DEATH METAL Albums RANKED From 1991 (Morbid Angel to Cannibal Corpse)

[@MetalTrenches]

1990 Death Metal Albums Ranked: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oouQn2aumdCee5I MORE Death Metal Rankings: kzbin.info/aero/PLGt4fzX5jyucIYhX0oj622Kg-fiwCqDMd&si=uB9iDktWgCdUd-NT

[@TheWelhaven]

I can’t even think of ranking albums from 1991. It’s maybe THE year for me. 17 years old, and embracing everything I could find within the genre. Tape trading and friends making fanzines and selling underground albums. What a time to be alive. Joined my first DM-band in 1992, and are still playing 32 years later.

[@mat2093]

We all want the weird al album ranking.

[@proggydoggie]

No we don't.

[@denisowiczak3499]

Make it happen. NOW!

[@Hxzaifaaa]

​@@proggydoggie Yes we do

[@Trainwrekzband]

​@@proggydoggie We need it.

[@captaindaddy4991]

Yes!

[@zatoichi7540]

Deceased ‐ Luck Of The Corpse should have been on that tier list. Legendary yet underrated death metal.

[@mindful2864]

1991 was death metal’s peak year. So many banger albums came out in the genre. Most of these, at least the ones I’ve heard will end up in either A-tier or S-tier. Here’s my ranking of these albums that I’ve heard: S - Autopsy - Mental Funeral, Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten, Atheist - Unquestionable Presence, Immolation - Dawn of Possession, Massacre - From Beyond, Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead, Death - Human, Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream A - Carcass - Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious, Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick, Bolt Thrower - War Master, Cancer - Death Shall Rise, Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge, Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients, Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments, Entombed - Clandestine, Tiamat - The Astral Sleep, Convulse - World Without God, Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells, Grave - Into the Grave B - Gorguts - Considered Dead, Asphyx - The Rack, Darkthrone - Soulside Journey, Baphomet - Inheritors of the Dead, Edge of Sanity - Nothing But Death Remains, Mortification - Self-titled/Until the End, Therion - …Of Darkness, Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth

[@MetalTrenches]

Just wait though... '92 and '93 get even MORE wild imo

[@SuperStrik9]

@@MetalTrenches Gonna be great! So many 💎🤘

[@Anti-todo000]

Others Death metal albums from 1991: Sentenced - Shadows of the Past Sororicide - The Entity Imperator - The Time Before Time Desecrator - Subconscious Release Morgoth - Cursed Massacra - Enjoy the Violence Benediction - The Grand Leveller Loudblast - Disincarnate Broken Hope - Swamped in Gore The best albums from 1991 in my opinion are : Dawn of Possession - Immolation Like an Everflowing Stream - Dismember Testimony of the Ancients - Pestilence Effigy of the Forgotten - Suffocation

[@jeffmoppi]

Oh yes, Morgoth. Cursed is a perfect album!

[@jeffmoppi]

1991 was the year when Death Metal exploded. If you're into this kind of music, I recommend you give these albums a listen: Benediction - The Grand Leveller Jumpin’ Jesus - The Art Of Crucifying Loudblast - Disincarnate Massacra - Enjoy The Violence Morgoth - Cursed Protector - A Shedding of Skin Revenance - Prophecies of a Dying World

[@DebateDeliberate]

Good call w/ Benediction there.

[@zschokks5583]

So pumped that someone mentions Enjoy the violnce by Massacra. This album is sooo corrosive and kicking ass!

[@jeffmoppi]

@zschokks5583 yeah, it's really an awesome album and a step forward from their debut! Massacra and Loudblast helped put France on the map.

[@poppybasers]

Was waiting for Jumpin Jesus and Revenant.. awesome albums

[@kjlim3743]

Man this is a huge step up from the '90 list in terms of quantity. We eating good with this video! Thanks dude!

[@MetalTrenches]

Just wait... the next 2 get even longer.

[@PolkCountyWIProgressive]

Nice inclusion of Mortification. I felt like I was the only one who even listened to them. By the way, the album is titled “Mortification” and Until the End is the first track off of the album.

[@wheelsofmercury]

I love both Dismember and Autopsy.

[@MetalTrenches]

\m/

[@mindful2864]

Dismember and Autopsy are both amazing. Do you still prefer black metal to death metal or are you starting to warm up to death metal more?

[@wheelsofmercury]

@@mindful2864 I still prefer black metal to death metal. There’s just more emotion in black metal.

[@mindful2864]

@@wheelsofmercury There is emotion and lots of different styles in black metal, I can thank Quest for Metal and Wyattxhim for getting me into a wide variety of black metal bands. When I want a genre that has hard grooves, solos, and drumming; death metal is my go to. To me it all depends on which mood I’m in.

