Tuesday, May 19, 2020


Extreme Metal Gold Standard List
The greatest albums of Extreme, Death, Black and Doom Metal.

Most or all songs in these albums have the characteristics of brilliant music. They are memorable, catchy, rich, sophisticated, unique in their instrumentation, coherent and clear in their powerful emotional message and story and entertaining for the intelligent mind.



 Artist (45)Album (59)1989-1997
AbigorNachthymnen1995
AnathemaSerenades1993
ArcturusAspera Hiems Symfonia1996
At The GatesThe Red In The Sky Is Ours1992
At The GatesTerminal Spirit Disease1994
BeheritDrawing Down the Moon1993
CancerDeath Shall Rise1991
Cannibal CorpseTomb Of The Mutilated1992
CarcassHeartwork1993
CarcassNecroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious1991
Cradle Of FilthThe Principle Of Evil Made Flesh1994
DeathSpiritual Healing1990
DeicideDeicide1990
DeicideLegion1992
Diabolos Rising6661994
Dimmu BorgirFor all tid1995
EmperorIn The Nightside Eclipse1994
EyehategodTake As Needed for Pain1993
FleuretyMin Tid Skal Komme1995
ImmortalDiabolical Fullmoon Mysticism1992
ImmortalPure Holocaust1993
IsengardVinterskugge1994
KatatoniaDance Of December Souls1993
Kaviar Kavalier+Klinik+1996
KorovaA Kiss in the Charnel Fields1995
MacabreSinister Slaughter1993
MayhemDe Mysteriis Dom Sathanas1994
Mortuary DrapeAll the Witches Dance1994
NecromantiaCrossing The Fiery Path1993
NightfallParade Into Centuries1992
NightingaleThe Breathing Shadow1995
ObituaryCause of Death1990
OpethOrchid1995
PanteraVulgar Display of Power1992
PanteraFar Beyond Driven1994
Paradise LostGothic1991
Paradise LostShades Of God1992
Paradise LostIcon1993
PhlebotomizedImmense Intense Suspense1994
Rotting ChristThy Mighty Contract1993
SadnessAmes de Marbre1993
SamaelBlood Ritual1992
SatyriconDark Medieval Times1993
SepticfleshMystic Places of Dawn1994
SepticfleshΕΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ1995
SepulturaBeneath the Remains1989
SepulturaChaos A.D.1993
SepulturaArise1991
The GatheringAlmost a Dance1993
The GatheringAlways...1992
The Third And The MortalTears Laid in Earth1994
The Third And The MortalPainting on Glass1996
The Third And The MortalIn This Room1997
TristitiaOne with Darkness1995
UlverBergtatt1995
UnleashedWhere No Life Dwells1991
UnleashedShadows in the Deep1992
VarathronHis Majesty At The Swamp1993
Ved Buens EndeWritten in Waters1995



       


The Extreme Metal Gold Standard List was inspired by Wayne Chase's Gold Standard Song List


Curated by eyallior@eyallior.com