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All Metal Of All Time Top 250: Albums


An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

Created by: Redel | 01.03.2014



1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2. Opeth - Morningrise
3. Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
4. My Dying Bride - Turn loose the swans
5. Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
6. My Dying Bride - The Angel and the dark river
7. Megadeth - Rust in peace
8. Iced Earth - Night of the stormrider
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
11. Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond
12. Bolt Thrower - ...for victory
13. Opeth - Still life
14. Death - Symbolic
15. Immortal - At the heart of winter
16. Dark Tranquillity - The gallery
17. Primordial - To the nameless dead
18. Slayer - South of heaven
19. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
20. Agalloch - The mantle
21. Bathory - Hammerheart
22. Sepultura - Beneath the remains
23. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
24. Tiamat - Clouds
25. Opeth - Orchid
26. My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the sun
27. Sepultura - Arise
28. Moonspell - Wolfheart
29. Opeth - Blackwater Park
30. Cemetary - Godless Beauty
31. Haggard - Eppur si muove
32. Summoning - Let mortal heroes sing your fame
33. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
34. Death Angel - The ultra-violence
35. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
36. Metallica - Ride the lightning
37. Dark Tranquillity - Damage done
38. Slayer - Reign in blood
39. In Flames - The Jester Race
40. Be'lakor - Stone's reach
41. Mourning Beloveth - The sullen sulcus
42. Slayer - Show no mercy
43. Iron Maiden - Seventh son of a seventh son
44. DIO - Holy diver
45. In Flames - Clayman
46. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
47. Savatage - Gutter ballet
48. Agalloch - Ashes against the grain
49. Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy
50. Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
51. The Elysian Fields - We...The Enlightened
52. Judas Priest - Painkiller
53. Tiamat - Wildhoney
54. Samael - Ceremony of opposites
55. Saturnus - Veronika decides to die
56. Cryptopsy - None so vile
57. Unanimated - Ancient God of evil
58. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
59. Sodom - Agent Orange
60. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
61. Iron Maiden - The Number of the beast
62. My Dying Bride - The light at the end of the world
63. The Gathering - Mandylion
64. Anathema - Eternity
65. Manilla Road - Crystal logic
66. Insomnium - Above the weeping world
67. Mourning Beloveth - Dust
68. My Dying Bride - The dreadful hours
69. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
70. Metallica - Kill 'Em all
71. Draconian - Arcane rain fell
72. Opeth - My arms, your hearse
73. Savatage - Handful of rain
74. Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
75. Summoning - Stronghold
76. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
77. Kreator - Coma of souls
78. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of violence
79. Coroner - No more color
80. Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys Part II
81. Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys Part I
82. Gamma Ray - Land of the free
83. Iced Earth - Iced Earth
84. Metallica - Master of puppets
85. Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
86. Death - Human
87. Obituary - Cause of death
88. Judas Priest - Stained class
89. Rush - Moving pictures
90. Judas Priest - Sad wings of destiny
91. Savatage - Hall of the mountain king
92. Exodus - Bonded by blood
93. Wintersun - Wintersun
94. Anacrusis - Screams and whispers
95. Savatage - Streets: A Rock opera
96. Rainbow - Rising
97. Anathema - Alternative 4
98. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
99. Dream Theater - Images and words
100. Warning - Watching from a distance
101. Sanctuary - Into the mirror black
102. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the other side
103. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
104. Devastation - Idolatry
105. Holy Terror - Mind wars
106. Entombed - Left hand path
107. Entombed - Clandestine
108. Carcass - Heartwork
109. Primordial - The gathering wilderness
110. Paradise Lost - Icon
111. Empyrium - Songs of moors and misty fields
112. Morgion - Among majestic ruin
113. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's hand
114. Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
115. Necrophobic - The nocturnal silence
116. King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
117. Green Carnation - Light of day, day of darkness
118. Bathory - Blood on ice
119. Beyond Belief - Rave the abyss
120. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
121. Dark Millennium - Ashore the celestial burden
122. October Tide - Rain without end
123. Saturnus - Paradise belongs to you
124. My Dying Bride - For lies I sire
125. Blind Guardian - Tales from the twilight world
126. Edge of Sanity - Purgatory afterglow
127. Num Skull - Ritually abused
128. Mercyful Fate - Don't break the oath
129. Rush - Hemispheres
130. Slayer - Hell awaits
131. Dark Angel - Darkness descends
132. Bolt Thrower - Those once loyal
133. Nevermore - This godless endeavor
134. Gates of Ishtar - A bloodred path
135. Testament - The legacy
136. Black Sabbath - Heaven and hell
137. Blind Guardian - Battalions of fear
138. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
139. Blind Guardian - Follow the blind
140. Pantera - Cowboys from hell
141. Alice in Chains - Dirt
142. Anthrax - Among the living
143. The Elysian Fields - 12abLAZe
144. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
145. Falconer - Falconer
146. Dissection - The somberlain
147. Deep Purple - In Rock
148. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone darkness triumphant
149. Dissection - Storm of the light's bane
150. Cynic - Focus
151. Saturnus - Martyre
152. Overkill - The years of decay
153. The Elysian Fields - Adelain
154. Danzig - Danzig III - How The Gods Kill
155. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
156. Death - Individual thought patterns
157. Ashbury - Endless skies
158. Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith
159. Holy Moses - Queen of Siam
160. Znowhite - Act of God
161. Vendetta (GER) - Brain damage
162. Nevermore - Dead heart in a dead world
163. Gates of Ishtar - At dusk and forever
164. Cirith Ungol - King of the dead
165. Process of Guilt - Erosion
166. Black Sabbath - Mob rules
167. Judas Priest - Screaming for vengeance
168. Magnum - Kingdom of Madness
169. Anthrax - Spreading the disease
170. Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
171. Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... When I Can't Even Smile Today
172. Tiamat - The astral sleep
173. The Drowning - This bleak descent
174. Anathema - Serenades
175. Kreator - Violent revolution
176. Metallica - ...And justice for all
177. Officium Triste - Mors viri
178. Kreator - Pleasure to kill
179. Tristania - Widow's weeds
180. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
181. Rage - The missing link
182. Amorphis - Elegy
183. The 3rd And The Mortal - Tears laid in earth
184. Lake of Tears - Headstones
185. Anathema - Judgement
186. Diamond Head - Lightning to the nations
187. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
188. Night in Gales - Towards the twilight
189. Morgion - Cloaked by ages, crowned in earth
190. Massacre - From beyond
191. Flotsam and Jetsam - No place for disgrace
192. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
193. Agalloch - Marrow of the spirit
194. Razor - Violent restitution
195. Crimson Glory - Transcendence
196. Before the Rain - ...One day less
197. Black Sabbath - Master of reality
198. Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo forte
199. Before the Rain - Frail
200. Crimson Glory - Crimson glory
201. Running Wild - Black hand inn
202. In Flames - Colony
203. Moonspell - Irreligious
204. Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer
205. Fates Warning - Awaken the guardian
206. Running Wild - Death or glory
207. Malevolent Creation - The ten commandments
208. Skyclad - The silent whales of lunar sea
209. Nazareth - Hair of the dog
210. White Lion - Fight to Survive
211. Haggard - Awaking the centuries
212. Riot - ThunderSteel
213. Cloven Hoof - A sultan's ransom
214. Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet darkness they fear
215. Galadriel - The mirror of ages
216. Iron Maiden - Fear of the dark
217. Gamma Ray - Insanity and genius
218. Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the deceiver
219. Kreator - Extreme aggression
220. Count Raven - High on infinity
221. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
222. Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
223. Dismember - Like an ever flowing stream
224. Nocturnus - The key
225. Artillery - By inheritance
226. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
227. Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
228. Mourning Beloveth - A disease for the ages
229. Desultory - Into eternity
230. At the Gates - The red in the sky is ours
231. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
232. Lake of Tears - Greater art
233. Obituary - Slowly we rot
234. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
235. Primordial - Where greater men have fallen
236. Savatage - Edge of thorns
237. Rush - 2112
238. Running Wild - Pile of skulls
239. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
240. In Flames - Reroute To Remain
241. Dark Tranquillity - Projector
242. Amorphis - Under the red cloud
243. Pantera - Vulgar display of power
244. Metallica - Metallica
245. Forbidden - Forbidden evil
246. My Dying Bride - Songs of darkness, words of light
247. Death - Spiritual healing
248. Candlemass - Nightfall
249. Mistveil - Amnesia
250. Pentagram - Pentagram
251. Deep Purple - Machine head
252. Sodom - Persecution mania
253. Skyclad - Prince of the poverty line
254. My Dying Bride - A line of deathless kings
255. Therion - Theli
256. Paradise Lost - Draconian times
257. Morta Skuld - As humanity fades
258. Iced Earth - The dark saga
259. Trees of Eternity - Hour of the nightingale
260. Danzig - Danzig
261. Alcest - Spiritual instinct
262. Darkseed - Spellcraft
263. Vordven - Towards the frozen stream
264. Hate - Daemon qui fecit terram
265. Morta Skuld - Dying remains
266. Cemetary - Black vanity
267. Pallbearer - Foundations of burden
268. Shattered Hope - Absence
269. Officium Triste - Reason
270. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
271. Savatage - Dead winter dead
272. Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn
273. Anathema - Weather systems
274. Overthrow - Within Suffering
275. Morgion - Solinari
276. Crematory - ... just dreaming
277. Paradise Lost - Shades of God
278. Novembre - Classica



