DEATH METAL Albums RANKED From 1994 (Cannibal Corpse to In Flames)

[@MetalTrenches]

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[@SuperStrik9]

Man these year by year best of Death Metal reviews really drive home how much Chris Barnes vocals have deteriorated. Dude was once upon a time one of the Kings of Death Metal vocals. Turned all the way down into a laughingstock. It's sad really.

[@Nicolas1909_]

My favorite from 1994 is Gorement. They embraced the already more sombre swedish sound and made it actually full blown melancholic. It almost sounds like gothic doom metal but more serious and aggressive

[@tonyziporlin4240]

Amorphis and Edge of Sanity are the 2 greatest imo. Stone cold classics 🤘

[@joaopinheiro6231]

Tales from the thousand lakes is a HUGE milestone in melodeath, that happened to survive the test of time. I remember hearing it for the first time, and it was like discovering a new planet. It is very difficult to undestand the impact of this in retrospective, specially considering the thousands of bands that gradually refined the genre.

[@ScrilboBaggins]

This series changed my life

[@MetalPersonJ]

It's a fun sunday morning activity.

[@caljerm]

Dude that Gorement album is damn near perfection 😁

[@caljerm]

Mortal Throne of Nazarene is the most evil album ever recorded - absolute perfection 🤘😈🤘

[@cbn6635]

'Onward to Golgotha' is pretty evil too.. 😎

[@caljerm]

That Phlebotomized album is pretty nuts

[@juancamiloosorio9305]

I will always be grateful to this channel. Thanks to you. I have discovered a lot more music than I ever imagined. It is difficult to be born in a non metal country 🇨🇴 and new to the community itself. Thank you so much Mr trenches 🤘🏻.

[@DannyDeee]

Luciferion with Demonification is one of the best death releases of 94

[@tomhuitema2068]

This is insane that you listen to all of these. Nice video!

[@darksideinferno3454]

Another great ranking Video! Thanks Mister Trenches! Bolt Thrower is without a doubt Number one on that list!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

The entire 90's is done and I am already working on 2000. Plenty more to come.

[@doomusrlc]

Loving these tier lists by year. Gives great context to compare what was coming out those years, instead of just within a band's discography. Little surprised Napalm Death 'Fear Emptiness Despair' got left off haha. I know that one really divides fans. Some others from 1994 that I think would definitely be worth checking out: Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire for Palatable Flesh (seriously think you should check this one out) Cianide - A Descent Into Hell Disharmonic Orchestra - Pleasuredome Oppressor - Solstice of Oppression Detest - Dorval Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)

[@SuperStrik9]

Was surprised with the Napalm Death leave off as well. I know it's divisive but I love that album and it's Death Metal imo. 🤷‍♂

[@doomusrlc]

@@SuperStrik9 knowing Metal Trenches it was just an oversight haha

[@SuperStrik9]

@@doomusrlc You're probably right. It's not like it's an obscure album. Seen his response he doesn't consider it Death Metal. It qualifies as Death Metal to me but hey, not my list. 🤷‍♂

[@mindful2864]

I checked out Cenotaph’s debut and absolutely loved it. I’d put it in S-tier for the 1992 list. Still need to check out the rest of their albums as well as the rest of Brutality’s albums. As far as the albums on this list that I’ve heard, this would be my ranking: S - Bolt Thrower - …For Victory, Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow, Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes, Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding A - Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh, Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene, Asphyx - Self-titled, At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease, Gorement - The Ending Quest, In Flames - Lunar Strain, The Chasm - Procreation of the Inner Temple, Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension, Brutal Truth - Need to Control B - Septicflesh - Mystic Places of Dawn, Grave - Soulless, Obituary - World Demise, Sarcofago - Hate C - Convulse - Reflections, Mortification - Blood World, Pungent Stench - Club Mondo Bizarre-For Members Only

[@dillon1058]

I'm not surprised seeing the death n roll albums by Convulse and Gorefest on that list. With that said, it was definitely a fantastic year for death metal. A few more death metal albums released in 1994 that I enjoyed that are worth checking out: Morta Skuld - As Humanity Fades Oppressor - Solstice of Oppression Gutted - Bleed For Us To Live Cianide - A Descent Into Hell Infected Virulence - Music Of Melkor Mangled Torsos - Drawings Of The Dead Betrayer - Calamity Exoto - Carnival of Souls Eternal Solstice - The Wish Is Father To The Thought

[@bl4ckLlama]

Pungent stench - come for the album covers, stay for the music.

