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Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal

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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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1.
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
2000 Prog/Tech/Brutal Death Metal --> {10/10}
175.
2.
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2000 --> Atmospheric DSBM {10/10}
175.
3.
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
2013 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {10/10}
175.
4.
Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
2012 --> Tech/OSDM {9.8/10}
175.
5.
Thorns - Thorns
2001 --> Ambient Industrial Black Metal {9.8/10}
175.
6.
Demilich - Nespithe
1993 --> Avant-garde/Progressive Death Metal {10/10}
175.
7.
Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
2010 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {9.7/10}
175.
8.
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
1993 --> Death/Doom {9.8/10}
175.
9.
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
1995 --> Avant-garde/Progressive Black Metal {9.78/10}
175.
10.
Apotheosis - Farthest From The Sun
2002 --> Symphonic Black/Thrash Metal {9.75/10}
175.
11.
Slumber - Fallout
2004 --> Extreme Gothic Doom {9.7/10}
175.
12.
Silencer - Death, Pierce Me
2001 --> DSBM {9.66/10}
175.
13.
Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
2007 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {9.6/10}
175.
14.
Zhrine - Unortheta
2016 --> Atmospheric Blackened Disso-Death {9.6/10}
175.
15.
Aspid - Кровоизлияние
1992 --> Technical Thrash {9.5/10}
175.
16.
Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations
2009 --> Avant Garde Metal {9.5/10}
175.
17.
Miasma - Changes
1992 --> Brutal OSDM {9.4/10}
175.
18.
Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal
2001 --> Brutal DM {9.4/10}
175.
19.
Disciples Of Mockery - Prelude To Apocalypse
1999 --> Death/Doom {9.4/10}
175.
20.
Gorement - The Ending Quest
1994 --> Swedeath/Death-Doom {9.4/10}
175.
21.
Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
2016 --> Demilich worship {9.3/10}
175.
22.
Anomalous - Ohmnivalent
2011 --> Tech Death {9.3/10}
175.
23.
Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
1993 --> OSDM {9.3/10}
175.
24.
Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
1995 --> Technical Death Metal {9.3/10}
175.
25.
Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
1996 --> Melodic Black Metal {9.2/10}
175.
26.
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
2017 --> Atmospheric Blackened Death-Doom {9.2/10}
175.
27.
Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
2005 --> Atmospheric Blackened Sludge/Doom {9.1/10}
175.
28.
Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
2007 --> Melodic Tech-Death {9.2/10}
175.
29.
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead
1991 --> Tech Death/Thrash {9.1/10}
175.
30.
Chapel - Satan's Rock 'n' Roll
2012 --> Blackened Speed Metal {9.1/10}
175.
31.
Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia
1993 --> Death/Doom {9.0/10}
175.
32.
Repulsion - Horrified
1989 --> Grindcore {8.9/10}
175.
33.
Unhuman - Unhuman
2013 --> Technical Death Metal {8.9/10}
175.
34.
Dusk - ...Majestic Thou In Ruin
1995 --> Death/Doom {8.9/10}
175.
35.
Children - Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World
2009 --> Progressive Thrash Metal {8.83/10}
175.
36.
Carnage - Dark Recollections
1990 --> Swedeath {8.8/10}
175.
37.
Uncanny - Splenium For Nyktophobia
1994 --> Death {8.8/10}
175.
38.
Grotesque - In The Embrace Of Evil
1996 --> Blackened OSDM {8.8/10}
175.
39.
Infester - To The Depths, In Degradation
1994 --> Brutal OSDM {8.8/10}
175.
40.
Cyaegha - Steps Of Descent
2008 --> Brutal Tech Death (8.7/10}
175.
41.
Woods Of Belial - Deimos XIII
2003 --> Industrial Blackened Doom {8.7/10}
175.
42.
