Top 250 Metal Releases Of All Time

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Top 250 Metal Releases Of All Time

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Here’s my list of what I consider to be the best metal albums (+2 compilations and like 2 demo I think) of all time.
Enjoy!

Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater, Converge, The Chasm
4 times: La Torture Des Ténèbres, Boris, Mekong Delta, Defeated Sanity, Iron Maiden
3 times: Windir, Vektor, Darkspace, Paysage D'Hiver, Dolorian, Esoteric, Immolation, Morbid Angel, Opeth, Dying Fetus, Brodequin, Megadeth
2 times: Dissection, Ulver, Bolt Thrower, Urfaust, Afterbirth, Deathspell Omega, Burzum, Cult Of Luna, Suffocation, Absu, Pan.Thy.Monium, Voivod, Volahn, Krallice, Carnival In Coal, Akitsa, Naked City, Neurosis
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1.
Windir - Arntor
🇳🇴 Melodic black metal, 1999. 10/10. Standouts: every single song.
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Sigh - In Somniphobia
🇯🇵 Avant-garde metal, 2012. 10/10. Standouts: “Purgatorium”, “The Transfiguration Fear”, “Amongst The Phantoms Of Abandoned Tumbrils”, “Equale”.
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3.
Vektor - Terminal Redux
🇺🇸 Progressive thrash metal, 2016. 10/10. Standouts: “Charging The Void”, “LCD (Liquid Crystal Disease)”, “Pillars Of Sand”, “Recharging The Void”.
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Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
🇸🇪 Melodic black metal, 1995. 10/10. Standouts: “Night’s Blood”, “Unhallowed”, “Thorns Of Crimson Death”, “Soulreaper”.
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl
🇨🇦 Black noise / black ambient, 2017. 10/10. Standouts: “Staring At The Stars To The Sound Of Trucks Revving In The Distance”, “Somewhere In Brockville, In A Restroom Stall”, “Thank You For Holding My Hand Through Every Haunted House”.
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Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 1999. 10/10. Standouts: “Welt Aus Eis”, “Gefrorener Atem”, “Der Weg”.
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Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien
🇯🇵 Symphonic black metal, 2007. 10/10. Standouts: “Introitus / Kyrie”, “Me-Devil”, “In Devil’s Arms”, “Finale: Hangman's Hymn / In Paradisum / Das Ende“.
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Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
🇺🇸 Industrial rock / industrial metal, 1994. 10/10. Standouts: “Mr. Self Destruct”, “Heresy”, “March Of The Pigs”, “Closer”, “I Do Not Want This”, “Big Man With A Gun”, “Eraser”, “Reptile”.
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Sigh - Scenes From Hell
🇯🇵 Avant-garde symphonic black metal, 2010. 10/10. Standouts: “Prelude To The Oracle”, “L’art De Mourir”, “The Soul Grave”, “The Red Funeral”, “Musica In Tempora Belli”, “Scenes From Hell”.
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Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
🇸🇪 Progressive melodic death metal, 1996. 9/10. Standouts: “Crimson”.
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Sigh - Gallows Gallery [Reissue]
🇯🇵 Avant-garde metal, 2007. 9/10. Standouts: “Pale Monument”, “In A Drowse”, “Silver Universe”, “Messiahplan”.
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12.
Darkspace - Dark Space III
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 2008. 9/10. Standouts: “Dark 3.11”, “Dark 3.12”, “Dark 3.16”, “Dark 3.17”.
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First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
🇨🇦 Technical death metal, 2021. 9/10. Standouts: “Gloire Éternelle”, “Solus”, “De Chair Et De Haine”, “In’El”.
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Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew
🇦🇺 Avant-garde black metal, 2018. 9/10. Standouts: “Trismegistus”, “Dark Energy Equilibrium”, “A Place Under The Sun”.
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Dolorian - When All The Laughter Has Gone
🇫🇮 Death doom metal, 1999. 9/10. Standouts: “Desolated Colours”, “My Weary Eyes”, “A Part Of Darkness”, “Collapsed”.
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Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 1999. 9/10. Standouts: “Fatal Tragedy”, “Beyond This Life”, “Home”, “Finally Free”.
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Boris - Pink
🇯🇵 Stoner metal / noise rock, 2005. 9/10. Standouts: “Farewell”, “Pink”, “Woman On The Screen”, “Nothing Special”, “Pseudo Bread”, “Just Abandoned Myself”.
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Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
🇳🇴 Raw black metal, 1997. 9/10. Standouts: “Hymne I”, “Hymne III”, “Hymne IV”, “Hymne VI”.
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Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
🇬🇧 Funeral doom metal, 2008. 9/10. Standouts: “Circle”, “Beneath This Face”, “Caucus Of Mind”, “Ignotum Per Ignotius”.
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Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
🇺🇸 Thrash metal, 1985. 9/10. Standouts: “Last Rites / Loved To Deth”, “Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good”, “The Skull Beneath The Skin”, “Chosen Ones”, “Looking Down The Cross”.
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Converge - Axe To Fall
🇺🇸 Metalcore, 2009. 9/10. Standouts: “Dark Horse”, “Reap What You Sow”, “Axe To Fall”, “Effigy”, “Cutter”, “Slave Driver”.
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22.
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
🇳🇴 Avant-garde black metal, 1995. 9/10. Standouts: “I Sang For The Swans”, “You, That May Wither”, “Carrier Of Wounds”, “Coiled In Wings”.
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23.
Immolation - Close To A World Below
🇺🇸 Death metal, 2000. 9/10. Standouts: “Higher Coward”, “Father, You’re Not A Father”, “Close To A World Below”.
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24.
Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows)
🇩🇪 Progressive thrash metal, 1990. 9/10. Standouts: “Dances Of Death”, “Night On A Bare Mountain”.
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Cynic - Focus
🇺🇸 Progressive death metal, 1993. 9/10. Standouts: “Veil Of Maya”, “Celestial Voyage”, “How Could I”.
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods
🇨🇦 Atmospheric black metal / black noise, 2016. 9/10. Standouts: “The Great Escape From Capricorn City”, “The Doom Of New Orleans”, “Machine Flesh Of The City Girl”.
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Dream Theater - Awake
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 1994. 9/10. Standouts: “Voices”, “The Mirror”, “Scarred”, “Space-Dye Vest”.
