10 Old-School Death Metal Albums It’s Impossible To Live Without!
We. Can. Not. Live. Without. These. Albums!
Immolation – Dawn Of Possession (1991)
The word classic gets bandied around with alarming regularity of late (and we’re as guilty as the next blog) but there’s no other way to describe a moment in extreme metal history that continues to surpass 99.9% of all death metal out there. We refer, of course, to Immolation’s awe-inspiring debut album, Dawn Of Possession. Released today this would still blow minds but as it stands, Dawn Of Possession is a time-capsule that perfectly encapsulates the experimental inventiveness of early 90’s death metal….a time when anything seemed possible and the idea of ‘heavy’ was being routinely challenged.
These New York natives were darkness incarnate and blessed (or should that be possessed) with some of the most sinister and hauntingly disharmonic riffs in the then fledgling genre. They were beyond heavy, they were the sound of demonic armageddon and their ever-threatening grooves and chromatic displays of precision riffing were the next logical step in death metal’s evolution.
Immolation may have evolved into an ever more technical wrecking machine over the years but Dawn Of Possession is home to their most vivid collection of twisted tunes.
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.