Jester Race
10:58 Necrophagist – Epitaph
11:43 Aborted – Retrogore
12:30 Ulcerate – Vermis
13:14 Amon Amarth – With Oden On Our Side
14:01 At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul
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@stomp54
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
The Chasm – Spell Of Retribution
Necrophobic – The Nocturnal Silence
Death – Symbolic
Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness
Merciless – The Awakening
@romaincassignol
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Ulcerate – Vermis ?! Seriously !? I think this is their worst by far… Everything Is Fire being their really best IMO.
@n.o2164
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
The faceless- all albums
Extol – Burial
Zao – parade of chaos
Black crown initiate – all albums
Viraemia – viraemia EP
The Zenith passage – all albums
Virvum – illuminance
@j.p.lovecraft1826
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Not sure if it would make any lists but More Insane by Undeath is a gem. Not only the jams but the quality of the production. It’s hard to explain but it’s just so soothing. Get it!
@DoctorBoNurman
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Deceased fearless undead machines is in my top 5
@Russianheritage1
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Opeth isn t death metal !
@Crowle83
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
What! No Nile-annihilation of the wicked. The absolute best death metal album!
@Ultr4l0f
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
As a swede I feel pretty damn proud haveing…. what was it 5 or 6 entries?
@ianseurattan2084
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
This list is solid. gonna check out the vomitory album.
@BroccoliKing-Telluwhut
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
I gotta listen to Demigod again it's been a while. Great video!
@sorenvanaheim776
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Yoh I gotta rep for Miseration: Tragedy has Spoken and Black Miracles and Dark Wonders and Blood Stain Child: Amateras.
I think of your picks from Opeth and In Flames and differ from what I'd choose but I get the picks.
Man…I feel like I don't listen to as much death metal as I used to.
@lawrencefine5020
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Good list, but no Deicide or Obituary?
"Hell, is other people's taste" – Brendon Small
@CnMinus1432
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
I accept the clickbait! … this time the bait was lesser and the information was slightly greater though, cheers!👍
@Vivid_Leprosy
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Great list. Im happy to hear you pronounce Giger correctly. Cant tell you how many times I hear someone say they are a fan yet say his name wrong in the same sentence.
@크리스반즈
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
한국밴드 "SADHU" 추천합니다.
@dukevuda
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
You gotta have entombed up there
@placeholder6517
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
8:02 probably misspoke but it bears pointing out that it's Mikael Akerfeldt, not Mikael Stanne
@Obzedat312
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Behemoth – Demigod was the last album of theirs i loved.
@michaelsantangelo7997
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Some of my favorites (in no order and not 20)
Kataklysm – Temple of Knowledge
Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines
Dying Fetus – Destroy the Opposition
Archspire – Relentless Mutation
Arsis – We are the Nightmare
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Cephalic Carnage – Lucid Interval
Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy
Deicide – Legion
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Labrinth
God Dethroned – Ravenous
Krisiun – Apocalyptic Revelations
Vader – Black to the Blind
Vital Remains – Dawn of the Apocalypse
Suffocation – Can't pick one favorite. The whole discography is consistent
@michaelschaaf3619
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Opeth is the new "most boring bsnd in DM
@michaelschaaf3619
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Behemoth is a joke, but otherwise a great list
@josephconstantine1799
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Great lists (I've seen both part 1 and 2) with really solid choices! A few things I might have added:
Misery Index- Hiers to Thievery and/or Traitors
Jungle Rot_What Horrors Await
Napalm Death- Harmony Corruption and/or Time Waits for No Slave
Edge of Sanity- Crimson
Exhumed- Slaughtercult and/or Anatomy is Destiny
@andrewadamsSOTR
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
I love old school death metal, but for me there's a ton better stuff in the 26 years since the millennium compared to the 10-12 years of death metal before it
@EDECO79
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Dying Fetus and Suffocation I'd have to include if I had the time to think up a list. Early Morbid Angel and Deicide too, probably.
