Top 10 Non-Gory Death Metal Album Covers

Gory - involving or showing violence and bloodshed.
I don't deny many death metal album covers are gory. But many aren't.

Old school death metal bands formed in the 80s were more inclined to use gory album covers. In the 90s there was a shift in the paradigm of death metal, and the newer metal bands formed after 2000 show much less willingness to use gory album covers for the sake of it, just for the shock value.

Depiction of death is very common in death metal but it isn't always surrounded by violence and bloodshed.

The Top Ten

1 Omnivium - Obscura

Technical and progressive death metal

2 Earthborn Evolution - Beyond Creation

Technical and progressive death metal

3 Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom

Melodic death metal

4 Blackwater Park - Opeth

Progressive death metal

5 Leprosy - Death

6 Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth

Melodic death metal

7 Obscura - Gorguts

Technical death metal

8 Heartwork - Carcass

Melodic death metal

9 The Arrival - Hypocrisy

Melodic death metal

10 Labyrinth - Fleshgod Apocalypse

Technical death metal

The Contenders

11 Diluvium - Obscura

12 Spiritual Healing - Death

This cover kinda makes me laugh.

13 Spiritual Migration - Persefone

14 What Should Not Be Unearthed - Nile

15 Those Whom the Gods Detest - Nile

16 Cosmogenesis - Obscura

17 Necropolis - Vader

18 Once Was Not - Cryptopsy

19 Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel

20 The Aura - Beyond Creation

21 Agony - Fleshgod Apocalypse

22 Obituary - Obituary

23 Citadel - Ne Obliviscaris

24 Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris

25 Hatebreeder - Children of Bodom

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