Metalhammer.de’s top 10 Death Metal Songs

1. Cannibal Corpse – ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ from Tomb Of The Mutilated
2. Arch Enemy – ‘We Will Rise’ (from Anthems Of Rebellion
3. Death – ‘Crystal Mountain’ from Symbolic
4. Amon Amarth – ‘Pursuit Of Vikings’ from Fate Of Norns
5. Vader – ‘Carnal’ from Black To The Blind 
6. Sepultura – ‘Arise’ from Arise 
7. Carcass – ‘Heartwork’ from Heartwork 
8. In Flames – ‘Only For The Weak’ from Clayman 
9. Kataklysm – ‘In Shadows And Dust’ from Shadows & Dust 
10. Behemoth – ‘Christians To The Lions’ from Thelema.6

And now for mine…and this wasn’t easy by any means.

Metal Martyr’s Top 10 (Favorite) Death Metal Songs

1. Death – Zero Tolerance from Symbolic. This is one of Death’s best records and was a great follow up to Individual Thought Patterns.
2. Carcass – Carneous Cacofinny from Necrotism: Descanting The Insalubrious. Sadly most people only know of the album Heartwork, which is a great album but so is Necrotism’ and Swan Song.
3. Morbid Angel – God Of Emptiness from Covenant. I’ve always loved David Vincent’s voice. While this song is not “brutally fast”, it’s a slow, heavy and evil sounding song that would probably give small children nightmares if played before bedtime.
4. Entombed – Hollowman from the Hollowman Ep and Wolverine Blues
5. Grave - …And Here I Die Satisfied from the Ep of the same name.
6. Malevolent Creation – Self Important Freak from Joe Black.
7. Cannibal Corpse – Stripped Raped & Strangled from The Bleeding. Typical Cannibal Corpse lyrics, but the guitar is what got me hooked.
8. Suffocation – Breeding The Spawn from Pierced From Within.
9. Bloodbath – Death Delirium from Resurrection Trough Carnage.
10. Obituary – The End Complete from The End Complete.

I could probably keep on going with this list all day. How can you narrow a list like this down to 10? It really had me looking back in to my collection and remembering a lot of great death metal songs, especially ones that never got enough credit or play. So what would you top ten look like?

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Finally after years of line-up changes, label shifts and multiple releases, Century Media is releasing an 18 track “Best Of” album for Swedish death metal band Grave. The Best Of cd also contains the video for soulless. It was released on Tuesday and you can pick it up from CM Distro for $8.00. Track list after the fold…

Track Listing:
01. Deformed
02. Into The Grave
03. Extremely Rotten Flesh
04. You’ll Never See
05. Morbid Ways To Die
06. Christi(Ns)anity
07. Soulless
08. Turning Black
09. And Here I Die (Satisfied)
10. Restrained
11. Winternight
12. Rise
13. Behold The Flames
14. Resurrection
15. Reborn
16. Breeder
17. Burn
18. Unholy Terror
19. Soulless (video)

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I was a Jesus hating metal-head back then so the song that first sold me totally on this band was “I Need You“, which sound considerably like Entombed’s Blood Song. Why did it sell me? Cool lyrics: ” Pray to your god, you pray as you spit red. Pray to your god, your god will fail and you will be dead…”. I mean, come on. For any metal head that find religion revolting and hypocritical, those are lyrics to live by. These days my views have changed but the song is still cool. The rest of the songs are cool as well.

The production on this CD is not too bad. The vocals are bright enough with just enough reverb and the guitars sound thick. The lyrical content is the usual death metal extravaganza of Satan and Death, but that’s what we love about the music right? Sometimes. Jorgen Sandstrom was on vocals and bass back then, but Ola Lingren is the only original member to date taking the duties of Vocals and guitar. Jorgen left the band and went on to play in Entombed from 1995-2004.

Grave were signed to Century Media back then but after 15 years and 7 albums with Century, they most recently signed with Regain Records and released Dominion VIII back in April.

