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Here’s my list of the best metal releases of all time.
It mostly contains albums, but some EPs, demos, splits, and compilations are also featured every now and then.
Enjoy!
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Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 1999. 10/10. Standouts: “Fatal Tragedy”, “Beyond This Life”, “Home”, “Finally Free”. |
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Windir - Arntor
Album, Melodic black metal, Norway, 1999. 10/10. Standouts: every single song. |
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Sigh - In Somniphobia
Album, Avant-garde metal, Japan, 2012. 10/10. Standouts: “L’excommunication à Minuit”, “Amongst The Phantoms Of Abandoned Tumbrils”, “Fall To The Thrall”, “Equale”. |
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Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
Album, Melodic black metal, Sweden, 1995. 10/10. Standouts: “Night’s Blood”, “Unhallowed”, “Thorns Of Crimson Death”, “Soulreaper”. |
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Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien
Album, Symphonic black metal, Japan, 2007. 10/10. Standouts: “Introitus / Kyrie”, “Me-Devil”, “Dies Irae / The Master Malice”, “Death With Disonor”, “In Devil’s Arms”. |
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Vektor - Terminal Redux
Album, Progressive thrash metal, USA, 2016. 10/10. Standouts: “Charging The Void”, “Pillars Of Sand”, “Recharging The Void”. |
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Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Album, Progressive melodic death metal, Sweden, 1996. 9/10. Standouts: “Crimson”. |
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Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Album, Industrial rock / industrial metal, USA, 1994. 9/10. 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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Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Album, Thrash metal, USA, 1990. 9/10. Standouts: “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”, “Hangar 18”, “Tornado Of Souls”. |
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods
Album, Atmospheric black metal / black noise, Canada, 2016. 9/10. Standouts: “The Great Escape From Capricorn City”, “Descending Through Autumn Fields”, “Machine Flesh Of The City Girl”. |
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Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver
Demo, Atmospheric black metal, Switzerland, 1999. 9/10. Standouts: “Welt Aus Eis”, “Gefrorener Atem”, “Der Weg”. |
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Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
Album, Raw black metal, Norway, 1997. 9/10. Standouts: “Hymne I”, “Hymne III”, “Hymne V”, “Hymne VI”. |
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Sigh - Gallows Gallery [Reissue]
Album, Avant-garde metal, Japan, 2007. 9/10. Standouts: “Pale Monument”, “In A Drowse”, “Silver Universe”, “Messiahplan”. |
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Sigh - Scenes From Hell
Album, Avant-garde symphonic black metal, Japan, 2010. 9/10. 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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Urfaust - Ritual Music For The True Clochard
Compilation, Black metal, The Netherlands, 2012. 9/10. Standouts: “Ragnarök Mystiker”, “Verflucht Das Blenden Der Erscheinung”, “Der Gottesverächter”, “Der Halbtoter Dichters Schein-Existenz”. |
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Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Australia, 2018. 9/10. Standouts: “Trismegistus”, “Dark Energy Equilibrium”, “A Place Under The Sun”. |
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Darkspace - Dark Space II
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Switzerland, 2005. 9/10. Standouts: “Dark 2.10”. |
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl
Album, Black noise / black ambient, Canada, 2017. 9/10. 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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Cynic - Focus
Album, Progressive death metal, USA, 1993. 9/10. Standouts: “Celestial Voyage”, “Textures”, “How Could I”. |
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First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
Album, Technical death metal, Canada, 2021. 9/10. Standouts: “Gloire Éternelle”, “La Veuve Et Le Martyr”, “De Chair Et De Haine”, “In’El”. |
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Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Album, Death metal, UK, 2005. 9/10. Standouts: “At First Light”, “Entrenched”, “Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)”. |
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Albino Slug - Albino Slug
Album, Avant-garde metal, Norway, 1993. 9/10. Standouts: “Knrr 8”, “Thorbud”, “Vaffel”, “Bleeding”. |
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Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Album, Avant-garde / progressive metal, Italy, 2003. 9/10. Standouts: “The Unpoetic Circle (Bottle Green)”, “Praha (Ancient Gold)”, “The Picture (Bordeaux)”, “Ruins (Deep Blue And Violet)”, “Ironical Communion (Amber)”. |
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Burzum - Filosofem
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Norway, 1996. 9/10. Standouts: “Dunkelheit”, “Jesus’ Tod”, “Erblicket Die Tochter Des Firmament”. |
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Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
EP, Progressive metal, USA, 1995. 9/10. Standouts: “A Change of Seasons”. |
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Dream Theater - Awake
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 1994. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Voices”, “The Mirror”, “Scarred”, “Space-Dye Vest”. |
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Windir - 1184
Album, Melodic black metal, Norway, 2001. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Todeswalzer”, “1184”, “Dance Of The Mortal Lust”, “Journey To The End”. |
