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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 January 2025.

Created by: Qualeen | 30.09.2021


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
6. Dream Theater - Images And Words
7. Wintersun - Wintersun
8. Vital Remains - Dechristianize
9. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
10. Batushka - Litourgiya
11. Death - Human
12. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
13. Opeth - Still Life
14. Immolation - Close To A World Below
15. Death - Symbolic
16. Summoning - Stronghold
17. Judas Priest - Painkiller
18. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
19. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
20. Opeth - Morningrise
21. Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
22. Isis - Panopticon
23. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
24. Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth
25. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
26. Dio - Holy Diver
27. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
28. Isis - Oceanic
29. Summoning - Oath Bound
30. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
31. Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance
32. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
33. Carcass - Heartwork
34. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
35. Mgła - Exercises In Futility
36. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
37. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
38. Meshuggah - Nothing
particularly, the 2006 re-release
39. Rainbow - Rising
40. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
41. Forefather - Steadfast
42. Slayer - Reign In Blood
43. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
44. Witcher - Lélekharang
45. Antestor - The Forsaken
46. Dissection - The Somberlain
47. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
48. Dream Theater - Awake
49. Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon
50. Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upøn
51. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
52. Strapping Young Lad - City
53. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
54. Therion - Theli
55. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
56. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
57. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
58. Septicflesh - Communion
59. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
60. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
61. Taake - ...Doedskvad
62. Disentomb - Misery
63. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
64. Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk
65. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
66. Behemoth - The Satanist
67. Entombed - Left Hand Path
68. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
69. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
70. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
71. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
72. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
73. Acranius - Reign Of Terror
74. Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays
75. Nothingness - Supraliminal
76. Avatarium - Avatarium
77. Heavenly - Virus
78. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
79. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
80. Dark Forest (CAN) - Aurora Borealis
81. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
82. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
83. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
84. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
85. Eximperitus - Šahrartu
86. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
87. Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
88. Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule
89. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
90. Sodom - Agent Orange
91. Vader - Impressions In Blood
92. Crimson Glory - Transcendence
93. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
94. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
95. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
96. Menhir - Thuringia
97. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void
98. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
99. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin
referring to the LP, of course, not the single to which the link redirects
100. Hath - All That Was Promised
101. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
102. Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
103. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
104. Analepsy - Atrocities From Beyond
105. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
106. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
107. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
108. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
109. Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
110. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
111. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
112. Vintersorg - Till Fjälls
113. Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
114. Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
115. Overkill - The Years Of Decay
116. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
117. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
118. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
119. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
120. Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
121. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
122. Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
123. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
124. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
125. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
126. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
127. Kalmah - Swampsong
128. Vader - Tibi Et Igni
129. Meshuggah - Koloss
130. Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm
131. Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread
132. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
133. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
134. Gorguts - Obscura
135. Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity
136. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
137. Overkill - Horrorscope
138. Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
139. Megadeth - Endgame
140. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
141. Cynic - Focus
142. Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down
143. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
144. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
145. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
146. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
147. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
148. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
149. Behemoth - Evangelion
150. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
151. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
152. Taake - ...Bjoergvin...
153. Immolation - Majesty And Decay
154. Mgła - Age Of Excuse
155. Be'lakor - Vessels
156. Agalloch - Pale Folklore
157. Slayer - South Of Heaven
158. Wintersun - Time I
159. Behemoth - Demigod
160. Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime
161. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
162. Disentomb - The Decaying Light
163. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore
164. Burzum - Filosofem
165. Antestor - The Return Of The Black Death
166. Windir - 1184
167. Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
168. Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
169. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
170. Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
171. Testament - The Gathering
172. In The Woods... - Heart Of The Ages
173. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
174. Archgoat - Whore Of Bethlehem
175. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
176. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
177. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
178. Mastodon - Leviathan
179. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
180. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
181. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
182. Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
183. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
184. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
185. Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
186. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
187. Moonspell - Wolfheart
188. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
189. Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
190. Carnage - Dark Recollections
191. Immolation - Atonement
192. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
193. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
194. Sodom - Persecution Mania
195. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
196. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
197. Necrophagist - Epitaph
198. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
199. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
200. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
201. Vulvodynia - Psychosadistic Design
202. Eluveitie - Slania
203. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
204. Summoning - Minas Morgul
205. Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
206. Overkill - The Electric Age
207. Facelift Deformation - Dominating The Extermination
208. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
209. Opeth - Damnation
210. Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
211. Vomitory - Blood Rapture
212. Heathen - Victims Of Deception
213. Týr - Valkyrja
214. Devourment - Obscene Majesty
215. Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide
216. Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
217. Mithotyn - King Of The Distant Forest
218. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
219. Gaerea - Mirage
220. Shadow Of Intent - Reclaimer
221. Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
222. Inferi - Vile Genesis
223. Undeath - It's Time​.​.​.To Rise From The Grave
224. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
225. Summoning - Dol Guldur
226. Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
227. Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition
228. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
229. Gorguts - Considered Dead
230. Ensiferum - Iron
231. Belphegor - Lucifer Incestus
232. Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
233. Rothadás - Kopár Hant​.​.​. Az Alvilág Felé
234. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
235. Immolation - Here In After
236. Shining - V - Halmstad
237. Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
238. Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
239. Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
240. Azarath - Blasphemers' Maledictions
241. Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
242. Batushka - Panihida
243. Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
244. Thulcandra - A Dying Wish
245. Decapitated - Nihility
246. Hypocrisy - Abducted
247. Hate - Auric Gates Of Veles
248. HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings
249. Immolation - Acts Of God
250. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
251. Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
252. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
253. Gorgoroth - Antichrist
254. Hypocrisy - Worship
255. Gates Of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
256. King Of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr
257. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
258. Shadow Of Intent - Elegy
259. Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification Of Lucifer
260. Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
261. Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
262. Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
263. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
264. Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
265. Kypck - Черно
266. Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
267. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
268. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
269. Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
270. Eternal Rot - Cadaverine
271. Heidevolk - Walhalla Wacht
272. Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
273. Mors Principium Est - Seven
274. Heol Telwen - An Deiz Ruz
275. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
276. Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
277. Grymheart - Hellish Hunt
278. Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
279. Defeated Sanity - Chronicles Of Lunacy


