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Top 200 Metal Releases Of All Time

I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could have qualified.
The list mostly contains albums, but some EPs, demos, splits, and compilations are also featured every now and then. I also tried to avoid including demos or EPs that were too short but there’s still a few of them.
Enjoy!

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien
5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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Created by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024



My Top 100 Best Metal Albums Of All Time (Unfinished)

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Created by Alban JP on 24.04.2023



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Song Titles With The Band`s Name

It is not uncommon that album titles are chosen after the band`s name. However, song titles that include or are identical to the band`s name are relatively seldom found.
This is a list of song titles with the (entire) band name / band names after (their own) song titles.

Please feel free to suggest further titles/bands.



1.71TONMAN - 71TONMAN
2.A Feast For Lampreys - Graveyard Abyss
3.Aaskereia - Mit Raben Und Wölfen
4.Absent In Body - The Abyss Stares Back - Vol. V
5.Absu - Absu

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Created by Plattner on 12.02.2023



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Top 25 Classic Death Metal Debuts

3 caveats
1. Death metal album (not just debut from band that became death metal, like Carcass)
2. Released calendar year 1999 or earlier
3. By a band with more than 1 album (1-album wonder list is elsewhere)

Yes, there are a few bands conspicuous in their absence. For whatever reason, I just never really got into them.
I don't dislike them, but I don't regard them as highly as most folks do

EDIT - I stayed away from death/thrash combo albums, more for convenience's sake. So Malleus Maleficarum, Illusions, Seven Churches, Serpent Temptation, etc are not on this list, but they'll be on the next list I make (top 25 Brutal thrash/death-thrash albums)

1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2.Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
3.Nocturnus - The Key
4.Sinister - Cross The Styx
5.Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

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Created by sgtrobo on 30.07.2022



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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)

This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Death - Symbolic
3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



Immolation Album Rankings

Immolation is my favorite death metal band by a pretty comfortable margin, so I figured I'd throw my rankings out here.
Note - there are a few album placements here that are NOTABLY different from the average Immolation fan

1.Immolation - Close To A World Below
2.Immolation - Unholy Cult
3.Immolation - Acts Of God
4.Immolation - Atonement
5.Immolation - Majesty And Decay

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Created by sgtrobo on 10.03.2022



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200+ Favorite Albums

Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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Created by Qualeen on 30.09.2021



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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1991

Poser alert! He put “that album” on the list? Gross.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Massacre - From Beyond (Death)
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind (Heavy)
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments (Death/Thrash)
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth (Death)

1.Sepultura - Arise
2.Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
3.Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow
4.Overkill - Horrorscope
5.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

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Created by blackwreath13 on 10.09.2021



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Old School Death Metal Albums

Old school Death Metal albums

1.Abscess - Seminal Vampires And Maggot Men
2.Acrostichon - Engraved In Black
3.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth
5.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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Created by mrmoon60 on 03.11.2020



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Top Favourite Death Metal Albums

1.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
3.Behemoth - The Satanist
4.Obituary - Cause Of Death
5.Death - Leprosy

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Created by blackwreath13 on 14.03.2020



DEATHTOBER

"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
October = Death Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.Asphyx - Last One On Earth
2.Creeping Death - Wretched Illusions
3.Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess
4.Coffin Rot - A Monument To The Dead
5.Obituary - Cause Of Death

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Created by Daddy Pig on 18.10.2019



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Death Metal Classics

The best death metal albums pre 2000, in alphabetical order.
Work in progress.

1.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
2.Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil
3.Asphyx - The Rack
4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth
5.Asphyx - Embrace The Death

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Created by Obnoxious on 01.01.2019



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The Best of Death Metal

My favorite old school death metal bands highlighted with my favorite album. All classic lineup with few exceptions of newer bands.

1.Autopsy - Mental Funeral
2.Impetigo - Horror Of The Zombies
3.Death - Leprosy
4.Obituary - Cause Of Death
5.Possessed - Seven Churches

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Created by Obnoxious on 30.11.2018



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My Personal Favorite Death Metal Albums of All Time

My favorite death metal albums.

1.Death - Human
2.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
3.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
5.Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

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Created by EvilJakee on 07.10.2017