1992: Death Metal's Golden Year

[@luissolis6827]

Hope your having a great day

[@westernwarden8758]

It is, hopefully your day is going well also! 😀

[@akillen77]

Have a great day!

[@ismaelmoctezuma9927]

Asphyx - last one on earth Malevolent creation - retribution Therion- beyond sanctorum Cannibal corpse - Tomb of the mutilated Sinister - Cross the styx Seance- Fornever laid to rest Nocturnus- Thresholds Gorefest- False Atrocity - Todessehnsucht

[@seniledeathrasher2596]

Cool picks, thanks for the video. I recommend albums from Disharmonic Orchestra, Miasma, Atrocity, Dark Millennium, Massacra, Seance, Lemming Project, and Cadaver. Most of them are rather underrated and deserve more recognition.

[@fuzzybunnyluv]

Love the Mortification/Scrolls of the Megilloth shout out. Well deserved

[@Kaosad69]

@@fuzzybunnyluv 100% a chronically underappreciated Australian album.

[@InfidelAmsterdam]

Great releases man! Absolutely showed a bunch of gems 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@originalityhere5894]

morpheus descends ritual of infinity is also worth a mention, fucking goated as fuck BRAH BRAH

[@megaslayer9279]

I know Ken, Rob and Sam personally. Great dudes. Been friends for years.

[@josecelestino]

Demilich. Even if their first full album was only released In 93, they have two great demos in 92 (added to late Nespithe releases, and a very welcome addition). Great band!

[@davids.816]

Essential Cookie Monster Core

[@mihaelzubak7321]

One of the best bands ever !

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

@@davids.816 🤣🤣

[@GreenishLobster]

Some more stuff that I own that I think deserves a mention: Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit Benediction - Dark is the Season Cartilage / Altar - The Fragile Concept of Affection ( Seriously do not sleep on this if you like death metal) Centinex - Subconscious Lobotomy Crusher - Corporeal Punishment Deceased - The 13 Frightened Souls Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red Epitaph - Seeming Salvation Eternal Dirge - Morbus Ascendit Fester - Winter of Sin God Dethroned - The Christhunt Miasma - Changes Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity Necrosanct - Incarnate Obscenity - Suffocated Truth Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest Sinister - Cross the Styx Thanatos - Realm of Ecstasy Therion - Beyond Sanctorum Torchure - Beyond the Veil Transgressor - Ether for Scapegoat Unbounded Terror - Nest of Affliction Probably are tons more, truly a great year for death metal.

[@makingaalt5220]

baphomet true innovators and influential as fuck brah brah

[@larsalo]

Yeah that Cartilage/Altar split and Morbus Ascendit are some of the best death metal ever written

[@stop-rg2uz]

Best pfp I've seen

[@Ghoulstille]

Sadly I only have two of these on physical media. These are some more great DM from 1992 Epitaph - Seaming Salvation Polluted Inheritance - Ecocide Seance - Forever Laid to Rest God Dethroned - The Christhunt Sadism - Tribulated Bells Centinex - Subconscious Lobotomy DVC - Molecular Shadow Solstice - S/T debut (of course) Accidental Suicide - Deceased Afflicted - Prodigal Sun Viogression - Passage Messiah - Rotten Perish

[@under-one-flag]

1991 was the golden year for death metal for me - classic after classic.

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

1991 was the absolute peak.

[@mihaiad86]

We say Human and we agree that 91 was the best.

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

@@mihaiad86 _Human Waste_ EP, _Dawn of Possesion_, _Human_, _Like an Ever Flowing Stream_, _Mental Funeral_, _Effigy of the Forgotten_, _Retribution from the Dead_ EP, _Unquestionable Presence_, _Butchered at Birth_, _Luck of the Corpse_, _Clandestine_, _Blessed Are the Sick_, _Into the Grave_, _Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious_, _The Rack_, _The Ten Commandments_, _Where No Life Dwells_, _Considered Dead_, among WAAAYYYY many more.

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

The goddamn absolute peak.

[@jeremyfaulkner1048]

Could be argued that 93 was more important than 92 in the grand scheme of things, particularly in relation to death metal bands trying something new e.g. Gorguts, Loudblast, Cynic, Pestilence, Believer, Death, Entombed, Carcass, Atheist etc.

[@mindful2864]

Since you mentioned Edge of Sanity, I ordered Purgatory Afterglow recently. Unorthodox is an overlooked album in the EoS discography. Demigod, Purtenance, Cenotaph, Brutal Truth, Incantation, Bolt Thrower, Pan.Thy.Monium, and Monstrosity all put out amazing albums that year.