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Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Album, Death metal, USA, 1998. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Bil Ur-Sag”, “Chamber Of Dis”, “Covenant Of Death”, “Invocation Of The Continual One” |
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Boris - Pink
Album, Stoner metal / noise rock, Japan, 2005. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Farewell”, “Pink”, “Woman On The Screen”, “Nothing Special”, “Pseudo Bread”, “Just Abandoned Myself”. |
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Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
Album, Thrash metal, USA, 1985. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Last Rites / Loved To Deth”, “Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good”, “The Skull Beneath The Skin”, “Chosen Ones”. |
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Carnival In Coal - Fear Not
Album, Avant-garde metal, France, 2001. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Cadillac”, “Exit Upon Void”, “Don’t Be Happy, Worry”, “Ring My Bell”. |
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Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Album, Avant-garde metal, Norway, 2002. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Nightmare Heaven”, “Ad Absurdum”, “Radical Cut”, “For To End Yet Again”. |
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Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler
Album, Black metal, Norway, 1995. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “I Troldskog Faren Vild”. |
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Chryst - PhantasmaChronica
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Austria, 2011. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “PhantasmaChronica”. |
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Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 2003. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “As I am”, “Honor Thy Father”, “Stream Of Consciousness”, “In The Name Of God”. |
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Vektor - Black Future
Album, Progressive thrash metal, USA, 2009. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Black Future”, “Forests Of Legend”, “Accelerating Universe” |
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Converge - Axe To Fall
Album, Metalcore, USA, 2009. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Dark Horse”, “Reap What You Sow”, “Axe To Fall”, “Effigy”, “Cutter”, “Slave Driver”. |
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Dolorian - When All The Laughter Has Gone
Album, Death doom metal, Finland, 1999. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Desolated Colours”, “My Weary Eyes”, “A Part Of Darkness”, “Collapsed”. |
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Darkspace - Dark Space III
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Switzerland, 2008. Very high 8/10. Standouts: “Dark 3.11”, “Dark 3.14”, “Dark 3.16”, “Dark 3.17”. |
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Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Album, First wave of black metal, Sweden, 1988. High 8/10. Standouts: “A Fine Day To Die”, “Dies Irae”. |
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Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Album, Avant-garde metal, Japan, 2001. High 8/10. Standouts: “Corpsecry – Angelfall”, “Slaughtergarden Suite”, “Requiem – Nostalgie”. |
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Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
Compilation, Progressive death metal, USA, 2012. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Siege”, “Boiling In The Hourglass”. |
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Scimitar - Scimitarium I
Album, Blackened heavy metal, Denmark, 2025. High 8/10. Standouts: “Aconitum”, “Red Ruins”, “Hungry Hallucinations”, “Fever Dance”, “Ophidia”. |
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Paysage d'Hiver - Winterkälte
Demo, Atmospheric black metal, Switzerland, 2001. High 8/10. Standouts: “Ich Schreite”, “Winter”, “Eintritt In Die Sphaeren”. |
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Urfaust - Geist Ist Teufel
Album, Black metal, The Netherlands, 2004. High 8/10. Standouts: “Die Kalte Teufelfaust”, “Drudenfuss”. |
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Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Norway, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “Det Som En Gang Var”, “Hvis Lyset Tar Oss”, “Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen”. |
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Pan.thy.monium - Dawn Of Dreams
Album, Avant-garde death metal, Sweden, 1992. High 8/10. Standouts: “I”, “IV”, “VI”. |
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Dream Theater - Images And Words
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 1992. High 8/10. Standouts: “Pull Me Under”, “Take The Time”, “Metropolis Part I”, “Under A Glass Moon”, “Learning To Live”. |
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Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Norway, 1995. High 8/10. Standouts: “I Sang For The Swans”, “You, That May Wither”, “Carrier Of Wounds”, “Coiled In Wings”. |
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SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
Album, Sludge metal, USA, 2013. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Usher”, “Ghosts Of A Dead Empire”, “Fat Of The Ram”, “Affliction”. |
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Mastodon - Leviathan
Album, Progressive sludge metal, USA, 2004. High 8/10. Standouts: “Blood And Thunder”, “Seabeast”, “Iron Tusk”, “Naked Burn”, “Aqua Dementia”. |
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Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows)
Album, Progressive thrash metal, Germany, 1990. High 8/10. Standouts: “Dances Of Death”, “Night On A Bare Mountain”. |
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Morbus Chron - Sweven