Nazgûl - De Expugnatione Elfmuth
2002 --> Symphonic Black Metal {8.7/10}
175.
43.
Babylon Sad - Kyrie
1992 --> Avant-Garde Death/Doom {8.6/10}
175.
44.
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
1999 --> Progressive Power Metal {8.6/10}
175.
45.
Winter - Into Darkness
1990 --> Death/Doom {8.6/10}
175.
46.
Mastery - Valis
2015 --> Avant Garde Black Metal {8.6/10}
175.
47.
Estuary Of Calamity - The Sentencing
2000 --> Blackened Melodeath {8.5/10}
175.
48.
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
1996 --> Melodic Black Metal {8.5/10}
175.
49.
Plaga - Magia Gwiezdnej Entropii
2013 --> Black Metal {8.5/10}
175.
50.
Dripping - Disintegration Of Thought Patterns During A Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss
2002 --> Avant-Garde Slam {8.4/10}
175.
51.
Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us All
2006 --> Symphonic Gothic Metal {8.4/10}
175.
52.
God Macabre - The Winterlong
1993 --> Swedeath/Death-Doom {8.4/10}
175.
53.
Virvum - Illuminance
2016 --> Tech Death {8.4/10}0
175.
54.
Funebre - Children Of The Scorn
1991 --> OSDM {8.3/10}
175.
55.
Fallen Christ - Abduction Ritual
1996 --> Blackened Death/Deathgrind {8.3/10}
175.
56.
Dark Heresy - Abstract Principles Taken To Their Logical Extremes
1995 --> Avant Garde Death {8.3/10}
175.
57.
Regurgitation (USA - OH) - Tales Of Necrophilia
1999 - Brutal Death Metal {8.3/10}
175.
58.
Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony
2016 --> Meloblack {8.2/10}
175.
59.
Burial (NED) - Relinquished Souls
1993 --> OSDM {8.2/10}
175.
60.
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
2014 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {8.0/10}
175.
61.
Vemod - Venter På Stormene
2012 --> Black Metal {8.0/10}
175.
62.
After Oblivion - Stamina
2012 --> Greta van Schuldiner {7.8/10}
175.
63.
Gammacide - Victims Of Science
1989 --> Thrash Metal {7.7/10}
175.
64.
Kublai Khan - Annihilation
1987 --> Thrash Metal {7.5/10}
175.
65.
Nexus Clandestine - Church Of The Poison Mind
2014 --> Doom/Sludge {7.5/10}
175.
66.
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
1993 --> Brutal Death Metal {7.1/10}
175.
67.
Inverloch - Distance Collapsed
2016 --> Death/Doom {6.9/10}
175.
68.
Litham - Dhal Ennar
1999 --> Death Metal - Blackened DM {6.6/10}
175.
69.
Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
1994 --> Funeral Doom {6.4/10}
175.
70.
Beautiful Sin - The Unexpected
2006 --> Heavy Metal {6.3/10}
175.
71.
Forest Silence - Philosophy Of Winter
2006 --> Ambient Black Metal {6.2/10}
175.
72.
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
2009 --> Black Metal/Blackgaze {6.1/10}
175.
73.
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175.
74.
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175.
75.
Banished - Deliver Me Unto Pain
1993 --> BDM {/10}
175.
76.
Broken Torso - The Ultimate Abhorrence
2000 --> Brutal Death Metal {/10}
175.
77.
Byatis - In Dark Abysses Of Memory
2003 --> Tech BDM {/10}
175.
78.
Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity
1992 --> Brutal OSDM {/10}
175.
79.
Rotting - Crushed
1998 --> BDM/Grind {/10}
175.
80.
Iniquitous Deeds - Incessant Hallucinations
2015 --> Brutal Dissodeath {/10}
175.
81.
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175.
82.
Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary
2004 --> Progressive Heavy Metal {/10}
175.
83.
Kalisia - Cybion
2009 --> Progressive Extreme Metal {/10}
175.
84.
Koyaanisqatsy - From The Yearning To Burst The Perpetual Circle
2000 --> Progressive Symphonic Metal {/10}
175.
85.
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175.
86.
Aeternum Vale - Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
2013 --> Melodic Black Metal {/10}
175.
87.
Conqueror - Fallen Angel
2007 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
88.
The Everdawn - Poems - Burn The Past
1997 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
89.