[@ferminf3r139]

An Evil Shade of Grey by Cemetary is another killer album from 1992

[@oathdagger627]

My Dying Bride-As The Flower Withers

[@tommytieyourshoes5070]

Edge of sanity was such a good recommendation thank you so much. I listened to “Unorthodox” and “The Spectral Sorrows” both of them absolutely blew me away

[@trapeznik]

Malevolent Creation - Retribution Fleshcrawl - Descend into Absurd Sinister - Cross The Styx Baphomet - Dead Shall Inherit Blood - Christbait Paralysis - Patrons of the Dark

[@NiallPN]

Sinister - Cross The Styx is classic old school DM from the Netherlands.

[@DeanH92]

Thank you. Anyone who forgets about MC Retribution is basically revealing their gayness to the world

[@TheKingofTheSwing]

Sinister cross the Styx gets played very often in this house for sure that album is a blueprint for sure

[@westernwarden8758]

Such a sick video! Phantasm rules, Lycanthropy is a must listen as well. Honestly as much as a lot of great stuff was released in 91, 92 just seems to be so much more better in quality!

[@alexautobot6762]

Feels illegal to be this early

[@akillen77]

Great video, ive been going on a whole early death metal demo deep dive. A lot of stuff out there that was forgotten by time for better or worse.

[@derjeniche5409]

1992 was really a Golden Year. Death metal was has it´s peak from 1989-1994. My favorites from 92 are: Demigod - Slumber of sullen eyes Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus Baphomet - The Dead shall inherit Bolt Thrower - IV Crusade Gorefest - False Have to check out "Cenotaph" and "Brutal Truth". Thanks for the tips, there are some I didnt know before.

[@exaquvmal]

Miasma - Changes easily one of the best 1992 albums at least in my opinion, essential death metal that no one talks about

[@austinspitler9177]

One Death Metal album well worth checking out if you havent already which came out in 1992 is "Nonexistent" by Living Sacrifice. It got remixed and remastered on Vinyl and CD a couple years ago.

[@hpfreak33]

Love hearing you talk death metal, I hope you cover more in the future!

[@ExplosiveAction]

Death metal and 1992: take my money. This video speaks to me deeply. Own every single thing you showed, most since the 90s on CD primarily (except that Phantasm, that's new to me). Finland was off the hook this year. And I agree with you on IVth Crusade being Bolt Thrower's best, though damn is it close with For Victory. I think Imperial Doom gets overlooked as the damn thing has been out of print since the 90s. Those early Kataklysm EPs were heavy as balls, criminal how mallcore the band is now. I would definitely be including Seance "Fornever Laid to Rest" and Cemetary "An Evil Shade of Grey" - both must haves.

[@maccaspope2275]

Missed the best one. Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity

[@v8cool231]

,My fav from 1992 is Atrocity Todessehnsucht . The album structure is unique. Theres like an intro 3 quarters of the way through which blends straight into the next track . The use of classical and soundbites, and the technical playing . Just an all round great album

[@TwistOfTransistor]

I think you missed Seance's Fornever Laid to Rest

[@brunopinheiro1632]

Hello. Obituary and Incantation albuns are my favourite. Amazing video on hp lovecraft and his influence on metal. Cheers from Portugal 🇵🇹🍻🤘🤘

[@38821]

hell yeah love it when you cover DM stuff. btw i know you're familiar with vaporwave.. but have you heard maniax by DJ Alina? its definitely worth a shot, really good and influential hardvapor. (fun fact; the man on the cover is russian serial killer nikita lytkin)

[@38821]

also i'd be cool if you could do a video explaining vaporwave, esp shedding light on more underground stuff

[@Deathsnake504]

Immortal Fate “Faceless Burial” Assück “Blindspot” 2 Death Grind releases from 92 that we’re important

[@profile1674]

This was about this time I rolled into the underground scene, when I found out that there was a whole world thriving underneath the sounds of Metallica, AC/DC and Guns 'n' Roses. It was so exciting to uncover all this stuff. Me and my friends were really into the fast and aggressive stuff like Napalm Death, Blasphemy, Deicide, Brutal Truth, Nuclear Death, Sinister, Cannibal Corpse ... and we were all heavily into that first Mortification album. We did not care about the christian angle (I don't think we were even aware of it), we were just blown away by the aggression on that one. Just listen to the title track, it's immense!! So glad you included it! Other good ones from that year were Miasma - Changes and Disgrace - Grey Misery!

