(1988-2016) A Canon of Brutal Death Metal

This is a somewhat daring post because, although all of the posts here are somewhat based on subjectivity, this time it might be a problem. Some of you might find it highly useful, while for others it might prove completely worthless. Nevertheless I decided to compile my all-time-favorite Brutal Death Metal records mostly based on times listened. The final list is in alphabetical order since this is not a ranking among the listed releases. So I hope you enjoy scanning through it.


Abdicate - Transcend through Sacrifice
Abhorrent Castigation - Throne of Existential Abandonment
Absolute Defiance - Systematic Terror Decimation
Adramelech – Psychostasia
Analdicktion - Sluts
Angelcorpse - Exterminate
Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
Arsebreed - Munching The Rotten
Asphyxiate - Anatomy of Perfect Bestiality
Atheretic - Adhesion, Aversion...
Blood Reaping - Ignis Penumbra
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Blood Ritual - At The Mountains Of Madness
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
Brodequin - Festival of Death
Brodequin - Instruments of Torture
Brodequin - Methods of Execution
Broken Hope - Loathing
Broken Hope - Repulsive Conception
Broken Hope - Swamped In Gore
Broken Hope - The Bowels Of Repugnance
Brutus – Slachtbeest
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Cenotaph - Putrescent Infectious Rabidity
Cenotaph - Reincarnation In Gorextasy
Cephalic - Blasted into Lunacy
Cephalic Impurity - Unique Brute Revival
Cerebral Effusion - Impulsive Psychopathic Acts
Cerebral Incubation - Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication
Condemned – Promo 2008
Criterion - The Dominant
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Cryptopsy - None So Live
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Decapitated - The Negation
Decaying Purity - The Existence of Infinite Agony
Decimation - Anthems of an Empyreal Dominion
Decrepidemic - The Void of Un-Existence
Decrepit Birth - ...And Time Begins
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Decrepit Womb - Promo 2010
Deeds of Flesh - Crown of Souls
Deeds of Flesh - Gradually Melted
Deeds of Flesh - Inbreeding the Anthropophagi
Deeds of Flesh - Mark of the Legion
Deeds of Flesh - Path of the Weakening
Deeds of Flesh - Trading Pieces
Defaced Creation - Serenity in Chaos
Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance
Defeated Sanity - Collected Demolition
Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
Dehumanized - Prophecies Foretold
Deicide - Deicide
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - Once Upon The Cross
Demilich- Nespithe
Deranged - High on Blood
Deranged - III
Deranged - Plainfield Cemetery
Despondency - Revelation IV (Rise of the Nemesis)
Devourment - 1.3.8.
Diabolic - Subterraneal Magnitude
Diabolic - Supreme Evil
Digested Flesh - The Answer To Infection
Dim Mak - Intercepting Fist
Disavowed - Perceptive Deception
Disavowed - Stagnated Existence
Disgorge - Consume the Forsaken
Disgorge - Parallels Of Infinite Torture
Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
Dissenter - Apocalypse Of The Damned
Dissenter – Contamination
Dyscrasia - Septical Stomach-Pumped Remnants
Dysentery - Excruciatingly Euphoric Torment
Dysentery - Internal Devastation
Euphoric Defilement - Promo 2011
Extreme Violence - Ecstasy In Pain
Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering
Flesh Consumed - New Order of Intelligence
God Among Insects – Zombienomicon
Goratory - Orgasm Induced Diarrhea
Gore Infamous - Cadaver In Methodical Overture
Gorelust - Reign Of Lunacy
Gorgasm - Bleeding Profusely
Gorgasm - Destined To Violate
Gorgasm - Masticate to Dominate
Gorgasm - Stabwound Intercourse
Gorguts - Considered Dead
Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
Gorguts - Obscura
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Gory Delivery – Promo 2009
Grave - Fiendish Regression
Guttural Secrete - Nourishing The Spoil
Guttural Secrete - Reek of Pubescent Despoilment
Haemophagia - From Sickness To Cult
Harmony Dies - I'll Be Your Master
Harmony Dies – Impact
Hate Eternal - Conquering The Throne
Hate Eternal - King Of All Kings
Hour of Penance - Pageantry for Martyrs
Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception
Human Filleted - Blunt Force Embludgeonment
Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox
Human Parasite - Proud to Build the Insidious Catastrophe
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Immortal Fate - Beautiful
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Infernal Torment - Man's True Nature
Infertile Surrogacy - Postulate of Mass Genocide
Inherit Disease - Procreating an Apocalypse
Inherit Disease - Visceral Transcendence
Iniquitous Deeds - Incessant Hallucinations
Iniquity - Grime
Iniquity - Serenadium
Insidious Decrepancy - Decadent Orgy of Atrocious Suffering
Insidious Decrepancy - Extirpating Omniscient Certitude
Internal Suffering - Awakening of the Rebel
Internal Suffering - Choronzonic Force Domination
Inveracity - Circle of Perversion
Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
Irate Architect - Visitors
Jungle Rot - Slaughter the Weak
Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Malevolent Creation - The Will to Kill
Malignancy - Cross Species Transmutation
Malignancy - Inhuman Grotesqueries
Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism
Malignancy - Motivated by Hunger
Mangled - Carnal Abhorrence
Mangled - Most Painful Ways
Massmurder - Slaughtered For Snuff
Miscreation - AeOnd
Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
Monstrosity - Millennium
Monstrosity - Rise to Power
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel - Domination
Morbid Angel - Entangled In Chaos
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
Mortician - Final Bloodbath Session
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Nervous Impulse - Enough For Dementia
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Nile - Ithyphallic
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Nithing - Fetid Reek of Interminable Existence
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
Origin - A Coming Into Existence
Origin - Antithesis
Origin - Echoes of Decimation
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants Of Depravity
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
Putrilage - Devouring the Gutted
Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal
Pyrexia - Sermon of Mockery
Regurgitation – Clitoraldectomy
Saprogenic - The Wet Sound of Flesh on Concrete
Sarcophagy - The Summoning
Scattered Remnants - Indulgence In Masochism
Scrambled Defuncts - Hackled in Gore
Sepsism - Purulent Decomposition
Septycal Gorge - Erase The Insignificant
Severe Torture - Feasting On Blood
Severe Torture - Misanthropic Carnage
Severed Savior - Brutality is Law
Severed Savior - Servile Insurrection
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
Sinister - Hate
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet
Spawn of Possession – Noctambulant
Splattered Cadaver - Merciless Butchery
Suffocate Bastard - Acts Of Contemporary Violence
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Suffocation - Souls To Deny
Suffocation - Suffocation
Suffocation - The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City
Twitch Of The Death Nerve - A New Code of Morality
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Unmerciful - Unmercifully Beaten
Vader - Litany
Vader - Reign Forever World
Vader - Revelations
Vile - Depopulate
Vile - Stench of the Deceased
Viral Load - Decade of Deepwoods Debauchery
Visceral Bleeding - Absorbing the Disarray
Visceral Bleeding - Remnants of Deprivation
Visceral Disgorge - Ingesting Putridity
Vomepotro - Liturgy of Dissection
Vomit The Soul - Apostles of Inexpression
Vulnus - Vessels of Throe
Weeping Birth - A Painting of Raven and Rape
Wormed - Planisphaerium
Wormed – Quasineutrality