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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29.12.2021 - 22:30
Redel

Written by F3ynman2000 on 29.12.2021 at 21:08

I've returned to this list
As an update: I've now listened to about 31% of the albums in your list
I'll continue exploring more

Great, I couldnt think of a better place to return to. Thanks for keeping me updated.
Observing your taste of metal so far I can imagine you will not have as much fun exploring the remaining 69% of my list as you had with the first 31%. There is a bulk of doom, death doom, gothic and even some power metal classics in my list, which might be not your cup of tea. But maybe one or the other of those albums will surprisingly please you. Let me know in case that turns out to be true.
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29.12.2021 - 22:46
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Written by Redel on 29.12.2021 at 22:30

There is a bulk of doom, death doom, gothic and even some power metal classics in my list

Yeah I've mainly listened to heavy, thrash, death, and some black.
Doom, gothic, folk, and power are mostly unexplored for me. I'm listening to Moonspell's Wolfheart, which I'm enjoying a lot! Can you recommend anything that sounds similar?
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30.12.2021 - 21:46
Redel

Written by F3ynman2000 on 29.12.2021 at 22:46

Can you recommend anything that sounds similar?

Honestly, not really I am afraid. This album has quite a unique sound if you ask me. You though may want to check out their sophomore album, which is also excellent and a bit similar in sound. Plus, 90s Type O Negative maybe... No more from the top of my head.
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31.12.2021 - 00:07
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Written by Redel on 30.12.2021 at 21:46

Written by F3ynman2000 on 29.12.2021 at 22:46

Can you recommend anything that sounds similar?

Honestly, not really I am afraid. This album has quite a unique sound if you ask me. You though may want to check out their sophomore album, which is also excellent and a bit similar in sound. Plus, 90s Type O Negative maybe... No more from the top of my head.

Interesting. Good to know, thanks!
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11.03.2023 - 15:22
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Written by F3ynman2000 on 29.12.2021 at 21:08

I've returned to this list
As an update: I've now listened to about 31% of the albums in your list
I'll continue exploring more

I've returned to this list again.
As an update: now I've listened to 50% of these albums (your list hasnt grown by any chance, has it?). Still a lot more gothic and power metal to discover for me. Thanks, by the way, for introducing me to these albums thanks to your list:
Estatic Fear | Somnium Obmutum
My Dying Bride | Turn Loose The Swans
Slayer | Seasons in the Abyss
Iced Earth | Burnt Offerings

Always a joy to find new gems. Rock on
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11.03.2023 - 20:56
Redel

Written by F3ynman2000 on 11.03.2023 at 15:22

your list hasnt grown by any chance, has it?


Yes, this list grows from time to time. Basically every now and then when I discover a new gem I have overlooked before and like it so much that it reaches a rank within this list, I extend the list instead of kicking another album out. It just feels too harsh to kick out albums I like so much that they entered this list.

If your point of reference is Dec 21 there has been one major extension on top of that. There was a moment last year when I decided it is time to extend the list beyond 250 ranks. So, this one might have messed up your listening tracks severely.

Written by F3ynman2000 on 11.03.2023 at 15:22

Thanks, by the way, for introducing me to these albums thanks to your list:
Estatic Fear | Somnium Obmutum
My Dying Bride | Turn Loose The Swans
Slayer | Seasons in the Abyss
Iced Earth | Burnt Offerings


Wow, if my list has really introduced you to these masterpieces of music I am of course deeply honoured. In this case I can only recomment you to dig some more of the second half of my list, which you have not yet listened to. Have fun at that.
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