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28.
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
🇬🇧 Death metal, 2005. 9/10. Standouts: “At First Light”, “Entrenched”, “Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)”.
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Urfaust - Ritual Music For The True Clochard
🇳🇱 Black metal, 2012. 9/10. Standouts: “Ragnarök Mystiker”, “Verflucht Das Blenden Der Erscheinung”, “Der Gottesverächter”, “Der Halbtoter Dichters Schein-Existenz”.
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Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
🇮🇹 Avant-garde / progressive metal, 2003. 9/10. Standouts: “The Passage (Pearl Grey)”, “The Unpoetic Circle (Bottle Green)”, “Praha (Ancient Gold)”, “Ruins (Deep Blue And Violet)”, “Ironical Communion (Amber)”.
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Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1998. 9/10. Standouts: “Heaving Earth”, “Bil Ur-Sag”, “Chamber Of Dis”, “Covenant Of Death”, “Invocation Of The Continual One”
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Morbus Chron - Sweven
🇸🇪 Progressive death metal, 2014. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Chains”, “Towards A Dark Sky”, “Ripening Life”, “Beyond Life's Sealed Abode”.
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Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
🇩🇪 Technical brutal death metal, 2020. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Phytodigestion”, “Conceived Through Savagery”, “Propelled Into Sacrilege”.
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Megadeth - Rust In Peace
🇺🇸 Thrash metal, 1990. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”, “Hangar 18”, “Tornado Of Souls”.
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Opeth - Morningrise
🇸🇪 Progressive extreme metal, 1996. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Advent”, “Nectar”.
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Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler
🇳🇴 Black metal, 1995. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “I Troldskog Faren Vild”, “Bergtatt - Ind i fjeldkamrene”.
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Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
🇺🇸 Progressive death metal, 2012. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “The Siege”, “Boiling In The Hourglass”, “Occurrence On Mimas”.
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W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
🇺🇸 Heavy metal, 1992. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Invisible Boy”, “Chainsaw Charlie”, “The Idol”, “The Great Misconceptions Of Me”.
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Forgotten Woods - As The Wolves Gather
🇳🇴 Black metal, 1994. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Eclipsed”, “In My Darkest Visions”, “Dimension Of The Blackest Dark”.
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Μνήμα - Κ​α​τ​α​ρ​α​μ​έ​ν​α Λ​ε​ί​ψ​α​ν​α
🇬🇷 Noise black metal, 2024. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Cursed Relics, Cursed Soil”, “Mnima”, “Mirrors Of Disgust”.
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Painkiller - Guts Of A Virgin
🇺🇸 Avant-garde metal / free jazz, 1991. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Scud Attack”, “Hostage”, “Purgatory Of Fiery Vulvas”, “Devil’s Eye”.
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Vektor - Black Future
🇺🇸 Progressive thrash metal, 2009. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Black Future”, “Forests Of Legend”, “Accelerating Universe”
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Albino Slug - Albino Slug
🇳🇴 Avant-garde metal, 1993. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Knrr 8”, “Thorbud”, “Vaffel”, “Bleeding”.
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Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
🇳🇴 Avant-garde metal, 2002. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Kinetic”, “Nightmare Heaven”, “Radical Cut”.
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Scimitar - Scimitarium I
🇩🇰 Blackened heavy metal, 2025. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Aconitum”, “Red Ruins”, “Hungry Hallucinations”.
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Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy)
🇸🇪 Melodic black metal, 1998. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “The Knell And The World”, “Falcula”, “Ride The Wings Of Pestilence”.
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Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 2003. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “As I am”, “Endless Sacrifice”, “Stream Of Consciousness”, “In The Name Of God”.
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Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
🇯🇵 Avant-garde metal, 2001. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Corpsecry – Angelfall”, “Slaughtergarden Suite”, “Requiem – Nostalgie”.
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Afterbirth - In But Not Of
🇺🇸 Progressive brutal death metal, 2023. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Tightening The Screws”, “Devils With Dead Eyes”, “In But Not Of”, “Angels Feast On Flies”, “Death Invents Itself”, “Succumb To Life”.
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The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Proggy death metal, 2009. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Entering A Superior Dimension”, “Callous Apectre / Vehement Opposition”, “Fiery Rebirth”, “The Promised Ravage”, “The Mission / Arrival To Hopeless Shores (Calling The Paranormal Abysm)”.
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Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
🇫🇷 Black metal, 2010. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Wings Of Predation”, “Abscission”, “Phosphene”.
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Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
🇺🇸 Technical brutal death metal, 2012. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Invert The Idols”, “Subjected To A Beating”, “From Womb To Waste”, “Revisionist Past”.
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Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma
🇬🇧 Funeral doom metal, 1997. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Creation (Through Destruction)”, “Stygian Narcosis”, “Passing Through Matter”.
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Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
🇺🇸 Progressive / power metal, 2000. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Evolution (The Grand Design)”, “Fallen”, “Absence Of Light”, “A Fool’s Paradise”, “Rediscovery, Pt. II”.
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Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
🇳🇴 Atmospheric black metal, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “Det Som En Gang Var”, “Hvis Lyset Tar Oss”, “Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen”.
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Windir - 1184
🇳🇴 Melodic black metal, 2001. High 8/10. Standouts: “Todeswalzer”, “1184”, “Dance Of The Mortal Lust”, “Heidra”.
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SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
🇺🇸 Sludge metal, 2013. High 8/10. Standouts: “Ghosts Of A Dead Empire”, “Fat Of The Ram”, “Affliction”.
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Closet Witch - Chiaroscuro
🇺🇸 Grindcore, 2023. High 8/10. Standouts: “Constantly Problematic”, “Haunting”, “And Releasing”, “Well Fed Machine”, “We Met On The Park Boundary Trail”, “Funeral Flowers”.
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Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
🇩🇪 Technical brutal death metal, 2013. High 8/10. Standouts: “Naraka”, “The Purging” , “Perspectives” , “Frenzy” , “Martyrium”.
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Mastodon - Leviathan
🇺🇸 Progressive sludge metal, 2004. High 8/10. Standouts: “Blood And Thunder”, “Seabeast”, “Iron Tusk”, “Naked Burn”, “Aqua Dementia”.
