54. Nile - "The Underworld Awaits Us All"

Nile are a mainstay of American Death Metal. As their name attests they have a serious obsession with Egyptian mythology. This is album number ten and is easily their finest piece of work in two decades. “The Underworld Awaits Us All”, is big, brash and bold. Each track is highly animated, full of crashing guitars and immaculately sculpted hooks.

It is heavy and brutal, but also finely polished and astonishingly well-produced. You can hear every note and every shift in tempo. At this point in a 30-year career is fantastic to see so much care being put into record. Ambitious and well-oiled it shows how astonishingly opulent well-made death metal can be.