Album, Progressive death metal, Sweden, 2014. High 8/10. Standouts: “Chains”, “Towards A Dark Sky”, “Aurora In The Offing”, “Ripening Life”. |
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The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Album, Drone metal / shoegaze, USA, 2007. High 8/10. Standouts: “Million Year Summer”, “The Resonance Of Goodbye”, “How To Build A Time Machine”. |
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O.L.D. - The Musical Dimension Of Sleastak
Album, Avant-garde / industrial metal, USA, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “Two Of Me (Parts One And Two)”, “Freak Now”, “Happy Tantrum”. |
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Darklord - Symphony Satanikka
Album, Brutal death / symphonic black metal, Australia, 2002. High 8/10. Standouts: “Infernal Necromancy”, “War In The Sky”, “Our Father Who Art In Hell”, “Destruction Of The New Heaven”. |
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Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Album, Funeral doom metal, UK, 2008. High 8/10. Standouts: “Circle”, “Beneath This Face”, “Caucus Of Mind”, “Ignotum Per Ignotius”. |
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Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Album, Heavy metal, UK, 1986. High 8/10. Standouts: “Caught Somewhere In Time”, “The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner”, “Alexander The Great”. |
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Ved Buens Ende - Those Who Caress The Pale
Demo, Avant-garde black metal, Norway, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “A Mask In The Mirror”, “The Carrier Of Wounds”, “You That May Wither”. |
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Forgotten Woods - As The Wolves Gather
Album, Black metal, Norway, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “Eclipsed”, “In My Darkest Visions”, “Dimension Of The Blackest”. |
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Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Album, Black metal, Norway, 1994. High 8/10. Standouts: “Transilvanian Hunger”, “Slottet I Det Fjerne”, “As Flittermice As Satans Spys”. |
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Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade
Album, Viking folk metal, Germany, 2005. High 8/10. Standouts: “Heathen Foray”, “…Of Forests Unknown…”, “Havamal”, “Laeknishendr”. |
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Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Album, NWOBHM, UK, 1988. High 8/10. Standouts: “Moonchild”, “The Evil That Men Do”, “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”, “Only The Good Die Young”. |
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Opeth - Morningrise
Album, Progressive extreme metal, Sweden, 1996. High 8/10. Standouts: “Advent”, “Nectar”. |
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Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
Album, Avant-garde metal / breakcore, France, 2017. High 8/10. Standouts: “ieuD”, “Houmous”, “Cheval” |
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Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Album, Progressive brutal death metal, USA, 2023. High 8/10. Standouts: “Devils With Dead Eyes”, “Vomit On Humanity”, “Hovering Human Head Drones”, “Death Invents Itself”. |
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Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Album, Progressive / technical death metal, USA, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “Overractive Imagination”, “Trapped In A Corner”, “The Philosopher”. |
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Bríi - Sem Propósito
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Brazil, 2021. High 8/10. Standouts: “A”, “B”. |
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Pan.thy.monium - Khaooohs
Album, Avant-garde death metal, Sweden, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “Under Ytan”, “Lava”, “Lomska Fordsat”, “Khaoohs I”, “Utsikt”. |
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W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Album, Heavy metal, USA, 1992. High 8/10. Standouts: “Invisible Boy”, “Chainsaw Charlie”, “The Idol”, “The Great Misconceptions Of Me”. |
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Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Album, Death doom metal, Australia, 1993. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Tree Of Life And Death”, “A Burial At Ornans”, “Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores”. |
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Painkiller - Guts Of A Virgin
Album, Avant-garde metal / free jazz, USA, 1991. High 8/10. Standouts: “Scud Attack”, “Portent”, “Dr. Phibes”, “Devil’s Eye”. |
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Virus - Carheart
Album, Avant-garde metal, Norway, 2003. High 8/10. Standouts: “Carheart”, “It’s All Gone Weird”, “Be Elevator”. |
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Shining (NOR) - Blackjazz
Album, Avant-garde metal / jazz, 2010. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Madness And The Damage Done”, “Fisheye”, “Blackjazz Deathtrance”. |
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Mastery - Valis
Album, Avant-garde black metal, USA, 2015. High 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.”. |
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Immolation - Close To A World Below
Album, Death metal, USA, 2000. High 8/10. Standouts: “Higher Coward”, “Father, You’re Not A Father”, “Close To A World Below”. |
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Katharsis - VVorldVVithoutEnd
Album, Black metal, Germany, 2006. High 8/10. Standouts: “Kross Fyre”, “Wytchdance”, “World Without End”. |
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Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy)
Album, Melodic black metal, Sweden, 1998. High 8/10. Standouts: “The Knell And The World”, “Ride The Wings Of Pestilence”. |
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Μνήμα - Καταραμένα Λείψανα
