here is terrorizer's "40 death metal albums you must hear" list:
- Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness [Earache 1989]
- Entombed – Left Hand Path [Earache 1990]
- Autopsy – Mental Funeral [Peaceville 1991]
- Repulsion – Horrified [Necrosis 1989]
- Death – Leprosy [Combat 1989]
- Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious [Earache 1991]
- Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten [Roadrunner 1991]
- Deicide – Deicide [Roadrunner 1990]
- At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul [ Earache 1995]
- Bolt Thrower – Realm Of Chaos [Earache 1989]
- Possessed – Seven Churches [Combat 1985]
- Atheist – Unquestionable Presence [Active 1991]
- Obituary – Cause Of Death [1990]
- Sepultura – Arise [Roadrunner 1991]
- Death Strike – Fuckin’ Death [Nuclear Blast 1991]
- Incantation – Onward To Golgotha [Relapse 1992]
- Ripping Corpse – Dreaming With The Dead [Maze 1994]
- Massacre – From Beyond [Earache 1991]
- Cryptopsy – None So Vile [Wrong Again 1996]
- Vader – De Profundis [Conquest 1995]
- Dismember – Like An Ever Flowing Stream [Nuclear Blast 1991]
- Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated [Metal Blade 1992]
- Master – Master [Nuclear Blast 1990]
- Nocturnus – The Key [Earache 1990]
- Behemoth – Demigod [Regain 2004]
- Gorguts – Obscura [Olympic 1998]
- Disincarnate – Dreams Of A Carrion Kind [Roadrunner 1993]
- Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines [Relapse 2002]
- Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients [Roadrunner 1991]
- Hate Eternal – King Of All Kings [Earache 2002]
- Decapitated – Winds Of Creation [Earache 2000]
- In Flames – The Jester Race [Wrong Again 1996]
- Demilich – Nespithe [Necropolis 1993]
- Necrophagia – Season Of The Dead [New Renaissance 1987]
- Grave – Into The Grave [Century Media 1991]
- Merciless – The Awakening [Deathlike Silence 1990]
- Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition [Relapse 2000]
- Demigod – Slumber Of Sullen Eyes [Drowned 1992]
- Devourment – Butcher The Weak [Self-Released 2005]
- Order From Chaos – Stillbirth Machine [Decapitated 1993]
some truely incredible albums in there for the most part.