Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

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Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

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A list by
Wildebean
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April 05, 2023
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This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly

To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative Metal" by MS. So for example the three most recent Gojira albums count, but early Gojira does not.

The band must have more than 10 fans on MS

Therefore this is not a reflection of my opinions, rather a reflection of numbers so if you wanna get mad, get mad at the numbers, not me. And remember that this really isn't that serious
200.
1.
Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction
1999
200.
2.
Tool - Lateralus
2001
200.
3.
The Butterfly Effect - IV
2022
200.
4.
Tool - Aenima
1996
200.
5.
Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix
2006
200.
6.
Dirty Shirt - Freak Show
2013
200.
7.
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
2009
200.
8.
System Of A Down - Toxicity
2001
200.
9.
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
1992
200.
10.
Faith No More - Angel Dust
1992
200.
11.
Tool - 10,000 Days
2006
200.
12.
Soen - Lotus
2019
200.
13.
The Butterfly Effect - Begins Here
2003
200.
14.
Karnivool - Sound Awake
2009
200.
15.
Faith No More - The Real Thing
1989
200.
16.
Dredg - El Cielo
2002
200.
17.
Sepultura - Chaos A.D
1993
200.
18.
Agent Fresco - A Long Time Listening
2010
200.
19.
Agent Fresco - Destrier
2015
200.
20.
Soen - Lykaia
2017
200.
21.
Caligula’s Horse - In Contact
2017
200.
22.
Mass Hysteria - De cercle en cercle
2001
200.
23.
Rishloo - Feathergun
2009
200.
24.
Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2008
200.
25.
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
1996
200.
26.
Chevelle - Wonder What’s Next
2002
200.
27.
Fair To Midland - Fables From A Mayfly
2007
200.
28.
Nothingface - Skeletons
2003
200.
29.
Primus - Frizzle Fry
1990
200.
30.
Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
1991
200.
31.
In Flames - Clayman
2000
200.
32.
Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire
2007
200.
33.
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
2011
200.
34.
Karnivool - Themata
2005
200.
35.
Caligula’s Horse - Bloom
2015
200.
36.
Rishloo - Eidolon
2007
200.
37.
Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
2011
200.
38.
Faith No More - King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime
1995
200.
39.
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
2003
200.
40.
Deftones - White Pony
2000
200.
41.
Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
2011
200.
42.
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
2005
200.
43.
Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go
1997
200.
44.
Trivium - Shogun
2008
200.
45.
White Zombie - AstroCreep 2000
1995
200.
46.
Hunter - HellWood
2009
200.
47.
Therapy? - Troublegum
1994
200.
48.
Maximum The Hormone - Buiikikaesu
2007
200.
49.
Ghost Brigade - IV: One With The Storm
2014
200.
50.
Soen - Tellurian
2014
200.
51.
Caligula’s Horse - The Tide, The Thief & River’s End
2013
200.
52.
Mass Hysteria - L'Armée Des Ombres
2012
200.
53.
Stam1na - Uudet Kymmenen Käskyä
2006
200.
54.
Gojira - L’Enfant Sauvage
2012
200.
55.
Dir En Grey - Vulgar
2003
200.
56.
Clawfinger - Use Your Brain
1995
200.
57.
Klone - Le Grand Voyage
2019
200.
58.
Dirty Shirt - Dirtylicious
2015
200.
59.
Nothingface - Violence
2000
200.
60.
Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence
2017
200.
61.
Helmet - Meantime
1992
200.
62.
Profane Omen - Beaten Into Submission
2006
200.
63.
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
1998
200.
64.
Soen - Imperial
2021
200.
65.
System Of A Down - Mesmerize
2005
200.
66.
Stam1na - Stam1na
2005
200.
67.
Wheel - Moving Backwards
2019
200.
68.
Dir En Grey - Gauze
1999
200.
69.
Dir En Grey - Arche
2014
200.
70.
Marriages - Salome
2015
200.
71.
Klone - The Dreamer’s Hideaway
2012
200.
72.
Fu Manchu - King Of The Road
1999
200.
73.
Helmet - Betty
1994
200.
74.
Primus - Pork Soda
1993
200.
75.
Hunter - Medeis
2003
200.
76.
Maximum The Hormone - Yoshu Fukushu
2013
200.
77.
Tool - Undertow
1993
200.
78.
Soen - Cognitive
2012
200.
79.
System Of A Down - System Of A Down
1998
200.
80.
Stam1na - Viimeinen Atlantis
2010
200.
81.
Mother Of Millions - Sigma
2017
200.
82.
Clawfinger - Deaf Dumb Blind
1993
200.
83.
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Norns
2000
200.
84.
Klone - Black Days
2010
200.
85.
Deftones - Around The Fur
1997
200.
86.
Fu Manchu - California Crossing
2001
200.
87.
Raunchy - Confusion Bay
2004
200.
88.
Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
2021
200.
89.
Hunter - T.E.L.I…
2005
200.
90.
Waltari - Torcha!
1992
200.
91.
Waltari - So Fine!
1994
200.
92.
Waltari - Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die! Death Metal Symphony In Deep C
1996
200.
93.
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
