Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done" metal band/album that isn't on my list, feel free to recommend

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sgtrobo | 25.08.2021

	1.	Weakling - Dead As Dreams 2000 --> Atmospheric DSBM {10/10}
	2.	Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle 2013 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {10/10}
	3.	Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris 2000 Prog/Tech/Brutal Death Metal --> {10/10}
	4.	Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography 2012 --> Tech/OSDM {9.8/10}
	5.	Thorns - Thorns 2001 --> Ambient Industrial Black Metal {9.8/10}
	6.	Demilich - Nespithe 1993 --> Avant-garde/Progressive Death Metal {10/10}
	7.	Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral 1993 --> Death/Doom {9.8/10}
	8.	Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters 1995 --> Avant-garde/Progressive Black Metal {9.78/10}
	9.	Apotheosis - Farthest From The Sun 2002 --> Symphonic Black/Thrash Metal {9.75/10}
	10.	Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon 2010 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {9.7/10}
	11.	Slumber - Fallout 2004 --> Extreme Gothic Doom {9.7/10}
	12.	Silencer - Death, Pierce Me 2001 --> DSBM {9.66/10}
	13.	Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows 2007 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {9.6/10}
	14.	Zhrine - Unortheta 2016 --> Atmospheric Blackened Disso-Death {9.6/10}
	15.	Aspid - Кровоизлияние 1992 --> Technical Thrash {9.5/10}
	16.	Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations 2009 --> Avant Garde Metal {9.5/10}
	17.	Miasma - Changes 1992 --> Brutal OSDM {9.4/10}
	18.	Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal 2001 --> Brutal DM {9.4/10}
	19.	Disciples Of Mockery - Prelude To Apocalypse 1999 --> Death/Doom {9.4/10}
	20.	Gorement - The Ending Quest 1994 --> Swedeath/Death-Doom {9.4/10}
	21.	Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule 2016 --> Demilich worship {9.3/10}
	22.	Anomalous - Ohmnivalent 2011 --> Tech Death {9.3/10}
	23.	Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind 1993 --> OSDM {9.3/10}
	24.	Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons 1995 --> Technical Death Metal {9.3/10}
	25.	Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike 1996 --> Melodic Black Metal {9.2/10}
	26.	Tchornobog - Tchornobog 2017 --> Atmospheric Blackened Death-Doom {9.2/10}
	27.	Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice 2005 --> Atmospheric Blackened Sludge/Doom {9.1/10}
	28.	Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages 2007 --> Melodic Tech-Death {9.2/10}
	29.	Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead 1991 --> Tech Death/Thrash {9.1/10}
	30.	Chapel - Satan's Rock 'n' Roll 2012 --> Blackened Speed Metal {9.1/10}
	31.	Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia 1993 --> Death/Doom {9.0/10}
	32.	Repulsion - Horrified 1989 --> Grindcore {8.9/10}
	33.	Unhuman - Unhuman 2013 --> Technical Death Metal {8.9/10}
	34.	Dusk - ...Majestic Thou In Ruin 1995 --> Death/Doom {8.9/10}
	35.	Children - Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World 2009 --> Progressive Thrash Metal {8.83/10}
	36.	Carnage - Dark Recollections 1990 --> Swedeath {8.8/10}
	37.	Uncanny - Splenium For Nyktophobia 1994 --> Death {8.8/10}
	38.	Grotesque - In The Embrace Of Evil 1996 --> Blackened OSDM {8.8/10}
	39.	Infester - To The Depths, In Degradation 1994 --> Brutal OSDM {8.8/10}
	40.	Cyaegha - Steps Of Descent 2008 --> Brutal Tech Death (8.7/10}
	41.	Woods Of Belial - Deimos XIII 2003 --> Industrial Blackened Doom {8.7/10}
	42.	Nazgûl - De Expugnatione Elfmuth 2002 --> Symphonic Black Metal {8.7/10}
	43.	Babylon Sad - Kyrie 1992 --> Avant-Garde Death/Doom {8.6/10}
	44.	Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence 1999 --> Progressive Power Metal {8.6/10}
	45.	Winter - Into Darkness 1990 --> Death/Doom {8.6/10}
	46.	Mastery - Valis 2015 --> Avant Garde Black Metal {8.6/10}
	47.	Estuary Of Calamity - The Sentencing 2000 --> Blackened Melodeath {8.5/10}
	48.	Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter 1996 --> Melodic Black Metal {8.5/10}
	49.	Plaga - Magia Gwiezdnej Entropii 2013 --> Black Metal {8.5/10}