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Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
🇺🇸 Technical brutal death metal, 2020. High 8/10. Standouts: “Beheading The Buddha”, “Spiritually Transmitted Disease”, “Everything In Its Path”, “Black Hole Kaleidocope”.
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Bathory - Blood Fire Death
🇸🇪 Black metal, 1988. High 8/10. Standouts: “A Fine Day To Die”, “Dies Irae”, “Blood Fire Death”.
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Dolorian - Voidwards
🇫🇮 Death doom metal, 2006. High 8/10. Standouts: “Dual – Void – Trident” , “In The Locus Of Bone”, “Ivory Artery”, “Raja Naga – Rising”.
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Darkspace - Dark Space II
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 2005. High 8/10. Standouts: “Dark 2.9”, “Dark 2.10”.
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Greymachine - Disconnected
🇺🇸 Drone / industrial metal / noise / noise rock, 2009. High 8/10. Standouts: “Wolf At The Door”, “Vultures Descend”, “When Attention Just Isn’t Enough”, “Wasted”, “Easy Pickings”.
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The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
🇺🇸 Drone metal / shoegaze, 2007. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Promise Of Snakes”, “Million Year Summer”, “The Resonance Of Goodbye”, “We All Die Laughing”.
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Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
🇺🇸 Grindcore, 2004. High 8/10. Standouts: “Pretty In Casts”, “Thumbsucker”, “Gravedancer”, “Towering Flesh”, “Restraining Order Blues”, “Carrion Fairy”, “Downpour Girl”, “Soft Assassin”, “Terrifyer”.
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Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
🇫🇷 Progressive death metal, 2005. High 8/10. Standouts: “Ocean Planet”, “Backbone”, “From The Sky”, “The Heaviest Matter In The Universe”, “Flying Whales”, “World To Come”, “Global Warming”.
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Cryptopsy - None So Vile
🇨🇦 Technical brutal death metal, 1996. High 8/10. Standouts: “Crown Of Horns”, “Slit Your Guts”, “Phobophile”.
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Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
🇳🇴 Black metal, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “Transilvanian Hunger”, “Skald Av Satans Sol”, “En as i dype skogen”.
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Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
🇦🇺 Death doom metal, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Tree Of Life And Death”, “Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory”, “Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores”.
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Dying Fetus - Killing On Adrenaline
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 1998. High 8/10. Standouts: “Killing On Adrenaline”, “Procreate The Malformed”, “Fornication Terrorists”.
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Sabbat (JPN) - Karisma
🇯🇵 Black / thrash metal, 1999. High 8/10. Standouts: “Samurai Zombies”, “Harmageddon”, “Japanese Revelation”.
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Neurosis - Souls At Zero
🇺🇸 Atmospheric sludge metal, 1992. High 8/10. Standouts: “To Crawl Under One’s Skin”, “Souls At Zero”, “Flight”.
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Звёздный Храм - Звёздный Храм
🇷🇺 Atmospheric black metal, 2024. High 8/10. Standouts: “I”, “III”.
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Chryst - PhantasmaChronica
🇦🇹 Avant-garde black metal, 2011. High 8/10. Standouts: “PhantasmaChronica”.
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Shining (NOR) - Blackjazz
🇳🇴 Avant-garde metal / jazz, 2010. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Madness And The Damage Done”, “Fisheye”, “Blackjazz Deathtrance”.
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Boris - Boris At Last - Feedbacker
🇯🇵 Drone doom metal, 2003. High 8/10. Standouts: “Feedbacker, Pt. 2”, “Feedbacker, Pt. 3”, “Feedbacker, Pt. 4”.
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Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]
🇸🇪 Sludge / post-metal, 2016. High 8/10. Standouts: “Chevron”, “The Wreck Of S.S. Needle”, “Cygnus”.
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Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
🇺🇸 Avant-garde death metal, 2025. High 8/10. Standouts: “Mental Myasis”, “Am”, “It Lurched From A Chasm In The Sky”.
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Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
🇳🇴 Progressive / avant-garde black metal, 2023. High 8/10. Standouts: “Interstellar Nexus”, “It Does Not Follow”, “Halow”, “Det Tomme Kalde Morke”.
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HALO - Degree Zero Point Of Implosion
🇦🇺 Sludge / industrial / drone metal, 2000. High 8/10. Standouts: “Constriction”, “Contortion”, “Suspension”, “Deprivation”.
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Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
🇬🇧 Funeral doom metal, 1999. High 8/10. Standouts: “Dissident”, “The Secret Of The Secret”, “Psychotropic Transgression”.
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Suffocation - Pierced From Within
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 1995. High 8/10. Standouts: “Thrones Of Blood”, “Depths Of Depravity”, “The Invoking”, “Brood Of Hatred”.
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Absu - Abzu
🇺🇸 Blackened thrash metal, 2011. High 8/10. Standouts: “Earth Ripper”, “Song For EA Medley”.
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Bríi - Sem Propósito
🇧🇷 Atmospheric black metal, 2021. High 8/10. Standouts: “A”, “B”.
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Forteresse - Métal Noir Québécois
🇨🇦 Black metal, 2006. High 8/10. Standouts: “La Moisson De La Liberté”, “La Flamme Et Le Lys”, “De Sang Et De Volonté”.
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Immolation - Failures For Gods
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Once Ordained”, “No Jesus, No Beast”, “Your Angel Died”.
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Katharsis - VVorldVVithoutEnd
🇩🇪 Black metal, 2006. True 8/10. Standouts: “Kross Fyre”, “Wytchdance”, “World Without End”.
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Mentality - Teonanacatl
🇸🇰 Avant-garde brutal death metal, 1998. High 8/10. Standouts: “Old Lemarchand”, “Mental E.T.”, “Quit”, “Told for the Truth”.
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Old Man's Child - The Pagan Prosperity
🇳🇴 Melodic black metal, 1997. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Millenium King”, “Behind The Mask”, “Soul Possessed”.
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Supuration - The Cube
🇫🇷 Progressive death metal, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Elevation”, “1308. JP. 08”, “The Accomplishment”.
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Strapping Young Lad - City
🇨🇦 Industrial metal, 1997. High 8/10. Standouts: “All Hail The New Flesh”, “Oh My Fucking God”, “Detox”, “Underneath The Waves”.
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Death - Individual Thought Patterns
🇺🇸 Progressive / technical death metal, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “Overractive Imagination”, “Trapped In A Corner”, “Nothing Is Everything”.
