The book was originally a gift, but by the time I was finished, I had enjoyed the process enough that I wanted to do it again. I bought Albert Mudrian's Choosing Death and started over. There was a surprising amount of crossover between these books, especially during the early years of the metal scene as heavy metal pushed itself into extreme metal with its many sub-genres. I learned several things from this book. Choosing Death bills itself as a history of both grindcore and death metal. I learned I like death metal more than grindcore, though not exclusively. I also learned just how many early death metal bands originated in England; I had expected a lot more from Florida and Scandinavia. I learned to recognize a classic death metal guitar tone with one guitar effects pedal, the Boss HM-2.
Anyways, here's a list of all the albums I listened to while reading through this book. It took me almost a year and a half. As usual, items predated by asterisks are past or planned album purchases. There are several albums here that I have on a separate list for re-listening, but I haven't gotten through it all yet.
Napalm Death - Punk Is A Rotting Corpse '82
Napalm Death - Hatred Surge '85
Napalm Death - Scum '87
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration '88
Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered - '89
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption '90
Napalm Death - Mass Appeal Madness EP '91
Napalm Death - The Peel Sessions '00
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished '92
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair '94
Napalm Death - Inside the Torn Apart '97
Napalm Death - Words From the Exit Wound '98
Napalm Death - Enemy of the Music Business '00
Napalm Death - Order of the Leach '02
Napalm Death - Noise for Music's Sake COMP '03
Napalm Death - The Code is Red...Long Live the Code '05
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign '06
Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave '09
Napalm Death - Utilitarian '12
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat '15
Deep Wound - Deep Wound 7" EP '83
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails '83
Possessed - Death Metal '84
Possessed - Seven Churches '85
Possessed - Beyond the Gates '86
Genocide - The Stench of Burning Death '86
Repulsion - Horrified '89
Slaughter - Surrender or Die '85
Mantas - Death by Metal '84
Mantas - Reign of Terror '84
Death (formerly Mantas) - Mutilation '86
Death - Scream Bloody Gore '87
Death - Leprosy '88
Death - Spiritual Healing '90
*Death - Human '91
Death - Symbolic '95
*Death - Individual Thought Patterns '95
*Death - The Sound of Perseverance '98
Morbid Angel - Abominations of Desolation '86
Morbid Angel - Thy Kingdom Come '87
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness '89
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick '91
Morbid Angel - Covenant '93
Morbid Angel - Domination '95
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh '98
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus '11
Amon - Feasting the Beast '87
R.A.V.A.G.E. - Rotting in Hell '85
R.A.V.A.G.E. - On We Slay '87
Atheist (formerly R.A.V.A.G.E.) - Piece of Time '90
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence '91
Atheist - Jupiter '10
Nihilist - Premature Autopsy '88
Nihilist - Only Shreds Remain '88
Nihilist - Drowned '89
Nihilist - Head Not Found Session '89
Nihilist - The Drowned Sessions '89
Entombed (formerly Nihilist) - But Life Goes On '89
Entombed - Left Hand Path '90
Entombed - Crawl EP '91
Entombed - Clandestine '91
Entombed - Wolverine Blues '93
Carnage - The Day Man Lost '89
Carnage - Infestation of Evil '89
Carnage - Dark Recollections '90
Dismember - Dismembered '89
Dismember - Last Blasphemies '90
Dismember - Reborn in Blasphemy demo '90
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream '91
Dismember - Indecent and Obscene '93
Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity '95
Dismember - Death Metal '97
Dismember - Hate Campaign '00
Dismember - Where Iron Crosses Grow '04
Dismember - The God That Never Was '06
Dismember - Dismember '08
Corpse - Black Dawn '86
Grotesque - Incantation EP '89
Krabathor - Breath of Death '88
Krabathor - Total Destruction '88
Thanatos - Speed Kills '84
Thanatos - Emerging From the Netherworlds '90
Pestilence - Dysentery '87
Pestilence - The Penance '87
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum '88
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse '89
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients '91
Asphyx - Crush the Cenotaph '89
Asphyx - Mutilating Process '89
Asphyx - Embrace the Death '90
Asphyx - The Rack '91
Asphyx - Last One on Earth '92
Asphyx - Death...the Brutal Way '09
Asphyx - Deathhammer '12
Asphyx - Incoming Death '16
Gorefest - Tangled in Gore '91
Gorefest - Horrors in a Retarded Mind '91
Gorefest - Mindloss '91
Gorefest - Erase '94
Gorefest - Soul Survivor '96
Abhorrence - Vulgar Necrolatry '90
Abhorrence - Completely Vulgar '91-'92
Convulse - Resuscitation of Evilness '90
Convulse - World Without God '91
Convulse - Evil Prevails '13
Demilich - The Four Instructive Tales…of Decomposition '91
Demilich - …Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness… '93
Demilich - Nespithe '93
Carcass - Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment '87
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction '88
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness '89
Heresy/Concrete Sox - Split '87
Sepultura - Schizophrenia '87
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains '89
Sepultura - Chaos AD '93
S.O.B. - Don't Be Swindle '87
Various Artists - Raging Death '87
Fear of God - 7 inch '88
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed '03
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma '05
