Best Non-Melodic Death Metal Albums

This is just a personal opinion, but I think Melodic Death Metal diverged from Death Metal more and more and now sounds like an very own steady genre and not like a subgenre of Death Metal (in most cases).

So here is a list of bands, who play "genuine" Death Metal, strongly rooted in the old Death Metal sound and keeping its brutality.

ALLOWED:
> Old-School Death Metal
> Brutal Death Metal (incl. Slam)
> Technical Death Metal
> Deathgrind/Goregrind
> Death/Thrash Metal
> Blackened Death Metal
> Death/Doom Metal

Also: Some bands like Dismember are playing Old-School Death Metal with some occasional melodic parts in it, while still being a pure Death Metal band. This is of course allowed.

NOT ALLOWED:
> Melodic Death Metal
> everything else not Death Metal related

Also: Be careful with Progressive Death Metal bands. Many are labeled this way, but are actually "Progressive Melodic Death Metal" (the "Melodic" is often just left out, because the name is very long).

So bands like Opeth (who are obviously very melodic) are NOT allowed in this list, while bands like Horrendous (playing in the vein of late-era-Death) are.
The Top Ten
1 Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel

Best of the best!

2 Seven Churches - Possessed

This album is overrated. Sure its "the first Death Metal album", but compared to albums from Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Immolation, Autopsy and so on this is mediocre at most.
It has its charm, but I wouldn't recommend it.

This album started death metal

3 Symbolic - Death

Am I the only one who finds it a bit messed up that the number one choice for a list of specifically NON-melodic death metal albums is a melodic death metal album? Also, so is Human, so that's 2 times this list contradicts itself. Both of those albums, however, are my favorite albums by Death, who are in turn one of my favorite bands. After Spiritual Healing though, I feel like they certainly became more melodic.

4 Annihilation of the Wicked - Nile
5 Scream Bloody Gore - Death
6 Cause of Death - Obituary
7 Epitaph - Necrophagist
8 Leprosy - Death
9 Deicide - Deicide
10 Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious - Carcass
The Contenders
11 The Anthropocene Extinction - Cattle Decapitation

Its not a bad album... but there are so much better and more essential death metal albums...

12 Winds of Creation - Decapitated

Incredible technical death metal! When you get to know that the band members were around 16 years old, when they recorded this masterpiece, its even more incredible!

13 Considered Dead - Gorguts
14 Kill - Cannibal Corpse

Underrated AMAZING Death Metal album.

15 Onset of Putrefaction - Necrophagist
16 ...For Victory - Bolt Thrower
17 Close to a World Below - Immolation

This is a true death metal classic! Immolation are thrashing with such an intensity in 8 songs of pure brutality throughout this album. The typical atonal and dissonant riffs of Immolation give this an extra awesome death metal tone!

18 Those Once Loyal - Bolt Thrower
19 Like an Everflowing Stream - Dismember

Incredible release! Should be definitely in Top 10!

20 Human - Death
21 The Ten Commandments - Malevolent Creation
22 Dawn of Possession - Immolation
23 Slumber of the Sullen Eyes - Demigod

Masterpiece! There is nothing more to say!

24 Scrolls Of The Megilloth - Mortification
25 None So Vile - Cryptopsy
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