2000
200.
94.
Ravenscry - One Way Out
2011
200.
95.
Tool - Fear Inoculum
2019
200.
96.
Caligula’s Horse - Moments From Ephemeral City
2011
200.
97.
Caligula’s Horse - Rise Radiant
2020
200.
98.
The Butterfly Effect - Final Conversation Of Kings
2008
200.
99.
Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth
2014
200.
100.
Static-X - Project Regeneration Vol. 1
2020
200.
101.
Head Control System - Murder Nature
2006
200.
102.
Dir En Grey - Withering To Death
2005
200.
103.
Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
1999
200.
104.
Clawfinger - Clawfinger
1997
200.
105.
Klone - Here Comes The Sun
2015
200.
106.
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2010
200.
107.
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2012
200.
108.
Fu Manchu - In Search Of…
1996
200.
109.
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
2006
200.
110.
Stone Sour - House Of Gold & Bones Part 1
2012
200.
111.
Helmet - Strap It On
1990
200.
112.
Helmet - Aftertaste
1997
200.
113.
Godsmack - Faceless
2003
200.
114.
Karnivool - Asymmetry
2013
200.
115.
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
2005
200.
116.
Mass Hysteria - Maniac
2018
200.
117.
Gojira - Magma
2016
200.
118.
Gojira - Fortitude
2021
200.
119.
Mother Of Millions - Human
2014
200.
120.
Eden Circus - Marula
2014
200.
121.
Clawfinger - Zeros & Heroes
2003
200.
122.
Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
2008
200.
123.
Misery Loves Co. - Your Vision Was Never Mine To Share
2000
200.
124.
Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes
2009
200.
125.
Raunchy – Wasteland Discotheque (2008)
200.
126.
Trivium - Ascendency
2005
200.
127.
Slipknot - Iowa
2001
200.
128.
Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
2013
200.
129.
Waltari - Rare Species
2004
200.
130.
Waltari - Below Zero
2009
200.
131.
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1
1992
200.
132.
Profane Omen - Inherit The Void
2009
200.
133.
Therapy? - Cleave
2018
200.
134.
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
2016
200.
135.
Sevendust - Animosity
2001
200.
136.
Skindred - Babylon
2002
200.
137.
Sepultura - Quadra
2020
200.
138.
Wheel - Resident Human
2021
200.
139.
Dir En Grey - Macabre
2000
200.
140.
Dir En Grey - 鬼葬
2002
200.
141.
Mother Of Millions - Artifacts
2019
200.
142.
Clawfinger - A Whole Lot Of Nothing
2001
200.
143.
Scars On Broadway - Dictator
2018
200.
144.
Faith No More - Album Of The Year
1997
200.
145.
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
2018
200.
146.
Hacride - Back To Where You’ve Never Been
2013
200.
147.
Misery Loves Co. - Not Like Them
1997
200.
148.
Deftones - Ohms
2020
200.
149.
Fu Manchu - Clone Of The Universe
2018
200.
150.
Stone Sour - House Of Gold & Bones Part 2
2013
200.
151.
Trivium - What The Dead Men Say
2020
200.
152.
Slipknot - Slipknot
1999
200.
153.
Nero Di Marte - Derivae
2014
200.
154.
Waltari - Big Bang
1995
200.
155.
Waltari - Space Avenue
1997
200.
156.
The Offering - Home
2019
200.
157.
Life Of Agony - Ugly
1995
200.
158.
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
2001
200.
159.
Gwar - War Party
2004
200.
160.
Otep - Sevas Tra
2002
200.
161.
Otep - Atavist
2011
200.
162.
Disturbed - Indestructible
2008
200.
163.
The Butterfly Effect - Imago
2006
200.
164.
Stam1na - Raja
2008
200.
165.
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
1996
200.
166.
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
2015
200.
167.
Klone - All Seeing Eye
2008
200.
168.
Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
2004
200.
169.
Chevelle - La Gárgola
2014
200.
170.
Chevelle - NIRATIAS
2021
200.
171.
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
2009
200.
172.
Fu Manchu - We Must Obey
2007
200.
173.
Raunchy - Death Pop Romance
2006
200.
174.
Nothingface - An Audio Guide To Everyday Atrocity
1998
200.
175.
Quorthon - Album
1994
200.
176.
Profane Omen - Destroy!
2011
200.
177.
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
2004
200.
178.
Waltari - Blood Sample
2005
200.
179.
Pitchshifter - Www.pitchshifter.com
1998
200.
180.
Therapy? - Infernal Love
1995
200.
181.
The Haunted - Strength In Numbers
2017
200.
182.
Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
2013
200.
183.
Gwar - Scumdogs Of The Universe
1990
200.
184.
Gwar - Violence Has Arrived
2001
200.
185.
Godsmack - Awake
2000
200.
186.
Sevendust - Cold Day Memory
2010
200.
187.
In This Moment - A Star Crossed Wasteland
2010
200.
188.
Amaranthe - Amaranthe
2011
200.
189.
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
2005
200.
190.
System Of A Down - Steal This Album
2002
200.
191.
Dir En Grey - The Marrow Of A Bone
2007
200.
192.
Clawfinger - Life Will Kill You
2007
200.
193.
Misery Loves Co. - Zero
2019
200.
194.
Chevelle - Vena Sera
2007
200.
195.
Chevelle - Hats Off To The Bull
2011
200.
196.
Chevelle - The Great North Corridor
2016
200.
197.
Dredg - Leitmotif
1998
200.
198.
Fu Manchu - Daredevil
1995
200.
199.
Fu Manchu - Eatin’ Dust
1999
200.
200.
Fu Manchu - Gigantoid
2014
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