Death Metal Albums

At the Gates' eighth album, from April 2026: Tomas Lindberg's vocals, cut before his cancer surgery, and their first No. 1 on Sweden's albums chart.

The four-song EP that is Sepultura's last studio release, out in April 2026 and in Japan on 10 July.

Blood Dynasty is a 2025 ARCH ENEMY album of melodic death metal, where sharp riffs meet dramatic melodies that reach toward traditional metal.

Blood Incantation's fourth studio album, from October 2024, made of two suites in three parts each.

Endtime Signals deepens the melodic-death-metal aesthetic DARK TRANQUILLITY has shaped for decades.

Gatecreeper's third studio album, from May 2024 and the first with bassist Alex Brown.

Opeth's fourteenth studio album, from November 2024, and the return of death growls for the first time since Watershed.

Servitude is THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s tenth album and the beginning of a new chapter after profound loss.

Cattle Decapitation's eighth studio album, from May 2023, recorded in the weeks after a founding member's death.

Tomb Mold's fourth studio album, from September 2023, announced only four days before it appeared.

Deceivers sharpens Arch Enemy’s melodic-death-metal design with exceptional precision.

Lorna Shore's fourth studio album, from October 2022, closing on a title track in three parts.

Archspire's fourth studio album, from October 2021, and winner of the 2022 Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album.

At the Gates' seventh album, from July 2021: a concept record on philosophical pessimism, with saxophone and strings joining the band.

Carcass's seventh studio album, from September 2021, eight years after Surgical Steel and delayed over a year by the pandemic.

Fortitude retains Gojira’s low-end groove, machine-like riffs and massive rhythmic force while allowing more melody and openness into the frame.

Moment gathers Dark Tranquillity’s core language—sharp guitars, cold keyboards and an introspective lyrical atmosphere—into a fluid melodic-death-metal record.

Napalm Death's sixteenth studio album, out in September 2020 after the longest gap between albums in their history.

Sepultura's fifteenth studio album, from February 2020, built on the number four and divided into four sections.

Verminous pours the speed of melodic death metal into a dense world that suggests horror and fantasy literature.

Ulcerate's sixth studio album, from April 2020 and the first they released on Debemur Morti Productions.

Opeth's thirteenth album, from September 2019, issued on the same day in two versions, one sung in Swedish and one in English.

At the Gates' sixth album, from May 2018: the first without co-founder Anders Björler, built on Peter Weiss's novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.

Will to Power keeps Arch Enemy’s melodic-death-metal attack intact while widening the contrast between harsh force, vocal melody and arrangement.

Sepultura's fourteenth studio album, from January 2017, produced by Jens Bogren and built on the robotisation of society.

Nightbringers packs The Black Dahlia Murder’s melodic-death-metal velocity and horror-like unease into a very dense form.

Amon Amarth's tenth album, from March 2016: their first concept record, and certified gold in Germany.

Atoma joins Dark Tranquillity’s cutting melodic-death-metal harmonies to an atmosphere of cold, beautiful keyboards.

Magma keeps Gojira’s massive riffs and unusual rhythmic identity while moving into quieter, more inward-looking territory.

Opeth's twelfth album, from September 2016, and the first they released through Nuclear Blast and their own Moderbolaget imprint.

The sixth album by San Diego's Cattle Decapitation, from August 2015, about what humanity has done to the environment.

Abysmal packs The Black Dahlia Murder’s vicious speed, sharp blasting and vivid guitar melody into an extreme-metal rush.

War Eternal restarts Arch Enemy with sharp melodic-death-metal riffing and an overwhelming vocal roar.

At the Gates' fifth album and first in 19 years, released in October 2014: built on Latin American magic realism, it reached number three in Sweden.

Behemoth's tenth album, from February 2014, written after Nergal's recovery from leukaemia.

Opeth's eleventh album, from August 2014, and the first with the keyboard player Joakim Svalberg.

Triptykon's second album, from April 2014, and the last album cover H. R. Giger ever made.

Carcass's sixth album, from September 2013: their first in seventeen years, recorded as a trio.

Construct uses cool keyboard texture, detailed riffs and restrained melody to create melodic death metal that turns inward.

Sepultura's thirteenth studio album, from October 2013, and the first Ross Robinson had produced for them since Roots seventeen years earlier.

Everblack packs high-speed blast beats, slicing riffs and dark melody into a concentrated Black Dahlia Murder attack.