(2004) Imperial Sodomy - Demolished

This band's debut record is already featured on the blog, but their sophomore release is just as good, that's why it landed up here, too. Also the line-up is worth mentioning: it features Romain Goulon (of Disavowed/Arsebreed/Necrophagist fame) as well as members of Devilium.
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(2000) Coffee Grinders - Grindcore Brothers 2000

So this is an unusual post for this blog since the band is rooted in the Goregrind scene (being a spinn-off of Poland's famous Dead Infection). Nevertheless I felt like it qualified music-wise since, well, it's fucking brutal. So I hope you'll enjoy it!
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(1994) Crimson Thorn - Unearthed

And god was like: "Oh you really wanna do this Glen Benton?! Alright then, it's fuckin' on!" Sorry for this cheesy piece, but yeah, Deicide/Pyrexia influenced brutality here.
Password: 2014
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(2005) Disconformity - Deprivation of Stigma

Percussive brutal Death Metal from Japan which references back to the classics of the genre.
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5 classic Death Metal records bordering ultra brutality

Being a fan of BRUTAL Death Metal I've noticed a tendency to (subconsciously?) ignore certain classic, canonical Death Metal bands of the nineties. Let's face it: nineties Brutal Death Metal is Cannibal Corpse, Broken Hope, Cryptopsy, Suffocation, later on Dying Fetus, Deeds of Flesh, Krisiun, Mortician etc.
So who of you would name bands like Monstrosity or Gorguts when asked for the really heavy shit from back in the days?
Alright then, here are five records that are surprisingly heavy, if you have not checked them out yet, you might be in for a treat:

(2003) Cardinal - Baptized in Cum

Another forgotten Dutch band, really crushing stuff!
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