[@099_fahrezirafid8]

Nice list, my top 3 are Death - Human, Dismember- LAEFS & Autopsy - Mental Funeral

[@ScreaminT81]

I gotta tell ya, this was a massive task and you nailed a lot of it. The hardest part is ranking it. I personally would not butchered that high due to the production. Other than that they’re a great records. Well done dude

[@Qu4ds_musictaste]

Hey Metal Trenches, I'm a big fan, I was wondering if you could do a video of you're CD collection.

[@MetalTrenches]

I actually did a series of live streams covering all of it that you should be able to find on the LIVE tab

[@scottiematthews5932]

I had never heard of that Ripping Corpse band before and decided to give a spin! Love it! Wish they had done more. Thanks man!

[@YONATOOTH]

Yes, please do one for every single year up till now 😁🤘

[@trigg1457]

I'm surprised no one in comment section mentioned Pungent Stench with Been Caught Buttering, great album!

[@henrywalton5967]

Death, Arheist and Morbid Angel are the only ones i seem to go back to tbh

[@nickfanzo]

Great year, great albums . Love that suffocation record to death 😂

[@AndrewJSmall]

Appreciate you going back thoroughly like this. I got into punk and hardcore first and didn't get into metal until my teen years. Though I came across a lot of these bands and their work later, you really work hard to pull out some real obscure gems.

[@MetalTrenches]

🤘🏻

[@chillyinalberta]

Great list, tons of work putting this together.

[@bingboompow8861]

Just what I needed tonight. Great video

[@DavyDredd14]

My Favorite Death Metal Albums from 1991 : DISMEMBER - Like An Ever Flowing Stream SUFFOCATION - Effigy Of The Forgotten CARCASS - Necroticism IMMOLATION - Dawn Of Possession MASSACRA - Enjoy The Violence CONVULSE - World Without God AUTOPSY - Mental Funeral UNLEASHED - Where No Life Dwells

[@darthjason7019]

Well sir , you have a great taste for death metal 91

[@DavyDredd14]

@@darthjason7019 Thank you.

[@Durkhead]

Im excited for 1995. Six feet under haunted is one of my favorite albums i still listen to it all the time. And where the slime live to me is like the stairway to heaven of death metal riffs

[@johannrobles2342]

Este wey odia six feet under bro jajajaja

[@simondavies109]

I knew you'd put 'Blessed Are The Sick' which is one of the best albums I have ever heard low down!

[@rickdeckard2240]

Choir of Horrors is easily in my top 5 all time death metal favorites, a very underrated gem, and what a stepup from their previous records.

[@Jioti_Parcharides]

Thank you for the memories and your massive work. From today's perspective your ranking is about right. Back in the day I'd say I felt it different. The fan's focus in 1991 was strong at Morbid Angel, Death and Carcass new releases. Just remember Headbangers Ball playing songs of these albums very often. David Vincent was the first and last Death Metal "rockstar", even some girls I knew were addicted to his charisma. All the other releases like Grave, Unleashed, Gorguts, Immolation or Gorefest were unfortunately not in the main focus of attention, as I remember. This was about to change the years to come. Dismember "everflowing stream"is the best of all those albums imho. Even by today's standards it's totally mercilless..It got much airplay in Headbangers ball, too. You cannot imagine the Massacre hype in 1991. It got album of the month in several German fanzines, as far as I remember. I instantly bought the CD, while my school mates were into Boys II Men and MC Hammer 😅.

[@kauffeemug]

So many good albums from 91’! Did you get to check out Torchia - Arcane Magicae from the 9th? Some really good Melo Death!

[@NicolasAristizabal-rb3ju]

So much bangers this year. Still managed to come up with a good ranking, so gg

[@MetalTrenches]

It only gets wilder from here too...

[@docvader82]

I LOVE these countdowns, they inevitably touvh on some albums i'm not familiar with.

[@mercyfulnate]

I enjoy your videos because we have incredibly different taste 😂 so it’s always a game to see where and how much we’ll diverge

[@ocbreactions7843]

Kudos on you for the Ripping Corpse inclusion! I can't fault your placement as they're according to your taste. Personally I'd bump Asphyx up to great, and call Sarcofago thrash and replace their album with Pungent Stench's Been Caught Buttering at great tier. Regardless enjoyed this vid! Keep it up!

[@chilledm.136]

This is what I was looking for man, thank you!!!

