Check the list
Loudwire has compiled a list of the best Death Metal albums since 1985. See the full list, featuring the best album of each year:
- 1985: Possessed, 'Seven Churches'
- 1986: Possessed, 'Beyond the Gates'
- 1987: Death, 'Scream Bloody Gore'
- 1988: Death, 'Leprosy'
- 1989: Morbid Angel, 'Altars of Madness'
- 1990: Obituary, 'Cause of Death'
- 1991: Death, 'Human'
- 1992: Bolt Thrower, 'The IVth Crusade'
- 1993: Morbid Angel, 'Covenant'
- 1994: Cannibal Corpse, 'The Bleeding'
- 1995: Suffocation, 'Pierced From Within'
- 1996: Cryptopsy, 'None So Vile'
- 1997: Vader, 'Black to the Blind'
- 1998: Gorguts, 'Obscura'
- 1999: Opeth, 'Still Life'
- 2000: Children of Bodom, 'Follow the Reaper'
- 2001: Opeth, 'Blackwater Park'
- 2002: Bloodbath, 'Resurrection Through Carnage'
- 2003: Vital Remains, 'Dechristianize'
- 2004: Necrophagist, 'Epitaph'
- 2005: Opeth, 'Ghost Reveries'
- 2006: Amon Amarth, 'With Oden on Our Side'
- 2007: Akercocke, 'Antichrist'
- 2008: Septicflesh, 'Communion'
- 2009: Obscura, 'Cosmogenesis'
- 2010: Decrepit Birth, 'Polarity'
- 2011: Septicflesh, 'The Great Mass'
- 2012: Cattle Decapitation, 'Monolith of Inhumanity'
- 2013: Gorguts, 'Colored Sands'
- 2014: Insomnium, 'Shadows of the Dying Sun'
- 2015: Sarpanitum, 'Blessed Be My Brothers…'2016: Interment, 'Scent of the Buried'