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


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 | 06.12.2020



1. I - Between Two Worlds
2. I Built The Sky - The Sky Is Not The Limit
3. I Shalt Become - Poison
4. Iapetus - The Body Cosmic
https://iapetus1.bandcamp.com/album/the-body-cosmic
5. IATT - Nomenclature
https://iattblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/nomenclature
6. Icarus Witch - Roses On White Lace
7. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
8. ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker
9. Ides Of Gemini - Constantinopole
10. Idle Hands - Mana
11. IER - 妖怪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbeeQxG18c
12. If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World
https://ifthesetreescouldtalk.bandcamp.com/album/the-bones-of-a-dying-world
13. Ignis Haereticum - Autocognition of Light
https://ignishaereticum.bandcamp.com/album/autocognition-of-light
14. Igorrr - Spirituality And Distortion
15. Ihlo - Union
16. Ihsahn - After
17. Ikuinen Kaamos - Closure
18. Ildra - Eðelland
19. Ill Omen - Æ.Thy.Rift
20. Illimitable Dolor - Illimitable Dolor
21. Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure
22. Illogicist - The Insight Eye
23. Illuminata - Where Stories Unfold
24. Illuminati - The Core
25. Illyria - The Carpathian Summit
26. Imber Luminis - Nausea
27. Imha Tarikat - Sternenberster
28. Imindain - And The Living Shall Envy The Dead
29. Immensity The Isolation Splendour
30. Immolation - Close To A World Below
31. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
32. Immortal Bird - Empress / Abscess
33. Impaled Nazarene - Ugra-Karma
34. Impavida - Eerie Sceneries
35. Imperanon - Stained
36. Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
37. Imperialist - Cipher
https://imperialistus.bandcamp.com/album/cipher-black-metal
38. Imperious - Tales of Woe - The Journey of Odysseus - Part II: From Hades to Ithaca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq1rCxFvpDA
39. Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens
40. Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence
41. Impiety - Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command)
42. Impure Wilhelmina - Radiation
43. Impureza - La Caída De Tonatiuh
44. In Cauda Venenum - In Cauda Venenum
45. In Each Hand A Cutlass - A Universe Made Of Strings
46. In Extremo - Mein Rasend Herz
47. In Flames - The Jester Race
48. In Human Form - III
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/iii-2
49. In Lingua Mortua - Salon Des Refusés
50. In Mourning - Garden Of Storms
51. In Solitude - Sister
52. In The Company Of Serpents - Lux
53. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad
54. In The Woods... - Omnio
55. In Twilight's Embrace - The Grim Muse
56. In Vain - Ænigma
57. Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle Of Atonement
58. Inborn Suffering - Wordless Hope
59. Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
60. Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Disintegration: Psalms Of Veneration For The Nefarious Elite
61. Inculter - Fatal Visions
62. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay
63. Indian - From All Purity
64. Indukti - S.U.S.A.R.
65. InExordium - A Time To Mourn
66. Inexorum - Moonlit Navigation
67. Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch
68. Infera Bruo - Desolate Unknown
69. Inferi - The End Of An Era
70. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy
71. Infernal Poetry - Nervous System Failure
72. Infernal War - Terrorfront
73. Inferno - Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness
74. Infestus - The Reflecting Void
75. Infinite Density - Recollapse Of The Universe
https://infinitedensityband.bandcamp.com/album/recollapse-of-the-universe
76. Infinity - Non De Hac Terra
https://infinity333.bandcamp.com/album/non-de-hac-terra-2012
77. Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread
78. Ingrina - Etter Lys
79. InnerWish - No Turning Back
80. Innosense - Outcast
81. Innumerable Forms - Despotic Rule
https://innumerableforms.bandcamp.com/album/despotic-rule
82. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
83. Inquisitor - The Quantum Theory Of Id
84. Insaniae - Imperfeições Da Mão Humana
85. Insidious Disease - Shadowcast
86. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
87. Insomnius Dei - Illusions Of Silence
88. Insurrection - Fracture
89. Intellect Devourer - Demons of the Skull
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/demons-of-the-skull
90. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
91. The Interbeing - Edge Of The Obscure
92. Intercepting Pattern - The Encounter
https://risingnemesisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-encounter
93. Interitus - Deborah
94. Interment - Into The Crypts Of Blasphemy
95. Intervals - The Shape Of Colour
96. Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
97. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
98. Intruder - Live To Die
99. Inverloch - Dusk
Subside
100. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
101. IQ - Dark Matter
102. Iress - Flaw
103. Irkallian Oracle - Grave Ekstasis
104. Iron Griffin - Curse Of The Sky
https://irongriffin.bandcamp.com/album/curse-of-the-sky
105. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
106. Iron Thrones - Visions Of Light
https://ironthrones.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-light
107. Irreversible - Light
108. Irreversible Mechanism - Immersion
109. Isengard - Høstmørke
110. Isenordal - Shores Of Mourning
111. Isis - Panopticon
112. Iskald - The Sun I Carried Alone
113. Iskandr - Euprosopon
114. Isole - Silent Ruins
115. Israthoum - Channeling Death And Devil
116. Istapp - Blekinge
117. Isvind - Gud
118. Ivan - Silver Screens
119. Ivanhoe - Lifeline
120. Ivory Tower - Beyond The Stars
121. Ixion - L'Adieu Aux Etoiles
122. IXXI - IXXI
123. Izah - Sistere
124. Izthmi - The Arrows Of Our Ways



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 3   Visited by: 29 users
06.12.2020 - 11:32
tea[m]ster
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83....oh fuck yea.
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09.12.2020 - 18:28
RaduP
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I can't wait to start digging into these next year
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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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13.12.2020 - 04:57
Uxküll
Written by RaduP on 09.12.2020 at 18:28

I can't wait to start digging into these next year

There are some really great hidden gems, I just added links to bandcamp/youtube for all albums not on MS.
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