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My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

Created by: Ryanm123 | 23.12.2023


1. Æther Realm - Tarot
2017
2. Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
2008
3. Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
2016
4. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
1994
5. Amorphis - Silent Waters
2007
6. Amorphis - Skyforger
2009
7. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
2011
8. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
2016
9. Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
1990
10. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
1993
11. Atheist - Piece Of Time
1990
12. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991
13. Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
2012
14. Baroness - Red Album
2007
15. Baroness - Blue Record
2009
16. Baroness - Yellow & Green
2012
17. Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods
1991
18. Bathory - Blood On Ice
1996
19. Bathory - Nordland I
2002
20. Bathory - Nordland II
2003
21. Beast In Black - Berserker
2017
22. Behexen - My Soul For His Glory
2008
23. Be'lakor - Coherence
2021
24. Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus
2003
25. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2007
26. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
2009
27. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2012
28. Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
2015
29. Blackfield - Blackfield
2004
30. Black Funeral - Ankou And The Death Fire
2016
31. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4
1972
32. Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind
1989
33. Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World
1990
34. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
1992
35. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
1995
36. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
1998
37. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
2002
38. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
2010
39. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror
2015
40. Blind Guardian - The God Machine
2022
41. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
2004
42. Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
1998
43. Borknagar - Empiricism
2001
44. Borknagar - Winter Thrice
2016
45. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
1993
46. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
1986
47. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2013
48. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
2009
49. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
2015
50. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
2023
51. Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
1998
52. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
2022
53. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
1997
54. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
1999
55. Clutch - The Elephant Riders
1998
56. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
2004
57. Coffins - Beyond The Circular Demise
2019
58. ColdWorld - Melancholie²
2008
59. Cynic - Focus
1993
60. Cynic - Traced In Air
2008
61. Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
2014
62. Cynic - Ascension Codes
2021
63. Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk
2001
64. Dark Fortress - Profane Genocidal Creations
2003
65. Dark Fortress - Eidolon
2008
66. Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World
2020
67. Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium
2001
68. Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
2016
69. Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
2000
70. Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion
2002
71. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
2002
72. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
2006
73. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1987
74. Death - Spiritual Healing
1990
75. Death - Human
1991
76. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
1998
77. Death Angel - The Art Of Dying
2004
78. Death Angel - Killing Season
2008
79. Death Angel - The Evil Divide
2016
80. Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
2005
81. Desultory - Bitterness
1994
82. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
1997
83. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
2003
84. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
2007
85. Devin Townsend - Addicted
2009
86. Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk In My Heart
1996
87. Diabolical Masquerade - The Phantom Lodge
1997
88. Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation
2004
89. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
1991
90. Dismember - Where Ironcrosses Grow
2004
91. Dissection - The Somberlain
1993
92. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995
93. Down - Nola
1995
94. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
2003
95. Dream Theater - Images And Words
1992
96. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
2002
97. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
2003
98. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2011
99. Duskmourn - Legends
2014
100. Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox
1992
101. Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
1993
102. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
1994
103. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1996
104. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
2003
105. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
1997
106. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
2001
107. Ensiferum - Iron
2004
108. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
2007
109. Ensiferum - From Afar
2009
110. Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
1994
111. Enslaved - Frost
1994
112. Enslaved - Monumension
2001
113. Enslaved - Vertebrae
2008
114. Enslaved - In Times
2015
115. Enslaved - Utgard
2020
116. Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
2005
117. Fear Factory - Obsolete
1998
118. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
2001