[@tomasjonsson7141]

A realy good year for DM and nice ranking bro =)

[@MetalTrenches]

Thanks

[@proggydoggie]

It pains me to see the likes of Bolt Thrower, Immolation ,Pestilence, Asphyx, and Autopsy on the bottom half of the list. We are clearly of two different minds on 1991. Oh, and Cannibal Corpse is the most overrated death metal band of all time.

[@ShapeshifteR-TheAnomalyGameCat]

Fucking agree with that man! Nothing against this guy but i think it's a shit list. Sadistic Execution and Malevolent Creation almost at the top? Lol OSDM fot life!🤘

[@zvolphhasenmiau5369]

Each to his own, but putting Asphyx that low will cost him a great deal of karma in another life...

[@nangarsd-00]

Could you imagine putting Bolt Thrower or Immolation under Carcass? 💀

[@ShapeshifteR-TheAnomalyGameCat]

​​@@nangarsd-00Yes. With that one i do agree with him i guess🙂

[@MetalTrenches]

And being of different minds is what makes talking about music MORE fun

[@ozi76]

Wish i was 15 again. What a year for death metal.

[@HeathenDance]

You can listen to all those albums lol.

[@ozi76]

@HeathenDance I had hair back then though

[@HeathenDance]

@@ozi76 My condolences for the baldness gene. I'm 40, healthy long hair since 17.

[@simonturner7574]

‘The Magus’ was actually recorded in ‘88 and was supposed to be originally released by Metalion of Slayer Mag fame at the time. Cue a 2 year delay before Sydney’s Vampire Records released it. Wild, wild LP.

[@FeroVlkolinsky]

Earned my like as soon as you put the Atheist to perfection tier. But overall, this tierlist corellates with my own perception of 1991 pretty neatly - even the reasining you give for each album.

[@ottopietarinen]

Hopefully you have Benediction for 93' as you haven't had them for 90 or 91🤔

[@samuelblinne6040]

Human is my favorite death album

[@RaulRamirez-jv4rn]

My favorite album, period

[@darksideinferno3454]

91 was a fucking Killer Year for Death Metal Fans!! Thanks for another great ranking Video! Fantastic work Mr. Trenches!!

[@Blaze-wb6bk]

Great Ranking. World Without God and Dawn of Possession should be higher though. Flase Religion by Convulse is actually one of my favorite Death Metal songs period.

[@deadstrike7203]

Sorry dude I disagree with the order of your list . But I understand that your opinion so I respect that. Thank you for taking me back on the good old days bro . Keep up the good work 🤟🏻

[@DesolateSolitude]

1991 - The Banner year for Death Metal. 1994 - The Banner year for Black Metal.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

The overview look of this tier list would make for a great patch vest lol !

[@RiffRiotMetalBlog]

So many quality album releases that year... Probably one of the best in death metal history.

[@caljerm]

Agree on Dawn Of Possession - it's ok to me and I think they make a massive jump on Here In After and everything onward from there.

[@tile-maker]

Mental funeral is S tier 😡 great video though lmao love your stuff

[@MetalTrenches]

\m/

[@jason_108]

1991 was THE glory year for death metal albums. I was 16 & it was bliss

[@toksic424]

Like An Ever Flowing Stream is in my top 5 favorite death metal albums ever. I absolutely adore that album.

[@cbn6635]

That Ripping Corpse album is so special! Technical death/thrash at It's best...👌Much talk about Rutan, but it's actually more Shaune Kelley that impressed me on that album; riffs for days! And the drumming of Brandon Thomas is also phenomenal.. 🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

Blew me away

[@cbn6635]

@@MetalTrenches Me too! The couple of tracks, they demo'ed for the follow up album, that sadly never was recorded, sounded sick as well..

[@MetalPersonJ]

S-tier: Necrotisicm: Descanting The Insalubrious, Blessed Are The Sick, Mental Funeral, Like An Ever Flowing Stream A-tier: Unquestionable Presence, Dawn Of Possession, Clandestine, Human B-tier: The Rack, Effigy of the Forgotten, Where No Life Dwells, Soulside Journey C-tier: From Beyond, Testimony of the Ancients, Dreaming With The Dead, The Astral Sleep, Meh: War Master, Butchered At Birth, Nothing But Death Remains, Into The Grave, Of Darkness…… Don’t know, haven’t heard: Considered Dead, The Magus, Death Shall Rise, The Laws Of Scourge, Ten Commandments, Inheritors Of the Dead, Mindloss, World Without God, Choir Without Horrors, Until The End

[@secularspectator]

Massacre was one my 1st death metal experiences...Take you down to the abyss!!!....oh the found memories 😊 Others Meathook Seed, Pestilence, Sepultura, Napalm, Obituary

[@MetalTrenches]

\m/

[@jdg1120]

Nice list! I gotta say, the biggest disagreement I have is Asphyx so low. I'm not big on doomy bands either, but LOVE Asphyx. I would also have put Darkthrone, Entombed, & Grave higher, but also a lot on here I never heard. Cheers.