	50.	Dripping - Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss 2002 --> Avant-Garde Slam {8.4/10}
	51.	Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us All 2006 --> Symphonic Gothic Metal {8.4/10}
	52.	God Macabre - The Winterlong 1993 --> Swedeath/Death-Doom {8.4/10}
	53.	Virvum - Illuminance 2016 --> Tech Death {8.4/10}0
	54.	Funebre - Children Of The Scorn 1991 --> OSDM {8.3/10}
	55.	Fallen Christ - Abduction Ritual 1996 --> Blackened Death/Deathgrind {8.3/10}
	56.	Dark Heresy - Abstract Principles Taken To Their Logical Extremes 1995 --> Avant Garde Death {8.3/10}
	57.	Regurgitation (USA - OH) - Tales Of Necrophilia 1999 - Brutal Death Metal {8.3/10}
	58.	Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony 2016 --> Meloblack {8.2/10}
	59.	Burial (NED) - Relinquished Souls 1993 --> OSDM {8.2/10}
	60.	Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 2014 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {8.0/10}
	61.	Vemod - Venter På Stormene 2012 --> Black Metal {8.0/10}
	62.	After Oblivion - Stamina 2012 --> Greta van Schuldiner {7.8/10}
	63.	Gammacide - Victims Of Science 1989 --> Thrash Metal {7.7/10}
	64.	Kublai Khan - Annihilation 1987 --> Thrash Metal {7.5/10}
	65.	Nexus Clandestine - Church Of The Poison Mind 2014 --> Doom/Sludge {7.5/10}
	66.	Rottrevore - Iniquitous 1993 --> Brutal Death Metal {7.1/10}
	67.	Inverloch - Distance Collapsed 2016 --> Death/Doom {6.9/10}
	68.	Litham - Dhal Ennar 1999 --> Death Metal - Blackened DM {6.6/10}
	69.	Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens 1994 --> Funeral Doom {6.4/10}
	70.	Beautiful Sin - The Unexpected 2006 --> Heavy Metal {6.3/10}
	71.	Forest Silence - Philosophy Of Winter 2006 --> Ambient Black Metal {6.2/10}
	72.	Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs 2009 --> Black Metal/Blackgaze {6.1/10}
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	75.	Banished - Deliver Me Unto Pain 1993 --> BDM {/10}
	76.	Broken Torso - The Ultimate Abhorrence 2000 --> Brutal Death Metal {/10}
	77.	Byatis - In Dark Abysses Of Memory 2003 --> Tech BDM {/10}
	78.	Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity 1992 --> Brutal OSDM {/10}
	79.	Rotting - Crushed 1998 --> BDM/Grind {/10}
	80.	Iniquitous Deeds - Incessant Hallucinations 2015 --> Brutal Dissodeath {/10}
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	82.	Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary 2004 --> Progressive Heavy Metal {/10}
	83.	Kalisia - Cybion 2009 --> Progressive Extreme Metal {/10}
	84.	Koyaanisqatsy - From The Yearning To Burst The Perpetual Circle 2000 --> Progressive Symphonic Metal {/10}
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	86.	Aeternum Vale - Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 2013 --> Melodic Black Metal {/10}
	87.	Conqueror - Fallen Angel 2007 --> Melodeath {/10}
	88.	The Everdawn - Poems - Burn The Past 1997 --> Melodeath {/10}
	89.	The Moaning - Blood From Stone 1997 --> Melodeath/Meloblack {/10}
	90.	Odium Immortalis - Die Schönheit Der Einsamkeit 2004 --> Meloblack {/10}
	91.	Vörnagar - The Bleeding Holocaust 2005 --> Technical Melodeath {/10}
	92.	Utopia Banished - Night of the Black Wyvern 2002 --> Melodeath {/10}
	93.	Asgard (Slovenia) The Army of the Sea - 2007 --> Melodeath {/10}
	94.	Disinterment (US) - Endless 1997 --> Melodeath {/10}
	95.	A Mind Confused - Anarchos 1997 --> Blackened Melodeath {/10}
	96.	MI'gauss - Open Season 2003 --> Melodeath {/10}
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	98.	Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament 2008 --> Funeral Doom {/10}
	99.	Decomposed - Hope Finally Died... 1993 --> Death Doom {/10}
	100.	Derkéta - In Death We Meet 2012 --> Death/Doom {/10}
	101.	Scald - Will Of Gods Is A Great Power 1996 --> Epic Doom {/10}
	102.	Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom 1989 --> Death Doom {/10}
	103.	Swallowed - Lunarterial 2014 --> Death/Doom {/10}
	104.	Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh 1994 --> Death Doom {/10}
	105.	Sacriphyx - The Western Front 2013 --> Blackened Death/Doom {/10}
	106.	Sororicide - The Entity 1991 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
	107.	Asgard (Ukraine) - Hunting the Shadow 2009 --> Gothic Doom {/10}
	108.	Asgard (Mexico) - Of Prophesys & Dragons 1993 --> Death/Doom {/10}
