Best & WORST Death Metal Albums RANKED (From 2000)

[@MetalTrenches]

90's Death Metal Albums Ranked By Year: kzbin.info/aero/PLGt4fzX5jyue8mCsxJT9dKYnIvAFfteK0&si=PpjjKZctSAWsDwt7

[@flynnhale1243]

For 2001 death metal albums I think you should rank albums like six feet under true carnage Blackwater Park … OpethThe Dreadful Hours … My Dying Bride,

[@darrenbooker8144]

Mate I just realised, you NEED to include Darkane moving forward, you missed their debut in 1999, which is a 98/100 in metal archives, because your a melodeath head like me you will love it, cheers from Australia

[@xwolfiegreenwoodx]

Black Seeds Of Vengeance is still such a fantastic album. I saw them live around that time and I was blown away.

[@personavisceration371]

Yep, I caught them with Cannibal Corpse and Revenge right before this came out. Phenomenal.

[@oldschooldeathmetal8417]

Let's gooooo, my favorite series on the channel, thanks for showing some records I didn't even know

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

That's the main purpose of this channel! I'm also grateful for it!

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

When is part two coming out?! We want MOREEEEE. 🔥

[@MetalTrenches]

Thank you! More on the way

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

@@MetalTrenches thanks!

[@masterknife8423]

Destroy the Opposition is so good

[@vadiknetsko8504]

Cephalic Carnage -Exploiting Dysfunction is a must

[@0hrwurms]

I hope you will start including Cephalic Carnage from 2002 onwards. The 2000 album is still very grind but Lucid Interval (2002) and onwards they are deathgrind like Aborted and Cattle Decapitation.

[@FlabbyPigLegs]

Impaled, Vital remains, Asphyx, Berzerker, and Malevolent Creation's 2000 album also worth checking out

[@philroyal4157]

Impaled is great

[@skarrx2416]

It's still amazing to me that most of the members of Decapitated weren't even 18 when they recorded their debut album

[@mindful2864]

Finally doing the 2000's death metal list. That decade is where tech death, brutal death, and melodic death metal really started to hit their stride and so many new bands debuted. Out of all the albums on this list I've heard, here would be my ranking: S - Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris, Vader - Litany, Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper, The Crown - Deathrace King, Decapitated - Winds of Creation, Immolation - Close to a World Below, Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition A+ - Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance, Dark Tranquillity - Haven, Behemoth - Thelema.6, In Flames - Clayman, Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine, Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation, The Haunted - Made Me Do It, The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld, Exhumed - Slaughtercult, Krisiun - Conquerors of Armageddon, Extol - Undeceived A - Incantation - The Infernal Storm, Kataklysm - The Prophecy (Stigmata of the Immaculate), Kalmah - Swamplord, Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss, Brodequin - Instruments of Torture, Quo Vadis - Day into Night, Nunslaughter - Hells Unholy Fire, Contrastic - Contrastic, Cryptopsy - ...And Then You'll Beg B - Origin - Origin, Benighted - Benighted, Centinex - Hellbrigade, Dismember - Hate Campaign, Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty C - Cattle Decapitation - Homovore D - Deicide - Insineratehymn F - Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics

[@WilliamRyan-h2y]

When you put Deathrace King all the way down at "good" it took damn near 5 minutes for me to wipe the "How dare you?!" look off my face lol. Great video!

[@longshanks5531]

Been looking forward to this! Keep it up bro! 🤙🏻

[@imawesomeyourenot]

I just happened to re-listen to Krisiun Conquerors...last night. It is a FANTASTIC album, definitely worthy of a 'perfection' rank. I remember when it came out its was one of the fastest most brutal albums out there, and certainly better than many albums on this list (i was looking so forward to Deicide at the time and was horribly disappointed ..ugh). Another is Cryptopsy, i dont understand how people dont like Whisper, or ...And then You'll beg, simply crushing albums that werent stagnate when so many others were at this time in death metal. Also, Immolation Close to a World Below is probably a tie with Nile for the best on this ranking. These two albums were miles ahead of the pack in the originality and atmosphere that they set out to achieve, not to mention the technical proficiency of the band themselves. Masterclasses in death metal by each. Pretty decent rankings over all though!

[@curtisgeist6122]

It is soooo cool to see Lykathea on here! Apparently a follow up has been in the works for years, but the main guy has been cited as being lazy lol I have the cd somewhere but I wish it was on Spotify or Bandcamp

[@Goryptor]

Lykathea Aflame has gained quite a decent following for such an inactive UG project. Ptoe needs a bit of a push to release the follow up, so does Snorre and his Thorns and Nagash and his Kovenant.

