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Decibel Magazine Top 100 Death + Black + Doom Metal Albums of All Time (2012-2014)

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Title says it all. Ineligible because of the (sub)genre specificity, but I post them just to keep 'em around as usual. I'd like to say again that I've scraped the bottom of the lists I found on the Web but recent history has been disastrous to me in that regard, so I don't want to jinx myself again.

Lists found here:

https://ru.rateyourmusic.com/list/VASTD ... _all_time/

https://ru.rateyourmusic.com/list/VASTD ... _all_time/

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/tomkrat/ ... _all_time/

And now let's go for the darkest corners of the heavy metal church (no shout out intended)... again.

The Top 100 Death Metal Albums of All Time (2012)

1 | Morbid Angel | Altars of Madness | 1989
2 | Carcass | Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious | 1991
3 | Death | Human | 1991
4 | Entombed | Left Hand Path | 1990
5 | Autopsy | Mental Funeral | 1991
6 | Death | Leprosy | 1988
7 | At the Gates | Slaughter of the Soul | 2002
8 | Morbid Angel | Covenant | 1993
9 | Repulsion | Horrified | 1989
10 | Cryptopsy | None So Vile | 1996
11 | Obituary | Cause of Death | 1990
12 | Bolt Thrower | Realm of Chaos | 1989
13 | Dismember | Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 1991
14 | Carcass | Heartwork | 1993
15 | Cannibal Corpse | Tomb of the Mutilated | 1995
16 | Possessed | Seven Churches |1985
17 | Suffocation | Effigy of the Forgotten | 1991
18 | Nile | Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka | 1998
19 | Obituary | Slowly We Rot | 1989
20 | Atheist | Unquestionable Presence | 1991
21 | Death | Scream Bloody Gore | 1987
22 | Carcass | Symphonies of Sickness | 1989
23 | Napalm Death | Harmony Corruption | 1990
24 | Autopsy | Severed Survival | 1989
25 | Morbid Angel | Blessed Are the Sick | 1991
26 | Deicide | Deicide | 1990
27 | Dissection | Storm of the Light's Bane |1995
28 | Incantation | Onward to Golgotha | 1992
29 | Cannibal Corpse | The Bleeding | 1994
30 | Pestilence | Consuming Impulse | 1989
31 | Cynic | Focus | 1993
32 | Bolt Thrower | War Master | 1991
33 | Dying Fetus | Destroy the Opposition | 2000
34 | diSEMBOWELMENT | Transcendence Into the Peripheral | 1993
35 | Opeth | Orchid | 1997
36 | Dissection | The Somberlain | 1993
37 | Death | Symbolic | 1995
38 | Unleashed | Where No Life Dwells | 1991
39 | In Flames | The Jester Race | 1996
40 | Deicide | Legion | 1992
41 | Entombed | Clandestine | 1991
42 | Asphyx | The Rack | 1991
43 | Unanimated | Ancient God of Evil | 1995
44 | The Crown | Deathrace King | 2000
45 | Grave | Into the Grave | 1991
46 | Amorphis | Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 1994
47 | Immolation | Dawn of Possession | 1991
48 | Akercocke | Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone | 2005
49 | Demigod | Slumber of Sullen Eyes | 1992
50 | Arsis | A Celebration of Guilt | 2005
51 | Convulse | World Without God | 1991
52 | Malevolent Creation | The Ten Commandments | 1991
53 | Deathevokation | The Chalice of Ages | 2007
54 | Dark Tranquillity | The Gallery | 1995
55 | Death | Spiritual Healing | 1990
56 | Deceased... | Fearless Undead Machines | 1997
57 | Hate Eternal | I, Monarch | 2005
58 | Massacre | From Beyond | 1991
59 | Pestilence | Testimony of the Ancients | 1991
60 | Tiamat | The Astral Sleep | 1991
61 | God Macabre | The Winterlong... | 1993
62 | Suffocation | Pierced from Within |1995
63 | Gorguts | Obscura | 1998
64 | Ripping Corpse | Dreaming with the Dead | 1991
65 | Carnage | Dark Recollections | 1990
66 | Dark Throne | Soulside Journey | 1991
67 | My Dying Bride | As the Flower Withers | 1992
68 | Decrepit Birth | Diminishing Between Worlds | 2008
69 | Eucharist | A Velvet Creation | 1993
70 | Sepultura | Schizophrenia | 1988
71 | At the Gates | The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 1992
72 | Repugnant | Epitome of Darkness | 2006
73 | Necrophagist | Onset of Putrefaction | 2004
74 | Morbid Angel | Formulas Fatal to the Flesh | 1998
75 | Disharmonic Orchestra | Not to Be Undimensional Conscious | 1992
76 | Vader | De Profundis | 1995
77 | Cannibal Corpse | Kill | 2006
78 | Obscura | Omnivium | 2011
79 | Amorphis | The Karelian Isthmus | 1992
80 | Demilich | Nespithe | 1993
81 | Incantation | Diabolical Conquest | 1998
82 | Nile | In Their Darkened Shrines | 2002
83 | Entombed | Wolverine Blues | 1993
84 | Immolation | Unholy Cult | 2002
85 | Origin | Antithesis | 2008
86 | Pan.Thy.Monium | Khaooohs | 1993
87 | Nocturnus | The Key | 1990
88 | Nuclear Death | Bride of Insect | 1990
89 | Bloodbath | Nightmares Made Flesh | 2004
90 | Edge of Sanity | Crimson | 1996
91 | Exhumed | All Guts, No Glory | 2011
92 | Opeth | Blackwater Park | 2001
93 | The Crown | Crowned in Terror | 2002
94 | Paraside Lost | Lost Paradise | 1990
95 | Decapitated | Winds of Creation | 2000
96 | Bolt Thrower | ...For Victory | 1994
97 | Pungent Stench | Been Caught Buttering | 1991
98 | Hate Eternal | Phoenix Amongst the Ashes | 2011
99 | Portal | Outre' | 2007
100 | Master | Master | 1990

The Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time (2013)

1 | Bathory | Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 1987
2 | Mayhem | De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 1994
3 | Darkthrone | A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 1991
4 | Emperor | In the Nightside Eclipse | 1994
5 | Venom | Black Metal | 1985
6 | Satyricon | Nemesis Divina | 1996
7 | Marduk | Opus Nocturne | 1994
8 | Immortal | At the Heart of Winter | 1999
9 | Burzum | Filosofem | 1996
10 | Beherit | Drawing Down the Mon | 1993
11 | Bathory | Bathory | 1984
12 | Ulver | Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 1995
13 | Emperor | Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 1997
14 | Bathory | Blood Fire Death | 1988
15 | Mayhem | Live in Leipzig | 1997
16 | Enslaved | Frost | 1994
17 | Darkthrone | Transilvanian Hunger | 1994
18 | Rotting Christ | Thy Mighty Contract | 1993
19 | Hellhammer | Apocalyptic Raids | 1984
20 | Weakling | Dead as Dreams | 2000
21 | Burzum | Burzum | 1992
22 | Sarcófago | I.N.R.I. | 1987
23 | Dissection | Storm of the Light's Bane | 1995
24 | Darkthrone | Under a Funeral Moon | 1993
25 | Immortal | Pure Holocaust | 1993
26 | Venom | Welcome to Hell | 1981
27 | Watain | Sworn to the Dark | 2007
28 | Celtic Frost | Morbid Tales | 2002
29 | Emperor/Enslaved | Emperor/Hordanes Land | 1993
30 | Bathory | Hammerheart | 1990
31 | Cradle of Filth | The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 1994
32 | Deathspell Omega | Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice | 2004
33 | Ulver | Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden | 1997
34 | Von | Satanic Blood | 1992
35 | Drudkh | Krov u nashykh krynytsyakh (Blood in Our Wells) | 2006
36 | Dissection | The Somberlain | 1993
37 | Burzum | Hvis lyset tar oss | 1994
38 | Leviathan | The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide | 2003
39 | Bathory | The Return..... | 1985
40 | Master's Hammer | Ritual | 1991
41 | Samael | Worship Him | 1991
42 | Blut aus Nord | The Work Which Transforms God | 2004
43 | Thorns | Thorns | 2001
44 | Tsjuder | Desert Northern Hell | 2004
45 | Arcturus | Aspera Hiems Symfonia | 1996
46 | Absu | Tara | 2001
47 | Krallice | Krallice | 2008
48 | Impaled Nazarene | Suomi Finland perkele | 1994
49 | Varathron | His Majesty at the Swamp | 1993
50 | Deathspell Omega | Paracletus | 2010
51 | Lurker of Chalice | Lurker of Chalice | 2005
52 | Nachtmystium | Instinct: Decay | 2006
53 | Nifelheim | Nifelheim | 2007
54 | Anaal Nathrakh | The Codex Necro | 2001
55 | In the Woods... | Heart of the Ages | 1994
56 | Abruptum | In umbra malitiae ambulabo, in aeternum in triumpho tenebrarum | 1994
57 | Enslaved | Below the Lights | 2003
58 | Blasphemy | Fallen Angel of Doom... | 1990
59 | Dimmu Borgir | Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 1997
60 | Taake | ...Bjoergvin... | 2002
61 | Necromantia/Varathron | Black Arts Lead to Everlasting Sins | 1994
62 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Diadem of 12 Stars | 2006
63 | Root | The Book | 1999
64 | Samael | Blood Ritual | 1992
65 | Xasthur | Telepathic with the Deceased | 2004
66 | Bethlehem | Dark Metal | 1994
67 | Watain | Casus Luciferi | 2003
68 | Gorgoroth | Incipit Satan | 2000
69 | Diabolical Masquerade | Ravendusk in My Heart | 1996
70 | Sigh | Scorn Defeat | 1993
71 | Blut aus Nord | Ultima Thulée | 1995
72 | Funeral Mist | Maranatha | 2009
73 | Immortal | Battles in the North | 1995
74 | Deathspell Omega | Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum | 2007
75 | Ved Buens Ende..... | Written in Waters | 1995
76 | Deströyer 666 | Phoenix Rising | 2000
77 | Darkspace | Dark Space I | 2003
78 | Negură Bunget | OM | 2006
79 | Ludicra | Fex Urbis Lex Orbis | 2006
80 | Mysticum | In the Streams of Inferno | 1996
81 | Fleurety | Min tid skal komme | 1995
82 | Cobalt | Gin | 2012
83 | Craft | Fuck the Universe | 2006
84 | Judas Iscariot | Thy Dying Light | 1996
85 | Tormentor | Anno Domini | 1989
86 | Aura Noir | Black Thrash Attack | 1996
87 | Gehenna | Malice | 1996
88 | Marduk | Those of the Unlight | 1993
89 | Krieg | The Black House | 2004
90 | Alcest | Le Secret | 2011
91 | Mystifier | Göetia | 1993
92 | Vinterland | Welcome My Last Chapter | 1996
93 | Peste Noire | La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence | 2008
94 | Rotting Christ | Triarchy of the Lost Lovers | 1996
95 | Shining | V - Halmstad | 2007
96 | Revenge | Infiltration.Downfall.Death | 2008
97 | Mayhem | Ordo Ad Chao | 2007
98 | Leviathan | Tentacles of Whorror | 2004
99 | Mütiilation | Vampires of Black Imperial Blood | 1995
100 | Inquisition | Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm | 2010

