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


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 | 01.01.2021



1. Labyrinth - Return To Heaven Denied Pt. II
2. Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
3. Lacrimosa - Elodia
4. Lacuna Coil - Comalies
5. Lahmia - Resilience
6. Lake Of Blood - Omnipotens Tyrannus
7. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
8. Lalu - Oniric Metal
9. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
10. Lana Lane - Lady Macbeth
11. Lanfear - The Art Effect
12. Lantern - Dimensions
13. Lantlôs - Melting Sun
14. Lascaille's Shroud - The Roads Leading North
15. Last Chance To Reason - Level 2
16. Last Days Of Humanity - Hymns Of Indigestible Suppuration
17. Last Minute To Jaffna - Volume I
18. Last Sacrament - Enantiodromia
19. Last Tribe - The Uncrowned
20. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
21. Latitudes - Old Sunlight
22. Lautréamont - The Cult of Grinning Martyrs
https://lautreamont616.bandcamp.com/album/the-cult-of-grinning-martyrs
23. Le Grand Guignol - The Great Maddening
24. Le temps du loup - Cardinal
https://letempsduloup.bandcamp.com/album/cardinal
25. Leaves' Eyes - Lovelorn
26. Leeched - To Dull The Blades Of Your Abuse
27. Left Cross - Prophecy Of Conquest
https://stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/album/prophecy-of-conquest
28. Lemuria - Chanson De La Croisade
29. Lengsel - Solace
https://endtimeproductions.bandcamp.com/album/solace
30. Lenore S. Fingers - All Things Lost On Earth
31. Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
32. Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
33. Lesser Key - Lesser Key
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGKIOFuwJ0
34. Lethe - When Dreams Become Nightmares
35. Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
36. Leverage - Circus Colossus
37. Leviathan - Scar Sighted
38. The Levitation Hex - The Levitation Hex
39. Levithan - LOST
https://levithan.bandcamp.com/album/lost
40. L'Homme Absurde - Belong
41. Líam - Journey... Two Years And A Fragment
42. Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
43. Liege Lord - Master Control
44. Lifelover - Konkurs
45. Light Bearer - Silver Tongue
46. Light Field Reverie - Another World
47. A Light In The Dark - Insomnia
https://alightinthedark.bandcamp.com/album/insomnia
48. Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
49. The Lion's Daughter - Future Cult
50. Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
51. Litham - Dhal Ennar
52. Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
53. Liveride - Старый месяц
54. Living Colour - Time's Up
55. Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
56. Loathfinder - The Great Tired Ones
https://loathfinder.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-tired-ones
57. A Loathing Requiem - Psalms Of Misanthropy
58. Loch Vostok - V: The Doctrine Decoded
59. Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
60. Longing For Dawn - Between Elation And Despair
61. Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
62. Lord - Set In Stone
63. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
64. Lord Dying - Mysterium Tremendum
65. Lord Mantis - Pervertor
66. Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
67. Lord Vigo - Danse De Noir
68. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
69. L'Ordre du Temple - In Hoc Signo Vinces
70. Lorn - Subconscious Metamorphosis
71. Lorna Shore - Immortal
72. Loss - Horizonless
73. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
74. Lost In Thought - Opus Arise
75. Lost Soul - Immerse In Infinity
76. Lotus Thief - Rervm
77. Loviatar - Lightless
78. Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II
79. Luciferian Rites - When the Light Dies
https://moribundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-light-dies
80. Luciferion - The Apostate
81. Lucifer's Child - The Order
82. Lucifer's Children - Devil Worship
83. Ludicra - Hollow Psalms
84. Lumnos - Ancient Shadows Of Saturn
https://lumnos.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-shadows-of-saturn
85. Lumsk - Troll
86. Luna Ad Noctum - Sempiternal Consecration
87. Luna Obscura - Feltia
88. Lunar - Eidolon
89. Lunar Aurora - Andacht
90. Lunar Mantra - Genesis
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/genesis
91. Lunar Shadow - The Smokeless Fires
92. Lunaris - Cyclic
93. Luna's Call - Void
94. Lunatic Gods - Vlnobytie
95. Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods
96. Lunatica - The Edge Of Infinity
97. Lurk - Lurk
98. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
99. Luror - The Iron Hand of Blackest Terror
https://wtcproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-iron-hand-of-blackest-terror
100. Lustre - A Glimpse Of Glory
101. Lux Occulta - Dionysos
102. Lvcifyre - The Calling Depths
103. Lycanthia - Oligarchy
104. Lychgate - Also Sprach Futura
105. Lycus - Tempest
106. Lye By Mistake - Arrangements For Fulminating Vective
107. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
108. Lyriel - Skin And Bones
109. Lyrinx - Ending The Circle Of Life



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