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal '07
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate '09
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual '11
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack '13
The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal '15
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers '17
Massacre - From Beyond '91
Deicide - Deicide '90
Deicide - Legion '92
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross '95
Deicide - Serpents of Light '97
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption '06
Obituary - Slowly We Rot '89
Obituary - Cause of Death '90
Obituary - The End Complete '92
Obituary - World Demise '94
Obituary - Back From the Dead '97
Righteous Pigs - Live and Learn '89
Righteous Pigs - Stress Related '90
Amorphis - Disment of Soul '91
Amorphis (formerly Abhorrence) - The Karelian Isthmus '92
Amorphis - Privilege of Evil '93
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes '94
Godflesh - Streetcleaner '89
Godflesh - Selfless '94
At the Gates - Gardens of Grief '91
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours '92
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness '93
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease '94
*At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul '95
At the Gates - At War with Reality '14
At the Gates - To Drink From the Night Itself '18
*Cynic - Focus '93
*Cynic - Traced in Air '08
Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice EP '92
Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Slaughter - One Foot in the Grave '86
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious '91
Carcass - Tools of the Trade '92
Carcass - Heartwork '93
Carcass - Swansong '96
Carcass - Surgical Steel '13
Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. '93
Absu - The Sun of Tiphareth '95
Absu - The Third Storm of Cythraul '97
Absu - In the Eyes of Ioldanach '98
Ludicra - Hollow Psalms '02
Ludicra - Another Great Love Song '04
Ludicra - Ludicra EP '06
Ludicra - Fex Urbis Lex Orbis '06
Ludicra - The Tenant '10
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos '89
Bolt Thrower - Warmaster '91
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade '92
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory '94
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary '98
*Bolt Thrower - Honour, Valour, Pride '02
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal '05
Autopsy - Severed Survival '89
Autopsy - Retribution for the Dead EP '91
Autopsy - Mental Funeral '91
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal '11
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws, and Graves '14
Doom - Total Doom '89
*In Flames - Subterranean '95
*In Flames - The Jester Race '96
*In Flames - Whoracle '97
Extreme Noise Terror - Holocaust in Your Head '89
Extreme Noise Terror - The Peel Sessions '87-90
Terrorizer - Before the Downfall '87-89
Terrorizer - World Downfall '94
Various Artists - Grindcrusher '89
Various Artists - At Deaths Door - A Collection of Brutal Death Metal '90
Death Strike - Fuckin' Death '91
God Macabre - The Winterlong... '93
Grave - Sexual Mutilation '89
Grave - Into the Grave '91
Grave - You'll Never See...'92
Grave - Soulless '94
Grave - Hating Life '96
Grave - Endless Procession of Souls '12
Immolation - Stepping on Angels...Before Dawn '87-90
Immolation - Dawn of Possession '91
Immolation - Unholy Cult '02
Immolation - Majesty and Decay '10
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments '91
Malevolent Creation - Retribution '92
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering '91
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten '91
Suffocation - Pierced From Within '95
Suffocation - Despise the Sun '98
Suffocation - Suffocation '06
Various Artists - Projections of a Stained Mind '91
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells '91
Unleashed - Shadows In the Deep '92
Unleashed - Across the Open Sea '93
Unleashed - Victory '95
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses '92
Brutal Truth - Need to Control '94
Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom '97
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution '09
Brutal Truth - End Time '11
Disharmonic Orchestra - Not to Be Undimensional Conscious '92
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation '92
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha '92
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest '98
Incantation - Vanquish in Vengeance '12
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium '14
Various Artists - Death Is Just the Beginning...'92
Siege - Drop Dead - '94
Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil '95
Fudge Tunnel - Creep Diets '93
Cannibal Corpse - Cannibal Corpse '89
Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life '90
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth '91
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated '92
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding '94
Cannibal Corpse - Vile '96
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst '99
Cannibal Corpse - Kill '06
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain '14
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep '91
Tiamat - Wildhoney '94
Arch Enemy - Black Earth '96
*Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin '01
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey '91
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky '92
Vader - De Profundis '96
Vader - Litany '00
Paradise Lost - Gothic '91
Cryptopsy - None So Vile '96
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy '98
Cryptopsy - And Then You'll Beg '00
Edge of Sanity - Crimson '96
Human Remains - Using Sickness As a Hero EP '96
Vital Remains - Forever Underground '97
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka '98
