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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (N)


This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

All bands will be limited to one album unless they had a significant change in style (e.g. Amorphis and Katatonia). It goes without saying that as this is my personal list the genres that are included more than others expresses my bias and I am open to listening to any suggestions on additional albums to add. This list will be separated by letters as including them all in one list would make it overly long. Just to give you an idea: my personal collection is over 10,000 songs, most of them in the metal genre.

Most of the bands featured here have other great albums so if you like the album featured here be sure to peruse their other works. Artists whose names start with 'The' or A/An' will be included in whatever letter follows, e.g. ' A Forest of Stars' will be included in F. This list(s) contains the most well-known bands e.g. Opeth, to the most obscure e.g. Vanguard x Mortem.

The list(s) will be updated periodically. If you have trouble locating an album on this list or think I missed a particular album feel free to contact me, and share this list far and wide so that more people can benefit from the incredible array of musical experience metal has to offer.

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Created by: Uxküll | 17.01.2021



1. N.K.V.D. - Vlast
2. Naamah - Resensement
3. Nachtig - Nachtig
https://nachtig.bandcamp.com/album/nachtig-2
4. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1
5. Nader Sadek - In The Flesh
6. Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows
7. Naeramarth - The Innumerable Stars
https://cabednaeramarth.bandcamp.com/album/the-innumerable-stars
8. Nagelfar - Srontgorrth
9. Naglfar - Sheol
10. Nahemah - The Second Philosophy
11. Nahtrunar - Existenz
https://nahtrunar.bandcamp.com/album/existenz
12. Nailbomb - Point Blank
13. Nailed To Obscurity - King Delusion
14. Nails - Unsilent Death
15. Naïve - Illuminatis
16. Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
17. Narbeleth - Indomitvs
https://narbeleth.bandcamp.com/album/indomitvs
18. Nargaroth - Era Of Threnody
19. Narjahanam - Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham
20. Nasheim - Solens Vemod
21. Nasum - Shift
22. Native Construct - Quiet World
23. Nàttsòl - Stemning
24. Nawabs Of Destruction - Rising Vengeance
25. Nawaharjan - Into The Void
https://nawaharjan.bandcamp.com/
26. Nazgûl - De Expugnatione Elfmuth
27. Nazxul - Iconoclast
28. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
29. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
30. Nebula Orionis - Ashes
https://nebulaorionis.bandcamp.com/album/ashes
31. Nebulae Come Sweet - It Is Not The Night That Covers You
32. Necare - Ruin
33. Nechochwen - Heart Of Akamon
34. Neck Of The Woods - The Annex Of Ire
35. Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mvndi
36. Necroblaspheme - Belleville
37. Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black
38. Necronautical - Apotheosis
https://necronautical.bandcamp.com/album/apotheosis
39. Necronoclast - Haven
40. Necronomicon (CAN) - UNUS
41. Necropanther - Eyes Of Blue Light
42. Necrophagist - Epitaph
43. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
44. Nécropole - Solarité
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLA7UOUvxTY
45. Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites
46. Necrot - Blood Offerings
47. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
48. Necrovore - Divus de mortuus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScoGir1SgqI
49. Necrowretch - Putrid Death Sorcery
50. Need - Hegaiamas​: A Song For Freedom
51. Nefarium - Haeretichristus
https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/haeretichristus
52. Negativa - Untitled I
53. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
54. Negator - Old Black
55. Negură Bunget - OM
56. Nehëmah - Requiem Tenebrae
57. Nekrogoblikon - Stench
58. Nemertines - Tenerezza
59. The Neologist - The Inward Expansion
60. Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
61. Nero Di Marte - Derivae
62. Nervecell - Psychogenocide
63. Netherbird - Into The Vast Uncharted
64. Netra - Ingrats
65. Neuraxis - Trilateral Progression
66. Neuronaut - State Of Not Enough
https://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/state-of-not-enough
67. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
68. Neurotech - Symphonies
69. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
70. Névoa - The Absence Of Void
71. Nexion - Seven Oracles
72. Nhor - Within The Darkness Between The Starlight