[@saulbatista8575]

I think your observation is correct when you said that the band Cenotaph has a sound similar to finish Death metal, since in fact there is an interview with one of its members in which he mentions some Finnish bands that he likes and reflects the admiration that he He has for the Finnish scene, in addition to wearing Xysma band t-shirts in some of his old photos and also some influences from Swedish death metal are felt in Cenotaph

[@enzogibertini8267]

i will be honest with you, i'm a huge core guy, but in my early years of exploring more the genres of metal, i always appreciated some Death/Brutal death metal bands And i always be a sucker for some bands and albums that have riffs after riffs on their songs, but i can not get in too much in the genre bc i've listened to some albums that not resonates much with me One of my favourite death metal albums that i've listened to is: The Black Dahlia Murder- Unhallowed Death- All Catalog Deicide- Once Upon A Cross Suffocation- Liege Of Inveracity Pyaemia- Cerebral Cerial Defeated Sanity- Psalms of the Moribund Disgorge (US)- She Lay Gutted Soils Of Fate- Crime Syndicate Dying Fetus- Reign Supreme Hate Eternal- I, Monarch/ Infernus and so many on... i'm a huge fan of the melodic style of riffs with a lot of blast beats and more fast paced sound (btw TBDM- Unhallowed). I still always search for some more albums/bands with more of that realm but i cannot find something that resonates with me I don't like it too much the super slower cavernous stuff Can someone recommends me some albums or bands that in to this kind of fast paced riffs and etc? I still misses the era that i've kind dig in to more of the DM/Brutal Death stuff

[@35rwatts]

As an early Mortification fan it’s really cool hearing the positive reviews on their music. Scrolls is definitely my favorite. Started a long needed genre , or at least was able to put the Christian lyrics to my favorite styles of music … Death Metal.

[@monggreltemple]

Yup, I saw Kataklysm open for Morbid Angel. I was telling my friends that they used to be so great. We were all disappointed

[@welackthemotion6182]

Morpheus descend - ritual of infinity ❤

[@jpeg1341]

Darkness unveiled - infester

[@gauravshrestha6522]

The Phantasm is absolutly underrated

[@dante_dagger]

I knew I stayed up this late studying for a reason.

[@splitprissm9339]

Dark Millenium's "Ashore...", IMHO often missed in compilations of great 1992 death :) Incredibly progressive yet listenable for that time. Hard to include acoustic strings better than "Inside the sunburnt thoughts of frost.." did at the end. Some similarity to how Morning Again did it in Hardcore...

[@emissary_kyle]

Josh Barnett turned me onto how gruesome Bolt Thrower is. Playing Helldivers 2 on Helldive difficulty blaring Killchain is an experience!!!

[@exaquvmal]

Epitaph - Seeming Salvation banger death metal album

[@J.H7950]

👍👍👍👍 Excellent work sir, cheers.

[@VoidDWG]

"No holds barn"? Don't hold Chris Barnes.

[@noone64]

My fav 1992 death metal release is easily Bolt Thrower and the IVth Crusade and the early 90s, 90-94/95 is also easily the golden era for death metal. edit: another '92 release: 'As the Flower Withers' by My Dying Bride

[@spencerdeeks2051]

That Demigod album is amazing, totally agree and recommend highly

[@Ressic]

Catacomb! I forgot how great that band was and still is.

[@vorpalblades]

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

[@Dang-x6j]

Just got done listening to that Grave album. Never heard those guys before. Fucking incredible album!

[@danielwieten8617]

91 for me, but damn great video. Honestly the entire early 90s was an insane time to be an impressionable teenager into death metal. My first death metal show was Obituary/Cannibal Corpse/Malevolent Creation/Agnostic Front in Detroit on my birthday in 92. Why they took a hardcore punk band out with them during those times I’ll never know. Obituary stopped after five songs because the skinheads were beating up the long hairs. Life changing show though. Malevolent Creation stole the show, totally in their prime. Retribution is still in my Mount Rushmore of dm albums. Honestly surprised it’s not on this list

[@jroy3116]

“No holds barred “

[@vargvikernes3103]

Rippikoulu WOOOOOOO

[@p1sstoph3]

1994, Hypocrisy released The Fourth Dimension, probably the best Hypocrisy album ever. I had a giant wall poster for it also as a teenager.