[@salvatorelanni5126]

That Brutality is bloody fantastic,it's top shelf in any DM collection.

[@annaleebliss4618]

Keep going year by year. Great video as always!🤘🏻🤙🏻👌🏻☺️

[@creepyjoe8924]

My favorites from 1994 are 1. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding 2. Gutted - Bleed For us to Live 3. Altar - Youth Against Christ

[@kiramead4133]

Massive fan of that phlebotomized album. “Dubbed Foreswear” is the standout for me, so epic!

[@Moja421]

I would add Merciless - Unbound to this list

[@cbn6635]

Great album! 👍

[@lamentate07]

Excellent album. Wish I still had my copy. It's more thrashy though? A hybrid at least.

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

The Bleeding is obviously the best 1994 death metal album... And the last good album that Chris Barnes was in...

[@derroteerichausderzone4825]

Haunted was also solid for sure

[@FlabbyPigLegs]

I know this series is tough but please keep it up as I want to see how you approach the lull of the 2000s

[@TheWelhaven]

Need to Control, For Victory and The Bleeding are all among my favourite death metal albums.

[@bryansunga4459]

Watching you from Manila.

[@CarterisCringe]

Good video, where do you go to get cds like the septicflesh one? theres like nowhere in my town to get death metal :(

[@MetalTrenches]

Amazon or ebay a lot of the time

[@CarterisCringe]

@@MetalTrenches oh awesome!

[@CraigMader]

I saw Questy's metal channel rankings, and you was robbed! But the Brits do love to poopoo the former colonies upon which they now rely. Thanks for this series. I fell out of metal back in the 90's(dating hippie chicks and punk rock girls can do that to you), but you're catching me up with a vengeance.

[@rickdeckard2240]

Actually World Demise is my favorite off all these albums. They groove like an angry elephant on that one, and I love its whole vibe. Underrated album in my opinion.

[@aita45]

I am very delighted to see Phlebotomized and Bolt Thrower that high. But Gorefest at the lowest point makes me ery concerned of my beloved bluesy Soul Survivor

[@crimsonier9279]

I am very happy you like edge of sanity, it's my favorite band of all time.

[@queensofthedthrone8267]

Your ability to kick the metal stans out and proceed to pick some of the best records in metal (that I never even heard of before, or heard) is mind-boggling.

[@MrLando0]

World Demise is a banger, I dig the industrial/sample elements. Still prefer the first three though.

[@joaopinheiro6231]

I love the voice work on world demise; it is more evolved and shows a bit more range; at the same time, instrumental becomes voice support, not the other way around.

[@SuperStrik9]

Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding and Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh are my top 2 favorite albums of 94. Both P tier for me. Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair is F tier and finishes out my top 3 🤘

[@JustAnotherHeavyMetalManiac]

For Victory, Mortal Throne of Nazarene and the Bleeding are my favourites from ‘94.

[@ottopietarinen]

My favourites from this year are definitely Amorphis, Bolt Thrower and Gorement. Us nordics really know how to make melodic masterpieces

[@YONATOOTH]

My favourite series 🤘

[@cbn6635]

Cool to see that Septic Flesh debut get some well deserved love; though they only got better from there, the atmosphere on the debut is still unmatched for the time period.. 👍

[@lamentate07]

Depends. Some of the orchestral stuff is corny and sounds like a metal version of Hellraiser. My favs are Esoptron and Communion, but then I'm a fan from the old days and started listening to them in the mid 90's. Younger fans probably have a different perspective.

[@cbn6635]

@@lamentate07 I actually startede with the debut back in 1994, and I like both their older material and their new stuff. To my ears at least, Septic Flesh are one of the few metal bands that can incorporate orchestral elements WITHOUT ever sounding corny.. 🤗

[@fuzzedoutwjon8608]

Yeah, Mortification went downhill hard after 93’s PMA. After that album, original drummer Jayson Sherlock left the group and I have read that he had a big influence on most elements of the music, in addition to his excellent drumming. The albums following Bloodworld feel like the band throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.

