As you may estimate, this is a huge undertaking, so we'll be adding more and more material every update. Hopefully, there will be some gem here that had slipped by you, and through these pages, you discover musical treasure as we have.
Label: Deaf Records
Date: 1991
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] War in Paradise
[I don't have to tell any fan of death metal who Vital Remains is. The song 'Ceremony of the Seventh Circle', with its Native American ritual introduction, is a very cool track.]
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Label: Napalm Records
Date: 1995
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Xolotl
[A great slab of black metal, especially the track 'En Sang Fran En Pestbesmittad Grav'. Cool and unique use of keyboards as well.]
[CD inlay]
Label: Nosferatu Records
Date: 1994
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Alone in the Dark*
[Unique in so many ways, this first release is a classic to me. A true work of art.]
[CD inlay]
Label: RC Records
Date: 1989
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Dehydrated
[Pestilence's 'Consuming Impulse', a little bit ahead of the crowd, this came out before the big death metal boom, released in 1989.]
[CD inlay]
Label: RC Records
Date: 1991
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] The Secrecies of Horror
[This was the first Pestilence without the old singer, Martin Van Drunen, who had left and helped form the band Asphyx. Patrick Mameli, the lead guitarist from the previous release, took over vocals and did a great job.]
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Label: Spinefarm Records
Date: 1993
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Nightfall by the Shore of Time
[Although Dark Tranquility released a handful of worthy CDs early on, nothing ever topped 1993's Skydancer. A great release.]
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Label: Musica Maxima Magnetica/Projekt
Date: 1993
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Volontees
[Ordo Equitum Solis, which translates as 'The Order of the Knights of the Sun', is our absolute favorite female fronted band. Songs like 'Playing with the Fire' and especially 'Stars and Misery' are monumental. The feeling captured here is found so very rarely in music.]
[CD inlay]
Label: JL America
Date: 1993
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Agonized Display*
[One of my favorite death metal bands. No one was able to capture the audio violence of this band.]
[CD inlay]
Label: Roadracer Records
Date: 1989
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Beneath the Remains*
[The classic 'Beneath the Remains'. This whole album is good, but the first three songs are superb.]
[CD inlay]
Label: Roadrunner Records
Date: 1985-1996
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Morbid Visions*
[I always prefered the darker, rougher sound of earlier Sepultura to the later refined sound. 'Morbid Visions' is a very cool release, and the even earlier EP 'Beastial Devastation' I like even more. This was and is some very good stuff.]
[CD inlay]
Label: Qassam Rockets Records
Date: 2008
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Mr Bush
['The Core of Hate' is a masterpiece of aggression and extremely catchy!]
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[2] Of Pure Unholiness
[3] Ceremony of the Seventh Circle*
[4] Uncultivated Grave
[5] Malevolent Invocation
[6] Isolated Magick
[7] Cult of the Dead
[8] Frozen Terror
[9] Amulet of the Conquering
[2] En Sang Fran En Pestbesmittad Grav*
[3] Lord of the Woods
[4] Akhkharu (The Grave Dweller)
[5] Neuntoter (Yo Soy El Roy!)
[6] May the Rotten Bones Absorb Life Again
[7] A Black Hearse Clad in Human Bones and Skulls
[8] Jai Ma Kali
[9] Gravestench
[10] Toteslaut
[2] Esteban's Promise*
[3] The Call of the Wood*
[4] Al Azif
[5] Sepulcro
[2] The Process of Suffocation
[3] Suspended Animation*
[4] The Trauma*
[5] Chronic Infection
[6] Out of the Body
[7] Echoes of Death
[8] Deify Thy Master
[9] Proliferous Souls
[10] Reduced to Ashes
[2] Bitterness
[3] Twisted Truth*
[4] Darkening
[5] Lost Souls
[6] Blood
[7] Land of Tears
[8] Free Us From Temptation
[9] Prophetic Revelations
[10] Impure
[11] Testimony
[12] Souless
[13] Presense of the Dead
[14] Mindwarp
[15] Stigmatized
[16] In Sorrow
[2] Crimson Winds
[3] A Bolt of Blazing Gold*
[4] In Tears Bereaved
[5] Skywards
[6] Through Ebony Archways*
[7] Shadow Duet
[8] My Faeryland Forgotten
[9] Alone
[2] Dialogo Sis Falsi Pentimenti
[3] Playing with the Fire*
[4] Stars and Misery*
[5] The Road to Babylon
[6] Trivia
[7] Normmno -L
[2] A Thousand Years of Anguish*
[3] Cannibal Autopsy
[4] Devoured*
[5] The Sufferance*
[6] Rotting in Hell
[7] Asphyxiation Cremation
[8] Shadows of Death
[9] Beyond the Grave
[10] Decomposed Anatomy
[2] Inner Self*
[3] Stronger Than Hate*
[4] Mass Hypnosis
[5] Sarcastic Existence
[6] Slaves of Pain
[7] Lobotomy
[8] Hungry
[9] Primitive Future
[2] Mayhem
[3] Troops of Doom*
[4] War
[5] Crucifixion
[6] Show Me the Wrath*
[7] Funeral Rites
[8] Empire of the Damned
[9] The Curse*
[10] Beastial Devastation*
[11] Antichrist
[12] Necromancer
[13] Warriors of Death
[14] Necromancer [demo version]
[15] Anticop [live]
Tracks 1-14 produced between 1985, 1986 and 1990. Track 15 1996.
[2] Volksvertreter
[3] Youth in Black
[4] Nothing to Lose
[5] 9mm
[6] Wake Up
[7] The Core of Hate*
[8] Adrenalin
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