[@7xtylin]

i love you dad

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

I love you to son!

[@illoc]

I love you more my nephew

[@maleexile9053]

Love you the most my cousin

[@TheKingofTheSwing]

Father wyatt 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@splitprissm9339]

Hadn't actually listened to that Incantation album before - instant comparison that comes to mind: Broken Hope (IMHO underrated band).

[@soda_water_]

One of my favorite releases from 1992 is Signs of the Decline by Massacra. Some really good death thrash from France.

[@OfMoonlightAndGrave]

Transgressor is worth a mention, a Japanese death metal band who put out their sole album Ether for Scapegoat in 1992. Best way to describe it is Asphyx meets Convulse, really good stuff.

[@miroki_11]

Yess! Death doom masterpiece

[@monggreltemple]

I love the RUDI in the background!

[@indescribable1]

I agree with other people saying 1991 was the better year Atheist- unquestionable presence Gorguts- considered dead Malevolent creation-the ten commandments Pestilence-testimony of the ancients Pungent stench-been caught buttering Sadistik exekution,death,suffocation,protector, dismember..... It really was a great year and in my opinion better, great video though and very thorough as always :>

[@downscreen129103]

Nocturnus - Thesholds. Great death metal out of Florida. They re-formed as Nocturnus AD in the later 2000's. They just came out with an album this year. Pretty solid stuff, but their early work is the best.

[@arjunmenon1796]

Another great video

[@pepestay]

Let’s come together and get Wyatt one of those Rode Go microphones.

[@misterbaker9728]

I’m 48 in couple months My first show Morbid Angel Entombed Unleashed Got to see em again. 92 Entombed Crawl is one of the best albums period.

[@danielwieten8617]

Also since I didn’t get to finish the video the other day-I wish there was a high quality version of the Solstice demo somewhere because I feel like it hits harder for some reason. You can find a shitty version on KZbin I think. I was really bummed when Rob Barrett decided to give it up and just be part of Cannibal Corpse. Also, you linked Deicide “Legion” but didn’t mention it

[@miroki_11]

Ohh yeah Crematory Denial and all their releases are some of the best OSDM out there!

[@JKBarker101]

Personal favourites include Bolt Thrower, but also Soul of a New Machine (while Fear Factory isn’t a death metal band, that album certainly is and a forward thinking one at that)

[@splitprissm9339]

"The IVth Crusade"? Yes. The vocals at the end of "Ritual". The Solo of "As the world burns". And "This time it's war" seems to only have become more on point....

[@2DoobsMcJubes]

Golden year for Grindcore should be '89! Bolt Thrower's 2nd very grindy, Terrorizer, the "official" release of Repulsion, Extreme Noise Terror. It just was such a groundbreaking year!

[@Danevv]

1991 is the pinnacle of death metal

[@jeffreycharest9093]

1991 for me, but these 1992 releases you mentioned are spot on as well. I can see why 1992 could be the big year for some people.

[@Deathsnake504]

The Deteriorate demo from 92 is killer

[@westernwarden8758]

Also more grindcore but Agathocles - Theatric Symbolisation Of Life

[@franzanais1152]

Napalm Death - Utopia Banished (1992)

[@DesolateSolitude]

"Rhapsodies in Red" (1992) By "Disastrous Murmur" 🇦🇹 1. Disgorged Bowelmovement 2. Extra Uterine Pregnancy Part 2 3. Dinner Is Served 4. Trashchunk & Garbage 5. Masked Killer 6. Flesh.... Is What I Need 7. Satisfaction in the Morgue 8. Into the Dungeon 9. Desecrating the Grave 10. Drowned in Blood

[@RJmcready86]

They also had another good release that year. Where the blood forever rains 🤘

[@DesolateSolitude]

@ThebigR30 - oh yeah! That’s right. Good point. The only CD by this band I own is the studio full-length debut. It was reissued not that long ago, got it at my downtown record shop.

[@DesolateSolitude]

Year: 2020 Osmose Productions [OPCD004]

[@cbn6635]

While I agree that 1992 was a golden year for death metal, I think the year before, 1991, personally might be an even stronger year for death metal; might even be the best year ever for metal in general along with 1986.. 🤔 I like what you said about Incantation 'Onward to Golgotha'; one of the most evil and sinister albums ever. As you said, Graig Pillard sounds so freaking demonic! 🤘👌😎👍

[@infernusrex796]

I totally agree with you on Mexican Death Metal. Probably the most underrated scene, while being the most evil and nasty!!