[@itookallthenames]

Bloodworld the song has a hilarious chorus, and what happened to the production?

[@lamentate07]

They went downhill fast, but Steve is a nice guy. Met him plenty of times back in the day.

[@fuzzedoutwjon8608]

I’ve never met the man, but watching interviews and such, he really does seem like a very solid guy.

[@petercrushingc]

Good list. One of my favorites of that year is definitely the band Luciferion and their debut "Demonication (The Manifest)" Fantastic death metal album.

[@Lastiri2004]

Interesting selection. I recommend for 95 Tribe by Sadist. I recommend Sadist before, but their earlier records are nice 90s prog death.

[@caljerm]

Personally I find The Bleeding to be a step down for C-Corpse, but with Butchered At Birth being my favorite from them that would only be logical 😁

[@BornHeadless96]

That's true, I love the bleeding, but I like butchered.

[@BittersweetDuality]

The Bleeding marks a very blatant point at which Chris’s high screams started going rapidly downhill

[@XfiverX]

Living Sacrifice's "Inhabit" (1994) is still one of my favorite metal albums of all time =)

[@christianmetalchannel5231]

That album is killer 🤘

[@MetalTrenches]

They're more groove metal. I wouldn't really call them death metal

[@christianmetalchannel5231]

@@MetalTrenches LS is definitely not a death metal band as a whole, but their albums Nonexistent and Inhabit are definitely death metal albums.

[@XfiverX]

@@MetalTrenches Some of their earlier stuff (Inhabit and Nonexistent) is absolutely death metal. The albums after that have more of a hardcore/groove influence.

[@michaelstewart4461]

Enjoyable video as ever! That said, re Gorefest: you often have the broadest definition of "yarl" I've ever heard. I don't like the vocals, either, but it would never have occurred to me to call them yarls, you know?

[@MetalTrenches]

I get that. I just associate that term since it's largely the same lower jaw-focused technique, the only real difference is how much grit and harshness they're adding to it.

[@dmphax]

Great list! Mine would have Amorphis higher, love Tales. :)

[@caljerm]

Forgot Naplam Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair

[@MetalTrenches]

Also not death metal imo. Before and after those 2 death metal albums we covered from them, they are just either grindcore or mixing it with alternative influences.

[@caljerm]

The big golden GF logo stands for Garbage Fest

[@freddrag-cn2qr]

OPPRESSOR- SOLSTICE OF OPPRESSION

[@michaeluy114]

for victory great album. My favorite

[@DashieNegan41]

FOR VICTORY

[@MetalPersonJ]

S tier: Amorphis- Tales From The Thousand Lakes, Hypocrisy- The Fourth Dimension A tier: Cannibal Corpse- The Bleeding, At The Gates- Terminal Spirit Disease B tier: Brutality- When The Sky Turns Black, Bolt Thrower- ...For Victory C tier: Incantation- Mortal Throne Of Nazarene Crap: Never heard: everything else

[@Chad-i8f]

Not to pick on you because I love your videos, but I’ve lived in Wisconsin for almost all my life. And as a 53 year old, unless there’s some tiny burg I’ve never heard of, I’m pretty sure Infester come from Seattle, Washington. Thanx for the laugh and keep up the good work! Horns up🤘 14:55

[@srv525]

Another year when I bought a bunch of these. Perfection were Edge of Sanity, Grave and Amophis. Hypocrisy and Incantation not far behind. This was the year also that I way all-in with fanzines too, so I was buying tons of extreme stuff in the black & grind genres as well.

[@SuperRoo_22]

Obviously, The Bleeding is an all time classic. Glad you mentioned Pulverised. That along with She Was Asking For It are my favourites from that album. I've said it before, massive effort to put these DM lists together. And I can't disagree with your rankings either. Cause it is your taste. Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

[@cbn6635]

'She Was as Asking For It' is so damn catchy.. 🤘🤘

[@aresgalamatis7022]

Tales from a thousand lakes got me into melo-death next year along with the releases from Dark Tranquility and At the Gates, In Flames and Hypocrisy I found out the year after... 1995 was THE year for me of copied cassettes back home :D

[@crabbuckets7506]

I only found Gorement a couple of months back. Quite enjoy that one.