[@FlippMasters]

Fuck it let’s make it all the way to 2024 death metal albums ranked

[@ShotandBotched]

The Steve Tucker era of Morbid Angel is definitely slept on.

[@Joshcoshbagosh]

extremely underrated. The first couple albums feel essential. As many have said, they were kind of doing Gojira before Gojira

[@tamomarfernandez7548]

Great records, awful covers.

[@henrywalton5967]

Early 2000's has some awful artwork 🤮

[@tweezersalad4075]

The Little Mermaid coloring book cover for Contrastic is hilarious af

[@spencergrady5501]

@@tweezersalad4075 great album too

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

@@tweezersalad4075 just as experimental as the album.

[@michalisveliziotis615]

Morbid Angel's one is an exception. Best cover they ever did.

[@TheMetalGaia]

Close to a World Below is an all timer for me.

[@TheMetalGaia]

"Didn't you say....Jesus was coming?"

[@cbn6635]

To me, Macabre 'Dahmer' is one of the most unique concept albums of all time, and definitely my favorite of the year 2000. That Nile album comes pretty close though, and the one lone Lykathea Aflame album is also very unique. The Origin debut is close to perfection too in my world; the drumming of John Longstreth is second to none! 👌 Great ranking of a great year! 👍

[@cajunboi4888]

I think Dying Fetus may be my favorite Death Metal band alongside Death.

[@jesseleavy5841]

I ❤ that Contrastic record! So cool that you included it. A hidden gem if you ask me. Not for everyone though, it is SUPER weird, but that's right up my alley.

[@tonyziporlin4240]

Kudos for including Extol. Criminally underrated band

[@ding1r]

Destroy The Opposition is the perfect BDM album, literally no skips. I'll recommend it for those who are interested to get into the genre.

[@flyingdutchman8093]

Gateways to annihilation is one of my favorite Morbid Angel albums and favorite death metal albums period.

[@marcoslopes8853]

Gateways from Morbid deserves perfection imo

[@BornHeadless96]

That's really definitely true

[@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic]

I would probably put it at Fantastic or Amazing, I definitely love it, too. The songwriting maybe isn't quite as sharp as the prior records, but God it's brutal

[@paradoxrift2600]

IMO this year was a huge improvement over the last one. Nice to see some love for Extol and Quo Vadis in particular.

[@sightlesswisdom2559]

I still remember when That Nile album came out and I was sure that nothing was even close to that. Still one of my all-time favorite albums of all time.

[@shredward666]

Severe Torture- Feasting on Blood

[@zschokks5583]

My favorite album on this list, and by far, is Day into Night from Quo Vadis. It´s tight and very melodic with really good songwriting. Love it!

[@freddiemossberg7204]

I remember hearing ‘Chapter For Transforming Into a Snake’ by Nile on a Relapse album sampler in 2001 and that made me buy the album. That album alone reignited my love for Death Metal which had been slowly dying during the latter part of the 90’s.

[@wizzardx666]

I kinda miss samplers. Do labels still put them together, even as a Playlist or anything?

[@NicolasAristizabal-rb3ju]

Epidemic of Hate never fails to get me in moshing mood

[@tomasjonsson7141]

Its a crime to not put Immolation at perfection 🐐🐐🐐

[@Haxprocess]

it's crime to not put elvenefris at perfection, because that's exactly what that album is

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

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[@Haxprocess]

@@i_want_my_shuggah ???

[@rieskaruisku]

The reason why Kalmah's Swamplord sounds astonishing is because it's recorded at Tico Tico Studios. Most of early Sentenced, Impaled Nazarene, Sonata Arctica and some CMX have been recorded there. The owner is a great guy and a regular in most of the local music events.

[@42k78]

Spotify always seems to have issues with the Elvenefris album as well. I love that one but can only listen to that on youtube. One of your fav Vader albums is the same way and it's not fair.

[@Goryptor]

Massively satisfying to see a couple of Czech acts here. Contrastic definitely deserve more attention, they're more on the grindcore side of the spectrum but as experimental as you can get. Their current release Mamun is 10/10 again.

[@queensofthedthrone8267]

Commenting of course for some engagement but wow this series has been wild. I honestly hope you keep pushing all the way to present day, even if its a top 10-15 per year kind of thing. But one example out of 100s I can make by now of how you got me out of a rut in my music listening was Killswitch. I always would put on As Daylight Dies and be like "eh" but you putting that in C tier relative to End of Heartache was a big change for me. Still not an all time favorite band of mine or anything. If I hd to make one honorable mention out of the maelstrom of metal I have been subjecting myself to from these lists, that riff on Twilight by Edge of Sanity makes little use of fucking around.