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Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade
🇩🇪 Viking folk metal, 2005. High 8/10. Standouts: “Heathen Foray”, “…Of Forests Unknown…”, “Havamal”, “Heralder”.
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Dream Theater - Images And Words
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 1992. High 8/10. Standouts: “Pull Me Under”, “Take The Time”, “Metropolis Part I”, “Under A Glass Moon”, “Learning To Live”.
250.
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Defeated Sanity - Chronicles Of Lunacy
🇩🇪 Technical brutal death metal, 2024. High 8/10. Standouts: “Amputationsdrang”, “The Odour Of Sanctity” , “Accelerating The Rot” , “Heredity Violated”.
250.
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Rotting Sky - Sedation
🇺🇸 Atmospheric black metal / noise, 2014. High 8/10. Standouts: “Smile”, “White Angels”, “Tyrants Of Sedation”.
250.
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Virus - Carheart
🇳🇴 Avant-garde metal, 2003. High 8/10. Standouts: “Carheart”, “It’s All Gone Weird”, “Be Elevator”.
250.
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Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
🇬🇧 NWOBHM, 1988. High 8/10. Standouts: “Moonchild”, “The Evil That Men Do”, “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”, “The Clairvoyant”.
250.
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Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
🇬🇧 Heavy metal, 1986. High 8/10. Standouts: “Caught Somewhere In Time”, “Wasted Years” , “The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner”.
250.
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Dolorian - Dolorian
🇫🇮 Death doom metal, 2001. High 8/10. Standouts: “Hidden / Rising”, “Cold / Colourless”, “Numb Lava”, “Seclusion”.
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Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
🇸🇪 Death doom metal, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “Gateways Of Bereavement”, “In Silence Enshrined”, “Tomb Of Insomnia”.
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Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
🇺🇸 Metalcore, 2012. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sadness Comes Home”, “Sparrow’s Fall”, “Glacial Pace”, “No Light Escapes”, “All We Love We Leave Behind”, “Runaway”.
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Demilich - Nespithe
🇫🇮 Progressive death metal, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “When The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water”, “The Echo (replacement)”, “Erecshyrinol”, “The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired...)”.
250.
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Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann
🇩🇪 Progressive thrash metal, 1988. True 8/10. Standouts: “Age Of Agony”, “True Lies”, “Confessions Of Madness”, “Memories Of Tomorrow”.
250.
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Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
🇸🇪 Sludge / post-metal, 2013. True 8/10. Standouts: “I: The Weapon”, “Synchronicity”, “In Awe Of”.
250.
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Pan.thy.monium - Dawn Of Dreams
🇸🇪 Avant-garde death metal, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “I”, “IV”, “VI”.
250.
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Boris - Akuma No Uta
🇯🇵 Stoner metal, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ibitsu”, “Furi”, “Naki Kyoku”.
250.
110.
Brodequin - Festival Of Death
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Mazzetello”, “Judas Cradle”, “Torches Of Nero”, “Vivum Excoriani”.
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111.
Slayer - Show No Mercy
🇺🇸 Thrash / speed metal, 1983. True 8/10. Standouts: “Evil Has No Boundaries”, “The Antichrist”, “Die By The Sword”, “Metal Storm / Face The Slayer”, “Black Magic”.
250.
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Gorement - The Ending Quest
🇸🇪 Death metal, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “My Ending Quest”, “Vale of Tears”, “Vale of Tears”.
250.
113.
Arizmenda - Stillbirth In The Temple Of Venus
🇺🇸 Psychedelic black metal, 2014. True 8/10. Standouts: “Cum In Your Wounds”, “Rotted Seed...Poisoned Egg”, “Voices In My Bed”.
250.
114.
Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
🇩🇪 Technical brutal death metal, 2020. Ture 8/10. Standouts: “Stoned Then Defiled”, “Prelude To The Tragedy”, “Arousal Through Punishment”.
250.
115.
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
🇺🇦 Atmospheric Black Metal, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “False Dawn”, “Forests In Fire And Gold”, “Eternal Turn Of The Wheel”.
250.
116.
Obtained Enslavement - Soulblight
🇳🇴 Symphonic black metal, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Dark Night Of Souls”, “Soulblight”, “Nightbreed”, “The Goddess’ Lake”.
250.
117.
Voivod - Nothingface
🇨🇦 Progressive / avant-garde metal, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Astronomy Domine”, “Missing Sequences”, “X-Ray Mirror”, Into My Hypercube”.
250.
118.
Voivod - Killing Technology
🇨🇦 Progressive thrash metal, 1987. True 8/10. Standouts: “Killing Technology”, “Tornado”, “Ravenous Medicine”.
250.
119.
Dystopia (USA) - Dystopia
🇺🇸 Crust punk / sludge metal, 2008. True 8/10. Standouts: “Now And Forever”, “Control All Delete”, “My Meds Aren’t Working”.
250.
120.
Barren Path - Grieving
🇺🇳 Grindcore, 2025. True 8/10. Standouts: “No Geneva”, “Lunar Tear”.
250.
121.
Paysage d'Hiver - Winterkälte
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ich Schreite”, “Eintritt In Die Sphaeren”, “Finsternis”.
250.
122.
Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
🇳🇱 Progressive death metal, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “Desecration Of Alleged Christian History”, “Mellow Are The Reverberations”.
250.
123.
Brodequin - Instruments Of Torture
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2000. True 8/10. Standouts: “Spinning In Agony”, “The Virgin Of Nuremberg”, “Burnt In Effigy”.
250.
124.
Sigh - Infidel Art
🇯🇵 Black metal, 1995. True 8/10. Standouts: “Izuna”, “The Zombie Terror”, “The Last Elegy”, “Beyond Centuries”
250.
125.
Vektor - Outer Isolation
🇺🇸 Progressive thrash metal, 2011. True 8/10. Standouts: “Tetrastructural Minds”, “Dark Creations, Dead Creators”, “Fast Paced Society”, “Outer Isolation”.
250.
126.
Desire - Infinity... A Timeless Journey Through An Emotional Dream
🇵🇹 Death doom metal, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “Chapter II”, “Chapter III”, “Chapter IV”.
250.
127.