[@anntifurz]

Mortal Throne of the Nazarene is God tier for me, although I do prefer the reverse order of Throne of the Apocalypse

[@openingthegraves]

gorement and infester are both S tier

[@alexpoetov3213]

Where is Fear Emptiness Despair by Napalm Death ?

[@MetalTrenches]

Not death metal

[@BornHeadless96]

​@MetalTrenches what else?

[@eviloz9905]

@@MetalTrenches It is actually death metal (wiki).

[@tamomarfernandez7548]

Sarcofago what a fantastic band.

[@brunopinheiro1632]

Bolt thrower number one

[@vishalnagaraj5343]

Do a video on how to get into metal at large for core fans!!

[@MetalTrenches]

I mean in a way I'd argue that this series is in part an attempt to provide that gateway

[@wjmp8880]

Good list, missed Gomorrah - Reflections Of Inanimate Matter

[@coreyrapoza5959]

Damn what a drop in quality from one year to the next. DM went prog as fuck

[@MetalTrenches]

...and that's a bad thing? Would it be better if everyone just did the same thing over and over again?

[@coreyrapoza5959]

@@MetalTrenches I guess we'll never know!

[@joshdieckmann595]

Steve Rowe said in interviews (and on their Live Planetarium VHS at the time) that they were changing from death metal to more of a Sepultura/Metallica approach, so Blood World definitely works better as a thrash album. I like Steve's yells on there, but I get they're not for everyone.

[@themadmattster9647]

Noticed no Paradise Lost, Anathema nor My Dying Bride in these lists

[@edwardplain4688]

Papa trenches is not a doomster unfortunately

[@MetalTrenches]

More doom than death at this point imo

[@tamomarfernandez7548]

Death doom guy

[@itookallthenames]

@@edwardplain4688if it drops below 200 bpm he falls asleep

[@phi816]

I hope this goes on until 2024

[@MetalTrenches]

I will try as long as people are watching

[@JMC1992]

Chronically under-rated: World Demise. Your reaction = same reaction from any listener I’ve heard and the album was given to me by an underwhelmed friend back in 94-95. In terms of albums with quantity of good tracks and good songwriting, Obituary have nothing close to World Demise in their catalogue. Maybe the album just lacks some sensation or thrill for listeners.

[@Shaun4891]

Please add Abramelin’s 1995 s.t album for your next video!!! ❤

[@loganwhitehorse]

...For Victory and Purgatory Afterglow are easily the best albums on this list. Not the best year for death metal, but things pick up in 1995.

[@SurgicalGrind87]

No Splenium for Nyktophobia from Uncanny? Super underrated Swedish Death Metal

[@boomertuxx]

Crimson Thorn released their debut album in 1994 Unearthed which is their first death metal album after their demo which was more of a thrash album. Now their seen as more war metal. Gotta love war metal. Abominator I'm looking at you.

[@romaincassignol]

I agree with your 4 Perfect albums but i would rank At the Gates and In Flames very (very) lower... 1994 was the "beginning of the end" for Death Metal genre IMO.

[@eviloz9905]

Brutality top tier.

[@alexkatchev3043]

Gutted sends everything here home in a stretcher.

[@joerosadini951]

I've been a Cannibal Corpse die hard fan since day one, whether its with Barns or Corpse Grinder. i dont think, in my opinion, they have ever made a bad album .

[@mikew.3128]

Soulless was a huge step down for Grave imo.

[@deadliestassassin3092]

Gomorrah - Reflections of Inanimate Matter

[@flynnhale1243]

For your 1995 ranking of death metal ranking videos so basically yes you should do a 1995 ranking video the death metal bands you should include are six feet under haunted opeth orchid my dying bride the angel and the dark river and novembers doom amid it's hallowed mirth rank all of these for the 1995 death metal ranking video please do it

[@MetalTrenches]

They are all already finished

[@Pfunkdabomb]

For the 1995 list you gotta check out Chiaroscuro by Creepmime. Really solid progressive death metal album.

[@MetalTrenches]

All of the 90's lists are already done, so whatever made it made it at this point

[@sianthorw5537]

I Loved that Asphyx album when it came out, but For Victory is one of the best Death albums ever. Although I do tend to think Lunar Strain is closer to Black Metal.

[@tile-maker]

Whats your favorite one of the past 4 years you've done?