The Top 100 Doom Metal albums of all time (2014)

1 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | 1970
2 | Candlemass | Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 1986
3 | Cathedral | Forest of Equilibrium | 1991
4 | Black Sabbath | Master of Reality | 1971
5 | Trouble | Psalm 9 | 1984
6 | Paradise Lost | Gothic | 1991
7 | Pentagram | Relentless | 1993
8 | Electric Wizard | Dopethrone | 2000
9 | Thergothon | Stream from the Heavens | 1994
10 | Saint Vitus | Born Too Late | 1986
11 | Black Sabbath | Paranoid | 1970
12 | Type O Negative | Bloody Kisses | 1993
13 | Winter | Into Darkness | 1990
14 | Eyehategod | Take as Needed for Pain | 1993
15 | diSEMBOWELMENT | Transcendence Into the Peripheral | 1993
16 | Black Sabbath | Vol. 4 | 1972
17 | Sleep | Jerusalem | 1999
18 | Candlemass | Nightfall | 1987
19 | Earth | Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 1993
20 | Warning | Watching from a Distance | 2006
21 | Pentagram | First Daze Here: The Vintage Collection | 2002
22 | Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 1973
23 | My Dying Bride | Turn Loose the Swans | 1993
24 | Floor | Floor | 2002
25 | Skepticism | Stormcrowfleet | 1995
26 | Cirith Ungol | King of the Dead | 1984
27 | Kyuss | Welcome to Sky Valley | 1994
28 | The Obsessed | Lunar Womb | 2006
29 | Katatonia | Brave Murder Day | 1996
30 | Witchcraft | Witchcraft | 2004
31 | Reverend Bizarre | In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend | 2002
32 | Solitude Aeternus | Beyond the Crimson Horizon | 1992
33 | Dream Death | Journey Into Mystery | 1987
34 | Sir Lord Baltimore | Kingdom Come | 1970
35 | Evoken | Quietus | 2001
36 | Type O Negative | October Rust | 1996
37 | Witchfinder General | Death Penalty | 1982
38 | Electric Wizard | Come My Fanatics... | 1997
39 | Down | NOLA | 1995
40 | Blue Cheer | Vincebus Eruptum | 1968
41 | Candlemass | Ancient Dreams | 1988
42 | Sleep | Sleep's Holy Mountain | 1992
43 | Paradise Lost | Draconian Times | 1995
44 | Tiamat | Wildhoney | 1994
45 | Black Sabbath | Sabotage | 1975
46 | YOB | The Great Cessation | 2009
47 | Buzzov•en | Sore | 1994
48 | Trouble | The Skull | 1991
49 | Deep Purple | Machine Head | 1972
50 | Esoteric | Epistemological Despondency | 1994
51 | Evoken | Atra Mors | 2012
52 | Katatonia | Dance of December Souls | 1993
53 | Acrimony | Tumuli Shroomaroom | 1997
54 | Iron Monkey | Our Problem | 1998
55 | Paul Chain Violet Theatre | In the Darkness | 1986
56 | Cathedral | The Ethereal Mirror | 1993
57 | Noothgrush | Erode the Person | 2011
58 | Anathema | Serenades | 1993
59 | Saint Vitus | Saint Vitus | 1984
60 | Confessor | Condemned | 1991
61 | Count Raven | Storm Warning | 1990
62 | Asunder | Works Will Come Undone | 2006
63 | Khanate | Khante | 2001
64 | My Dying Bride | The Dreadful Hours | 2001
65 | Melvins | Gluey Porch Treatments | 1987
66 | Worship | Last Vinyl Before Doomsday | 2001
67 | Solstice | New Dark Age | 1998
68 | Corrupted | Paso inferior | 1997
69 | Acid Bath | When the Kite String Pops | 1994
70 | Pagan Altar | Volume 1 | 1998
71 | Kyuss | Blues for the Red Sun | 1992
72 | Pallbearer | Foundations of Burden | 2014
73 | Scald | Will of the Gods Is Great Power | 2003
74 | Eyehategod | Dopesick | 1996
