Was 17 in 1991 and I bought on most of these classics when they were released. Butchered at birth was my very first CD! Great times for sure... I will always be nostalgic of this period.
Seminole heights guy here. I remember growing up in the early 90’s, and a buddy in 7th grade gave me Legion, by Deicide. Down the rabbit hole after that.
Amazing collection man! Pretty much listed all albums that I can think of from the top of my head, except for one, which is Protector - A Shedding of Skin. Some of the most intense death thrash you'll find from that time!
My eyes popped out of my head when you pulled out the first pressing of Sentenced - Shadows of the Past. I don't know what possessed them to get rid of the original art for all re-releases because that's one of the best covers of all time in my opinion.
You, sir, have impeccable taste and an amazing collection. I've been watching your newer vids for a few weeks and then this came up in my suggestions. Chef's kiss.
Dude, I can’t argue with the list. Growing up in Tampa, I regularly listened to most of the records on that list and still do! You may or may not be aware of this, but Sepultura’s “Arise” was recorded at the infamous “Morrisound Studios” in Tampa. Cool video 🤘🏻
Very impressive list,collection and commentary. Been listening to metal since 1970 and DM is still my top genre. I enjoy all your picks past and present.
Excellent albums in this video. The good ole days. Gorguts , Cannibal Corpse, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Carcass,Grave and many more. Damn that was a great year. 🤘
Amazing vinyl collection.91 high school years hitting local club shows I must say malevolent,cannibal corpse,bahpomet all from here in buff.ny I know some say from Florida but not true least not w they started.loved seeing them n many others in there prime giving it all on stage b4 record deals or touring there first album releases but early 90s def packed full of amazing metal of all styles.thanks for sharing a taste of your collection
New Jersey Boy here ,And I just watched the whole video and I could not have made a better list myself wow you did a good job.. a young dude remembering to put Effigy Of The Forgotten in there wow! I guess there's hope for death metal yet!
Awesome list of albums! I’m glad to see I have most of them and there are a couple I just haven’t gotten yet. But you mention a few new ones to me, so that’s going to be exciting to check those out.
Thanks brother for that awesome list. I was born in 1980 huge death metal fan and still didn't know some of these bands. Awesome list keep em coming man
I own at least 75% of this (although on CD) Should've played a drinking game - a shot for every one u own... then off to bed :D Just solid gold after solid gold - fuck, what a year! Death metal RULES \m/
great video. There are so many essential bands here, who made death metal what it is! Thank you for recommending "sentenced" and "Convulse", both albums are awesome as hell and confirmed once again why I love death metal so much!
as someone that was into all this shit when it all came out, your analysis on your vids are always spot on. same reverence for the same albums. example: recognizing War Master is the quintessential Bolt Thrower album (i've seen numerous newer school DM kids arguing for other BT albums), knowing The Bleeding is/was CC at their finest (no contest); etc. very cool to see some in next gen of dm people knowing their shit proper. kudos bro
Awesome video. Love all the early 90s swedish death metal. Didn't know about Sentenced's Shadow of the past...Im absolutely blown away surely as good if not better than Left Hand path, underrated for sure! Keep up the good work brother
Dude like I stumbled across this like horrifically late? I was 20 years old in 1991. Obituary Morbid Angel death deicide Cannibal Corpse..... The Whole 9 Yards bro. I'm glad to see as I am approaching the age of 50 that there is still people that are younger than me that appreciate the music that was considered "Underground" when I was a young guy myself. And being the fact that I'm a musician just makes it all the more sweeter that you actually appreciate the music and not just the "look"of death metal like a lot of stupid kids do today.
Ok, I just found this video now in my feed/suggestions. Don't know HOW a title such as this one took so long to show up in TH-cam's algorithm for me but, at least it's here. I 'm gonna make what should be a very obvious prediction to be on your list of 17 albums crucial to Death Metal in 1991. The stand out & #1 (IMO) has got to be: The Ten Commandments, the debut album from Malevolent Creation. I'm curious what YOU have here... So, I'm going back to watch the video now...
A couple of albums i would like to add are: Contamination Rises, an awesome death metal album by a French band "No Return". Very Napalm Death influenced. Prophecies of a Dying World by Revenant. Pretty obscure stuff. From the US. Blackened Images by a Mexican band Mortuary. Choir of Horrors by Messiah. One of the few DM bands from Switzerland And "On the Seventh Day" by Master. Kickass band from US
Metal peaked in the early 90s for sure. Death Metal was at the top of its game, the Thrash bands (and Maiden) were all releasing their last good album(s) before selling out or swapping singers. Hair Metal was dead, NuMetal wasn't a thing yet, and instead you had some mainstream metal acts that were actually pretty good, like Danzig, Pantera and White Zombie. Black Metal and Grindcore were hitting their stride. Plus you had both Waynes World and Beavis and Butthead in their prime. Great time to be alive.
