I´m really more into BM, but before BM there was death metal and I listened to it quite alot and my favorites where Entomed and lots of american death despite its more childish and in "your face" attitude often lacking nuaces. But then again I wasn´t to old at the time and I thought it was pretty cool and rebellious.

Discovered death metal through Entombeds Clandestine therefore it´s one of my favorites, but Left Hand Path is probably better, I even like Woverine Blues despite all its critcism.
I also really like Morbid Angels Blessed Are the Sick which showed the death metal doesn´t have to fast to visously good like Altars of Madness is.
Deicides selftitled debute is a terriffic album, admittedly a little chidish with all it´s repetitions but at least for me it turned out to be fantastic and even though i rarely listen to i these days I still know the lyrics by heart.

Honorable mentions goes to: Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum, Death - Human, Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to life

All great albums posted here \m/ \m/ Now the need to find more!!

Grave- Into the Grave
Morta Skuld- Dying remains

Don't think you never listened to it, but Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated is a nice one. The Berzerker - Animosity. Hemdale - Rad Jackson.
And there are tons more of course.

Have to dig pretty deep to come up with em again.
In those years i was a huge fan of death metal but over the years i lost my appetite for the genre a bit.
But here are a few of my old time favorites.

Death - Leprosy
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Sepultura - Schizophrenia

Entombed - Left Hand Path
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Nocturnus - The Key & The Science Of Horror Demo
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Death - Individual Thought Patterns

I guess the list could go on and on,but these are the favourites of that period...

Entrails - The Tomb Awaits

(And for those who constantly tell it's plagiarism from Entombed, yes the album was released in 2011, but most of it was written in 1990, before Entombed's "Left Hand Path")

Death - Leprosy
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

I don't see any reason not to include the stuff from 1985-1987.

1985:
Possessed - Seven Churches

1987:
Death - Scream Bloody Gore

1988:
Death - Leprosy

1989:
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Autopsy - Severed Survival

1990:
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Obituary - Cause of Death
Death - Spiritual Healing

1991:
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Death - Human
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick

1992:
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Deicide - Legion

My top 3:

Entombed - Left Hand Path
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Autopsy - Mental Funeral

Runners up:

Repulsion - Horrified
Massacre - From Beyond
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Nocturnus - The Key
Master - Master
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Grave - Into the Grave