The Moaning - Blood From Stone
1997 --> Melodeath/Meloblack {/10}
175.
90.
Odium Immortalis - Die Schönheit Der Einsamkeit
2004 --> Meloblack {/10}
175.
91.
Vörnagar - The Bleeding Holocaust
2005 --> Technical Melodeath {/10}
175.
92.
Utopia Banished - Night of the Black Wyvern
2002 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
93.
Asgard (Slovenia) The Army of the Sea - 2007 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
94.
Disinterment (US) - Endless
1997 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
95.
A Mind Confused - Anarchos
1997 --> Blackened Melodeath {/10}
175.
96.
MI'gauss - Open Season
2003 --> Melodeath {/10}
175.
97.
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175.
98.
Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament
2008 --> Funeral Doom {/10}
175.
99.
Decomposed - Hope Finally Died...
1993 --> Death Doom {/10}
175.
100.
Derkéta - In Death We Meet
2012 --> Death/Doom {/10}
175.
101.
Scald - Will Of Gods Is A Great Power
1996 --> Epic Doom {/10}
175.
102.
Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom
1989 --> Death Doom {/10}
175.
103.
Swallowed - Lunarterial
2014 --> Death/Doom {/10}
175.
104.
Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh
1994 --> Death Doom {/10}
175.
105.
Sacriphyx - The Western Front
2013 --> Blackened Death/Doom {/10}
175.
106.
Sororicide - The Entity
1991 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
175.
107.
Asgard (Ukraine) - Hunting the Shadow
2009 --> Gothic Doom {/10}
175.
108.
Asgard (Mexico) - Of Prophesys & Dragons
1993 --> Death/Doom {/10}
175.
109.
Delirium - Zzooouhh
1990 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
175.
110.
Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
1996 --> Death/thrash/Doom {/10}
175.
111.
Internment - Mutilated Reality
1995 --> OSDM/Doom {/10}
175.
112.
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175.
113.
Death Power - The Bogeyman
1990 --> Thrash Metal {/10}
175.
114.
Overthrow - Within Suffering
1990 --> Death/Thrash {/10}
175.
115.
Slaughter - Strappado
1987 --> Death/Thrash {/10}
175.
116.
Violent Force - Malevolent Assault Of Tomorrow
1987 --> Thrash Metal {/10}
175.
117.
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
2000 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
118.
Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness
2006 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
119.
Aasgard - Ravens Hymns Foreshadows The End
2010 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
120.
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds...
2009 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
121.
Desecrator (US) - A Mind Is A Terrible Thing
1991 --> Thrash {/10}
175.
122.
Dessacrator - The Thrash Is Out There
2003 --> Thrash {/10}
175.
123.
Asgard (Brazil) - Life and Suffer
1995 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
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175.
125.
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175.
126.
Betray My Secrets - Betray My Secrets
1999 --> Gothic Folk {/10}
175.
127.
Dol Theeta - The Universe Expands
2008 --> Symphonic Metal {/10}
175.
128.
Fimbulwinter - Servants Of Sorcery
1994 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
129.
Gjallarhorn - Nordheim
2005 --> Viking Metal {/10}
175.
130.
Hinsidig - I En Tidløs Høst
--> Atmoblack {/10}
175.
131.
Horde - Hellig Usvart
1994 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
132.
Immortalis - Indicium De Mortuis
1991 --> OSDM {/10}
175.
133.
Midvinter - At The Sight Of The Apocalypse Dragon
1997 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
134.
Molested - Blod-Draum
1995 --> Blackened OSDM {/10}
175.
135.
Mortal Decay - Incarnated Souls Rebirth
1998 --> Black Death Metal {/10}
175.
136.
Murmuüre - Murmuüre
2010 --> Atmospheric Black Metal {/10}
175.
137.
Odium (NOR) - The Sad Realm Of The Stars
1998 --> Symphonic BM {/10}