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance '00
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines '02
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked '05
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest '09
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence '99
Six Feet Under - Maximum Violence '99
Dark Tranquility - Skydancer '93
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery '95
Opeth - Orchid '95
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse '98
*Opeth - Still Life '99
*Opeth - Blackwater Park '01
*Opeth - Deliverance '02
Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River '10
Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve '12
Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers '15
Barren Earth - A Complex of Cages '18
Conan - Monnos '12
Barrowlands - Tyndir '17
Drouth - Skinwalker '14
Drouth - Vast, Loathsome EP '15
Drouth - Knives, Labyrinths, Mirrors '17
Isenordal - Imbolc MMXIV - '14
Isenordal - Shores of Mourning '17
Isenordal - Spectral Embrace '18
Isenordal/Void Omnia - Split EP '18
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines '97
Deceased - Supernatural Addiction '00
Deceased - Surreal Overdose '11
Gorguts - Obscura '98
Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate '01
Gorguts - Colored Sands '13
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust EP '16
Pig Destroyer - Explosions in Ward 6 '98
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard '01
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer '04
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb '07
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner '12
Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets '98
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge - The Poacher Diaries '99
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope '02
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse '09
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless '00
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition '00
Emperor - IX Equilibrium '99
Hate Eternal - Conquering the Throne '99
Hate Eternal - King of All Kings '02
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch '05
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes '11
Hate Eternal - Infernus '15
The Crown - Deathrace King '00
The Crown - Crowned in Terror '02
Slipknot - Slipknot '99
Slipknot - Iowa '01
Katatonia - For Funerals to Come...EP '94
Bloodbath - Breeding Death EP '00
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery '08
Cretin - Cretinic Grind Ambush EP '04
Cretin - Freakery '06
Cretin - Stranger '14
Noisem (formerly Necropsy) - Agony Defined '13
Noisem - Blossoming Decay '15
Necrophagist - Requiems of Festered Gore '92
Necrophagist - Necrophagist '95
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrifaction '99
Necrophagist - Epitaph '04
Origin - A Coming Into Existence EP '98
Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas '02
Origin - Echoes of Decimation '05
Origin - Antithesis '08
Acheron - Rites of the Black Mass '92
Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages '07
Portal - Seepia '03
Portal - Outre '07
Portal - Swarth '09
Portal - Vexovoid '13
Nails - Obscene Humanity '09
Nails - Unsilent Death '10
Nails - Abandon All Life '13
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us '16
Morbus Chron - Sweven '14
Obscura - Illigimitation '03
Obscura - Retribution '06
Obscura - Cosmogenesis '09
Obscura - Omnivium '11
The Haunted - The Dead Eye '06
Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes '01
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone '05
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro '01
Decapitated - Nihility '02
Exhumed - Anatomy Is Destiny '03
Master - unreleased album '85
Nasum - Inhale/Exhale '98
Nasum - Human 2.0 '00
Nasum - Helvete '03
Nasum - Shift '04
Nasum - Grind Finale '06
Zyklon - Aeon '03
Horrendous - Sweet Blasphemies '09
Horrendous - The Chills '12
Horrendous - Ecdysis '14
*Horrendous - Anareta '15
Horrendous - Idol '18
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt '04
Arsis - A Diamond for Disease '05
Neuraxis - Trilateral Progression '05
Rotten Sound - Exit '05
Rotten Sound - Cycles '08
Rotten Sound - Cursed '12
Rotten Sound - Abuse to Suffer '16
Watchmaker - Erased From the Memory of Man '05
Withered - Memento Mori '05
Death Breath - Stinking Up the Night '06
Death Breath - Let it Stink '07
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness '06
Evocation - The Ancient Gate '92
Evocation - Tales From the Tomb '07
Obliteration - Perpetual Decay '07
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds '08
Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War '08
Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds '10
Misery Index - Traitors '08
Misery Index - The Killing Gods '14
Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams '09
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind '09
Wormrot - Abuse '09
Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant '10
Nominon - Monumentomb '10
Disma - Towards the Megalith '11
Drugs of Faith - Corroded '11
Entrails - The Tomb Awaits '11
Vallenfyre - A Fragile King '11
Vallenfyre - Splinters '14
Liberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees '12
Antigama - Meteor '13
Behemoth - The Satanist '14
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers '15
Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall '14
Skeletal Remains - Condemned to Misery '15
Taphos Nomos - West of Everything Lies Death EP '15
Vastum - Hole Below '15
Asphalt Graves - The New Primitive '16
Blood Incantation - Starspawn '16
Gruesome - Dimensions of Horror '16
Mithras - On Strange Loops '16
Necrot - The Labyrinth '16
Nucleus - Sentient '16
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