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September 30, 2021
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Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 24 Jan 2026.
284.
1.
Dream Theater - Images And Words
284.
2.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
284.
3.
Wintersun - Wintersun
284.
4.
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
284.
5.
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
284.
6.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
284.
7.
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
284.
8.
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
284.
9.
Batushka - Litourgiya
284.
10.
Opeth - Still Life
284.
11.
Isis - Panopticon
284.
12.
Agalloch - The Mantle
284.
13.
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
284.
14.
Immolation - Close To A World Below
284.
15.
Isis - Oceanic
284.
16.
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
284.
17.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
284.
18.
Death - Human
284.
19.
Summoning - Stronghold
284.
20.
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
284.
21.
Judas Priest - Painkiller
284.
22.
Opeth - Morningrise
284.
23.
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
284.
24.
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
284.
25.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
284.
26.
Death - Symbolic
284.
27.
Dio - Holy Diver
284.
28.
Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth
284.
29.
Summoning - Oath Bound
284.
30.
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
284.
31.
Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance
284.
32.
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
284.
33.
Carcass - Heartwork
284.
34.
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
284.
35.
Mgła - Exercises In Futility
284.
36.
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
284.
37.
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
284.
38.
Meshuggah - Nothing
particularly, the 2006 re-release
284.
39.
Rainbow - Rising
284.
40.
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
284.
41.
Slayer - Reign In Blood
284.
42.
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
284.
43.
Witcher - Lélekharang
284.
44.
Antestor - The Forsaken
284.
45.
Dissection - The Somberlain
284.
46.
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
284.
47.
Dream Theater - Awake
284.
48.
Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon
284.
49.
Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upøn
284.
50.
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
284.
51.
Strapping Young Lad - City
284.
52.
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
284.
53.
Iron Savior - Battering Ram
284.
54.
Therion - Theli
284.
55.
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
284.
56.
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
284.
57.
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
284.
58.
Septicflesh - Communion
284.
59.
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
284.
60.
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
284.
61.
Taake - ...Doedskvad
284.
62.
Disentomb - Misery
284.
63.
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
284.
64.
Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk
284.
65.
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
284.
66.
Behemoth - The Satanist
284.
67.
Entombed - Left Hand Path
284.
68.
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
284.
69.
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
284.
70.
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
284.
71.
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
284.
72.
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
284.
73.
Acranius - Reign Of Terror
284.
74.
Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays
284.
75.
Nothingness - Supraliminal
284.
76.
Avatarium - Avatarium
284.
77.
Heavenly - Virus
284.
78.
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
284.
79.
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
284.
80.
Dark Forest (CAN) - Aurora Borealis
284.
81.
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
284.
82.
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
284.
83.
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
284.
84.
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
284.
85.
Eximperitus - Šahrartu
284.
86.
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
284.
87.
Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
284.
88.
Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule
284.
89.
Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
284.
90.
Sodom - Agent Orange
284.
91.
Vader - Impressions In Blood
284.
92.
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
284.
93.
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
284.
94.
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
284.
95.
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
284.
96.
Menhir - Thuringia
284.
97.
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void
284.
98.
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
284.
99.
Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin
referring to the LP, of course, not the single to which the link redirects
284.
100.
Hath - All That Was Promised
284.
101.
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
284.
102.
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen
284.
103.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
284.
104.
Analepsy - Atrocities From Beyond
284.
105.
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
284.
106.
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
284.
107.
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
284.
108.
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
284.
109.
Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
284.
110.
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
284.
111.
Vintersorg - Till Fjälls
284.
112.
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
284.
113.
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
284.
114.
Overkill - The Years Of Decay
284.
115.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
284.
116.
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
284.
117.
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
284.
118.
Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
284.
119.
Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
284.
120.
Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
284.
121.
Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
284.
122.
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
284.
123.
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
284.
124.
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
284.
125.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
284.
126.
Kalmah - Swampsong
284.
127.
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
284.
128.
Meshuggah - Koloss
284.
129.
Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm
284.
130.
Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread
284.
131.
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
284.
132.
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
284.
133.
Gorguts - Obscura
284.
134.
Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity
284.
135.
Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
284.
136.
Overkill - Horrorscope
284.
137.
Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
284.
138.
Megadeth - Endgame
284.
139.
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
284.
140.
Cynic - Focus
284.
141.
Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down
284.
142.
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
284.
143.
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
284.
144.
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
284.
145.
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
284.
146.
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
284.
147.
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
284.
148.
Behemoth - Evangelion
284.
149.
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
284.
150.
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
284.
151.
Taake - ...Bjoergvin...
284.
152.
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
284.
153.
Mgła - Age Of Excuse
284.
154.
Be'lakor - Vessels
284.
155.
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
284.
156.
Slayer - South Of Heaven
284.
157.
Wintersun - Time I
284.
158.
Behemoth - Demigod
284.
159.
Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime
284.
160.
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
284.
161.
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
284.
162.
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore
284.
163.
Burzum - Filosofem
284.
164.
Antestor - The Return Of The Black Death
284.
165.
Windir - 1184
284.
166.
Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
284.
167.
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
284.
168.
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
284.
169.
Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
284.
170.
Testament - The Gathering
284.
171.
In The Woods... - Heart Of The Ages
284.
172.
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
284.
173.
Archgoat - Whore Of Bethlehem
284.
174.
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
284.
175.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
284.
176.
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
284.
177.
Mastodon - Leviathan
284.
178.
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
284.
179.
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
284.
180.
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
284.
181.
Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
284.
182.
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
284.
183.
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
284.
184.
Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
284.
185.
Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
284.
186.
Moonspell - Wolfheart
284.
187.
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
284.
188.
Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
284.
189.
Carnage - Dark Recollections
284.
190.
Immolation - Atonement
284.
191.
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
284.
192.
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
284.
193.
Sodom - Persecution Mania
284.
194.
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
284.
195.
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
284.
196.
Necrophagist - Epitaph
284.
197.
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
284.
198.
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
284.
199.
Vulvodynia - Psychosadistic Design
284.
200.
Eluveitie - Slania
284.
201.
Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
284.
202.
Summoning - Minas Morgul
284.
203.
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
284.
204.
Overkill - The Electric Age
284.
205.
Facelift Deformation - Dominating The Extermination
284.
206.
Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
284.
207.
Opeth - Damnation
284.
208.
Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
284.
209.
Vomitory - Blood Rapture
284.
210.
Heathen - Victims Of Deception
284.
211.
Devourment - Obscene Majesty
284.
212.
Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide
284.
213.
Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
284.
214.
Mithotyn - King Of The Distant Forest
284.
215.
Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia
284.
216.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
284.
217.
Gaerea - Mirage
284.
218.
Shadow Of Intent - Reclaimer
284.
219.
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
284.
220.
Undeath - It's Time​.​.​.To Rise From The Grave
284.
221.
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
284.
222.
Summoning - Dol Guldur
284.
223.
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
284.
224.
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
284.
225.
Gorguts - Considered Dead
284.
226.
Ensiferum - Iron
284.
227.
Belphegor - Lucifer Incestus
284.
228.
Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
284.
229.
Rothadás - Kopár Hant​.​.​. Az Alvilág Felé
284.
230.
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
284.
231.
Immolation - Here In After
284.
232.
Shining - V - Halmstad
284.
233.
Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
284.
234.
Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
284.
235.
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
284.
236.
Azarath - Blasphemers' Maledictions
284.
237.
Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
284.
238.
Batushka - Panihida
284.
239.
Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
284.
240.
Thulcandra - A Dying Wish
284.
241.
Decapitated - Nihility
284.
242.
Hypocrisy - Abducted
284.
243.
Hate - Auric Gates Of Veles
284.
244.
HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings
284.
245.
Immolation - Acts Of God
284.
246.
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
284.
247.
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
284.
248.
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
284.
249.
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
284.
250.
Hypocrisy - Worship
284.
251.
Gates Of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
284.
252.
King Of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr
284.
253.
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
284.
254.
Shadow Of Intent - Elegy
284.
255.
Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification Of Lucifer
284.
256.
Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
284.
257.
Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
284.
258.
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
284.
259.
Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
284.
260.
Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
284.
261.
Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
284.
262.
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
284.
263.
Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
284.
264.
Eternal Rot - Cadaverine
284.
265.
Heidevolk - Walhalla Wacht
284.
266.
Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
284.
267.
Mors Principium Est - Seven
284.
268.
Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
284.
269.
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
284.
270.
Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
284.
271.
Grymheart - Hellish Hunt
284.
272.
Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
284.
273.
Defeated Sanity - Chronicles Of Lunacy
284.
274.
Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
284.
275.
Disgorge - Parallels Of Infinite Torture
284.
276.
Gamma Ray - No World Order
284.
277.
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
284.
278.
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
284.
279.
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift In Reality
284.
280.
Diphenylchloroarsine - Subterranean Existential Warfare
284.
281.
Mental Cruelty - Purgatorium
284.
282.
Opeth - Orchid
284.
283.
In Flames - Colony
284.
284.
In Flames - Whoracle
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Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!
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Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Thank you very much man! Just updated it for the first time and I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now
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So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
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Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Thank you very much man! Just updated it for the first time and I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

