10 Old-School Death Metal Albums It’s Impossible To Live Without!
We. Can. Not. Live. Without. These. Albums!
Carcass – Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious (1991)
Dumping grindcore in favour of a (slightly) more accessible death metal sound, Carcass truly proved their mettle on Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious, culminating in their finest hour and one of the defining moments in UK death metal history.
Managing to be both a prime slab of mutilated old-school death/grind and a pioneer of tech/progressive death metal, Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious blew fans and critics away on its release in 1991 and continues to be revered as a defining moment in death metal history (UK or otherwise).
With a new guitarist in the formidable shape of Mike Amott (Arch Enemy) adding layers to their sound, Carcass as a unit were obviously improving at a formidable rate with across-the-board performances proving exemplary and arguably never bettered. Each track was a mind-blowing cacophony of tempo-changes, melodic guitar leads, brutal riffing and Jeff Walker’s instantly recognisable growls culminated in an extreme metal masterpiece for the ages.
Abramelin. Self Titled and Deadspeak albums. Check em out for ‘oldskool’.
Great albums!!
Deicide – Legion
Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding
Benediction – Transcend the Rubicon
Pestilence – Testimony of the Ancients
Cynic – Focus
Edge of Sanity – Spectral Sorrows
Amorphis – Tales from the thousand lakes
Kataklysm – Sorcery
Gorefest – Erase
There are lots of old school albums in the genre I couldn’t live without. But I’m in total agreement with these. All genre defining masterpieces.