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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: 27 March 2024.

Created by: Qualeen | 30.09.2021


1. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
2. Agalloch - The Mantle
3. Opeth - Blackwater Park
4. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
6. Dream Theater - Images And Words
7. Wintersun - Wintersun
8. Vital Remains - Dechristianize
9. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
10. Batushka - Litourgiya
11. Death - Human
12. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
13. Opeth - Still Life
14. Immolation - Close To A World Below
15. Death - Symbolic
16. Summoning - Stronghold
17. Judas Priest - Painkiller
18. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
19. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
20. Opeth - Morningrise
21. Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
22. Isis - Panopticon
23. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
24. Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth
25. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
26. Dio - Holy Diver
27. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
28. Isis - Oceanic
29. Summoning - Oath Bound
30. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
31. Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance
32. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
33. Carcass - Heartwork
34. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
35. Mgła - Exercises In Futility
36. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
37. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
38. Meshuggah - Nothing
particularly, the 2006 re-release
39. Rainbow - Rising
40. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
41. Forefather - Steadfast
42. Slayer - Reign In Blood
43. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
44. Witcher - Lélekharang
45. Antestor - The Forsaken
46. Dissection - The Somberlain
47. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
48. Dream Theater - Awake
49. Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon
50. Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upøn
51. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
52. Strapping Young Lad - City
53. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
54. Therion - Theli
55. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
56. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
57. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
58. Septicflesh - Communion
59. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
60. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
61. Taake - ...Doedskvad
62. Disentomb - Misery
63. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
64. Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk
65. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
66. Behemoth - The Satanist
67. Entombed - Left Hand Path
68. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
69. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
70. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
71. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
72. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
73. Acranius - Reign Of Terror
74. Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays
75. Nothingness - Supraliminal
76. Avatarium - Avatarium
77. Heavenly - Virus
78. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
79. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
80. Dark Forest (CAN) - Aurora Borealis
81. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
82. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
83. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
84. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
85. Eximperitus - Šahrartu
86. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
87. Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule
88. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
89. Sodom - Agent Orange
90. Vader - Impressions In Blood
91. Crimson Glory - Transcendence
92. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
93. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
94. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
95. Menhir - Thuringia
96. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void
97. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
98. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin
referring to the LP, of course, not the single to which the link redirects
99. Hath - All That Was Promised
100. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
101. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
102. Analepsy - Atrocities From Beyond
103. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
104. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
105. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
106. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
107. Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
108. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
109. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
110. Vintersorg - Till Fjälls
111. Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
112. Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
113. Overkill - The Years Of Decay
114. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
115. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
116. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
117. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
118. Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
119. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
120. Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
121. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
122. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
123. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
124. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
125. Kalmah - Swampsong
126. Vader - Tibi Et Igni
127. Meshuggah - Koloss
128. Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm
129. Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread
130. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
131. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
132. Gorguts - Obscura
133. Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity
134. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
135. Overkill - Horrorscope
136. Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
137. Megadeth - Endgame
138. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
139. Cynic - Focus
140. Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down
141. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
142. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
143. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
144. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
145. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
146. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
147. Behemoth - Evangelion
148. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
149. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
150. Taake - ...Bjoergvin...
151. Immolation - Majesty And Decay
152. Mgła - Age Of Excuse
153. Be'lakor - Vessels
154. Agalloch - Pale Folklore
155. Slayer - South Of Heaven
156. Wintersun - Time I
157. Behemoth - Demigod
158. Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime
159. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
160. Disentomb - The Decaying Light
161. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore
162. Burzum - Filosofem
163. Antestor - The Return Of The Black Death
164. Windir - 1184
165. Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
166. Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
167. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
168. Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
169. Testament - The Gathering
170. In The Woods... - Heart Of The Ages
171. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
172. Archgoat - Whore Of Bethlehem
173. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
174. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
175. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
176. Mastodon - Leviathan
177. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
178. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
179. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
180. Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
181. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
182. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
183. Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
184. Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
185. Moonspell - Wolfheart
186. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
187. Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
188. Carnage - Dark Recollections
189. Immolation - Atonement
190. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
191. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
192. Sodom - Persecution Mania
193. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
194. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
195. Necrophagist - Epitaph
196. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
197. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
198. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
199. Vulvodynia - Psychosadistic Design
200. Eluveitie - Slania
201. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
202. Summoning - Minas Morgul
203. Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
204. Overkill - The Electric Age
205. Facelift Deformation - Dominating The Extermination
206. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
207. Opeth - Damnation
208. Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
209. Vomitory - Blood Rapture
210. Heathen - Victims Of Deception
211. Týr - Valkyrja
212. Devourment - Obscene Majesty
213. Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide
214. Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
215. Mithotyn - King Of The Distant Forest
216. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
217. Gaerea - Mirage
218. Shadow Of Intent - Reclaimer
219. Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
220. Inferi - Vile Genesis
221. Undeath - It's Time​.​.​.To Rise From The Grave
222. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
223. Summoning - Dol Guldur
224. Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
225. Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition
226. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
227. Gorguts - Considered Dead
228. Ensiferum - Iron
229. Belphegor - Lucifer Incestus
230. Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
231. Rothadás - Kopár Hant​.​.​. Az Alvilág Felé
232. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
233. Immolation - Here In After
234. Shining - V - Halmstad
235. Monstrosity - In Dark Purity
236. Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
237. Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
238. Azarath - Blasphemers' Maledictions
239. Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
240. Batushka - Panihida
241. Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
242. Thulcandra - A Dying Wish
243. Decapitated - Nihility
244. Hypocrisy - Abducted
245. Hate - Auric Gates Of Veles
246. HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings
247. Immolation - Acts Of God
248. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
249. Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
250. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
251. Gorgoroth - Antichrist
252. Hypocrisy - Worship
253. Gates Of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
254. King Of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr
255. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
256. Shadow Of Intent - Elegy
257. Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification Of Lucifer
258. Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
259. Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
260. Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
261. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
262. Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
263. Kypck - Черно
264. Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
265. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
266. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
267. Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
268. Eternal Rot - Cadaverine
269. Heidevolk - Walhalla Wacht
270. Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
271. Mors Principium Est - Seven
272. Heol Telwen - An Deiz Ruz
273. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
274. Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold
275. Grymheart - Hellish Hunt


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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30.09.2021 - 18:52
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
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Awesome list! Lots of my favorites here too!
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30.09.2021 - 18:59
Qualeen
Written by F3ynman2000 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.
[Meshuggah]
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30.09.2021 - 19:03
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
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Written by Qualeen on 30.09.2021 at 18:59

Written by F3ynman2000 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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30.09.2021 - 21:26
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by F3ynman2000 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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01.10.2021 - 01:57
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
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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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01.10.2021 - 01:59
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Roman Doez on 30.09.2021 at 21:26

Written by F3ynman2000 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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01.10.2021 - 02:04
Qualeen
Written by F3ynman2000 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
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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.
[Meshuggah]
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01.10.2021 - 02:07
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
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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