Yeah I was there as well. 13 in 92. Good time for metal, at least as I recall. I find it odd that since coming online I see a lot of stuff about Pantera. A lot of people hating on them. I remember them flying the flag for metal and leading the charge. Shit, they had a guitar HERO! I appreciated it. Went to see them a few times with my friends and it was a big deal to us, headbanging and having fun. The 90's didnt kill metal. It never go's away. I enjoyed reading your post.
I'm with you, 1991 was the year when it all came together for the first time. Death's "Human" being lightyears ahead at the time, it's almost terrifying. My picks would include: Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments Honorable mention to Protector - A Shedding of Skin, a Thrash / Deathmetal hybrid from Germany.
Great video. On Dismember, i heard a rumour earlier this year, according to the swedish underground scene, they are talking about reforming. I hope that is true.
Can u make separate videos where u like say what ur fav old school death metal albums are, what ur melodic death metal albums are, tech death, slam etc
Glad you brought that morgoth into the mix I remember getting high when I was 14 listening to that cassette cursed although the vocal range does sound like death I feel like they have their own sound there were more atmospheric and scary sounding than most other death metal bands at the time in fact I used to watch faces of death and they had a sequel called Traces of Death where they played death metal in the background while people were dying and morgoth was one of the songs. Loved the acoustic interlude that goes into the spoken word at the end of the album.
Man this is an amazing list and someone who’s his stuff I do think that with death metal you just can’t look at one year but 90 91 92 and 93 had so much
You can add up to your list another amazing french Canadian from Montreal OBLIVEON. Very technical death who went under the radar a bit. I think they were on Active record for the first album in 91
Thanks for doing this video. Sentenced and Convulse I hadn`t heard of, looking forward to checking them out. I went to my first death metal gig in `91 Morbid Angel and Unleashed, amazing. A few albums worth a mention; Gorefest - Mindloss Tiamat - The Astral Sleep Grave - Into the Grave Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering Cerebral Fix - Bastards (not really death metal, but a great band)
Nice review. I am into metal since 1984 and saw the death metal's rise. I was lucky to discover these bands emerging from everywhere, what a fucking great era! You can add an excellent french album from 1991: Loublast:Disincarnate (yes, I'm french ^^) Thank you to mention the great "Massacra's album" I saw them live twice back in the 90, it was so brutal!
1991 was an epic year for all death metal fans. I agree with ally our comments except MORGOTH, the Cursed album is a Masterpiece, they actually changed style in this album and the riffs are just amazing, I know they were inspired by DEATH but you can hear that in their first 2 EPs. Thank you for the great video!
Another excellent video. Great list. Very informative. But, can you please suggest the golden years of thrash and black metal also. Thanks and greetings from india. \m/
Yes 1991 was Death Metal's pinnacle,so many classics came out that year.Here's my top 5 albums of 1991: (1)"Testimony Of The Ancients" by Pestilence;(2)"The Ten Commandments" by Malevolent Creation;(3)"Dawn Of Possession" by Immolation;(4)"Cursed" by Morgoth;(5)""From Beyond" by Massacre.I also love Suffocation's first release the EP "Human Waste" which is better than "Effigy Of The Forgotten" in my opinion.Probaby my fave Death Metal song of 1991 is a tie between Cancer's "Hung,Drawn and Quarted" off the "Death Shall Rise"album or "Dawn Of Eternity" by Massace.
1991 was certainly the peak for this style . I remeber brazilian metal mags ALMOST ONLY talking about Death Metal bands between late 1990 and early 1993 . Then , the style lost a little of its popularity , but never really "fade out" . 1991 certainly was the peak for the style .
Was 17 in 1991 and I bought on most of these classics when they were released. Butchered at birth was my very first CD! Great times for sure... I will always be nostalgic of this period.
Very cool channel, no stressful cuts just relaxing talk! Keep it up!
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I was lucky enough to grow up in Tampa around that time. Amazing scene. Good times.
you lucky bastard
Same here! Grew up in Seffner!
Seminole heights guy here.
I remember growing up in the early 90’s, and a buddy in 7th grade gave me Legion, by Deicide. Down the rabbit hole after that.
Fucking Ace’s Records for life
I got into death metal in 91! I bought Arise that summer and followed with Cause of Death and Death By Manipulation.