Torture Chain - Mutilating Astral Entities
🇺🇸 Black metal, 2013. True 8/10. Standouts: “War On The Final Road North”, “A Thousand Hungry Red Eyes”, “Mutilating Astral Entities”, “Totentanz”.
250.
128.
Volahn - Popol Vuh
🇺🇸 Black metal, 2025. True 8/10. Standouts: “Intro / La Peste Negra Diabolica”, “La Decapitation Por Camazotz”.
250.
129.
Converge - Jane Doe
🇺🇸 Metalcore, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Concubine”, “Fault And Fracture”, “Thaw”, “Jane Doe”.
250.
130.
Candlemass - Nightfall
🇸🇪 Doom metal, 1987. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Well Of Soul”, “At The Gallows End”, “Bewitched”.
250.
131.
Burzum - Filosofem
🇳🇴 Atmospheric black metal, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “Dunkelheit”, “Jesus’ Tod”, “Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmament”.
250.
132.
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
🇬🇧 Death metal, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “Remembrance”, “When Glory Beckons”, “Tank Mk I”.
250.
133.
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Immortal Rites”, “Maze Of Torment”, “Chapel Of Ghouls”, “Blasphemy”.
250.
134.
The Devouring Void - Hypnagogic Hallucinations
🇵🇹 Black metal, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Hypnagogic Hallucinations”, “Paracusia”.
250.
135.
Meth. - Shame
🇺🇸 Avant-garde sludge metal / noise rock, 2024. True 8/10. Standouts: “Shame”, “Blackmail”.
250.
136.
Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
🇬🇧 Progressive death metal, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sanguinary Floating Orb”, “Ⲁⲛⲋ-ⲟⲩ Ⲙⲁⲧⲟⲩ”.
250.
137.
Opeth - Still Life
🇸🇪 Progressive extreme metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Moor”, “Moonlapse Vertigo”, “Serenity Painted Death”.
250.
138.
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
🇺🇸 Thrash metal, 1988. True 8/10. Standouts: “Set The World Afire”, “In My Darkest Hour”, “Hook In Mouth”.
250.
139.
Sigh - Heir To Despair
🇯🇵 Avant-garde metal, 2018. True 8/10. Standouts: “Aletheia”, “Homo Homini Lupus”, “In Memories Delusional”, “Hands Of The String Puller”, “Heir To Despair”.
250.
140.
Cenotaph (TUR) - Precognition To Eradicate
🇹🇷 Technical brutal death metal, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Anti-Pathogenic Morbid Incubation”, “Virus Induced Dehumanization”, “Recombinant Extraterrestrial New Form”.
250.
141.
Mastery - Valis
🇺🇸 Avant-garde black metal, 2015. True 8/10. Standouts: “V.A.L.I.S.V.E.S.S.E.L.”, “L.O.R.E.S.E.E.K.E.R.”, “S .T.A.R.S.E.E.K.E.R.”.
250.
142.
Opeth - Orchid
🇸🇪 Extreme progressive metal, 1995. True 8/10. Standouts: “In Mist She Was Standing”, “The Twilight Is My Robe”.
250.
143.
Ophis - Withered Shades
🇩🇪 Progressive thrash metal, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Halls Of Sorrow”, “Earth Expired”.
250.
144.
Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
🇳🇴 Black metal, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “ Stupet”, “ Vettenetter”.
250.
145.
M.S.W. - Obliviosus
🇺🇸 Doom metal, 2020. True 8/10. Standouts: “O Brother”, “Humanity”, “Obliviosus”.
250.
146.
La Torture Des Ténèbres - V
🇨🇦 Atmospheric black metal, 2024. True 8/10. Standouts: “Descent Into Suburban Hellscape”, “Phantoms Over Altar Vista”, “All Throughout the Citadel”.
250.
147.
The Chasm - Procession To The Infraworld
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Proggy death metal, 2000. True 8/10. Standouts: “Return Of The Banished”, “Architects Of Melancholic Apocalypse”.
250.
148.
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
🇺🇸 Technical / progressive death metal, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Mother Man”, “Unquestionable Presence”, “And The Psychic Saw”.
250.
149.
Dan Swanö - Moontower
🇸🇪 Progressive metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sun Of The Night”, “Uncreation”, “Encounterparts”, “In Empty Phrases”.
250.
150.
Unholy - Rapture
🇫🇮 Death doom metal, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Into Cold Light”, “Petrified Spirits”, “Wunderweck”.
250.
151.
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 2013. True 8/10. Standouts: “Offenbarung”, “Macht Des Schicksals”, “Ewig Leuchten Die Sterne”, “ Schluessel”.
250.
152.
Byatis - In Dark Abysses Of Memory
🇫🇷 Technical brutal death metal, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Glorification Of Life”, “Waiting”, “Nornes”.
250.
153.
Mortal Decay - Forensic
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “My Mind Bleeds Tragedies”, “Monkey Cage”, “Beyond Forensic Knowledge”.
250.
154.
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
🇳🇱 Death metal, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Dehydrated”, “Suspended Animation”, “Out Of The Body”, “Echoes Of Death”.
250.
155.
Darklord - Symphony Satanikka
🇦🇺 Brutal death / symphonic black metal, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “Infernal Necromancy”, “War In The Sky”, “Our Father Who Art In Hell”, “Destruction Of The New Heaven”.
250.
156.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
🇺🇸 Mathcore, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Jim Fear”, “The Running Board”, “Clip The Apex... Accept Instruction”.
250.
157.
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
🇫🇷 Black metal, 2007. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Shrine Of Mad Laughter”, “Bread Of Bitterness”, “The Repellent Scars Of Abandon And Election”, “A Chore For The Lost”.
250.
158.
Urfaust - Geist Ist Teufel
🇳🇱 Black metal, 2004. True 8/10. Standouts: “Die Kalte Teufelfaust”, “Drudenfuss”.
250.
159.
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
🇺🇸 Avant-garde black metal, 2009. True 8/10. Standouts: “Dimensional Bleedthrough”, “Autochton”.
250.
160.
The Chasm - Conjuration Of The Spectral Empire
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Proggy death metal, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “Brand The Mournful Liberation”, “Master Of The Arcane Torment”.
250.
161.
The Chasm - The Scars Of A Lost Reflective Shadow
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Proggy death metal, 2022. True 8/10. Standouts: “A Keen But Empty Sight”, “An Occult Gift Responds”.
250.