175.
138.
S.V.E.S.T. - Urfaust
2003 --> Experimental Black Metal {/10}
175.
139.
Selvhat - Gjennom mørket famlende
2008 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
140.
Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader
2009 --> Atmoblack {/10}
175.
141.
Triumphator - Wings Of Antichrist
1999 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
142.
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175.
143.
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
2007 --> Deathgrind {/10}
175.
144.
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
2014 --> Blackened Death {/10}
175.
145.
Experiment Fear - Assuming The Godform
1995 --> OSDM {/10}
175.
146.
Tyrant Trooper - Insane Sickness
1995 --> OSDM {/10}
175.
147.
Innsmouth - Consumed By Elder Sign
2014 --> Blackened Death {/10}
175.
148.
Vomiturition - A Leftover
1995 --> Death {/10}
175.
149.
Armoured Angel - Angel Of The Sixth Order
1999 --> Death/thrash {/10}
175.
150.
Asgard (France) - To a Golden Age
1996 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
151.
Asgard (Neth) - In The Ancient Days
1986 --> Speed Metal {/10}
175.
152.
Asgard (GER) - Cry With Pain
1994 --> Thrash {/10}
175.
153.
Asgard (GER) - Dark Horizons
1988 --> Speed Metal {/10}
175.
154.
Asgard (Canada) - Cold Season
2001 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
155.
Asgard (Spain) - The Splendor Of The Cold Age
1995 --> Black Metal {/10}
175.
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175.
157.
Asgard (GER) - Out Of Control
1994 --> Heavy Metal {/10}
175.
158.
Asgard (Spain) - Tierra De Dioses
2009 --> Heavy Metal {/10}
175.
159.
Desecrator (US) - Die for You... Dead Without You
2004 --> USPM {/10}
175.
160.
Asgard (Cuba) - Oblivion
2011 --> Symphonic Power Metal {/10}
175.
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175.
162.
Asgard (Belgium) - In To War
1997 --> Viking Metal {/10}
175.
163.
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175.
164.
Desecrator (UK) - Subconscious Release
1991 --> OSDM (/10}
175.
165.
Desecrator (UK) - Link's Retribution
1991 --> OSDM (/10}
175.
166.
Disinter - Hell Gate
2005 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
167.
Disinter (Mex) - Depths Of Existence
1996 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
168.
Impaler - Charnel Deity
1992 --> OSDM {/10}
175.
169.
Bloodsoaked - Frost Image
1993 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
170.
Lepra (US) - Leprosos satánicos
1995 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
171.
Misdeed - Diabolism
1993 --> Death Metal {/10}
175.
172.
Megaslaughter - Calls From The Beyond
1991 --> OSDM {/10}
175.
173.
Evil Army - Evil Army
2006
175.
174.
Niflheim (CAN) - Neurasthénie
2006
175.
175.
Fjords - Onirica
2019 --> Progressive death metal {/10}
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As it stands - Fjords.

https://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=25904

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Written by Languedocian on 29.11.2024 at 22:13

As it stands - Fjords.

https://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=25904

A shame!

thanks for the rec! I'm going to need to get back to this massive undertaking one of these days haha
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Written by sgtrobo on 01.12.2024 at 20:40

Written by Languedocian on 29.11.2024 at 22:13

As it stands - Fjords.

https://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=25904

A shame!

thanks for the rec! I'm going to need to get back to this massive undertaking one of these days haha

It's a great list, mate - I've been exploring it and discovering some corkers!
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Endlesshade - Wolf Will Swallow the Sun
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Gotta love that Timeghoul
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