Nice! Probably my 3 faves of each band \m/
Amazing collection man! Pretty much listed all albums that I can think of from the top of my head, except for one, which is Protector - A Shedding of Skin. Some of the most intense death thrash you'll find from that time!
My eyes popped out of my head when you pulled out the first pressing of Sentenced - Shadows of the Past. I don't know what possessed them to get rid of the original art for all re-releases because that's one of the best covers of all time in my opinion.
So what youre saying is that the new issues are mere Shadows of the Past pressing
@IIIIIIII While many current reissues opt for the original artwork, in the 2000s it was common to see it replaced with new digital art.
@IIIIIIII Sorry I meant the CD versions.
I was fortunate enough to find a 1995 reissue CD that still has the original artwork.
Was 15 in 1991 Arise was the album I cranked the most out of all of these I had 7 of them. Great video man keep posting
91/ 92 was the Best , Got to see Obituary , Cannibal Corpse , Malevolent Creation With Agnostic Front in Ft. Worth, Texas , and it was Great !
3:53 i always consider this a death metal album. The vocals and Morrisound production enough are the selling point for me.
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients is only one who is really missing there
He mentioned it at the end since he doesn't own it
You, sir, have impeccable taste and an amazing collection. I've been watching your newer vids for a few weeks and then this came up in my suggestions. Chef's kiss.
malevolent creation one of the greatest! showed a bunch of killer albums
Sooo many awesome classic Death Metal releases dropped this year, Im with you on this! Hails! 1991 ftw
Thanks for making this video! This is great.
Thanks for capturing this magic moment for the posterity of humankind, Brandon
Dude, I can’t argue with the list. Growing up in Tampa, I regularly listened to most of the records on that list and still do! You may or may not be aware of this, but Sepultura’s “Arise” was recorded at the infamous “Morrisound Studios” in Tampa. Cool video 🤘🏻
Super collection!!!!👍
Killer video man.I was around back then, was a special time for sure!
Very impressive list,collection and commentary. Been listening to metal since 1970 and DM is still my top genre. I enjoy all your picks past and present.
Damn. Massacra? Never heard of an original French death metal band. Definitely need to check that stuff out.
Great albums man! Thanks for share!
Excellent albums in this video. The good ole days. Gorguts , Cannibal Corpse, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Carcass,Grave and many more. Damn that was a great year. 🤘
Awesome video. Admittedly I have about half of these, but now I have a bunch of stuff to get caught up on.
Amazing vinyl collection.91 high school years hitting local club shows I must say malevolent,cannibal corpse,bahpomet all from here in buff.ny I know some say from Florida but not true least not w they started.loved seeing them n many others in there prime giving it all on stage b4 record deals or touring there first album releases but early 90s def packed full of amazing metal of all styles.thanks for sharing a taste of your collection
Thanks for recommending Sentenced.
Those are some good Death Metal Vinyls.
"Vinyls" isn't a fucking word. Fishes, deers and gooses aren't words either...Can't believe 22 people liked this comment...Bunch of dumb fucks!
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I just returned to this video to say thanks, I'm on the first album picked from your list 'Broken Hope - Swamped In Gore' .. amazing album.
Watched the whole thing. I got into this shit in 93. I was 13. Love it even more now I’m 38 ha. Great video
New Jersey Boy here ,And I just watched the whole video and I could not have made a better list myself wow you did a good job.. a young dude remembering to put Effigy Of The Forgotten in there wow! I guess there's hope for death metal yet!
Awesome list of albums! I’m glad to see I have most of them and there are a couple I just haven’t gotten yet. But you mention a few new ones to me, so that’s going to be exciting to check those out.
agree on each and every. also agree on including the two thrash-death efforts, Sepultura and Massacra. Both very influential for the genre.
I agree 100% and I was thinking about this before I discovered your video. Death Metal really took it’s modern form in 1991
Thanks brother for that awesome list. I was born in 1980 huge death metal fan and still didn't know some of these bands. Awesome list keep em coming man
1990-1992 was a great time for metal in general
Agree in 91 I considered Arise a DM album. Still do. Obituary CAuse of Death should of been mentioned was released Sept 90 but was def a 91 lineup.
I own at least 75% of this (although on CD)
Should've played a drinking game - a shot for every one u own... then off to bed :D
Just solid gold after solid gold - fuck, what a year!
