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The Best Death Metal Albums of the 2020s

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1.

Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
April 24, 2020
Critic Score
89
6 reviews
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2.

Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
July 31, 2020
Critic Score
87
8 reviews
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3.

Archspire - Bleed the Future
October 29, 2021
Critic Score
86
6 reviews
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4.

Immolation - Acts of God
February 18, 2022
Critic Score
86
8 reviews
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5.

Goatwhore - Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
October 7, 2022
Critic Score
85
6 reviews
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6.

Hath - All That Was Promised
March 4, 2022
Critic Score
84
5 reviews
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7.

Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
September 18, 2020
Critic Score
84
12 reviews
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8.

Ulthar - Providence
June 12, 2020
Critic Score
83
5 reviews
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9.

Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
September 30, 2022
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
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10.

Black Curse - Endless Wound
April 24, 2020
Critic Score
82
5 reviews
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11.

Venom Prison - Erebos
February 4, 2022
Critic Score
82
9 reviews
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Spotify

12.

Undeath - It's Time​...​To Rise From the Grave
April 22, 2022
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
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Spotify

13.

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions
October 1, 2021
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
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Spotify

14.

Carcass - Torn Arteries
September 17, 2021
Critic Score
82
11 reviews
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15.

Revocation - Netherheaven
September 9, 2022
Critic Score
81
7 reviews
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16.

Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
August 7, 2020
Critic Score
81
5 reviews
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Spotify

17.

The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
April 17, 2020
Critic Score
81
7 reviews
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18.

Arch Enemy - Deceivers
August 12, 2022
Critic Score
80
6 reviews
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19.

Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
September 16, 2022
Critic Score
80
8 reviews
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Spotify

20.

Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
March 12, 2021
Critic Score
79
5 reviews
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21.

Exhumed - To The Dead
October 21, 2022
Critic Score
79
6 reviews
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22.

At The Gates - The Nightmare of Being
July 2, 2021
Critic Score
79
13 reviews
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23.

Portal - Avow
May 28, 2021
Critic Score
78
7 reviews
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24.

Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
April 16, 2021
Critic Score
78
12 reviews
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iTunes
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Spotify

25.

Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
July 22, 2022
Critic Score
78
8 reviews
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Spotify
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