My Favorite Metal Albums

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My Favorite Metal Albums

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A list by
Mc_Stinkle
Created
April 15, 2025
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I doubt I’ll update this regularly, my taste has changed a bit
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Machine Head - The Blackening
This album is so amazing, Halo is the best song, but all songs are peak. 10/10
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Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead
Deviation Will Not Be Tolerated and title track are brutal. 9.95/10
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Converge - Jane Doe
Greatest title track and album closer of all time IMO. 9.93/10
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Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
A crushing record that showcases the best Grindcore and Pig Destroyer has to offer. 9.87/10
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Nails - Unsilent Death
Crushing, great title track, incredible debut. 9.84/10
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Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Sick AF. 9.72/10
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Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2000 Deep connection for me, this album will always mean so much to me. 9.71/10
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Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Cool and immersive. 9.66/10
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Sepultura - Arise
Really exciting and cool. 9.63/10
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Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
Surprising gem. House of Snakes is a great closer. 9.59/10
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Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Sonic devastation. They Come Crawling Back is the best Nails song IMO. 9.55/10
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Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
My first Grindcore experience. 9.52/10
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Gojira - Magma
Silvera is an awesome song. 9.51/10
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Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
Groovy and punishing. You will head bang. 9.5/10
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System Of A Down - Toxicity
Strange but interesting. And legendary. 9.49/10
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Mgła - Exercises In Futility
An awesome example of Black Metal at some of its finest. 9.48/10
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Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
Dax Riggs' vocals are great. 9.43/10
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Whitechapel - The Valley
I loved hearing Phil Bozeman's clean vocals for the first time. 9.42/10
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Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
More of the finest Black Metal out there. 9.4/10
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Cryptopsy - None So Vile
One of the first actually great Brutal Death Metal album. 9.39/10
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Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Best Melodic Death Metal I ever heard. Venator is an incredible opener. 9.35/10
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Neurosis - Times Of Grace
Post-metal at its best. 9.32/10
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Nails - Abandon All Life
Crushing and heavy. Suum Cuique ends the album on an ominous and pummeling note. 9.31/10
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Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
So good. The melodic elements are fantastic. 9.28/10
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Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise
More punishing than anything other that their album I mentioned earlier. 9.27/10
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Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
A dirge that drags you through the gloomiest parts of music. 9.22/10
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Deafheaven - Sunbather
Calming and almost... transcendent. 9.13
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Isis - Panopticon
My brother likes this album. Do you like it? So do we. ;) 8.98/10
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Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain
The definition of sludge metal. 8.95/10
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Meshuggah - ObZen
Crushing and complex. 8.93/10
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Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
The Punisher of metal albums. 8.89/10
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Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
My favorite Neurosis song is on here. 8.87/10
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Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
A heavy groove that gets you going. 8.87/10
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Converge - The Dusk In Us
A beautifully haunting experience. 8.84/10
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Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Duality and Before I Forget are all the reasons I need to put this album on this list. 8.81/10
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Nails - Every Bridge Burning
A triumphant return that shows that the band's crushing sound never left. 8.79/10
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Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Some tracks really get you going. 8.73/10
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Whitechapel - Kin
More of those clean vocals I love. Anticure is amazing. 8.72/10
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Tool - Ænima
This album has one of the only Tool songs I've heard that actually went somewhere. 8.69/10
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Opeth - Blackwater Park
Haunting and an all-time classic. 8.64/10
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Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Mother North has a sick riff that is as Black Metal as can be. 8.59/10
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Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
Goth Metal at its best. 8.57/10
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Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Great guitar work from Alexi Laiho. 8.56/10
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Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Emperor was on a roll. 8.54/10
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Necrophagist - Epitaph
Proof that I do like technical death metal! 8.51/10
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Agalloch - The Mantle
Atmospheric and good. 8.47/10
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Tool - Lateralus
Just really interesting. 8.46/10
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Strapping Young Lad - Alien
A heavy industrial groove. 8.45/10
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Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
One of Pig Destroyer's weakest releases, which shows how much I like them. 8.42/10
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Septicflesh - Communion
Surprising. I normally dislike anything that relies heavily on symphonic elements in metal. 8.4/10
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Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
A welcome surprise. Vocals are a bit grating, but I thought it would be way worse than it was. 8.38/10
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
Gnaw is a wicked song. I don't care. 8.36/10
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Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
The only thing harder to keep up with than the title are the sick riffs. 8.35/10
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Carcass - Heartwork
More sick riffs, but I like it less than Necroticism. 8.33/10
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Napalm Death - Scum
Origins of Grindcore. 8.32/10
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Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
Brutal, a pivotal album for deathcore. 8.31/10
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