119. Finntroll - Nattfödd
2004
120. Finntroll - Nifelvind
2010
121. Firewind - The Premonition
2008
122. Freedom Call - Stairway To Fairyland
1999
123. Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
2001
124. Freedom Call - Eternity
2002
125. Freedom Call - Legend Of The Shadowking
2010
126. Freedom Call - Beyond
2014
127. Freedom Call - Master Of Light
2016
128. Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation
2012
129. God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
2017
130. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
2012
131. Haken - Virus
2020
132. Haken - Fauna
2023
133. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
1987
134. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
2007
135. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
2005
136. Horna - Sudentaival
2001
137. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
2009
138. In Flames - The Jester Race
1996
139. In Flames - Whoracle
1997
140. In Flames - Colony
1999
141. In Flames - Clayman
2000
142. In Flames - Reroute To Remain
2002
143. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
2008
144. In Mourning - Garden Of Storms
2019
145. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
2021
146. Inquisition - Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan
2002
147. Insomnium - One For Sorrow
2011
148. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
1983
149. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
1988
150. Judas Priest - British Steel
1980
151. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1982
152. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
1984
153. Judas Priest - Painkiller
1990
154. Judas Priest - Firepower
2018
155. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2024
156. Kalmah - Swamplord
2000
157. Kalmah - They Will Return
2002
158. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
2010
159. King Diamond - Abigail
1987
160. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
1990
161. Kreator - Gods Of Violence
2017
162. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
1997
163. Lord Belial - Nocturnal Beast
2005
164. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2006
165. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2009
166. Melechesh - Sphynx
2003
167. Melechesh - Enki
2015
168. Meshuggah - Koloss
2012
169. Meshuggah - Immutable
2022
170. Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon
2016
171. Motörhead - Overkill
1979
172. Mutoid Man - War Moans
2017
173. Mysteriarch - The Majestic Fall
2007
174. Mysteriarch - Mournful Embrace Of Aeons
2012
175. Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black
1995
176. Necrophobic - Darkside
1997
177. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
2000
178. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002
179. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
2005
180. Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift
2008
181. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
2011
182. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
2013
183. Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens
2016
184. Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold
2018
185. Omnium Gatherum - Origin
2021
186. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
1998
187. Opeth - Still Life
1999
188. Opeth - Watershed
2008
189. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
1986
190. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
1990
191. Panopticon - Roads To The North
2014
192. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
1999
193. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
2000
194. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2002
195. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2005
196. Rapture - Futile
1999
197. Rapture - Songs For The Withering
2002
198. Rapture - Silent Stage
2005
199. Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine
2015
200. Riverside - ID.Entity
2023
201. Sacred Reich - Awakening
2019
202. Sargeist - Let The Devil In
2010
203. Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
2005
204. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)
2014
205. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
2023
206. Sear Bliss - Letters From The Edge
2018
207. Sentenced - Amok
1995
208. Sevendust - Animosity
2001
209. Sigh - Scorn Defeat
1993
210. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
2001
211. Sigh - Scenes From Hell
2010
212. Sigh - In Somniphobia
2012
213. Sigh - Heir To Despair
2018
214. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
2018
215. Sonata Arctica - Silence
2001
216. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
2013
217. Stormlord - At The Gates Of Utopia
2001
218. Summoning - Lugburz
1995
219. Summoning - Minas Morgul
1995
220. Summoning - Dol Guldur
1997
221. Summoning - Nightshade Forests
1997
222. Summoning - Stronghold
1999
223. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
2001
224. Summoning - Oath Bound
2006
225. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
2013
226. Summoning - With Doom We Come
2018
227. Symphony X - Underworld
2015
228. System Of A Down - Toxicity
2001
229. Temple Of Void - Of Terror And The Supernatural
2014
230. Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death
2017
231. Testament - The Legacy
1987
232. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
2012
233. Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
2016
234. The Sword - Age Of Winters
2006
235. The Sword - Apocryphon
2012
236. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
2015
237. Trivium - Ember To Inferno
2003
238. Trivium - Shogun
2008
239. Type O Negative - October Rust
1996
240. Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
2009
241. Týr - The Lay Of Thrym
2011
242. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
2011
243. Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude
2016
244. Idle Hands - Mana
2019
245. Unto Others - Strength
2021
246. Vulture - Sentinels
2024
247. Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow
2020
248. Worm - Gloomlord
2020


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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