Death metal RULES \m/
You know your stuff man. Could not agree more. What an incredible set of albums!!
great video. There are so many essential bands here, who made death metal what it is! Thank you for recommending "sentenced" and "Convulse", both albums are awesome as hell and confirmed once again why I love death metal so much!
as someone that was into all this shit when it all came out, your analysis on your vids are always spot on. same reverence for the same albums. example: recognizing War Master is the quintessential Bolt Thrower album (i've seen numerous newer school DM kids arguing for other BT albums), knowing The Bleeding is/was CC at their finest (no contest); etc. very cool to see some in next gen of dm people knowing their shit proper. kudos bro
Been cranking everyone of these since day one...so cool you have the Massacra ... I knew someone else actually sensed how good it is
Good video...
Great review, thank you!
Necroticism isn’t THE Carcass record, but THE DEATH METAL record of all time.
I totally disagree. I wouldn't even class them as death.
Good list i got about 7 of these albums on cassette tape yep gonna listen to some right now
Awesome video. Love all the early 90s swedish death metal. Didn't know about Sentenced's Shadow of the past...Im absolutely blown away surely as good if not better than Left Hand path, underrated for sure! Keep up the good work brother
Good video man, amazing bands! Hugs from México!
Dude like I stumbled across this like horrifically late? I was 20 years old in 1991. Obituary Morbid Angel death deicide Cannibal Corpse..... The Whole 9 Yards bro. I'm glad to see as I am approaching the age of 50 that there is still people that are younger than me that appreciate the music that was considered "Underground" when I was a young guy myself. And being the fact that I'm a musician just makes it all the more sweeter that you actually appreciate the music and not just the "look"of death metal like a lot of stupid kids do today.
Awesome selection of records...
Great list! Very informative! I have some of these, but will check out the ones I don't! I love a good list! cheers swm
Ok, I just found this video now in my feed/suggestions. Don't know HOW a title such as this one took so long to show up in TH-cam's algorithm for me but, at least it's here. I 'm gonna make what should be a very obvious prediction to be on your list of 17 albums crucial to Death Metal in 1991. The stand out & #1 (IMO) has got to be: The Ten Commandments, the debut album from Malevolent Creation. I'm curious what YOU have here... So, I'm going back to watch the video now...
A couple of albums i would like to add are:
Contamination Rises, an awesome death metal album by a French band "No Return". Very Napalm Death influenced.
Prophecies of a Dying World by Revenant. Pretty obscure stuff. From the US.
Blackened Images by a Mexican band Mortuary.
Choir of Horrors by Messiah. One of the few DM bands from Switzerland
And "On the Seventh Day" by Master. Kickass band from US
A lot of people talk about the 80s, but in my opinion the 90s is when death metal as we know it truly began
The only albums shown I don't own are Sentenced, Ripping Corpse, Morgoth and Massacra.
They arent worth owning compared to human for eg haha, nowhere near the songcraft
Metal peaked in the early 90s for sure. Death Metal was at the top of its game, the Thrash bands (and Maiden) were all releasing their last good album(s) before selling out or swapping singers. Hair Metal was dead, NuMetal wasn't a thing yet, and instead you had some mainstream metal acts that were actually pretty good, like Danzig, Pantera and White Zombie. Black Metal and Grindcore were hitting their stride. Plus you had both Waynes World and Beavis and Butthead in their prime. Great time to be alive.
Yeah I was there as well. 13 in 92. Good time for metal, at least as I recall. I find it odd that since coming online I see a lot of stuff about Pantera. A lot of people hating on them. I remember them flying the flag for metal and leading the charge. Shit, they had a guitar HERO! I appreciated it. Went to see them a few times with my friends and it was a big deal to us, headbanging and having fun. The 90's didnt kill metal. It never go's away.
I enjoyed reading your post.
I'm with you, 1991 was the year when it all came together for the first time. Death's "Human" being lightyears ahead at the time, it's almost terrifying.
My picks would include:
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
Honorable mention to Protector - A Shedding of Skin, a Thrash / Deathmetal hybrid from Germany.
Absolutely killer video my dude! Cheers!
Considered Dead by Gorguts is a great listen! Oh, and, I'm going to put on The Ten Commandments right now...great!
Great video. On Dismember, i heard a rumour earlier this year, according to the swedish underground scene, they are talking about reforming. I hope that is true.
Make one for each year from 1991
This kind of content is what I expect to watch when I subscribe to a MH channel.
Can u make separate videos where u like say what ur fav old school death metal albums are, what ur melodic death metal albums are, tech death, slam etc
Glad you brought that morgoth into the mix I remember getting high when I was 14 listening to that cassette cursed although the vocal range does sound like death I feel like they have their own sound there were more atmospheric and scary sounding than most other death metal bands at the time in fact I used to watch faces of death and they had a sequel called Traces of Death where they played death metal in the background while people were dying and morgoth was one of the songs. Loved the acoustic interlude that goes into the spoken word at the end of the album.