[@erikdead8290]

Kudos for the inclusion of the fantastic Quo Vadis and Lykathea Aflame! Elvenefris is definitely perfection for me 🤘🏻, and I had no idea of the Disembarkation existance, being something in the vein of Atheist and Cynic it is a must for me now. Also, for more crazy Czech metal I highly recommend you to listen to !T.O.O.H.!, these guys are crazy! Their debut was also released in 2000 and it's a mash up of grind, brutal death and tech death, absolutely nuts stuff! Although this one is very chaotic, dissonant, somewhat noisy and a bit inconsistent, it is a very interesting listen and a nice beginning for the magic the managed to get for their next 2 records, which are very impressive. Curiously, you can find the debut with the titles, vocals and lyrics in 2 different languages, in Czech as "Z vyšší vůle", and English as "From Higer Will". I hope you give it a spin and cheers from Mexico! 🤘🏻

[@sheldonmacdonald3602]

My birth year. Hell yea. Some definite bangers

[@Drochaigeant]

Was happy to see two of my absolute favorites make it to the top. Winds of Creation and Swamplord are such great debuts. Definitely stings a little seeing Nunslaughter right next to Six Feet Under. 😆

[@flan9196]

Great list, but how could you forget Impaled’s The Dead Shall Dead Remain?

[@ms-06fzakuii53]

Thanks for giving Quo Vadis a shoutout. Anyone that digs not-fucking-around Melodeath will love the song Mute Requiem. Quite underrated they were.

[@Nicolas1909_]

The best for my is Procession to the Infraworld. The way they balanced aggression and melancholy, melody and dissonance is insane.

[@brewtaleats6555]

Destroy the Opposition broke my brain the first time I’d heard it. That album continues to be absolute perfection and is still my favorite Dying Fetus album.

[@spencergrady5501]

That Contrastic album is ace grind. The Chasm and Exhumed are great. Man, you done Nunslaughter all wrong.

[@coreydinardo5525]

Lykathea Aflame is soooo good. I love it all the more that I can no longer find it anymore.

[@Voivode_Vlad]

Perfection Tier: Immolation, Vader, Nile, Decapitated. Gateways to Annihilation is underrated in Morbid Angel's discography.

[@jacobluttrull1470]

first time hearing that immlation record genuinely made my head hurt from all the headbanging. As a vocalist I can apprieciate the screams as well.

[@oldschooldeathmetal8417]

Will you do a series like this for Black Metal and Metalcore? That would be awesome imo

[@demonovationable]

The disrespect continually dished to The Crown WILL NOT STAND

[@iimmolarious7636]

Those Kalmah, CoB, Brodequin and Decapitated albums are perfection to me, must have listened to those 4 over a 100 times as least.

[@blackwaterrust476]

Ohhhh that Contrastic album cover looooooool. It’s one of my favorite grindcore albums. It’s so crazy and not like Anything you’d expect with a Goofy ass cover like that lol

[@argentgoat6184]

Can you do a darkthrone ranking and a nile ranking when they release new music?

[@EmberMcLain87]

when i saw the little mermaid art my initial thought was, "oh lord the art must be so vile that youtube would demonetize the video in a heartbeat." looked it up, and nope. that was just the art they picked.

[@gutsgonebad]

My favorite didn't even make the list, Darkest Hour - The Mark of Judas

[@jdg1120]

Agree with most of the stuff I'm familiar with on here; always love seeing you give Kalmah the respect they deserve. Biggest disagreement would be The Crown. That album rips IMO, and is worth a listen for "Deathexplosion" alone.

[@momentarylapseofsanity3873]

YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! AND THE SAGA CONTINUES!!!!

[@Durkhead]

Death metal 2000 sounds like a badass 90s movie

[@personavisceration371]

Please include "Completely Devoted" by Damnable for 2001, it's a rather creative and underrated death/grind album from that year.

[@rickdeckard2240]

Solid year in DM indeed 😅 Winds of Creation is so amazing...

[@aita45]

This list severely lacks "Dahmer" by Macabre which is one of the most morbidly unique death metal releases. Other honourable mentions are "Devoid" by Dark Lunacy and "Feasting on Blood" by Severe Torture.

[@tylerbailey9329]

Black Seeds is brilliant, I have the picture disc and it literally looks like an ancient relic

[@ThatOneMetalGuy200]

Ah man you forgot Feasting on Blood by Severe Torture, other than that great picks

[@VTM_isawesome]

The Haunted is a thrash band 🤔

[@mercyfulnate]

Deathrace King at Good really surprised me.