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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30.09.2021 - 18:52
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
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Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!
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30.09.2021 - 18:59
Qualeen
Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Thank you very much man! Just updated it for the first time and I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now
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So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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30.09.2021 - 19:03
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Thank you very much man! Just updated it for the first time and I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

Nice
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30.09.2021 - 21:26
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Man, under every top 100 list I see a comment by you, it's unreal
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01.10.2021 - 01:57
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
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Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

"So that was a f*cking lie"
just kidding - keep those albums coming!
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01.10.2021 - 01:59
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Roman Doez on 30.09.2021 at 21:26

Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Man, under every top 100 list I see a comment by you, it's unreal

Yeah I try to check out every corner of this site and share my thoughts... who knows - maybe one day I'll have as many posts as Bad English
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01.10.2021 - 02:04
Qualeen
Written by F3ynman on 01.10.2021 at 01:57

Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

"So that was a f*cking lie"
just kidding - keep those albums coming!

Well... .... ....I mean, you know, okay, look. I was at 100, but then I remembered there was that one more album, and I asked myself, do I wanna go up to 101? Yes! But it needs to be a nice number then, what the hell is 101? Let's make it 110 - I have many others in mind anyway. Then I kept going until I was at 137. And I thought to myself "Man... I'm gonna look for 3 more throughout the darkest corners of my memory, because it has to end with a -0. And thus, we are now at 140, and I would say "c'est fini", but frankly I don't know if it is
----
So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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01.10.2021 - 02:07
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Qualeen on 01.10.2021 at 02:04


Well... .... ....I mean, you know, okay, look. I was at 100, but then I remembered there was that one more album, and I asked myself, do I wanna go up to 101? Yes! But it needs to be a nice number then, what the hell is 101? Let's make it 110 - I have many others in mind anyway. Then I kept going until I was at 137. And I thought to myself "Man... I'm gonna look for 3 more throughout the darkest corners of my memory, because it has to end with a -0. And thus, we are now at 140, and I would say "c'est fini", but frankly I don't know if it is

No worries - the more albums, the better
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