Album, Noise black metal, Greece, 2024. High 8/10. Standouts: “Cursed Relics, Cursed Soil”, “Mnima”, “Mirrors Of Disgust”. |
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Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Album, Black metal / blackgaze, USA, 2025. High 8/10. Standouts: “Magnolia”, “Amethyst”, “Winona”. |
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Dolorian - Voidwards
Album, Death doom metal, Finland, 2006. High 8/10. Standouts: “Dual – Void – Trident”, “Ivory Artery”, “The One Whose Name Has No End”, “Epoch Of Cyclosure”, “Raja Naga – Rising”. |
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Behold The Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
EP, Avant-garde progressive metal / brutal prog, USA, 2005. High 8/10. Standouts: “Exospacial Psionic Aura”, “Sensory Amusia”, “You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Spaceturtle” |
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Μνήμα - Drowned In Hallucinogenic Visions
EP, Noise black metal, Greece, 2025. High 8/10. Standouts: “Swalllowing A Thousand Needles”, “Venomous Atonement”, “Drowned In Hallucinogenic Visions”. |
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Bestia Arcana - To Anabainon Ek Tes Abyssu
Album, Black metal, USA, 2011. High 8/10. Standouts: “Cup Of Babylon”, “The Poison Of Manasseh”, “Shepherd Of Perdition”. |
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Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
Album, Progressive / avant-garde black metal, Norway, 2023. High 8/10. Standouts: “Et Smelter”, “Interstellar Nexus”, “It Does Not Follow”, “Det Tomme Kalde Morke”. |
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Naked City - Torture Garden
Album, Avant-garde metal / avant-garde jazz, USA, 1990. High 8/10. Standouts: too many to choose from. |
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Opeth - Still Life
Album, Progressive extreme metal, Sweden, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Moor”, “Moonlapse Vertigo”, “Serenity Painted Death”. |
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88.
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Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Album, Black metal, France, 2010. True 8/10. Standouts: “Wings Of Predation”, “Phosphene”, “Malconfort”. |
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Sigh - Shiki
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Japan, 2022. True 8/10. Standouts: “Kuroi Kage”, “Shoujahitsumetsu”, “Shikabane”, Satsui – Geshi No Ato”, “Fuyu Ga Kuru”, Mayonaka No Kaii”. |
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90.
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Strapping Young Lad - City
Album, Industrial metal, Canada, 1997. True 8/10. Standouts: “All Hail The New Flesh”, “Oh My Fucking God”, “Detox”, “Underneath The Waves”. |
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Closet Witch - Chiaroscuro
Album, Grindcore, USA, 2023. True 8/10. Standouts: “Constantly Problematic”, “Well Fed Machine”, “To The Cauldron”. |
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Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Japan, 1997. True 8/10. Standouts: “Hail Horror Hail”, “Curse Of Izanagi”, “Seed Of Eternity”. |
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93.
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Sabbat (JPN) - Karisma
Album, Black / thrash metal, Japan, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Samurai Zombies”, “Harmageddon”, “Japanese Revelation”. |
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Immolation - Failures For Gods
Album, Death metal, USA, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Once Ordained”, “No Jesus, No Beast”, “Your Angel Died”. |
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Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Album, Progressive death metal, France, 2005. True 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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Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Album, Heavy metal, UK, 1984. True 8/10. Standouts: “Aces High”, “2 Minutes To Midnight”, “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”. |
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97.
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Supuration - The Cube
Album, Progressive death metal, France, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Elevation”, “1308. JP. 08”, “The Accomplishment”. |
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98.
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Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann
Album, Progressive thrash metal, Germany, 1988. True 8/10. Standouts: “Age Of Agony”, “True Lies”, “Confessions Of Madness”, “Memories Of Tomorrow”. |
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Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Album, Black metal, France, 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”. |
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VTTA - Там? Где!
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Russia, 2018. True 8/10. Standouts: “Там, где небо глубже”, “Там, где завеса краше, а слюна – горче”, “Там, где истаяла память” |
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Mekong Delta - Kaleidoscope
Album, Progressive thrash metal, Germany, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Innocent?”, “Shere Eclipse”, “Shadow Walker”, “Sabre Dance”, “About Science”. |
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Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Album, Avant-garde metal, Norway. True 8/10. Standouts: “Master Of Disguise”, “Ad Astra”, “The Chaos Path”, “The Throne Of Tragedy”. |
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103.
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Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
Album, Progressive black metal, Norway, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Hyperhuman”, “Pornographer Cain”, “Hierarch”. |
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104.