[@MetalTrenches]

That's an impossible tier question

[@matthiasmajoris4029]

You going to do yearly black metal too? I suppose the first episode you'd have to do the whole 1980s, then go year by year in the 90s.

[@MetalTrenches]

We shall see

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

I'd personally put that infester album at great, while it's repetitive I really like how raw and slimy and ugly it is

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

It is Legendary. Absolutely not repetitive. A unique Masterpiece of pure putrid Darkness

[@jewel_throne2950]

Nothing is repetitive you have a terrible ear for music.

[@joaopinheiro6231]

The thing you're obviously missing is context. You have *no fucking clue* on how these sounded in their day. That makes you oblivious to the fact on how "for victory" was just another solid death metal album, and how gorefest's "Erase" sonority was basically unheard from an extreme band and was heavily influential in many modern bands, as it also happened with Heartwork. Both (for victory/erase) are in my top 20 albums. Gorefest shares with Carcass the proverbial death'n roll sound that shaped the european metal scene in the 90's, but death'n roll is a modern expression. At the time it was just extreme metal. Btw, Gorefest was one of the first metal bands to record with an orchestra. Search "goddess in black metrople orkest". Yes, it is one of the songs from Erase.

[@onlinemanke409]

Grave are so good

[@ammanus356]

The Bleeding, "Groove-oriented"? It's typically where they went far more tech sound, but I definitely hear the groovier riffs.

[@epicbrucey]

If you need recs for 1995, check out Gorelust - Reign of Lunacy. It's some awesome osdm

[@MetalTrenches]

All 90's videos are done.

[@unhallowed45]

Terminal Spirit Disease is At the Gates best fs

[@paulmelgary6001]

Damn you cannot put Gorefest down there

[@kbottrill1]

I just finished relistening to all of Asphyx discography and I did feel like the self titled was one of my least favs with the different vocalist and slower sort of sound. Overall great band though

[@joaopinheiro6231]

And they rock live! Saw them last year, amazing show!

[@caljerm]

I would recommend a few repeated listens for Infester, then shelf it for a couple years, then bust it out again and then your ears go "whoaaaa...what the hell!" - at least that's ehat it took for it to click for me and it went from meh to classic

[@MetalTrenches]

Could be

[@caljerm]

For Victory is the best Bolt Thrower album

[@percd]

that or those once loyal

[@markocoric9233]

I like slow doomy stuff just brutal

[@NicolasAristizabal-rb3ju]

Not raging or anything, but is there a reason Pungent Stench didn’t appear before? I just love For God Your Soul and Been Caught Buttering

[@MetalTrenches]

Just a matter of what showed up in lists when I sourced them for my own. Sometimes things show up, sometimes they don't. Simple as that. It would be nearly impossible to include everything,

[@NicolasAristizabal-rb3ju]

Fair, especially with the amount of albums being covered 👍

[@trenchy1990]

Fear, Emptiness, Despair by Napalm Death??

[@MetalTrenches]

Not death metal imo

[@trenchy1990]

@@MetalTrenches hmm, it's listed as death metal on many review sites.

[@FalseNi9e]

Mortal Throne should be in perfection. That album changed shit

[@paulhetrick1759]

We definitely don't have the same tastes in death metal. That Asphyx album is perfection. Brutality is also great. At The Gates & In Flames are garbage.

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

INFESTER is PERFECTION. One of the darkest DM albums ever. A unique Masterpiece. You just don’t get it, it’s ok. For the connoisseurs only

[@MetalTrenches]

I covered around 400 albums for this series alone… when you’ve listened to all of them you can pretend to be the authority here 😂 🧂 🍼 So mad you felt the need to add engagement to every one of these videos and ultimately help them spread in the algorithm. Thanks for the support 👍🏻

[@AndrewJSmall]

Incantation has influenced so many modern blackened death bands that I love, but man are they boring.

[@Badhero4]

Bolt Thrower is perfection but Infester is just Good because the riffs aren't ambitious? Uhh...

[@MetalTrenches]

Oh no... an opinion lol

[@Badhero4]

They’re like assholes lol

[@Badhero4]

@@MetalTrenchesthey’re like a$sholes lol

[@Gerd0]

You seem to have accidentally put The Ending Quest five tiers too low.

[@MetalTrenches]

And I would accidentally do it again.