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Absolute Elsewhere
Absolute Elsewhere is Blood Incantation's two-track, 43:39 studio album blending death metal with 1970s prog, released October 4, 2024 on Century Media and recorded at Berlin's Hansa Studios with producer Arthur Rizk.
Banished by Sin
Banished by Sin (2024) is Deicide's thirteenth studio album and first in six years, released on Reigning Phoenix Music; 12 tracks, 38:59, live-style production, AI cover art controversy.
Blackwater Park
Blackwater Park is Opeth's fifth studio album, released March 2001, recorded at Studio Fredman and co-produced by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. Eight tracks blending death metal with progressive and acoustic passages; the band's international breakthrough, later certified silver.
Blood Dynasty
Blood Dynasty is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, released March 28, 2025 on Century Media; produced by Jens Bogren, first album with guitarist Joey Concepcion, and the last with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz.
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Mayhem's 1994 debut full-length black metal album on Deathlike Silence Productions, recorded 1992-1993 at Grieghallen, Bergen, by Euronymous, Hellhammer, Varg Vikernes, Blackthorn, and Attila Csihar, released after Euronymous' murder.
Esoteric Warfare
Esoteric Warfare is Mayhem's fifth studio album, released June 6, 2014 on Season of Mist. It is the band's first album in seven years and first with guitarist Teloch, a Cold War military-experiments concept with lyrics by Attila Csihar.
Filosofem
Filosofem is Burzum's fourth album by Varg Vikernes, recorded in 17 hours in March 1993 and released January 1996; a deliberately lo-fi, anti-black-metal landmark of atmospheric black metal.
Harmony Corruption
Harmony Corruption is Napalm Death's third album, released July 1, 1990 on Earache Records. Recorded at Morrisound, Tampa with Scott Burns, it added Greenway, Pintado, and Harris and bridged grindcore and death metal.
Hate Crew Deathroll
Hate Crew Deathroll, the fourth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, released 2003 on Spinefarm and Century Media; recorded at Astia-Studio, produced by Anssi Kippo; the band's international breakthrough.
Hempispheres
Hempispheres (with "Hemp") is Sleep's 2026 stoner/doom metal album, its first without Matt Pike, on Third Man Records, punning Rush's Hemispheres; 5 songs, 38 minutes, mixed reviews (AOTY critic 57).
Human (Death album)
Human (1991) is Death's fourth studio album, by Chuck Schuldiner with Cynic's Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert and Sadus' Steve DiGiorgio, recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns; a 34-minute landmark of technical and progressive death metal, reaching Billboard Heatseekers No. 34.
In the Nightside Eclipse
In the Nightside Eclipse is Emperor's 1994 debut full-length, recorded at Grieghallen Studios, Bergen, with producer Pytten; a symphonic black metal landmark with Wåhlin's Tolkien-inspired cover.
In the Shadow of Your Shadow
In the Shadow of Your Shadow is the tenth studio album by Swedish post-metal band Cult of Luna, scheduled for November 6, 2026, on Red Crk Recordings.
Jerusalem and Dopesmoker
Jerusalem and Dopesmoker are two releases of Sleep's third album, one 63-minute stoner doom song recorded 1996 for London Records, released 52 minutes (1999) and 63 minutes (2003).
Les Chants de l'aurore
Les Chants de l'aurore ("The Songs of Dawn") is Alcest's seventh studio album, released June 21, 2024 on Nuclear Blast; seven tracks, 43:38, self-recorded, peaked at number 14 in Germany.
Liturgy of Death
Liturgy of Death is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, released February 6, 2026 on Century Media; 8 tracks, 48:54, produced by Tore Stjerna, themed on death, with Garm guesting.
Lonely People with Power
Lonely People With Power is the sixth studio album by Deafheaven, released March 28, 2025 on Roadrunner Records. Twelve tracks, about an hour, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen; it returned the band to blackgaze heaviness after Infinite Granite, with guests Jae Matthews and Paul Banks.
Piece of Time
Piece of Time is the 1988-recorded debut album by Florida death metal band Atheist, released in Europe in 1989 and the U.S. in 1990. Produced by Scott Burns, it fused thrash with jazz-influenced technicality and helped found technical death metal.
Savage Imperial Death March
Savage Imperial Death March is a collaborative album by sludge band the Melvins and grindcore band Napalm Death, released April 10, 2026 on Ipecac Recordings with eight tracks; an earlier six-song version appeared in 2025 via Amphetamine Reptile Records.
Scream Bloody Gore
Scream Bloody Gore (Death, 1987) is the death metal band's debut album, recorded by Chuck Schuldiner with drummer Chris Reifert at The Music Grinder, LA; often cited, against Possessed's Seven Churches, as the first true death metal album.
Still Life (Opeth album)
Still Life is Opeth's fourth studio album (1999, Peaceville), a progressive death metal concept album about an exiled man, his lover Melinda, murder, and execution; first with Martin Mendez and Travis Smith, and the record that drew in Steven Wilson.
Strike and Kill
Strike and Kill is DevilDriver's eleventh studio album, released July 10, 2026 on Napalm Records; 13 tracks, about 50 minutes, with Dez Fafara, returning bassist Jon Miller, and guitarists Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold.
Sunn O))) (album)
Sunn O))) (2026), self-titled tenth album by drone metal duo Sunn O))); April 3, 2026 Sub Pop release, all instrumentation by O'Malley and Anderson, recorded with Brad Wood at Bear Creek Studios, 130 guitar tracks per song, Rothko cover art, Metascore 85.
The Ghost of a Future Dead
The Ghost of a Future Dead: eighth and final At The Gates album with vocalist Tomas Lindberg, released April 24, 2026 on Century Media; vocals recorded the day before his cancer surgery, title changed by Lindberg himself.
The Shit Ov God
The Shit Ov God is the thirteenth studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth, released May 9, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records, known for Nergal's deliberately provocative title and its divided reviews.
The Sound of Perseverance
The Sound of Perseverance is Death's seventh and final 1998 studio album, a progressive death metal record by Chuck Schuldiner recorded at Morrisound with Christy, Hamm, Clendenin, including a Painkiller cover.
The Underworld Awaits Us All
The Underworld Awaits Us All is Nile's tenth studio album, released August 23, 2024 on Napalm Records. The 11-track, 53:34 brutal/technical death metal album was produced by Karl Sanders at Serpent Headed Studio with Mark Lewis mixing.
Timewave Zero (Blood Incantation album)
Timewave Zero is the third studio release by Blood Incantation. Released in 2022, it is a wholly ambient record replacing metal riffs with Moog synthesizers and gongs.
Too Fast to Die
Too Fast to Die is the fifth studio album by Vancouver technical death metal band Archspire, self-released April 10, 2026 after leaving Season of Mist, funded by a nearly $400,000 CAD Kickstarter, with new drummer Spencer Moore.
Unquestionable Presence
Unquestionable Presence, Atheist's 1991 second album on Active Records, is a landmark technical death metal record recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns, dedicated to late bassist Roger Patterson, blending death metal with jazz fusion and shifting time signatures.