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Sigh - Heir To Despair
Album, Avant-garde metal, Japan, 2018. True 8/10. Standouts: “Aletheia”, “Homo Homini Lupus”, “In Memories Delusional”, “Heresy I: Oblivium”, “Hands Of The String Puller”, “Heir To Despair”. |
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Boris - Boris At Last - Feedbacker
Album, Drone doom metal, Japan, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Feedbacker, Pt. 2”, “Feedbacker, Pt. 3”, “Feedbacker, Pt. 4”. |
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Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
Album, Thrash metal, USA, 1988. True 8/10. Standouts: “Into The Lungs Of Hell”, “In My Darkest Hour”, “Hook In Mouth”. |
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107.
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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Album, Technical / progressive death metal, USA, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Mother Man”, “Unquestionable Presence”, “And The Psychic Saw”. |
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108.
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Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
Album, Progressive death metal, The Netherlands, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “Desecration Of Alleged Christian History”, “Mellow Are The Reverberations”. |
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109.
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Carnival In Coal - Collection Prestige
Album, Avant-garde metal, France, 2005. True 8/10. Standouts: “Fuckable”, “Satanic Disaster”, “Cartilage Holocaust”, “The Lady And The Dormant Sponge”. |
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110.
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Papangu - Holoceno
Album, Progressive / avant-garde metal ; zeuhl, Brazil, 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ave-Bala”, “Sao Francisco”, “Terra Arrasada”, “Lobisomem”, “Holoceno”. |
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111.
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Μνήμα - Disciples Of Excremental Liturgies
Album, Noise black metal, Greece, 2022. True 8/10. Standouts: “Cosmic Lunacy”, “Disciples Of Excremental Liturgies”, “Nekrosavano”, “Suicidal Necromancy”. |
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112.
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Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Album, Black / folk metal, Ireland, 2007. True 8/10. Standouts: “Empire Falls”, “Gallows Hymn”, “Failures Burden”, “Traitors Gate”. |
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113.
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Voivod - Nothingface
Album, Progressive metal, Canada, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Missing Sequences”, “X-Ray Mirror”, Into My Hypercube”. |
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114.
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Rotting Sky - Sedation
Album, Atmospheric black metal / noise, USA, 2014. True 8/10. Standouts: “Smile”, “Tyrants Of Sedation”. |
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115.
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Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Hymns Of Faith And Famine
Album, Atmospheric black metal, UK, 2011. True 8/10. Standouts: “Kalmare Ledung”, “Wretched, Famished, Scorned”, “A Midwinter Prayer”. |
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116.
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Koldovstvo - Ни Царя, Ни Бога
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Russia (?), 2021. True 8/10. Standouts: “I”, “II”, “VI”. |
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117.
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Tenebrae In Perpetuum - Onori Funebri Rituali
Album, Black metal, Italy, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Onori Funebri Rituali”, “Verso L’apocalisse”, “Quegli Occhi”. |
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118.
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Judas Iscariot - Dethroned, Conquered And Forgotten
EP, Black metal, USA, 2000. True 8/10. Standouts: “Descent To The Abyss”, “Benevolent Whore, Dethroned For Eternity”, “Journey Through Visions Of War”. |
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119.
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - Choirs Of Emptiness
Album, Atmospheric black metal, Canada, 2016. True 8/10. Standouts: “Next Stop; Virgo City”, “Hong Kong 1874”, “Down Into The Ocean, Never To Rise Again”. |
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120.
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Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster
Album, Avant-garde black metal / industrial, USA, 2009. True 8/10. Standouts: “Kembatinan Premaster”, “Melancholike”, “Bloud Of The World”. |
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121.
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Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Album, Thrash metal, USA, 1990. True 8/10. Standouts: “Time”, “Blood”, “Keep It In The Family”, “Intro To Reality / Belly Of The Beast” |
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122.
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Obtained Enslavement - Soulblight
Album, Symphonic black metal, Norway, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Dark Night Of Souls”, “Soulblight”, “Nightbreed”, “The Goddess Lake”. |
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123.
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Dissection - The Somberlain
Album, Melodic black metal, Sweden, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “Black Horizons”, “The Somberlain”, “Heaven’s Damnation”, “In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere”. |
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124.
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Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Album, NWOBHM, UK, 1980. True 8/10. Standouts: “Prowler”, “Remember Tomorrow”, “Running Free”, “Iron Maiden”. |
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125.
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Morbid Angel - Covenant
Album, Death metal, USA, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “Rapture”, “Angel Of Disease”, “God Of Emptiness”. |
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126.