73. Ni - Pantophobie
74. Nibiru - Netrayoni
75. Nicumo - Inertia
76. Night Crowned - Impius Viam
77. Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep
78. Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
79. Nightfall - Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants
80. Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
81. Nightingale - Nightfall Overture
82. Nightmarer - Cacophony Of Terror
https://nightmarer.bandcamp.com/album/cacophony-of-terror/
83. Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
84. Nightwish - Century Child
85. Nihill - Grond
86. Nihilist - Drowned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkiukfQGc00
87. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
88. Nine Covens - ...On The Dawning Of Light
89. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
90. Ningen Isu - 黄金の夜明け
91. Ninkharsag - The Blood Of Celestial Kings
92. Noctambulist - Atmospheres Of Desolation
93. Noctambulist (NL) - Noctambulist I: Elegieën
https://noctambulist-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/album/noctambulist-i-elegie-n
94. Nocte Obducta - Nektar Teil II: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher
95. Noctem - Oblivion
96. Noctem Aeternus - Landscape Of Discord
97. Nocternity - Onyx
98. Noctiferia - Per Aspera
99. Nocturnal (GER) - Violent Revenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrFPfY8uSs
100. Nocturnal Departure - Cathartic Black Rituals
https://nocturnaldeparture.bandcamp.com/album/cathartic-black-rituals-2
101. Nocturnal Depression - The Cult Of Negation
102. Nocturnal Graves - ...From The Bloodline Of Cain
103. Nocturne - The Burning Silence
104. Nocturnus - The Key
105. Nocturnus AD - Paradox
106. Noekk - The Water Sprite
107. Noise Trail Immersion - Symbology Of Shelter
108. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5505953
109. Non Opus Dei - Eternal Circle
110. Non Serviam - Necrotical
111. None - None
112. Noneuclid - Metatheosis
113. Nonexistence - Antarctica
https://candlelightrecordsuk.bandcamp.com/album/antarctica
114. Nordjevel - Nordjevel
115. Norther - Mirror Of Madness
116. Northlane - Discoveries
117. Nortt - Gudsforladt
118. Nothgard - Warhorns Of Midgard
119. Notre Dame - Notre Dame - Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You, The 2nd
120. Noumena - Absence
121. Noûs - ἀηδής
122. Novae Militiae - Topheth
123. Novarupta - Disillusioned Fire
124. A Novelist - Folie
https://anovelist.bandcamp.com/album/folie
125. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
126. Novembre - The Blue
127. Noveria - Forsaken
128. Nox - Ixaxaar
129. Nox Aurea - Ascending In Triumph
130. Nox Formulae - The Hidden Paths To Black Ecstasy
131. Nox Mortis - 7 Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUsn2m94HA
132. Numenorean - Adore
133. Numinous - Numinous
https://youtu.be/pYANB2RxSyE
134. Nychts - Und so gehen wir...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJByLkBUvF0
135. Nygmalion - Deluminate
136. Nyktalgia - Peisithanatos
137. Nyktophobia - What Lasts Forever
138. Nyx - Home
https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/home



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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17.01.2021 - 21:22
RaduP
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Based
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Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking
One day there will be no heart at all?
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17.01.2021 - 21:30
Uxküll
Written by RaduP on 17.01.2021 at 21:22

Based

Let me know if I missed anything, doubtless I forgot a hidden gem or two.
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"Nullum unquam exstitit magnum igenium sine aliqua dementia [there was never great genius without some madness]."

Best of Metal A-Z: http://metalstorm.net/users/lists.php?user_id=158339
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17.01.2021 - 21:33
RaduP
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Written by Uxküll on 17.01.2021 at 21:30

Let me know if I missed anything, doubtless I forgot a hidden gem or two.

I can't think of anything right now
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One day there will be no heart at all?
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17.01.2021 - 21:50
John doe
Well I've just counted how many artists/bands i know that start with the letter "N" and I got 33 (and that's any genre, not just metal)
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I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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