Released in 1997, this was truly something death metal fans needed. Obituary was going downhill with Back from the Dead, Massacre just released Promise a year before, and we all know how that went down, and Autopsy went grindcore (something that isn't terrible, but another doom/death metal release would have been nice). Okay, maybe it wasn't all that bad. Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse were still around to keep things sane (what we think of as sane, that is), and so was Deicide.
The Metal Void 