Essential Albums - Death Metal

Last week we brought you the essential thrash metal albums. This week, we bring you the essential death metal list. Below you will find the results of many painstaking hours of metal geekdom to come up with a list of the albums any death metal fan should have. Special thanks for this list goes out to /r/metal and nakedcups, Shamed, Brainstormu, BrutalN00dle, thegauntlet, mattosaur, and deathofthesun, and a few others whom we might have overlooked. Asphyx - Last One on Earth Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Autopsy - Severed Survival Autopsy - Mental Funeral Avulsed - Yearning From The Grotesque Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos Brutality - Screams of Anguish Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated Carbonized - For the Security Carnage - Dark Recollections Convulse - World Without God Cryptopsy - None So Vile Cynic - Focus Death - Scream Bloody Gore Death - Leprosy Death - Human Darkthrone - Soulside Journey Deicide - Legion Deicide - Deicide Demigod - Slumber of the Sullen Eyes Demilich - Nespithe Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane Entombed - Left Hand Path Entombed - Demos Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd Funebre - Children of the Scorn God Macabre - The Winterlong Gorefest - False Grave - Into the Grave Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum Immolation - Dawn of Possession Immolation - Close to a World Below Immortalis - Indicium de Mortuis Incantation - Onward to Golgotha Massacra - Final Holocaust Massacre - Inhuman Condition Master - Master Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Mordicus - Dances From Left Morgoth - Cursed Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth Necrophobic - Satanic Blasphemies Necrovore - Divus De Mortuus Nihilist - Nihilist (1987-1989) Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91 Nuclear Death - Carrion For Worm Obituary - Slowly We Rot Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients Possessed - Seven Churches Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering Rottrevore - Iniquitous Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death... Fukk You! Sinister - Diabolical Summoning Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales Suffocation - Pierced from Within Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten Terrorizer - World Downfall Thanatos - Emerging from the Netherworlds Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells Vader - Litany