[@Rose-From-the-Dead]

Not putting Day Into Night in Perfection is blasphemy. In my opinion it's one of the most overlooked albums ever

[@ms-06fzakuii53]

Quo Vadis were ahead of their time. Noone was really doing a techy style of Melodeath that was still catchy and not a total instrument wankfest

[@freddrag-cn2qr]

Another great album ranking

[@tonyziporlin4240]

Chain heart Machine is a damn good album. I just feel that Bjorn's vocals are not very original. He really comes into his own on Natural Born Chaos

[@NocturnalSummoning45]

Who's pink panty wearing idea was it to fucking use the little mermaid as an album cover?!, brah brah!

[@tiagofigueiredo5233]

.... I have enjoyed Midian by Cradle of Filth that year, if that falls into the category itself...great list

[@MRSludgedude]

You should do extreme sludge metal ranking. But that may not be your thing. Might be more of an underground channel thing.

[@luxi378]

no love for WARP ZONE (Martyr)...? or the great EP The Arsonist and the Architect by Luddite Clone... also: Today is the Day with In the Eyes of God... good stuff.

[@insane396]

If you do 2002 you need to include Theory in Practice since it was missing from 1997 and 1999 :/

[@MetalTrenches]

There’s only so much time to work on these and the views-to-hours-spent isn’t exactly pushing me to put more of my limited time into them. The reality is no matter how many albums I include, there will be more that won’t. I have a family and a full time job. It would be nice if people could just be thankful for the time I already put into these. I don’t think they realize how much work it is even if I enjoy it.

[@bunniculaoshawottfanbof2024]

Alright, next video 2001: Gojira - Terra Incognita Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin Bolt Thrower - Honour.Valour.Pride Amon Amarth - The Crusher Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore Brodequin - Festival of Death Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise

[@zombiTrout]

Slaughtercult is way too low on that list.

[@deathmetal0073]

Outside of Annihilation of the Wicked Nile has never done anything for me.

[@Agalloch1234]

I don’t know what you have against The Chasm in these videos, but they are light years ahead of the bands you deem perfection, like Children of Bodom, for example. I find it hard to believe you find Children of Bodom more enjoyable than The Chasm, but to each their own.

[@thelegionary07]

Malevolent Creation - Envenomed???

[@satarello]

Morbid angel Gateways should be on Fantastic or even perfection album

[@TheVandergoose]

Hellyeah first comment I need to go to bed nile

[@MotorheadForever7]

You sound like LevelCapGaming

[@philroyal4157]

Where's Skinless and Cephalic Carnage?

[@neilbottles2597]

Too many masterpieces came out that year

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

I’m not seeing the improvement to the vocals on …And Then You’ll Beg. I think they’re definitely worse on that album, if anything.

[@pastromer8552]

at long last

[@tonyziporlin4240]

Death Race King deserves more love. Easily their best album and it has plenty of energy. How is thst on par with that Deicide album lol

[@thecritters8933]

gateways to annihilation just "great"? wtf? 11/10 album

[@michaelsantangelo6192]

Great list! I almost forgot how good a year for death metal 2000 was. The haunted doesn't belong here though as they are not a death metal band.

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Made Me Do It is primarily melodic death metal 😂

[@robertsparling917]

Bring on 2001!

[@connormorrison1457]

Not trying to be pedantic but every foreigner always pronounces it wrong. It's Abraaaaamelin, no melon, no fruit involved at all.

[@UlfhedinnNorsk]

Vader’s “Litany” is absolutely unlistenable due to dumb bass drum sound 🤦🏻‍♂️. What were they thinking? Such great material ruined 🤨

[@MetalPersonJ]

Gateways to Annihilation feels so forgettable. Close To A World Below would be at the very top of 2000

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Gateways to Annihilation is one of Morbid Angel’s best albums. Agree that Close to A World Below is great though.

[@Cwin-ny6bp]

Close to a World Below definitely should have been perfection. Would have put both in that tier, though.

[@frankmurphy8567]

I got to ask,do you have a job or is this it?

[@orenom6704]

2000-2010 are the worst years for metal and death metal especially (regardless of how dying fetus, suffocation, immolation and dark tranquillity continued to release good albums)

[@Agalloch1234]

The Chasm, Portal, Intestine Baalism, early Gojira, Bolt Thrower, Arghoslent, Stargazer, etc. Easily the best decade of death metal since people are moving away from that boring ass OSDM sound.

[@asaprabbit8305]

Man, 2000 releases are bland as hell!! Like meat with literally no seasoning!! ( IMO)

[@raregrimebeats1352]

Sometimes that’s all you need. Grindcore for example

[@AndyReinke]

Children of bodom is not death metal

[@richpittman666]

destroy the oppisition is hands down the best album of the year

[@AndyReinke]

Children of bodom is not death metal

[@AndyReinke]

Children of bodom is not death metal

[@AndyReinke]

Children of bodom is not death metal

[@AndyReinke]

Children of bodom is not death metal