[@blrblr1]

1. Death - Human 2. Carcass - Necroticism 3. Pestilence - Testimony 4. Tiamat - The Astral Sleep 5. Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth 6. Gorguts - Considered Dead 7. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream 8. Edge of Sanity - Nothing but Death Remains 9. Malevolent Creation - Ten Commandments

[@SuperStrik9]

I'd rank Gorefest - Mindloss and Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten higher but hey it's your list. Great seeing Necroticism P tier. My favorite Carcass album. Overall quality list of Death Metal albums from 1991.

[@romaincassignol]

The best year in Death Metal IMO, before 1993.

[@samuelblinne6040]

Awesome list

[@cristingrooms8053]

Fun fact - James Murphy also played a guest solo on Gorguts Inoculated Life.

[@kidnamedgio182]

I like Suffocation I went to go see them last year for my birthday

[@connieellerbe-maycock7115]

I love your lists. I didn't start listening to Death metal til I was in my late 40s so I am playing catch up.

[@Legions_666]

EFFIGY OF THE FORGOTTEN!!!!! greatest album in 91 imp 😎🤘🖤☠️🔥🎸💯

[@Steven34072]

Scrolls of the Megilloth is the album that comes to mind when I hear Mortification

[@funwithballistics1016]

You should give the 1991 album For the Security by Carbonized a listen. It has the vocalist of Dismember and a member from Therion as well. I cant really explain it. Its progressive a little jazzy avant garde deathgrind. Very unique.

[@jonathananderson5135]

I've been on a Swedish kick lately so I did both Grave and Dismember. I admire Grave's persistence but I find them pretty same-y. Dismember, though, kick ass.

[@MetalTrenches]

Unfortunately Dismember kind of go downhill the further you get in to their 90's albums

[@jonathananderson5135]

@@MetalTrenches I’m not as down on Killing Capacity as many but yeah, Death Metal is pretty meh. They rebound nicely in the 2000s though, I think The God That Never Was is right up there with Indecent & Obscene fighting for the #2 spot.

[@coreyrapoza5959]

Revenant "Prophecies Of A Dying World " Sorcery "Blood Chilling Tales"

[@donaldcady3839]

Autopsy is my absolute favorite

[@HenryRuins]

Are you gonna do the year 1992?

[@MetalTrenches]

We're doing EVERY year of the 90's... and will potentially continue to present day if people continue to enjoy the series. I already have up through 94 done and have most of my notes ready for 95 and 96

[@HenryRuins]

cool hope it continues at least through the 90's@@MetalTrenches

[@AngusMacThrasherMetalReviews]

I much prefer Edge Of Sanity’s “Purgatory Afterglow”

[@themadmattster9647]

Love that Atheist album, have to pull it out soon

[@Манґалоїд]

Guys can you help me? I'm trying to find album with cover where dude taking skin off himself and some other dude's looking at him, I don't remember any name of band or album if anyone knows whats I'm talking about would be glad if you help me🥹

[@samuelblinne6040]

Keep up the good work

[@metalmystro7513]

Protector (a shedding of skin )#1

[@stevehoffmann6487]

Immolation= PERFECTION 🤘

[@ammanus356]

On Effigy, only one guitar is C standard, the other is C#

[@filipdzero8739]

It's still sad to see Testimony of the Ancients and War Master so low, but at least I'm not shocked, considering your past opinions on it. Maybe the songs themselves aren't that interesting, but the vibe/groove and the soundscape of them are (at least to me). I agree that Blessed Are the Sick is overrated. Shit mix & a lot of songs're just ruined with pointless, boring sections.

[@MetalTrenches]

Cheers

[@jewel_throne2950]

I agreed with you until you said Blessed was bad. Now I don’t take any death opinion you have seriously👍👍

[@flynnhale1243]

I strongly recommend you put as the flowers withers from my dying bride I want it in the 1992 death Metal ranking video please put my dying bride as the flowers withers in the 1992 death metal ranking video so basically I want a 1992 death metal ranking video and I beg you please include my dying bride as the flowers withers

[@MetalTrenches]

That list is unfortunately already long done and I already had to revise it twice.