75 | Church of Misery | The Second Coming | 2004
76 | The Gates of Slumber | Conqueror | 2008
77 | The 3rd and the Mortal | Tears Laid in Earth | 1994
78 | While Heaven Wept | Vast Oceans Lachrymose | 2009
79 | Mindrot | Dawning | 1995
80 | Unholy | The Second Ring of Power | 1994
81 | Cathedral | The Carnival Bizarre | 1995
82 | Electric Wizard | Witchcult Today | 2007
83 | Skepticism | Alloy | 2008
84 | Burning Witch | Crippled Lucifer | 1998
85 | Revelation | Salvation's Answer | 2007
86 | WarHorse | As Heaven Turns to Ash... | 2001
87 | Mournful Congregation | The Monad of Creation | 2005
88 | Subrosa | More Constant Than the Gods | 2013
89 | Celestial Season | Solar Lovers | 1995
90 | Paradise Lost | Icon | 1993
91 | Pallbearer | Sorrow and Extinction | 2012
92 | Grief | Come to Grief | 1994
93 | Crowbar | Odd Fellows Rest | 1998
94 | The Gathering | Mandylion | 1995
95 | Thorr's Hammer | Dommedagsnatt | 1998
96 | Penance | Parallel Corners | 1994
97 | Shape of Despair | Angels of Distress | 2001
98 | Iron Man | Black Night | 1993
99 | Hooded Menace | Never Cross the Dead | 2010
100 | Ahab | The Call of the Wretched Sea | 2006

These album cover arts are gruesome. I just don't want to imagine what's the mindstate of the people coming up with such morbid and overall violent stuff.
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I've never heard it and I'd probably hate it, but Tomb of the Mutilated is a damn striking name for an album. Probably going to at least be a bubbler.
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StevieFan13 wrote:I've never heard it and I'd probably hate it, but Tomb of the Mutilated is a damn striking name for an album. Probably going to at least be a bubbler.
Yeah, I think it has enough points for that now. But man, talking about gruesome album cover arts, this is one that takes the cake.
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Pierre wrote:
StevieFan13 wrote:I've never heard it and I'd probably hate it, but Tomb of the Mutilated is a damn striking name for an album. Probably going to at least be a bubbler.
Yeah, I think it has enough points for that now. But man, talking about gruesome album cover arts, this is one that takes the cake.
Funny enough, no matter how gruesome these covers get, nothing's gonna creep me out more than Stay Hungry.
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StevieFan13 wrote:
Pierre wrote:
StevieFan13 wrote:I've never heard it and I'd probably hate it, but Tomb of the Mutilated is a damn striking name for an album. Probably going to at least be a bubbler.
Yeah, I think it has enough points for that now. But man, talking about gruesome album cover arts, this is one that takes the cake.
Funny enough, no matter how gruesome these covers get, nothing's gonna creep me out more than Stay Hungry.
Good point. But seriously, some of those here give Twisted Sister a run for their money.
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Some of these sound like fake names for metal albums, like names a TV show writer who's never actually heard metal would think they'd be called. Altars of Madness, Slaughter of the Soul, Realm of Chaos...
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