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Dan Swanö - Moontower
Album, Progressive metal, Sweden, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sun Of The Night”, “Uncreation”, “Encounterparts”, “In Empty Phrases”. |
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127.
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Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
Album, Technical brutal death metal, Germany, 2007. True 8/10. Standouts: “Stoned Then Defiled”, “Hideously Disembodied”, “Artifacts Of Desolation”. |
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128.
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Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Album, Technical brutal death metal, Canada, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “Crown Of Horns”, “Slit Your Guts”, “Phobophile”. |
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129.
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Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Album, Brutal death metal, USA, 1995. True 8/10. Standouts: “Depths Of Depravity”, “Torn Into Enthrallment”, “Brood Of Hatred”. |
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130.
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Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
Album, Funeral doom metal, UK, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Dissident”, “The Secret Of The Secret”, “Psychotropic Transgression”. |
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131.
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Absu - Abzu
Album, Blackened thrash metal, USA, 2011. True 8/10. Standouts: “Earth Ripper”, “Skrying In The Spirit Vision”, “Song For EA Medley”. |
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132.
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Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Album, Thrash metal, USA, 1986. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Conjuring”, “Good Mourning / Black Friday”, “My Last Words”. |
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133.
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Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
Album, Death doom metal, Sweden, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “Gateways Of Bereavement”, “In Silence Enshrined”, “Tomb Of Insomnia”. |
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134.
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Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Album, Heavy metal, UK, 1980. True 8/10. Standouts: “Neon Knights”, “Children Of The Sea”, “Die Young”. |
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135.
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Angra - Angels Cry
Album, Progressive power metal, Brazil, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “Carry On”, “Time”, “Never Understand”. |
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136.
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Demilich - Nespithe
Album, Progressive death metal, Finland, 1993. True 8/10. Standouts: “When The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water”, “Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort”, “Erecshyrinol”. |
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137.
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Sühnopfer - Offertoire
Album, Melodic black metal, France, 2014. True 8/10. Standouts: “Introït – Saints Mystères”, “Chevalier Maudit”, “Messe des Morts”. |
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138.
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Absu - Tara
Album, Black / thrash metal, USA, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Pillars Of Mercy”, “Manannan”, “Stone Of Destiny”. |
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139.
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Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Album, Death metal, UK, 1994. True 8/10. Standouts: “Remembrance”, “Lest We Forget”, “Tank Mk I”. |
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140.
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Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Album, Melodic death metal, Sweden, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Immortal”, “Dead Inside”, “Silverwing”, “Angelclaw”, “Fields Of Desolation ‘99”. |
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141.
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Igorrr - Hallelujah
Album, Avant-garde metal / breakcore, France, 2012. True 8/10. Standouts: “Tout Petit Moineau”, “Damaged Wig”, “Vegetable Soup”, “Lullaby For A Fat Jellyfish”. |
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142.
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Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Album, Death metal, USA, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Immortal Rites”, “Maze Of Torment”, “Chapel Of Ghouls”, “Blasphemy”. |
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143.
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Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Album, Grindcore, USA, 2004. True 8/10. Standouts: “Pretty In Casts”, “Thumbsucker”, “Gravedancer”, “Towering Flesh”, “Downpour Girl”. |
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144.
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Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Album, Death metal, Netherlands, 1989. True 8/10. Standouts: “Dehydrated”, “Suspended Animation”, “Chronic Infection”, “Out Of The Body”, “Echoes Of Death”. |
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145.
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Orthrelm - Ov
Album, Avant-garde metal, USA, 2005. True 8/10. Standouts: “OV”. |
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146.
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Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Album, Death metal, Sweden, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Harbouring The Soul”, “Rising To The Sun”, “Consumed In Flames”. |
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147.
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Master's Hammer - Ritual
Album, Black metal, Czech Republic, 1991. True 8/10. Standouts: “Pád Modly”, “Geniové”, “Jáma Pekel”, “Vykoupeni”, “Útok”. |
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148.
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Manes - Under Ein Blodraud Maane
Album, Black metal, Norway, 1999. True 8/10. Standouts: “Min Tronte Star Til Evig Tid”, “De Morke Makters Dyp”, “Under Ein Blodraud Maane”. |
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149.
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Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma
Album, Funeral doom metal, UK, 1997. True 8/10. Standouts: “Creation (Through Destruction)”, “NOXBC9701040”, “A Worthless Dream”, “Stygian Narcosis”, “Passing Through Matter”. |
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150.
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Dolorian - Dolorian
Album, Death doom metal, Finland, 2001. True 8/10. Standouts: “Hidden / Rising”, “Cold / Colourless”, “Numb Lava”, “Seclusion”. |
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151.