[@flynnhale1243]

@@MetalTrenches what ever I kind of can't believe you forgot paradise lost gothic and what about a 1993 death metal ranking video you can put katationia dance of December souls on it and my dying bride turn loose the swans

[@robertsparling917]

You definitely need to do a 1996 death metal albums video with the following: Cannibal Corpse-Vile (first album with current vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher) Immolation-Here in After (second album) Dying Fetus-Purification Through Violence (debut) Cryptopsy-None So Vile Arch Enemy-Black Earth (first album from these Swedish legends) Hypocrisy-Abducted Carcass-Swansong (last one till 2013 for this band and it's their worst) In Flames-The Jester Race

[@MetallIstKrieg]

Trying to figure out how Baphomet “Inheritors of the Dead” made the list when it was only released as a test pressing of 50 copies in ‘91 and didn’t see a proper release until many, many years later…

[@MetalTrenches]

Teat pressing or not, it’s still technically a ‘91 record

[@MetallIstKrieg]

@@MetalTrenches but “technically” who heard it in ‘91 if it wasn’t available? It’s kinda like this was a Metal Archives search for the criteria of “Genre: Death Metal”, “Release year: 1991”… cool, now let’s pick something obscure for the video…

[@YeisonAlexanderMaldonadoGarcia]

Other great death metal qlbum of 1991 is reqviem by masacre, is a killer album

[@ericaburns8652]

Why do so many death metal album covers look like dead space bosses

[@MetalTrenches]

@@ericaburns8652 The question is why do so many Dead Space bosses look like death metal covers…

[@ericaburns8652]

​@@MetalTrenchesmaybe because both death metal bands and the developers of dead space are fans of h.p lovecraft and decided to make their own creepy creatures

[@jason_108]

Hey you forgot Napalm Death: Death by Manipulation... shame!!!!!! lol Also Morgoth's Cursed I think is 91 as well.

[@Dismal-future]

Human Into the Grave Necroticism World Without God The Rack

[@michaeluy114]

wat death shall rise. I like that album at least a or b and warmaster is also very good.

[@l.i.v.v4835]

Bolt Thrower's - Warmaster just good? WTF??!!

[@tibicostea2029]

ok lets see if you can form a perfect OCD square.

[@caljerm]

Yeah - the mix on Blessed Are The Sick is horrible - vocals are obnoxiously loud. Rebel Lands is a scorcher and Desolate Ways is one of the most haunting instrumentals ever. Still - that mix blows so bad.

[@leog9637]

Wow, I really find Laws Of Scourge really mid in comparison to INRI

[@freezingmoon75]

No love for Revanant again...

[@coreyrapoza5959]

Prophecies Of A Dying World!!!

[@alexchavarria2582]

❤

[@stanescugiani2765]

You don't really like death metal, but favor thrash, which is ok. Death metal can get slow, it does not make it bad...

[@ScrilboBaggins]

Hello friendos

[@Goregrind.extreme]

We have more death metal 1990

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

MENTAL FUNERAL by Autopsy is fckn LEGENDARY !! Are you nuts?! A total timeless DM Masterpiece!

[@MetalTrenches]

Dude chill. Not everyone has to like every album from the band you like. All of these comments come off as a little unhinged. Enjoy your albums and stop telling other people how to think.

[@jewel_throne2950]

@@MetalTrenchesAutopsy is peak death doom. Your opinion is trash.

[@samuelblinne6040]

Wow

[@joseazevedo3161]

Mercyful fate tier list pls

[@301films2]

Somebody convert me to black metal, tell me what you see in it and what makes it special

[@MetalTrenches]

It just takes time and trying things. There area lot of different styles. I feel like I get most people into Enslaved at least

[@zvolphhasenmiau5369]

I like your videos, but do you think your mask contributes to this in any way?

[@MetalTrenches]

Yeah it probably does, but I don't really care. People get used to it. I don't even think about it and in a way it makes my channel growth even more satisfying since it's like playing on hard mode. Also even if I'm the "cringey mask guy," people remember that. Helps me stand out for better or worse.

[@Piece-Of-Time]

Atheist!!!

[@benzmane7564]

That Tiamat album is not death metal

[@MetalTrenches]

It most definitely is but whatever. It’s not worth arguing about.

[@jewel_throne2950]

you literally put some of the best death metal albums towards the bottom. Never seen you have a good metal take ever.😂😂😂😵💀💀💀

[@MetalTrenches]

If your idea of a “good metal take” is having everyone tow the line and agree with you… I’m afraid it’s not me who doesn’t understand metal…

[@jewel_throne2950]

@@MetalTrenches It's a general consensus bud, you're just a stray in a field, an odd outlier that spouts the most nonsensical opinions I've ever seen over this genre of music. The typical moron who takes classic albums and puts them towards the bottom to feel different. You don't understand death metal and that's okay, just don't act like anyone will take you seriously🤣🤣