#155 - Top 5 Death Metal Albums w/ David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis, Fulci Rots)

This week on Riff Worship, we’re diving into one of the most revered and fiercely debated styles in extreme music: Death Metal!

Special guest David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis, Fulci Rots) returns to the show to help us trace the genre’s rapid evolution, highlight defining record labels, and break down our Top 5 Death Metal Albums of All Time.

From the foundational tape-trading days of Old School Death Metal (OSDM) to the modern purveyors of brutal slam and tech-death, we’ll each share our personal lists and spotlight the essential new bands carrying the torch forward!

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Austin's Top 5 Death Metal:

Death - Human

Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious

Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation

Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

Gorguts - Colored Sands

Dylan's Top 5 Death Metal:

Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity

Suffocation - Suffocation

Cryptopsy - None So Vile

Carcass - Heartwork

Cannibal Corpse - Kill

David's Top 5 Death Metal:

Deicide - Legion

Origin - Informis, Infinitas, Inhumanitas

Disgorge - Consume the Forsaken

Decapitated - Winds of Creation

Devourment - Molesting the Decapitated

Honorable Mentions:

Suffocation - Pierced From Within

Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

⁠Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding⁠

Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

Brodequin - Festival of Death

Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund

Mortician - Final Bloodbath Session

Gorgasm - Masticate to Dominate

Hate Eternal - King of All Kings

Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition

Decrepit Birth - And Time Begins

Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt

Human Remains - Using Sickness as a Hero

Entombed - Left Hand Path

dISEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind

Cannibal Corpse - Vile

Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy

Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien

Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate

Job for a Cowboy - Ruination

Exhumed - Anatomy Is Destiny

Disgorge - Cranial Impalement

Deprecated - Deriding His Creation

Cynic - Focus

Immolation - Failures for Gods

Behemoth - The Apostasy

Dying Fetus - War of Attrition

The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

Dismember - Indecent & Obscene

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

Morbid Angel - Domination

Hate Eternal - I, Monarch

Entombed - Wolverine Blues

Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity

Beneath The Massacre - Fearmonger

Job for a Cowboy - Genesis

The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate

New Death Metal:

Atræ Bilis - Aumicide

Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath

Deliquesce - Saviour / Enslaver

Fit For An Autopsy

Ingested

Blood Incantation

Revocation

Party Cannon

Outer Heaven

Lago - Vigil

Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

Defacement - Doomed

Wretched Blessing - Psychic Barriers to Entry

Nithing - Agonal Hymns

Theurgy - Emanations of Unconscious Luminescence

Putridity - Ignominious Atonement

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