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Landmark works: Heavy metal scenes

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Alive or Just Breathing

Alive or Just Breathing is the second studio album by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage, released in May 2002 on Roadrunner Records and produced by guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz.

Ascendancy (music)

Ascendancy is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium, released in March 2005 on Roadrunner Records. It became the band's breakthrough, certified UK Gold in 2006.

Beneath the Remains

Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian band Sepultura, released in 1989 and credited with carrying the band into the international extreme metal scene.

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is the debut album by Swedish band Candlemass, released in 1986, whose title coined the name of the epic doom metal genre it founded.

Frail Words Collapse

Frail Words Collapse is the 2003 studio album by San Diego metalcore band As I Lay Dying, released on Metal Blade Records and selling 250,000 copies.

Melissa (music)

Melissa is the 1983 debut album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released by Roadrunner Records, known for occult lyrics and its influence on black metal.

Morningrise

Morningrise is the second studio album by the Swedish band Opeth, released in 1996 on Candlelight Records, with five long tracks alternating death metal riffs and acoustic passages.

ObZen

ObZen is the sixth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah, released in 2008, whose song "Bleed" became their signature track and a reference point for the djent style.

Seven Churches (music)

Seven Churches is the 1985 debut album by the American band Possessed on Combat Records, often cited as the first true death metal record ever released.

Slowly We Rot

Slowly We Rot is the 1989 debut album by Florida death metal band Obituary, recorded at Morrisound in Tampa with Scott Burns and credited with shaping death metal's blueprint.

The Jester Race

The Jester Race is the second studio album by Swedish band In Flames, released in 1996, and a defining work of Gothenburg melodic death metal.

The New Order (music)

The New Order is a 1988 thrash metal album by Testament, its second, released on Megaforce/Atlantic and home to Into the Pit and Disciples of the Watch.

World Downfall

World Downfall is the debut album by the American grindcore band Terrorizer, released by Earache Records in 1989 and widely regarded as a defining landmark of late-1980s grindcore.