Nice
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Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Man, under every top 100 list I see a comment by you, it's unreal
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My favorite albums of all time
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Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

"So that was a f*cking lie"
just kidding - keep those albums coming!
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Written by Roman Doez on 30.09.2021 at 21:26

Written by F3ynman on 30.09.2021 at 18:52

Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!

Man, under every top 100 list I see a comment by you, it's unreal

Yeah I try to check out every corner of this site and share my thoughts... who knows - maybe one day I'll have as many posts as Bad English
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Written by F3ynman on 01.10.2021 at 01:57

Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

I somehow magically ended up at 100 albums, so I think I'll keep it this way for now

"So that was a f*cking lie"
just kidding - keep those albums coming!

Well... .... ....I mean, you know, okay, look. I was at 100, but then I remembered there was that one more album, and I asked myself, do I wanna go up to 101? Yes! But it needs to be a nice number then, what the hell is 101? Let's make it 110 - I have many others in mind anyway. Then I kept going until I was at 137. And I thought to myself "Man... I'm gonna look for 3 more throughout the darkest corners of my memory, because it has to end with a -0. And thus, we are now at 140, and I would say "c'est fini", but frankly I don't know if it is
----
So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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Written by Qualeen on 01.10.2021 at 02:04


Well... .... ....I mean, you know, okay, look. I was at 100, but then I remembered there was that one more album, and I asked myself, do I wanna go up to 101? Yes! But it needs to be a nice number then, what the hell is 101? Let's make it 110 - I have many others in mind anyway. Then I kept going until I was at 137. And I thought to myself "Man... I'm gonna look for 3 more throughout the darkest corners of my memory, because it has to end with a -0. And thus, we are now at 140, and I would say "c'est fini", but frankly I don't know if it is

No worries - the more albums, the better
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