[@Silent.Endless.Nothing]

Thanks dad

[@ericv7720]

From what I remember, 1992 was the peak of the original death metal wave, and by the end of '93, people were sick of it already, and it was already becoming a punchline. That's when it started to split off into different camps like melodic DM (starting with "Heartwork"), prog/tech death ("Focus" and "ITP"), etc.

[@ramessesvivivi]

best death metal video - no holes barn

[@Shrieking_In_the_Void]

gotta go with 93, Nespithe, Heartwork, Individual Thought Patterns, Covenant, Nocturnal Silence, Erosions of Sanity, Focus, Wolverine Blues just to name a few.

[@Donna230]

Obituary would go on to release other albums, so I guess the end was not complete

[@mateogarcia6942]

wyatt do you understand what you are about to do to my music library?

[@archangelofcoffee922]

I would add Demolition Hammer "Epidemic of Violence" (also in 1992) next to those Sadus and Solstice records.

[@princessprog]

new vinyl collection video coming soon?

[@AlexDizzys]

Gotta be 1991, I remember that, 1991 was the most important year for death metal Death - Human Carcass - Necroticism Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick Paradise Lost - Gothic Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream Entombed - Clandestine Edge of Sanity - Nothing but Death Remains Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering Grave - Into the Grave Immolation - Dawn of Possession Gorguts - Considered Dead Massacre - From Beyond Massacra - Enjoy the Violence Morgoth - Cursed Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments Tiamat - The Astral Sleep to name just 20 albums.

[@Viewpointintersection]

Demigod... Sooooo underrated

[@79thanasis]

purtenance is full of slow parts,maybe you need to listen to it again...

[@wyattxhim]

I did and I still stand on what i said

[@abottleofbeer4349]

Deicide - Legion

[@Enemyofthesun09]

Will we get a video about slam someday?

[@covenantofdeath_]

imo 1995 was the best year of death metal, look at these releases: Morbid Angel - Domination Death - Symbolic Deicide - Once Upon the Cross Vader - De Profundis Suffocation - Pierced from Witihn Six Feet Under - Haunted Krisiun - Black Domain Force Nice vid, keep it up /,,/

[@monggreltemple]

I think anyone in Texas (during the late 80s to early 90s) would consider that particular Brutal Truth album to be DM. just my personal experience.

[@wolfneves]

I'd add Sodom - Tapping the Vein to this list. Even though they are thrash metal, this album is polished with death metal raw and aggressive power

[@craigroaring]

Yeah, i think either 91 or 92.

[@dc.8049]

1991 is the golden year of Death Metal Sepultura - Arise Sentenced - Shadows of the Past Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead Bolt Thrower - War Master Asphyx - The Rack Carcass - Nectroticism Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth Immolation - Dawn of Possession Gorguts - Considered Dead Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream Dark Throne - Soulside Journey Entombed - Clandestine Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments Autopsy - Mental Funeral Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick Cancer - Death Shall Rise Benediction - The Grand Leveller Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

[@barryfried2616]

You played Baphomet in the background but didn’t mention the dead shall inherit😅

[@jeremyevans8601]

I always liked Acts of the unspeakable when Autopsy had a heavy crustcore sound. Prize metal. Listen to your Rotting Face and Blackness Within and you hear LA crossover and bands like Asocial and Siege

[@mausperson5854]

Did you say 'no holds barn'? No holds barred, buddy... as in wrestling.

[@jarltrippin]

They don't call him the "youtuber who stutters and mispronounces things" for nothing.

[@fredarsenault8987]

The RP album in the back ground though, I ll have to get back to this later

[@teamenemy.]

CACOPHONY

[@fredarsenault8987]

@@teamenemy. A master piece

[@mihaelzubak7321]

Sentenced - Shadows of the Past! I'm a way bigger fan of their 2nd album which is really straight forward with the melodicism, but the first one is quite good as well, has a sort of mournful yet rotten atmosphere. A Finnish essential!

[@NevetsTSmith]

It's hard to find a straightforward thrash band that had all solid releases throughout the 90's. There's of course a lot of great death-thrash, the beginnings of black-thrash, and even some fun progressive thrash, but aside from some of the old bands landing killer albums by 92 or so, after 94 the well seems to dry up entirely.

[@Tyrronosaurasrexia]

Whered u get the cenotaph LP?