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1. Entombed – Wolverine Blues
2. Carcass – Keep On Rotting IN The Free World
3. Amon Amarth – Ruins To My Memory
4. All That Remains – Chiron
5. Megadeth – 99 Ways To Die
6. Slipknot – Left Behind
7. Mushroomhead – Solitaire Unraveling
8. Cannibal Corpse – Make Them Suffer
9. Immortal – Call Of The Wintermoon
10. Grave – Soulless

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In Memory Of Celtic Frost has some of the best songs by Celtic Frost covered by some of the greatest Metal, Black Metal and Death Metal bands. Bands such as Mayhem, Emporer, Grave, Opeth and Slaughter, just to name a few. If you’ve ever been a fan of Celtic Frost or Black/Death Metal, then give In Memory Of Celtic Frost a listen. It’s a great tribute album. My favorite track is Enslaved’s cover of Procreation Of The Wicked and I was stoked to hear Sepultura cover it on the Blood Rooted album in 1997. Track list after the fold.

1. Morgion – Innocence And Wrath / The Usuper
2. Enslaved – Procreation Of The Wicked
3. Slaughter – Dethroned Emporer
4. Mayhem – Visual Aggression
5. Inner Thought – Morbid Tales
6. Sadistic Intent – Return To The Eve
7. Cianide – Dawn Of Maggido
8. Divine Eve – Visions Of Mortality
9. Grave – Mesmerized
10. Apollyon’s Sun – Babylon Fell
11. Opeth – Circle Of The Tyrants
12. Closedown – Danse Macabre
13. Emporer – Massacra
14. 13 – Triumph Of Death

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People seem to love Job For A Cowboy but I can’t get past the vocals. That’s all I hear. While I think Johnny Davy has a really cool low toned bad-ass growl, I can’t hear anything going on. This is what I loved about Cannibal Corpse. The blast-beat of the drums and the fast crunchy guitar work. But with a lot of bands like Job For A Cowboy and Gojira (another great band) the vocals are overpowering everything else. I don’t know, maybe I’m just getting too picky these days, but it just doesn’t seem to be what it used to.

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As I Lay Dying
At the Gates
Autumn
Avantasia
Axel Rudi Pell
Axxis
Before the Dawn
Carcass
Children of Bodom
Corvus Corax
Crematory
Destructor
Dream of an Opium Eater
Enemy of the Sun
Ensiferum
Evocation
Excrementory Grindfuckers
Watain
Girugämesh
Gorerotted
Gorgoroth
Grave
Hatebreed
Head Hunter
Iron Maiden
Killswitch Engage
Kreator
Krypteria
Lord Belial
Lordi
Nifelheim
Nightwish
Obituary
Powerwolf
Primordial
PsychoPunch
Sabaton
Saltatio Mortis
Sonata Arctica
The Bones
Van Canto
Warbringer
Watain

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After keying in the basic bands that every metalhead should be listening to I would try to bring it more modern by introducing bands that have come and gone like Guns N Roses. There is someone out there right now saying “But GNR aren’t gone, Axl just hasn’t put out the new CD yet”…trust me…G n R are dead but they are not forgotten. While more hardrock than metal in my opinion, you can’t deny the fact that they ruled their world during their day.

Moving on. I would also try to convince them to listen to some death metal to get a feel for what is to come in the present day metal. Bands like Carcass, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Grave, Sepultura, Obituary, etc., etc. And of course I would have to include some GOOD nu metal (your scratching your head wondering if there is such a thing). Bands like Nothingface, Slipknot, Mushroomhead, Fear Factory, and yes, even some Korn. Limp Bizket can kiss my choclate star fish, the only thing I would recommend for them is the trash can.

Moving Forward I would show them bands of today like Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Yakuza, Hatebreed, Mastodon, Shadows Fall, Machinehead. Bands that are still on top of their game and just continue to get better with time.

I would also urge them to sit down and see just exactly where metal has gone and see what trends have come about in metal and show them how much carbon copy bands there are being signed by every other label out there. I would show them bands that have stood the test of time and bands that are fighting to stay in the scene due to the digital era.

These are just some of the things I would recommend to a new metal enthusiast. So that brings me to my question,(which may in turn introduce me to some new bands)…What would YOU recommend?

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