162.
Dark Tribe - In Jeraspunta - Die Rückkehr Der Tollwütigen Bestie
🇩🇪 Black metal, 2004. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Seed”, “Burning Hate”, “The Seed Is Rising”.
250.
163.
Kaatayra - Inpariquipê
🇧🇷 Black metal / folk, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Tiquindê”, “Inpariquipê”, “Iasá”.
250.
164.
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
🇬🇧 Heavy metal, 1984. True 8/10. Standouts: “Aces High”, “2 Minutes To Midnight”, “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”.
250.
165.
Endon - MAMA
🇯🇵 Avant-garde metal / noise rock, 2014. True 8/10. Standouts: “Etude For Lynching By Family”, “Acme Apathy Amok”, “Just Like Everybody”.
250.
166.
Pan.thy.monium - Khaooohs
🇸🇪 Avant-garde death metal, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “Under Ytan”, “Lava”, “Lomska Fordsat”, “Khaoohs I”, “Utsikt”.
250.
167.
Nedgravd - Ascension
🇳🇴 Death metal, 2026. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sentiential Incantation”, “Paragon Of Impiety”.
250.
168.
Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2024. True 8/10. Standouts: “Theresiana”, “Of Pillars And Trees”, “Maleficium”.
250.
169.
Funebrarum - Beneath The Columns Of Abandoned Gods
🇺🇸 Death metal, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Tombs Of Sleeping Darkness”, “Miasma Of Pestilence”, “Dormant Hallucination”.
250.
170.
Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Into Everlasting Fire”, “Despondent Souls”, “Those Left Behind”, “After My Prayers”.
250.
171.
Absu - Tara
🇺🇸 Black / thrash metal, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Pillars Of Mercy”, “Manannan”, “Stone Of Destiny”.
250.
172.
Krallice - Krallice
🇺🇸 Avant-garde black metal, 2008. True 8/10. Standouts: “Wretched Wisdom”, “Molec Codices”.
250.
173.
Skáphe - Skáphe²
🇺🇸 Dissonant black metal, 2016. True 8/10. Standouts: “I”, “III”.
250.
174.
Gonin-ish - 内視鏡世界
🇯🇵 Progressive metal / avant-prog, 2005. True 8/10. Standouts: “斜眼の塔”, “赫い記憶”.
250.
175.
Lutomysl - Decadence
🇺🇦 Black metal, 2005. True 8/10. Standouts: “Decadence”, “Quintessence”.
250.
176.
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
🇸🇪 Melodic death metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Immortal”, “Dead Inside”, “Silverwing”, “Angelclaw”, “Fields Of Desolation ‘99”.
250.
177.
Master's Hammer - Ritual
🇨🇿 Black metal, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Pád Modly”, “Geniové”, “Jáma Pekel”, “Vykoupeni”, “Útok”.
250.
178.
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
🇬🇧 NWOBHM, 1980. True 8/10. Standouts: “Prowler”, “Remember Tomorrow”, “Running Free”, “Iron Maiden”.
250.
179.
Nahvalr - Nahvalr
🇺🇸 Black noise, 2008. True 8/10. Standouts: “Chorus Of The Blasphemes”, “Swallower Of Bile”, “The Witch Box”.
250.
180.
Antropoceno - No Ritmo Da Terra
🇧🇷 Post-rock / samba / avant-garde metal, 2026. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ayaba Oxum”, “Futuro Ancestral”.
250.
181.
Carnival In Coal - Fear Not
🇫🇷 Avant-garde metal, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Cadillac”, “Exit Upon Void”, “Don’t Be Happy, Worry”, “Ring My Bell”.
250.
182.
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Glass Prison”, “Misunderstood”, “Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence”.
250.
183.
Manes - Under Ein Blodraud Maane
🇳🇴 Black metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Min Tronte Star Til Evig Tid”, “De Morke Makters Dyp”, “Under Ein Blodraud Maane”.
250.
184.
Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
🇺🇸 Black metal, 2014. True 8/10. Standouts: “Najtir Ichik”, “Quetzalcoatl”, “Koyopa”.
250.
185.
Gorgasm - Masticate To Dominate
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Anal Skewer”, “Stitched Oral Asphyxia”, “Repulsive Cuntorsion”.
250.
186.
Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
🇫🇷 Avant-garde metal / breakcore, 2017. True 8/10. Standouts: “ieuD”, “Houmous”, “Cheval”.
250.
187.
Regurgitation (USA - OH) - Tales Of Necrophilia
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Out of the Womb”, “Menstrual Cykill”, “Cadaveric Impregnation”.
250.
188.
Trichomoniasis - Containment Facility
🇺🇸 Avant-garde brutal death metal, 2026. True 8/10. Standouts: “Waste Incinerator”, “Containment Facility”, “Ventilation Shutdown”.
250.
189.
Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 2000. True 8/10. Standouts: “Praise The Lord (Opium Of The Masses)”, “Born In Sodom”, “For Us Or Against Us”.
250.
190.
Mekong Delta - Kaleidoscope
🇩🇪 Progressive thrash metal, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Innocent?”, “Shere Eclipse”, “Shadow Walker”, “Sabre Dance”, “About Science”.
250.
191.
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
🇺🇸 Progressive metal, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Acid Rain”, “Biaxident”, “When The Water Breaks”.
250.
192.
Papangu - Holoceno
🇧🇷 Progressive / avant-garde metal ; zeuhl, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ave-Bala”, “Sao Francisco”, “Terra Arrasada”, “Lobisomem”, “Holoceno”.
250.
193.
Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern
🇺🇸 Progressive / technical death metal, 2025. True 8/10. Standouts: “Gutscape Navigator”, “Parasite Orb’s Lock”, “Runemilk Amulet”.
250.
194.
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
🇳🇴 Black Metal, 1997. True 8/10. Standouts: “Krig”, “Funeral Procession”, “Blood Stains The Circle”.
250.
195.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
🇺🇸 Brutal death metal, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Reincremation”, “Mass Obliteration”.
250.
196.
Akitsa - La Grande Infamie
🇨🇦 Black metal, 2006. True 8/10. Standouts: “Cultes Vertueur”, “Forêt Disparue”.
250.
197.
Forgotten Silence - Senyaan
🇨🇿 Progressive / avant-garde death metal, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Chapter I”, “Chapter II”, “Chapter V”.
