As the Ebola virus continues to ravage Africa and spreads into America and Europe, it may be time to get over our squeamishness and explore the wealth of death metal that can be played as we all get headaches, have flu-like symptoms, and finally pass out in pools of blood expelled from our various orifices.

With the help of our readers, we’ve assembled an all-star death metal, grindcore and black metal playlist for Ebola fanatics:

1. Baphomet – “Infection of Death” (The Dead Shall Inherit)
2. Carcass – “Vomited Anal Tract” (Reek of Putrefaction)
3. Pestilence – “Chronic Infection” (Consuming Impulse)
4. Autopsy – “Ridden With Disease” (Severed Survival)
5. Blood – “Ebola” (Gas Flames Bones)
6. Banished – “Diseased Chaos” (Deliver Me Unto Pain)
7. Suffocation – “Mass Obliteration” (Effigy of the Forgotten)
8. Morbid Angel – “Angel of Disease” (Abominations of Desolation)
9. Beherit – “Suck My Blood” (Engram)
10. Immolation – “Fall in Disease” (Dawn of Possession)
11. Repulsion – “Pestilent Decay” (Horrified)
12. Dead Infection – “Start Human Slaughter” (Surgical Disembowelment)
13. Blasphemy – “Weltering In Blood” (Fallen Angel of Doom)
14. Mortuary – “Sickish Disease” (Blackened Images)
15. Obituary – “Infected” (Cause of Death)
16. Von – “Satanic Blood” (Satanic Blood)

And to kick it off, a rip of Blood’s on-topic 1998 hit, “Ebola”:

Tags: Black Metal, death metal, ebola, Grindcore