	109.	Delirium - Zzooouhh 1990 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
	110.	Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign 1996 --> Death/thrash/Doom {/10}
	111.	Internment - Mutilated Reality 1995 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
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	113.	Death Power - The Bogeyman 1990 --> Thrash Metal {/10}
	114.	Overthrow - Within Suffering 1990 --> Death/Thrash {/10}
	115.	Slaughter - Strappado 1987 --> Death/Thrash {/10}
	116.	Violent Force - Malevolent Assault Of Tomorrow 1987 --> Thrash Metal {/10}
	117.	Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred 2000 --> Death/thrash {/10}
	118.	Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness 2006 --> Death/thrash {/10}
	119.	Aasgard - Ravens Hymns Foreshadows The End 2010 --> Death/thrash {/10}
	120.	Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds... 2009 --> Death/thrash {/10}
	121.	Desecrator (US) - A Mind Is A Terrible Thing 1991 --> Thrash {/10}
	122.	Dessacrator - The Thrash Is Out There 2003 --> Thrash {/10}
	123.	Asgard (Brazil) - Life and Suffer 1995 --> Death/thrash {/10}
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	126.	Betray My Secrets - Betray My Secrets 1999 --> Gothic Folk {/10}
	127.	Dol Theeta - The Universe Expands 2008 --> Symphonic Metal {/10}
	128.	Fimbulwinter - Servants Of Sorcery 1994 --> Black Metal {/10}
	129.	Gjallarhorn - Nordheim 2005 --> Viking Metal {/10}
	130.	Hinsidig - I En Tidløs Høst --> Atmoblack {/10}
	131.	Horde - Hellig Usvart 1994 --> Black Metal {/10}
	132.	Immortalis - Indicium De Mortuis 1991 --> OSDM {/10}
	133.	Midvinter - At The Sight Of The Apocalypse Dragon 1997 --> Black Metal {/10}
	134.	Molested - Blod-Draum 1995 --> Blackened OSDM {/10}
	135.	Mortal Decay - Incarnated Souls Rebirth 1998 --> Black Death Metal {/10}
	136.	Murmuüre - Murmuüre 2010 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {/10}
	137.	Odium (NOR) - The Sad Realm Of The Stars 1998 --> Symphonic BM {/10}
	138.	S.V.E.S.T. - Urfaust 2003 --> Experimental Black Metal {/10}
	139.	Selvhat - Gjennom mørket famlende 2008 --> Black Metal {/10}
	140.	Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader 2009 --> Atmoblack {/10}
	141.	Triumphator - Wings Of Antichrist 1999 --> Black Metal {/10}
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	143.	Insect Warfare - World Extermination 2007 --> Deathgrind {/10}
	144.	Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 2014 --> Blackened Death {/10}
	145.	Experiment Fear - Assuming The Godform 1995 --> OSDM {/10}
	146.	Tyrant Trooper - Insane Sickness 1995 --> OSDM {/10}
	147.	Innsmouth - Consumed By Elder Sign 2014 --> Blackened Death {/10}
	148.	Vomiturition - A Leftover 1995 --> Death {/10}
	149.	Armoured Angel - Angel Of The Sixth Order 1999 --> Death/thrash {/10}
	150.	Asgard (France) - To a Golden Age 1996 --> Death Metal {/10}
	151.	Asgard (Neth) - In The Ancient Days 1986 --> Speed Metal {/10}
	152.	Asgard (GER) - Cry With Pain 1994 --> Thrash {/10}
	153.	Asgard (GER) - Dark Horizons 1988 --> Speed Metal {/10}
	154.	Asgard (Canada) - Cold Season 2001 --> Black Metal {/10}
	155.	Asgard (Spain) - The Splendor Of The Cold Age 1995 --> Black Metal {/10}
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	157.	Asgard (GER) - Out Of Control 1994 --> Heavy Metal {/10}
	158.	Asgard (Spain) - Tierra De Dioses 2009 --> Heavy Metal {/10}
	159.	Desecrator (US) - Die for You... Dead Without You 2004 --> USPM {/10}
	160.	Asgard (Cuba) - Oblivion 2011 --> Symphonic Power Metal {/10}
	161.	.
	162.	Asgard (Belgium) - In To War 1997 --> Viking Metal {/10}
	163.	.
	164.	Desecrator (UK) - Subconscious Release 1991 --> OSDM (/10}
	165.	Desecrator (UK) - Link's Retribution 1991 --> OSDM (/10}
	166.	Disinter - Hell Gate 2005 --> Death Metal {/10}
	167.	Disinter (Mex) - Depths Of Existence 1996 --> Death Metal {/10}
	168.	Impaler - Charnel Deity 1992 --> OSDM {/10}
	169.	Bloodsoaked - Frost Image 1993 --> Death Metal {/10}
	170.	Lepra (US) - Leprosos satánicos 1995 --> Death Metal {/10}
	171.	Misdeed - Diabolism 1993 --> Death Metal {/10}
	172.	Megaslaughter - Calls From The Beyond 1991 --> OSDM {/10}
	173.	Evil Army - Evil Army 2006
	174.	Niflheim (CAN) - Neurasthénie 2006