Best Death Metal Bands

824 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
601	Cryhavoc 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Sweetbriers (1998) #5808 Pitch-Black Blues (1999) Children of Bodom (1997) [Split]
602	Terminally Your Aborted Ghost United States Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore	Suicide As Self Expression (2006) [EP] Slowly Peeling the Flesh From the Inside of a Folded Hand (2005) #7188 Inanimately Soundless (2006) [EP]
603	Kronos 1994, France Brutal Death Metal	Arisen New Era (2015) Colossal Titan Strife (2004) #7075 The Hellenic Terror (2007)
604	El Patron 2001, Korea Brutal Death Metal	The Alliance (2018) Frustatim (2016) [Split] Running Quickly Toward the Battle Line (2007) #8866
605	Dream Death United States Doom Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Journey Into Mystery (1987) #4515 Somnium Excessum (2013) Dissemination (2016)
606	Cerebral Incubation 2006, United States Slamming Brutal Death Metal	Asphyxiating on Excrement (2009) Bifurcation of Primordial Slamateurs (2017) Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication (2012) #8190
607	Pessimist 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal	Cult of the Initiated (1997) Blood for the Gods (1999) Slaughtering the Faithful (2002)
608	Krigere Wolf Italy Black Metal, Death Metal	Infinite Cosmic Evocation (2016) #3503 Eternal Holocaust (2019) [EP] Sacrifice to Valaskjàlf (2014) #6671
609	Nocturnus AD 2013, United States Technical Death Metal	Paradox (2019) #4772 Unicursal (2024)
610	Diphenylchloroarsine 2015, International Slamming Brutal Death Metal	The 6 Level Purge (2015) [EP] Subterranean Existential Warfare (2021) Post Apocalyptic Human Annihilation (2017) #8225
611	Ovaryrot 2007, International Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind	Non-Flesh Scarring (2019) Harvesting Ovum (2009) Deform (2013)
612	Dark Suns Germany Progressive Dark Metal	Swanlike (2002) Existence (2005) Grave Human Genuine (2008)
613	Brain Drill 2006, United States Technical Death Metal, Grindcore	The Parasites (2006) [EP] Quantum Catastrophe (2010) #8609 Apocalyptic Feasting (2008) #9105
614	Enthrallment 1998, Bulgaria Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore	Burning Fields (2001) [EP] Immerse Into Bloody Bliss (2008) People From the Lands of Vit (2012)
615	Destinity 1996, France Melodic Death Metal	Resolve in Crimson (2012) Synthetic Existence (2005) The Inside (2008)
616	Circle of Dead Children 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore	Starving the Vultures (1999) Psalm of the Grand Destroyer (2010) Human Harvest (2003)
617	Thanatos 1984, Netherlands Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Angelic Encounters (2000) Realm of Ecstacy (1992) Emerging from the Netherworlds (1990)
618	Macabre 1981, United States Death Metal, Grindcore, Thrash Metal	Sinister Slaughter (1993) #7720 Gloom (1989) Dahmer (2000)
619	Inveracity 1998, Greece Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Extermination of Millions (2007) #2335 Circle of Perversion (2003) Insision / Inveracity (2001) [Split]
620	Blaspherian 2004, United States Death Metal	Infernal Warriors of Death (2011) #4144 Trident of the Macabre (2016) [Split] Allegiance to the Will of Damnation (2007) [EP]
621	Nocturnal Damnation 2009, Korea Death Metal, Black Metal	Sado Goat Ritual Desecration(2010-2017) (2018) [Compilation] Desecration Crucifixion Perversion (2012) #5822 Sadogoat Warmageddon Command - Promo 2011 (2011) [Demo]
622	Enfold Darkness 2005, United States Technical Death Metal, Black Metal	Our Cursed Rapture (2009) Adversary Omnipotent (2017) #4197 Lairs of the Ascended Masters (2012) [Single]
623	Carnage 1989, Sweden Death Metal	Dark Recollections (1990) #3986 The Day Man Lost (1989) [Demo] Infestation of Evil (1989) [Demo]
624	Meadows End 1993, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	The Grand Antiquation (2019) The Sufferwell (2014) #8720 Sojourn (2016)
625	Traumatomy 2012, International Slamming Brutal Death Metal	Transcendental Evisceration of Necrogenetic Beasts (2013) #2404 Rampage (2018) [Split] Extirpation Paradigms (2021)
