44. Obituary - Cause of Death - (1990)

Rather than speeding up like their Florida contemporaries, on their second album Obituary indulged their love of Celtic Frost and slowed down. Equal parts death metal and doom, with a filthy wall of distortion hanging over it all like the miasma of the grave, this is an primitive, atmospheric album of pure evil. And John Tardy's vocals? A retch of monstrous hate like none other. This is one classic that still stands up today.