Best Extreme Metal Albums of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Tomb of the Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse

Horrible album.

2 Human - Death
3 Reign In Blood - Slayer
4 De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem

This is the best form of Black Metal...!

5 Welcome to Hell - Venom

Influential yes, but not that good.

6 Symbolic - Death
7 Annihilation of the Wicked - Nile
8 Black Metal - Venom
9 Blackwater Park - Opeth
10 None So Vile - Cryptopsy
The Contenders
11 With Oden On Our Side - Amon Amarth
12 Blood Fire Death - Bathory
13 Damned In Black - Immortal
14 In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
15 Impressions in Blood - Vader
16 Iowa - Slipknot

This is not extreme metal.

17 Carnival Is Forever - Decapitated
18 Under a Funeral Moon - Darkthrone
19 Pleasure to Kill - Kreator

Should be number 1. Even heavier than Reign In Blood.

20 To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost
21 Deicide - Deicide
22 Under the Sign of The Black Mark - Bathory
23 Morbid Tales - Celtic Frost
24 Twilight of the Idols - In Conspiracy With Satan - Gorgoroth
25 Storm of The Light's Bane - Dissection

One of the best albums to have ever come out of any sub-genre of metal. Night's Blood is a devastatingly magnificent track. Dissection as a band has left a huge imprint on the face of extreme metal. They've influenced heck of a lot of great extreme or blackened death metal bands that emerged during the late 90s, and their everlasting influence can be felt to this date. It's quite fascinating that the band members were just in/out of their teenage phase at the time of the album's composition - well, apparently most of the pioneering metal bands started their career pretty early on in their life, which reflects their immense passion and love towards making music, something that is seldom seen in modern times. A lot of emerging bands these days simply like to imitate existing bands rather than putting their skills to the test and innovating their sound or at least, inventing their own signature style. Out of all the metal bands from the last decade or so, Be'Lakor is the only band that ...more

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