Death Metal 2010s Albums

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.

L'Enfant Sauvage uses low, rolling riffs, precise rhythm and guitar textures with an unusual sense of space to create metal that is both massive and reflective.

Khaos Legions is built around the Amott brothers’ sharp twin guitars, Angela Gossow’s ferocious vocals and heavy, precise rhythm.

Opeth's tenth album, from September 2011, made without a single death growl and turned towards the progressive rock of the 1970s.

The eighth Septicflesh album, from April 2011, recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sepultura's twelfth studio album, from June 2011, their first for Nuclear Blast, and a record about time.

Ritual layers The Black Dahlia Murder’s cutting riffs, icy melodies and feral vocals into extreme metal with high tension.

We Are the Void layers Dark Tranquillity’s cold-toned guitar melodies, precise rhythm and harsh vocals to create a beauty shaped by shadow.

Nails' debut album, from 2010: ten songs in under fourteen minutes, grindcore pulled toward powerviolence.

The debut album by Triptykon, the band Thomas Gabriel Fischer formed after Celtic Frost. Released in March 2010.