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My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name. Created by: Ryanm123 | 04.07.2024 1. 1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse 2004 2. 1349 - The Infernal Pathway 2019 3. Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations 2008 4. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea 2006 5. Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall 1998 6. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes 1994 7. Amorphis - Silent Waters 2007 8. Amorphis - Skyforger 2009 9. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times 2011 10. Amorphis - Circle 2013 11. Amorphis - Queen Of Time 2018 12. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease 1985 13. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise 1993 14. Atheist - Piece Of Time 1990 15. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 1991 16. Atheist - Elements 1993 17. Atheist - Jupiter 2010 18. Baroness - Red Album 2007 19. Baroness - Stone 2023 20. Bathory - Blood Fire Death 1988 21. Bathory - Hammerheart 1990 22. Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods 1991 23. Bathory - Blood On Ice 1996 24. Bathory - Nordland I 2002 25. Bathory - Nordland II 2003 26. Beast In Black - Berserker 2017 27. Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon 1993 28. Behexen - My Soul For His Glory 2008 29. Between The Buried And Me - Colors 2007 30. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect 2009 31. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence 2012 32. Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic 2015 33. Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape 2020 34. Black Funeral - Ankou And The Death Fire 2016 35. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell 1980 36. Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind 1989 37. Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World 1990 38. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond 1992 39. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side 1995 40. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth 1998 41. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera 2002 42. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth 2006 43. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time 2010 44. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror 2015 45. Blind Guardian - The God Machine 2022 46. Borknagar - Winter Thrice 2016 47. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var 1993 48. Carcass - Surgical Steel 2013 49. Carnation - Chapel Of Abhorrence 2018 50. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor 2009 51. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction 2015 52. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 2023 53. Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops 1998 54. Cave In - Jupiter 2000 55. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum 2022 56. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder 1999 57. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper 2000 58. Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood 2013 59. Clutch - The Elephant Riders 1998 60. Coffins - Beyond The Circular Demise 2019 61. ColdWorld - Melancholie² 2008 62. Cynic - Focus 1993 63. Cynic - Traced In Air 2008 64. Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us 2014 65. Cynic - Ascension Codes 2021 66. Dark Forest (CAN) - Aurora Borealis 2006 67. Dark Fortress - Profane Genocidal Creations 2003 68. Dark Fortress - Eidolon 2008 69. Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium 2001 70. Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign 2016 71. Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams 2000 72. Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion 2002 73. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done 2002 74. Dark Tranquillity - Atoma 2016 75. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion 2006 76. Death - Spiritual Healing 1990 77. Death - Human 1991 78. Death Angel - Act III 1990 79. Death Angel - The Art Of Dying 2004 80. Death Angel - Killing Season 2008 81. Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood 2013 82. Death Angel - The Evil Divide 2016 83. Deceased - As The Weird Travel On 2005 84. Desultory - Bitterness 1994 85. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech 1997 86. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient 2007 87. Devin Townsend - Addicted 2009 88. Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk In My Heart 1996 89. Diabolical Masquerade - The Phantom Lodge 1997 90. Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation 2004 91. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream 1991 92. Dismember - Where Ironcrosses Grow 2004 93. Dissection - The Somberlain 1993 94. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane 1995 95. Dream Theater - Images And Words 1992 96. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought 2003 97. Duskmourn - Legends 2014 98. Duskmourn - Of Shadow And Flame 2017 99. Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox 1992 100. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow 1994 101. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson 1996 102. Ensiferum - Ensiferum 2001 103. Ensiferum - Iron 2004 104. Ensiferum - Victory Songs 2007 105. Ensiferum - From Afar 2009 106. Enslaved - Vertebrae 2008 107. Enslaved - In Times 2015 108. Enslaved - Utgard 2020 109. Enslaved - Heimdal 2023 110. Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr 2005 111. Equilibrium - Sagas 2008 112. Equilibrium - Erdentempel 2014 113. Exhumed - Necrocracy 2013 114. Exmortus - Ride Forth 2016 115. Exmortus - The Sound Of Steel 2018 116. Fear Factory - Demanufacture 1995 117. Fear Factory - Obsolete 1998 118. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid 2001 119. Finntroll - Nattfödd 2004 120. Finntroll - Nifelvind 2010 121. Freedom Call - Stairway To Fairyland 1999 122. Freedom Call - Crystal Empire 2001 123. Freedom Call - Eternity 2002 124. Freedom Call - Legend Of The Shadowking 2010 125. Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation 2012 126. Haken - Virus 2020 127. Haken - Fauna 2023 128. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I 1987 129. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings 2005 130. Horna - Sudentaival 2001 131. Hypocrisy - The Arrival 2004 132. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity 2009 133. In Flames - The Jester Race 1996 134. In Flames - Colony 1999 135. In Mourning - Garden Of Storms 2019 136. Inferi - The Path Of Apotheosis 2014 137. Inferi - Vile Genesis 2021 138. Inquisition - Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan 2002 139. Insomnium - One For Sorrow 2011 140. Iotunn - Access All Worlds 2021 141. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind 1983 142. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 1988 143. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin 1977 144. Judas Priest - Stained Class 1978 145. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance 1982 146. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith 1984 147. Judas Priest - Painkiller 1990 148. Judas Priest - Firepower 2018 149. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 2024 150. Kalmah - Swamplord 2000 151. Kalmah - They Will Return 2002 152. King Diamond - Abigail 1987 153. King Diamond - The Eye 1990 154. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void 2023 155. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate 1997 156. Lord Belial - Nocturnal Beast 2005 157. Lustre - The Ashes Of Light 2020 158. Mastodon - Blood Mountain 2006 159. Mastodon - Crack The Skye 2009 160. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath 1984 161. Mercyful Fate - Time 1994 162. Mercyful Fate - 9 1999 163. Meshuggah - Koloss 2012 164. Mourning Beloveth - Dust 2001 165. Mysteriarch - The Majestic Fall 2007 166. Mysteriarch - Mournful Embrace Of Aeons 2012 167. Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black 1995 168. Necrophobic - Darkside 1997 169. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World 2000 170. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure 2005 171. Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift 2008 172. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows 2011 173. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond 2013 174. Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens 2016 175. Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold 2018 176. Omnium Gatherum - Origin 2021 177. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse 1998 178. Opeth - Still Life 1999 179. Opeth - Watershed 2008 180. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin 1986 181. Panopticon - Kentucky 2012 182. Panopticon - Roads To The North 2014 183. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia 2002 184. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing 2005 185. Ringarë - Under Pale Moon 2019 186. Ringarë - Thrall Of Winter's Majesty 2021 187. Ringarë - Of Momentous Endless Night 2023 188. Riverside - Out Of Myself 2003 189. Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine 2015 190. Riverside - ID.Entity 2023 191. Rush - A Farewell To Kings 1977 192. Rush - Moving Pictures 1981 193. Sacred Reich - Awakening 2019 194. Sargeist - Let The Devil In 2010 195. Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times 1993 196. Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design 2005 197. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe 2008 198. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) 2014 199. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) 2023 200. Sear Bliss - Forsaken Symphony 2002 201. Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey 2007 202. Sear Bliss - Letters From The Edge 2018 203. Sentenced - Amok 1995 204. Septicflesh - Communion 2008 205. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 2001 206. Sonata Arctica - Silence 2001 207. Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence 2018 208. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) 2013 209. Stormlord - At The Gates Of Utopia 2001 210. Summoning - Lugburz 1995 211. Summoning - Minas Morgul 1995 212. Summoning - Dol Guldur 1997 213. Summoning - Nightshade Forests 1997 214. Summoning - Stronghold 1999 215. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 2001 216. Summoning - Oath Bound 2006 217. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn 2013 218. Summoning - With Doom We Come 2018 219. Symphony X - Underworld 2015 220. System Of A Down - Toxicity 2001 221. Temple Of Void - Of Terror And The Supernatural 2014 222. Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death 2017 223. Testament - The Legacy 1987 224. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth 2012 225. Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 2016 226. Trivium - In Waves 2011 227. Týr - The Lay Of Thrym 2011 228. Týr - Battle Ballads 2024 229. Idle Hands - Mana 2019 230. Unto Others - Strength 2021 231. Vulture - Sentinels 2024 Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff. [ More lists by Ryanm123 ]