If you want crushingly heavy music that retains a good amount of musical sensibility; get "The Red in the Sky is Ours" by At the Gates and "Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious" by Carcass.
Both of these bands were swinging ****s in the melodic death scene, and with later releases both bands sound became much more simplified and melodic. So, the virtue of these earlier releases it they retain a good deal of the inventiveness, technical proficiency, and sheer power that was lost on later releases by these bands and the clones that followed.
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