626	Warmen 2000, Finland Neoclassical Metal, Power Metal	Beyond Abilities (2002) #3301 Here for None (2023) #5626 First of the Five Elements (2014) #6497
627	Despised Icon 2002, Canada Deathcore, Death Metal	The Ills of Modern Man (2007) #1704 Purgatory (2019) The Healing Process (2005)
628	Antropofagus 1998, Italy Brutal Death Metal	Architecture of Lust (2012) M.O.R.T.E. - Methods of Resurrection Through Evisceration (2017) No Waste of Flesh (1999)
629	Lost Dreams Austria Melodic Death Metal	End of Time (2008) Tormented Souls (2004) Wage of Disgrace (2010)
630	Serdce Belarus Technical Death Metal	Timelessness (2014) #4170 The Alchemy of Harmony (2009) Aritmiya (2003)
631	Crown of Thorns 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Eternal Death (1997) The Burning (1995) #8178 Forever Heaven Gone (1993) [Demo]
632	Stillbirth 1999, Germany Brutal Death Metal, Deathcore, Grindcore	Annihilation of Mankind (2018) #3218 Homo Deus (2023) Strain of Gods (2021) [EP]
633	Devour the Unborn 2011, United States Slamming Brutal Death Metal	Liturgy of Irreverent Oblation (2019) [EP] Consuming the Morgue Remains (2012) #7229 Meconium Pestilent Abomination (2015) #7766
634	Catacomb 1990, France Death Metal	In the Maze of Kadath (1993) [EP] #3476 The Year of Morbidology (2010) [Compilation] In the Maze of Kadath (1993) [Demo]
635	Avenger 1992, Czech Republic Blackened Death Metal	Godless (...Assuming the Throne of Immortality...) (2003) Feast of Anger / Joy of Despair (2009) Fall of Devotion, Wrath and Blasphemy (1999)
636	Acrania 2012, United Kingdom Brutal Deathcore	Societal Lobotomisation (2021) [Split] The Beginning of the End (2013) [EP] Tyrannical Hierarchy: Vol 1 (2018) [EP]
637	Krabathor 1984, Czech Republic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Orthodox (1998) Only Our Death Is Welcome... (1992) Cool Mortification (1993)
638	Wrathprayer 2006, Chile War Metal, Death Metal	The Wrath of Darkness (2017) [Split] Enkoimeterion (2024) The Sun of Moloch: the Sublimation of Sulphur's Essence Which Spawned Death and Life (2012) #6407
639	Wormhole 2015, United States Slamming Brutal Death Metal	Almost Human (2023) #5912 Genesis (2016) Existence Gap (2015) [Single]
640	Spectral Voice 2012, United States Death Doom Metal, Death Metal	Eroded Corridors of Unbeing (2017) #2262 Sparagmos (2024) #4079 Spectral Voice (2014) [Demo]
641	Sikfuk 2001, United States Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind	Teabagged at Birth (2006) #6801 Shitfisted Superman... The Man of Stool (2009) Fingercuffing the Beheaded / Christian Corpse Mutilation (2006) [Split]
642	The Gathering 1989, Netherlands Alternative Rock, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal, Art Rock, Atmospheric Rock	Home (2006) #1173 Mandylion (1995) #1205 Nighttime Birds (1997) #1425
643	Forest of Shadows 1997, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal	Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2001) [EP] #402 Among the Dormant Watchers (2018) Six Waves of Woe (2008) #4718
644	Anal Blasphemy Finland Black Metal, Death Metal	Bestial Black Metal Filth (2009) #6055 Profane Fornication Ejaculation (2010) Cum and Crucifixion (2002) [Demo]
645	Aeon 1999, Sweden Death Metal	Bleeding the False (2005) Rise to Dominate (2007) God Ends Here (2021)
646	Centinex 1990, Sweden Death Metal	Subconscious Lobotomy (1992) Reflections (1997) #6620 Malleus Maleficarum (1996)
647	Mercyless 1987, France Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Those Who Reign Below (2024) Abject Offerings (1992) Coloured Funeral (1993)
648	Gastrorrexis 2002, Ecuador Brutal Death Metal	The Dark World of Parasitic Infections (2012) Grotesque Human Disfigurement (2010) Putrescent Genetic Abnormalities Aberrations (2015) [Split]
649	Nomenmortis 1992, Slovakia Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore	Forget Arcadia (2011) How I Learn to Bleed... for the Things I Wish to Forget (2000) The Day You`ll Lose Your Head (2002)
650	Doomed 2011, Germany Death Metal, Doom Metal	Our Ruin Silhouettes (2014) Wrath Monolith (2015) In My Own Abyss (2012)

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