When I saw Blessed are the Sick, I was like, "YEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!" I guess that's because they are my favorite band!
@Hello Statue Mine's Angel of Disease.
@Hello Statue mines probably summoning redemption great riffs and solos are amazing
Blessed is siiiiiick
Man this is an amazing list and someone who’s his stuff I do think that with death metal you just can’t look at one year but 90 91 92 and 93 had so much
Goddam... 1991 was way cooler than I thought. I don't know if it's a coincidence but almost all these bands were formidable for me. Good video
Fuck yes thank for mentioning sentenced
Many "softer" bands also peaked in 1991.
Your video raises some great memories.
I love that Sentenced album. Imagine all the confortations I had saying that in Finland.
You can add up to your list another amazing french Canadian from Montreal OBLIVEON. Very technical death who went under the radar a bit. I think they were on Active record for the first album in 91
Thanks for doing this video. Sentenced and Convulse I hadn`t heard of, looking forward to checking them out. I went to my first death metal gig in `91 Morbid Angel and Unleashed, amazing. A few albums worth a mention;
Gorefest - Mindloss
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Grave - Into the Grave
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Cerebral Fix - Bastards (not really death metal, but a great band)
Holy Shot wasn't Peter Steele in Play Girl ahahah.Thanks for the Vid Jabroni!
Hell Yeah! Thanx for sharing.
Wow that's a crazy list...I have all but 3....
Defenitly a couple on here I haven’t heard yet. 1991 kicked ass
Hes back!!
I have been going on about '91 being the goldern year since first starting Decrepid, so sick to come across this video
Have you ever done a vid on your tattoos? If not that would be dope
All of those were the same year? I remember buying most of those upon release...Damn, no wonder i was so hyped on metal at the time.
Nice review. I am into metal since 1984 and saw the death metal's rise. I was lucky to discover these bands emerging from everywhere, what a fucking great era!
You can add an excellent french album from 1991: Loublast:Disincarnate (yes, I'm french ^^)
Thank you to mention the great "Massacra's album" I saw them live twice back in the 90, it was so brutal!
I may be late but, Pungent Stench 2nd album "Been Caught Buttering" was also released in 1991
1980: heavy metal
1986: thrash metal
1991: death metal
Awesome hat dude!
There was a big 3 of Swedish death metal. Entombed, Dismember, At The Gates. Unleashed was next.
Nice shirt! Baphomet rules!
Was going to mention this as well, GREAT Underrated Band
I checked out the sentenced shadows of past and that's a relay good album!!!!!!!
You should look up Mercyless. Another french death metal band. Their debut came out in 91, but imo their best is Coloured Funeral from 1993.
1991 was an epic year for all death metal fans. I agree with ally our comments except MORGOTH, the Cursed album is a Masterpiece, they actually changed style in this album and the riffs are just amazing, I know they were inspired by DEATH but you can hear that in their first 2 EPs. Thank you for the great video!
Very cool.
Another excellent video. Great list. Very informative. But, can you please suggest the golden years of thrash and black metal also. Thanks and greetings from india. \m/
Pretty good video dude
Great list. I might add Gorefest - False and Invocator - Excursion Demise, though the latter is similar to Arise in that it's a deathrash album.
Sick Baphomet shirt man. Great vid!
Id love to see al his death metal records
I agree 100% with you on Arise its 2019 and I still listen to that album today no bullshit 1991 s fuckin shreding
You missed Obituary - The End Complete!!! crushing list dude.
That came out in 1992.
Yes 1991 was Death Metal's pinnacle,so many classics came out that year.Here's my top 5 albums of 1991: (1)"Testimony Of The Ancients" by Pestilence;(2)"The Ten Commandments" by Malevolent Creation;(3)"Dawn Of Possession" by Immolation;(4)"Cursed" by Morgoth;(5)""From Beyond" by Massacre.I also love Suffocation's first release the EP "Human Waste" which is better than "Effigy Of The Forgotten" in my opinion.Probaby my fave Death Metal song of 1991 is a tie between Cancer's "Hung,Drawn and Quarted" off the "Death Shall Rise"album or "Dawn Of Eternity" by Massace.
1991 Butchered at Birth f0r sure is my fav cannibal corpse album and sick artwork. classic
Great list, not a single bad one there
I fucken adore Bolt Thrower and that Grave album! Autopsy's album is genius putrid filth
1991 was certainly the peak for this style . I remeber brazilian metal mags ALMOST ONLY talking about Death Metal bands between late 1990 and early 1993 . Then , the style lost a little of its popularity , but never really "fade out" . 1991 certainly was the peak for the style .