Here's a list of the 3 greatest death metal albums released every year since 1990. We've included all sub genres of Death Metal like Swedish Death Metal, Death Grind, Deathcore...etc. The challenge was narrowing it down to only three. Truth be told, we started this with the idea of only picking one per year but promptly realized that was an impossible task. This list is final and may never be altered. It is now historically canon no matter what any other publication from this point forward say.
(wink wink Loudwire.)
1990: Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life
Death - Spiritual Healing
Obituary - Cause of Death
1991: Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
1992: Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Deicide - Legion
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished
1993: Carcass - Heartwork
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Morbid Angel - Covenant
1994: Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Grave - Soulless
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
1995: At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Death - Symbolic
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
1996: Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Immolation - Here in After
Kataklysm - Temple of Knowledge
1997: Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom
Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood
Vader - Black to the Blind
1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Exhumed - Gore Metal
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
1999: Aborted - The Purity of Perversion
Behemoth - Satanica
Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
2000: Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Regurgitate - Carnivorous Erection
2001: Circle Of Dead Children - The Genocide Machine
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise
2002: Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
2003: Exhumed - Anatomy is Destiny
Krisiun - Works of Carnage
Nasum - Helvete
2004: Behemoth - Demigod
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Pig Destoyer - Terrifyer
2005: Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Devourment - Butcher the Weak
Job For A Cowboy - Doom
2006: Arsis - United in Regret
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
2007: Despised Icon - The Ills of Modern Man
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
2008: Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
2009: Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria
2010: Dawn Of Azazel - Relentless
Deeds Of Flesh - Path of the Weakening
White Chapel - A New Era of Corruption
2011: Gutalax - Shitbeast
Neuraxis - Asylon
Ourboros - Glorification of a Myth
2012: Abiotic - Symbiosis
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
2013: Fuck The Facts - Amer
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Impaled - The Dead Still Dead Remain
2014: Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
2015: Noisem - Blossoming Decay
Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
Walking Dead on Broadway - Aeshma
2016: Aborted - Retrogore
Science Of Sleep - Hellmouth
Virvum - Illuminance
2017: Cannabis Corpse - Left Hand Pass
The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost
Rings Of Saturn - Ultu Ulla
2018: Aborted - Squalor Opera
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
2019: Abnormality - Sociopathic Constructs
Enterprise Earth - Luciferous
Fit For An Autopsy - The Sea of Tragic Beasts
2020: Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and be Still
2021: Ophidian I - Desolate
Archspire - Bleed the Future
Aborted - ManiaCult
2022: Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Lorna Shore - Pain Remains