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Naked City - Leng Tch'e
Album, Avant-garde / drone metal, USA, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Leng Tch'e”. |
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152.
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Bølzer - Aura
EP, Black / death metal, Switzerland, 2013. True 8/10. Standouts: “C.M.E.”, “Entranced By The Wolfshook”, “The Great Unifier” . |
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153.
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Endon - MAMA
Album, Avant-garde metal / noise rock, Japan, 2014. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Etude For Lynching By Family”, “Acme Apathy Amok”, “Just Like Everybody”. |
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154.
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Graal - Sigullum Naturae
Album, Avant-garde black metal, Ukraine, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Sigullum Naturae”, “X-Tro”, “F.E.A.R.”. |
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155.
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Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare
Album, DSBM, Germany, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “Schatten Aus Der Alexander Welt”. |
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156.
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Exivious - Exivious
Album, Progressive metal, The Netherlands, 2009. True 8/10. Standouts: “Ripple Of A Tear”, “Time And Its Changes”, “Embrace The Unknown”. |
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157.
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Desire - Infinity... A Timeless Journey Through An Emotional Dream
Album, Death doom metal, Portugal, 1996. True 8/10. Standouts: “Chapter II”, “Chapter III”, “Chapter IV”. |
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158.
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Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
Album, Death metal, USA, 2019. True 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)”. |
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159.
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Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
Album, Technical brutal death metal, Germany, 2020. True 8/10. Standouts: “Phytodigestion”, “Conceived Through Savagery”, “Propelled Into Sacrilege”. |
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160.
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Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Album, Technical brutal death metal, USA, 2020. True 8/10. Standouts: “Spiritually Transmitted Disease”, “Rooms To Nowhere”, “Swallowing Spiders”. |
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161.
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Gorgasm - Masticate To Dominate
Album, Brutal death metal, USA, 2003. True 8/10. Standouts: “Anal Skewer”, “Stitched Oral Asphyxia”, “Repulsive Cuntorsion”. |
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162.
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Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
Album, Heavy / death metal, Germany, 2018. True 8/10. Standouts: “Void Of Words”, “Song Of The Gods”, “Null”, “The Sound Of Shallow Grey”. |
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163.
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Nine Inch Nails - Broken
EP, Industrial metal / industrial rock, USA, 1992. True 8/10. Standouts: “Wish”, “Last”, “Happiness In Slavery”, “Gave Up”. |
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164.
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Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
Album, Death metal, UK, 1998. True 8/10. Standouts: “Zeroed”, “No Guts, No Glory”, “Sixth Chapter”. |
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165.
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Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Album, Thrash metal, Canada, 1990. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Fun Palace”, “Never, Neverland”, “Imperiled Eyes”, “Phantasmagoria”. |
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166.
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Direwolf - Beyond The Lands Of Human Existence
Album, Progressive / black metal, USA. True 8/10. Standouts: “World War IV”, “Beyond The Lands Of Human Existence”, “Murder The Creatures Who Inhabit The Black Sun”, “Final Flight”. |
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167.
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Sigh - Infidel Art
Album, Black metal, Japan, 1995. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Zombie Terror”, “The Last Elegy”, “Beyond Centuries” |
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168.
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Vektor - Outer Isolation
Album, Progressive thrash metal, USA, 2011. True 8/10. Standouts: “Tetrastructural Minds”, “Dark Creations, Dead Creators”, “Fast Paced Society”, “Outer Isolation”. |
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169.
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Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 2002. True 8/10. Standouts: “The Glass Prison”, “Misunderstood”, “Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence”. |
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170.
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Forgotten Silence - Senyaan
Album, Progressive / avant-garde death metal, Czech Republic, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Chapter I”, “Chapter II”, “Chapter V”. |
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171.
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Etrange - Etrange
Album, Progressive metal, France, 2019. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Titan”, “Astralis”, “Nebula”, “Exoplanet”. |
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172.
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Meshuggah - I
EP, Djent, Sweden, 2004. Low 8/10. Standouts: “I”. |
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173.
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Sieges Even - Sophisticated
Album, Progressive metal, Germany, 1995. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Reporter”, “Middle Course”, “The More The Less”. |
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174.
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Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
Album, Black Metal, Norway, 1997. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Krig”, “Funeral Procession”, “Blood Stains The Circle”. |
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175.
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Funeral Mist - Devilry
EP, Black metal, Sweden, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Bringer Of Terror”, “Funeral Mist”. |
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176.
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Damaar - Triumph Through Spears Of Sacrilege
Demo, War metal, Lebanon, 2007. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Preaching For Mass Suicide”, “The Goatphoenix”, “Ode To Blasphemy (Onward To The Gates Of Mekka)”. |
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177.
