The Sound Of Perseverance
by Death (Metal)
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Death bestography
The Sound Of Perseverance is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Death on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Death is Symbolic which is ranked number 1096 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,592.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Sound Of Perseverance track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Sound Of Perseverance rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  teague | Top 46 Music Albums of 1998 | 6/46 | 4 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 66/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 72 Music Albums of 1998 | 20/72 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 61 Music Albums of 1998 | 26/61 | 3 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 40 Music Albums of 1998 | 39/40 | 0 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1998 by Metal Storm | 1/20 | - |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 72 Music Albums of 1998 | 16/72 | 4 |
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 18 Music Albums of 1998 | 3/18 | 4 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 91/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 106 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 523 | |||
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The Sound Of Perseverance ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 42 hours ago | AlexandreSilva | 139 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2026 06:27 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2026 00:28 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.
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The Sound Of Perseverance forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5459): By ApplerillView latest topic →
Repo 06/23/2025 20:16 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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The Sound Of Perseverance comments
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This is a phenomenal metal album in my opinion! Frim the first 20 seconds of track one this album is pure shred, riff, and metal up the ass. It actually blew me away how much I liked this. My favorite artist is Megadeth and this album competes with their best in my opinion. Then you get to Voice of the Soul a beautiful piece that breaks up the heaviness. So so good... If you like metal you should love this album. Sure the vocals might not be for everyone but personally I thought the fit the music perfectly and wouldn't have it any other way. Rock solid.
SuedeSwede TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/09/2014 12:32 | #102663 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not bad. It's not exactly good either. Meh.
It gets incredibly boring really quickly. (Edited)
Most technical, ear crushing social commentary
Favorites:
+Scavenger of human sorrow
+Bite the pain
+Spirit crusher (Edited)
The song-writting is more disjointed than on Symbolic but it has a much more interesting sound.
La culminación final al cambio de estilo que supuso la publicación de 'Human' en 1991. Se pasaba del Death Metal crudo sin ornamento a una música cada vez más pulida, donde las composiciones ganaban en complejidad a medida que Chuck Schuldiner se iba acercando sin ningún pudor al mundo del Metal progresivo. 'The Sound of Perseverance' representa la cumbre del estilo, el Death técnico no sería nada sin este disco, el último que firmó Chuck con Death antes del fatal cáncer que pondría fin a su vida tres años más tarde. La despedida perfecta a una carrera inmaculada y libre de pecado. Los cambios de ritmo son delirantes y la potencia con la que canta en este disco es digna de asombro, dejando atrás el estilo gutural propio del Death Metal en favor de una voz rasgada surgida desde lo más profundo del averno. Otra galaxia.
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