@GreenmanBlunt22
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
I'm taking Evangelion over Demigod, but that's just me.
@BigDawg8907
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
This entire list is 🔥 specifically digging the selections from Cattle Decapitation, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse (love Skeletal Domain), and Aborted 🤘🏻
@troyannells4642
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
A classic no one brings up Ripping corpse – Dreaming with the dead
@kristopherparlin7224
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Gotta include Follow The Reaper or Hatebreeder from Children Of Bodom.
@zacharyclements2575
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
I recently discovered some new (to me) OSDM albums thanks to your videos! I’ve really been digging The Astral Sleep by Tiamat recently!
@Th3F0cu5
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
devourment-MTD
morbid angel-formulas fatal to the flesh
deicide-deicide
cannibal corpse-tomb of the mutilated
disgorge-cranial impalement
black dahlia murder-nocturnal
hate eternal-conquering the throne
incantation-upon the throne of apocalypse
cryptopsy-blasphemy made flesh
mortician-house by the cemetery
nile-amongst the catacombs of nephren ka
immolation-close to a world below
krisiun-conquerors of armageddon
terrorizer-world downfall
death- spiritual healing
not 20 just a list of what i consider the goats
@PadanFain-yp2yz
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
They're probably more hot takes (as always), but The Apostasy over Demigod any day (The Satanist is SO overrated), Monolith of Humanity over Anthropocene any day, and Still Life over Blackwater Park any day. Cool video, cheers.
@coreydinardo5525
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Haven't finished the video yet but I'm hoping for a Lykathea Aflame mention ❤
@Dudeatrix
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
No Children of Bodom?
@TheCuttingBureau
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Excellent list, sparking some digging over here….digging of graves.
@falcenov
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Should have been Nocturnal by TBDM
@_Henrique66
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Vomitory is very underrated!
@black_stabbath48
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
My pick for greatest death metal album is Dechristianize by Vital Remains. Cant get enough of that album
@EricC300
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Vaders litany and Tibi Et Igni over impressions in blood? Sheeeeeeesh lol
@JeudeBop
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Somehow I can’t get into ‘Skeletal Domain’. Something about the production that keeps me from enjoying it. Most other cc albums I absolutely adore.
@miguelprats3753
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Crimson by Edge of Sanity, Effigy of Forgotten by Suffocation and Obscura by Gorguts are top-notch technical/prog death metal ever, they should be in a future third video hehe.
@callmejacob33
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Aight this is my list Its not thought out I just skimmed through my playlist and chose based on the moment I just listened to a lot of these this week so some of them didnt get the time to sit with me
1. Symbolic – Death
2. Nightmares made flesh – Bloodbath
3. Surgical Steel – Carcass
4. Reign Supreme – Dying Fetus
5. Slaughter of the Soul – At the Gates
6. None so Vile – Cryptopsy
7. Left Hand Path – Entombed
8. Nocturnal – The Black Dahlia Murder
9. Damage Done – Dark Tranquility
10. Like an Everflowing Strem – Dismember
11. Blackwater Park – Opeth
12. Hate crew Deathroll – Children of Bodom
13. Consuming Impulse – Pestilence
14. Communion – SepticFlesh
15. Carving out the eyes of god- Goatwhore
16. Unquestionable presence – Atheist
17. Altars of Madness – Morbid Angel
18. Tomb of the Mutilated – Cannibal Corpse
19. Epitaph – Necrophagist
20. Nihility – Decapitated
@alucard3317
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
For me:
Hatred For Mankind-Dragged Into Sunlight
Swarth-Portal
Self Titled-Artificial Brain
Converging Ages-Innana
Banquet In The Darkness-Intestine Baalism
Oracle Moon-Garden Of Shadows
Everything Is Fire-Ulcerate
@Руслан-ц8д5ш
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Странный список
@balazsfalvi-nemethferenc6764
July 26, 2026 at 12:03 pm
And where is Norther with its album called "N"? One of my all time favorite, just ashame the band is not active anymore.
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