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Obsequiae - Aria Of Vernal Tombs
Album, Melodic black metal, USA, 2015. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Autumnal Pyre”, “Pools Of A Vernal Paradise”, “In The Absence Of Light”. |
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178.
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Brodequin - Festival Of Death
Album, Brutal death metal, USA, 2001. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Judas Cradle”, “Lake Of The Dead”, “Gilles De Rais”. |
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179.
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Forgotten Silence - Kras
Album, Progressive metal, Czech Republic, 2018. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Wolfsgrotte 1420”, “I Am A692”, “Cesta Suchym Zlebem (Katerinska)”. |
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180.
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Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Album, Heavy Metal, UK, 1980. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Angel Witch”, “Atlantis”, “Angel Of Death”. |
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181.
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Judas Iscariot - To Embrace The Corpses Bleeding
Album, Black metal, USA, 2002. Low 8/10. Standouts: “I Awoke To A Night Of Pain And Carnage”, “Where Eagles Cry And Vultures Laugh”, “With Lust And Murder For Our Drink”. |
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182.
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Opeth - Orchid
Album, Extreme progressive metal, Sweden, 1995. Low 8/10. Standouts: “In Mist She Was Standing”, “The Twilight Is My Robe”. |
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183.
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Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Album, Progressive metal, USA, 1999. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Acid Rain”, “Biaxident”, “When The Water Breaks”. |
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184.
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Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Album, Progressive metal, Canada, 2022. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Paranormalium”, “Synchro Anarchy”, “The World Today” |
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185.
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Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Album, Industrial metal, USA, 1989. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Like Rats”, “Christbait Rising”, “Pulp”, “Streetcleaner”, “Tiny Tears”, “Suction”. |
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186.
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Immolation - Dawn Of Possession
Album, Death metal, USA, 1991. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Into Everlasting Fire”, “Despondent Souls”, “Those Left Behind”, “After My Prayers”. |
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187.
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Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Album, Progressive melodic death metal, Sweden, 1994. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Twilight”, “Of Darksome Origin”, “Silent” |
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188.
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Abruptum - Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me
Album, Black noise, Norway, 1993. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me”. |
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189.
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Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
Album, Black metal, USA, 2014. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Najtir Ichik”, “Quetzalcoatl”, “Koyopa”. |
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190.
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Molested - Stormvold
EP, Death metal, Norway, 1997. Low 8/10. Standouts: “The Usurpers Winterblood”, “Fogflames”, “Pyre At The Tarn”. |
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191.
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Old Man's Child - The Pagan Prosperity
Album, Melodic black metal, Norway, 1997. Low 8/10. Standouts: “The Millenium King”, “Behind The Mask”, “What Malice Embrace”. |
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192.
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Morbus Chron - Sleepers In The Rift
Album, Death metal, Sweden, 2011. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Creepy Creeping Creep”, “Hymns To A Stiff”, “Ways Of Torture”. |
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193.
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Unholy - The Second Ring Of Power
Album, Death doom metal, Finland, 1994. Low 8/10. Standouts: “The Second Ring Of Power”, “Neverending Day”, “Air”. |
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194.
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Unholy - Rapture
Album, Death doom metal, Finland, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Petrified Spirits”, “For The Unknown One”, “Wunderweck”, “Unzeitgeist”. |
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195.
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Amorphis - Elegy
Album, Progressive metal, Finland, 1996. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Better Unborn”, “Against Widows”, “Weeper On The Shore”. |
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196.
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Kaatayra - Inpariquipê
Album, Black metal / folk, Brazil, 2021. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Tiquindê”, “Inpariquipê”, “Iasá”. |
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197.
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Arizmenda - Stillbirth In The Temple Of Venus
Album, Psychedelic black metal, USA, 2014. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Cum In Your Wounds”, “Innocence And Illness”, “Voices In My Bed”. |
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198.
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Verdunkeln - Einblick In Den Qualenfall
Album, Black / doom metal, Germany, 2007. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Im Zwiespalt”, “Der Quell”, “Der Herrscher”. |
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199.
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Slayer - Show No Mercy
Album, Thrash / speed metal, USA, 1983. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Evil Has No Boundaries”, “The Antichrist”, “Die By The Sword”, “Metal Storm / Face The Slayer”, “Black Magic”. |
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200.
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Appalling Spawn - Freedom, Hope & Fury (The Second Spawn)
Album, Technical brutal death metal, Czech Republic, 1998. Low 8/10. Standouts: “Manthra Of Hope”, “By Sword And Heart”, “Celestian”, “Open Arms Of Celestian Home”. |
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