250.
198.
Naked City - Leng Tch'e
🇺🇸 Drone metal, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Leng Tch'e”.
250.
199.
Orthrelm - Ov
🇺🇸 Avant-garde metal, 2005. True 8/10. Standouts: “OV”.
250.
200.
Sieges Even - Sophisticated
🇩🇪 Progressive metal, 1995. True 8/10. Standouts: “Reporter”, “Middle Course”, “The More The Less”.
250.
201.
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
🇺🇸 Industrial metal, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Like Rats”, “Christbait Rising”, “Pulp”, “Streetcleaner”, “Tiny Tears”, “Suction”.
250.
202.
Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
🇺🇸 Sludge / death metal, 2009. True 8/10. Standouts: “Buried With Leeches”, “Volcanic Birth”, “I, Aurora”.
250.
203.
Graal - Sigullum Naturae
🇺🇦 Avant-garde black metal, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sigullum Naturae”, “X-Tro”, “F.E.A.R.”.
250.
204.
Vehemence - God Was Created
🇺🇸 Melodic brutal death metal, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “Made For Her Jesus”, “Fantasy From Pain”.
250.
205.
Neurosis - Neurosis & Jarboe [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 Avant-garde atmospheric sludge metal, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Within”, “Erase”, “Cringe”.
250.
206.
Infester - To The Depths, In Degradation
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “Chamber Of Reunion”, “A Viscidy Slippery Secretion”.
250.
207.
The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Proggy death metal, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Revenge Rises/Drowned In The Mournful Blood”, “I’m The Hateful Raven”, “The Triumph (Of My Loss...)”.
250.
208.
Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
🇨🇭 Black metal, 2018. True 8/10. Standouts: “ De Türst Und S Wüetisheer”, “ Die Hexenbrut Zu Nirgendheim”, “ Der Ritter Von Lasarraz”.
250.
209.
Dissection - The Somberlain
🇸🇪 Melodic black metal, 1993. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Black Horizons”, “The Somberlain”, “Heaven’s Damnation”, “In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere”.
250.
210.
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
🇯🇵 Avant-garde black metal, 1997. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Hail Horror Hail”, “The Dead Sing”, “Curse Of Izanagi”.
250.
211.
Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare
🇩🇪 DSBM, 1996. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Schatten Aus Der Alexander Welt”.
250.
212.
Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Hymns Of Faith And Famine
🇬🇧 Atmospheric black metal, 2021. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Kalmare Ledung”, “Wretched, Famished, Scorned”, “A Midwinter Prayer”.
250.
213.
Urushiol - Pools Of Green Fire
🇺🇸 Avant-garde death metal, 2022. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Phase Lock”, “Pillars of Red Smoke”, “Curved Air”.
250.
214.
ByoNoiseGenerator - Neuromechanica
🇷🇺 Avant-garde brutal death / deathgrind, 2018. Low 8/10. Standouts: “3/4CavityHydroblowTango”, “Permanent100%Aerophobia”.
250.
215.
Naked City - Torture Garden
🇺🇸 Avant-garde jazz / grindcore, 1990. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Blood Is Thin”, “Thrash Jazz Assassin”, “Bonehead”, “Blunt Instrument”, “Shallow Grave”, “Ujaku”, “Speedfreaks”, “New Jersey Scum Swamp”, “Facelifter”.
250.
216.
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
🇺🇸 Progressive metalcore, 2007. Low 8/10. Standouts: “(b) The Decade of Statues”, “Sun Of Nothing”, “Ants Of The Sky”, “White Walls”.
250.
217.
Boris - Heavy Rocks
🇯🇵 Stoner metal, 2002. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Weraruraido”, “1970”.
250.
218.
Breach - It's Me God
🇸🇪 Post-hardcore / sludge metal / metalcore, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “God Forbid Me”, “Deadheads”, “Clot”.
250.
219.
Portal - Swarth
🇦🇺 Dissonant death metal, 2009. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Omenknow”, “Marityme”.
250.
220.
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
🇺🇸 Death metal, 2019. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Slave Species Of The Gods”, “The Giza Power Plant”, “Awakening From The Dream Of Existence To The Multidimensional Nature Of Our Reality (Mirror Of The Soul)”.
250.
221.
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
🇳🇴 Black Metal, 2007. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Great Work of Ages”, “Psychic Horns”.
250.
222.
Appalling Spawn - Freedom, Hope & Fury (The Second Spawn)
🇨🇿 Technical brutal death metal, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Manthra Of Hope”, “By Sword And Heart”, “Celestian”, “Open Arms Of Celestian Home”.
250.
223.
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster
🇺🇸 Avant-garde black metal / industrial, 2009. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Kembatinan Premaster”, “Melancholike”, “Bloud Of The World”.
250.
224.
Effluence - Anticholinergic Derangement
🇺🇸 Avant-garde brutal death metal, 2026. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Endogenous Polypharmaceutical Communion Rite Of The Oracular Virgin Priestess”.
250.
225.
Holocaust - Hypnosis Of Birds
🇬🇧 Progressive / avant-garde metal, 1988. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Hypnosis Of Birds”, “The Tower”, “Mortal Mother”.
250.
226.
Pensées Nocturnes - Vacuum
🇫🇷 DSBM, 2009. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Lune Malade”, “Dés-espoir”, “Epitaphe”.
250.
227.
Sühnopfer - Offertoire
🇫🇷 Melodic black metal, 2014. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Introït – Saints Mystères”, “Chevalier Maudit”, “Messe des Morts”.
250.
228.
Carnival In Coal - French Cancan
🇫🇷 Avant-garde metal, 1999. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Bark at the Moon”, “Out of Misery”, “Maniac”, “Fall From Grace”.
250.
229.
Autonoesis - Moon Of Foul Magics
🇨🇦 Black thrash, 2022. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Moon Of Foul Magics”, “The Conjurer”, “Descending the Void”.
250.
230.
La Torture Des Ténèbres - Choirs Of Emptiness
🇨🇦 Black noise, 2016. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Descent Into The Wolves’ Wound”, “Next Stop; Virgo City”, “Leaving You Will Be My Renaissance”.
250.
231.
Mütiilation - Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood
🇫🇷 Black metal, 1995. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Magical Shadows of a Tragic Past”, “Transylvania”, “Tears of a Melancholic Vampire”.
