I've been a metal fan for nearly 30 years now and even if death was never my favourite genre, I do enjoy listening to bands like early Entombed, Napalm Death, Dismember, Nocturnus, and so on.
Actually, my favourite death metal album is Entombed's "Clandestine", I owned it since its release and always thought that this how death metal should sound like: sinister, powerful, fast but still melodic, clever and technically relevant.