250.
232.
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
🇬🇧 Heavy Metal, 1980. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Angel Witch”, “Atlantis”, “Angel Of Death”.
250.
233.
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
🇩🇪 Funeral doom, 2006. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Below The Sun”, “Old Thunder”, “The Hunt”.
250.
234.
Direwolf - Beyond The Lands Of Human Existence
🇺🇸 Avant-garde / progressive black metal, 2007. Low 8/10. Standouts: “World War IV”, “Final Flight”.
250.
235.
Darkspace - Dark Space I
🇨🇭 Atmospheric black metal, 2003. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Dark 1.5”, “Dark 1.6”, “Dark 1.7”.
250.
236.
Scorpions - Taken By Force
🇩🇪 Heavy metal, 1977. Low 8/10. Standouts: “We’ll Burn The Sky”, “The Riot Of Your Time”, “The Sails Of Charon”.
250.
237.
Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing
🇺🇸 Metalcore, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Conduit”, “When Forever Comes Crashing”, “Letterbomb”.
250.
238.
Windir - Sóknardalr
🇳🇴 Melodic black metal, 1997. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Sognariket sine krigarar”, “Sognariket si herskarinne”, “Røvhaugane”.
250.
239.
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
🇸🇪 Progressive metal / djent, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Concatenation”, “Elastic”.
250.
240.
Akitsa - Au Crépuscule De L'espérance
🇨🇦 Black metal, 2010. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Au Crépuscule De L'espérance”, “Le Dernier Putsch”, “Vers La Mort”.
250.
241.
Etrange - Etrange
🇫🇷 Progressive metal, 2019. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Titan”, “Astralis”, “Nebula”, “Exoplanet”.
250.
242.
Trichomoniasis - Makeshift Crematoria
🇺🇸 Avant-garde brutal death metal, 2023. Low 8/10. Standouts: impossible to pick.
250.
243.
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
🇸🇪 Progressive metal / djent, 2005. Low 8/10. Standouts: “In Death - Is Life”, “In Death - Is Death”.
250.
244.
Converge - No Heroes
🇺🇸 Metalcore, 2006. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Hellbound”, “Sacrifice”, “Vengeance”, “No Heroes”, “Versus”.
250.
245.
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
🇺🇸 Blackgaze, 2025. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Magnolia”, “Amethyst”, “Winona”.
250.
246.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
🇺🇸 Death metal, 1993. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Rapture”, “Angel Of Disease”.
250.
247.
Sigh - Shiki
🇯🇵 Progressive / avant-garde metal, 2022. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Satsui - Geshi No Ato”, “Mayonaka No Kaii”.
250.
248.
Mekong Delta - Mekong Delta
🇩🇪 Progressive thrash metal, 1987. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Without Honor”, “Kill The Enemy”, “Nightmare Patrol”.
250.
249.
Kokumaromilk - 少女娼婦
🇯🇵 Avant-garde power metal, 2008. Low 8/10. Standouts: “少女娼婦”, “灰被り姫”.
250.
250.
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace The Corpses Bleeding
🇺🇸 Black metal, 2002. Low 8/10. Standouts: “I Awoke To A Night Of Pain And Carnage”, “Bathed In Clouds Of Blood”, “Behold The Lamb Of God Descending”.
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21.02.2024 - 03:16
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Here it is, my own top 200 list! I hope you guys can find some cool stuff in it
Feel free to recommend me more albums, but also to tell me why my opinion is wrong and x album should be rated higher or lower, that's what those lists are for after all
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Nice list, lots of great albums in there. I especially like the Tech Death and Thrash selection. Especially glad to see Unquestionable Presence
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Written by Guib on 21.02.2024 at 03:40

Nice list, lots of great albums in there. I especially like the Tech Death and Thrash selection. Especially glad to see Unquestionable Presence

That's a fun thing to point out, those are two of the least represented genres in the list, glad you like my selection though!
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22.02.2024 - 00:32
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Written by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024 at 22:54

Written by Guib on 21.02.2024 at 03:40

Nice list, lots of great albums in there. I especially like the Tech Death and Thrash selection. Especially glad to see Unquestionable Presence

That's a fun thing to point out, those are two of the least represented genres in the list, glad you like my selection though!

Well, they are 2 of my favourite genres so Im inclined to find and point 'em out.
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Respect for not having a lot of albums in the 10's and 9's, some people are giving high scores like candies.
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Written by BurntEmbodiment on 29.05.2025 at 13:47

Respect for not having a lot of albums in the 10's and 9's, some people are giving high scores like candies.

Yeah I try to keep my 9s and 10s for album that are truly special to me, it's a little silly when people have 200 albums rated 9 or 10, as good as those albums may be
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Any recommendations for bands similar to Sigh, but with more focused/streamlined songwritting? I like the idea behind the music, but the different genre mesh feels rather unorganic and disjointed. At times it feels like the artist is "throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks", I love some of their albums, but I like those more straightforward albums like Scorn Defeat (more orthodox black metal), Gallows Gallery (blackened power metal I guess?) and Hangman's Hymn (punchy symphonic black metal).
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Written by BurntEmbodiment on 01.06.2025 at 18:26

Any recommendations for bands similar to Sigh, but with more focused/streamlined songwritting? I like the idea behind the music, but the different genre mesh feels rather unorganic and disjointed. At times it feels like the artist is "throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks", I love some of their albums, but I like those more straightforward albums like Scorn Defeat (more orthodox black metal), Gallows Gallery (blackened power metal I guess?) and Hangman's Hymn (punchy symphonic black metal).

I've been thinking about this and tbh there isn't really any band that sounds like Sigh, even on their most straight-forward releases. I've heard The Meads Of Asphodel have a lot in common with Sigh but I haven't listened to them yet so I can't vouch for that.
There's hints of Sigh in stuff like Solefald, Pensées Nocturnes, Thy Catafalque, Hail Spirit Noir or Arcturus but they each do their own thing with more or less genre meshing.
Japanese bands like Kokumaromilk and Gonin-ish are probably your best picks if you want something kinda like Sigh but more restrained, but once again they both do their own things.
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Finally gave this list a big update with an actual methodology this time around, it's a lot more definitive than before and I even expanded it to a top 250
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