Top 1001 Artworks On Metal Storm

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Top 1001 Artworks On Metal Storm

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A list by
purplejesus
Created
January 04, 2026
Entries
1030
Endorsements
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As chosen by me, of course. This is highly subjective.

** Note: There are 29 co-selections, thus the total number of selections is 1001 **

In progress and in tandem with:
Favorite Album Art, 1960s-1990s
Favorite Album Art, 2000-14
Favorite Album Art, 2015-20
Favorite Album Art, 2021-
Favorite Album Art, Photographic

"HM" means honorable mention.
Descriptions for all non-honorable mentions are on the other pages.

If no artist is listed, I could not find the information.
1030.
1.
...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
2025 (Adrien Bousson) (HM)
1030.
2.
16 - Curves That Kick
1993 (Pushead) (HM)
1030.
3.
16 - Blaze Of Incompetence
1997 (Gabriel)
1030.
4.
16 - Bridges To Burn
2009 (Florian Bertmer) (HM)
1030.
5.
16 - Dream Squasher
2020 (Marald van Haasteren)
1030.
6.
16 - Guides For The Misguided
2025 (Marald van Haasteren)
1030.
7.
1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
2021 (Vladimir Chebakov [Depiction of Trench Warfare in WW1])
1030.
8.
Aara - Eiger
2024 (Michael Handt, [Photograph of Eiger Mordwand])
1030.
9.
Abigail Williams - Becoming
2012 (Metastazis) (HM)
1030.
10.
Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence
2025 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
11.
Abscession - Rot Of Ages
2021 (Adam Burke) (HM)
1030.
12.
An Abstract Illusion - Woe
2022 (Adam Burke) (HM)
1030.
13.
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
1979 (Jim Houghton)
1030.
14.
The Acacia Strain - Continent
2008 (Paul Romano) (HM)
1030.
15.
The Acacia Strain - Death Is The Only Mortal
2012 (Angryblue) (Co-selected with Earth's "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull")
1030.
16.
The Acacia Strain - Step Into The Light
2023 (Caelan Stokkermans) (Co-selected with “Failure Will Follow”) (HM)
1030.
17.
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
1994 (John Wayne Gacy)
1030.
18.
Acid Magus - Scatterling Empire
2025 (Tyrone Le Roux-Atterbury)
1030.
19.
Acid Mammoth - Under Acid Hoof
2020 (Branca Studio) (HM)
1030.
20.
Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
2022 (Shagrat) (HM)
1030.
21.
Acrania - Fearless
2015 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
22.
Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
2021 (Niklas Sundin)
1030.
23.
Aephanemer - Utopie
2025 (Niklas Sundin) (HM)
1030.
24.
Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun
2022 (Khaos Diktator)
1030.
25.
Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - The Blossoming
2024 (Ëmgalaï) (HM)
1030.
26.
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
2023 (Alex Eckman-Lawn) (HM)
1030.
27.
Agalloch - The Mantle
2002 [Photograph of Thompson Elk Monument in Portland, OR]
1030.
28.
Agatus - The Weaving Fates
2002 (Hybi)
1030.
29.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - The Poacher Diaries
1999 (Derek Hess) (HM)
1030.
30.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
2009 (Florian Bertmer)
1030.
31.
Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
2015 (Sebastian Jerke) (Pick for AAOTY in 2015)
1030.
32.
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
2023 (Sebastian Jerke)
1030.
33.
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
2005 (Peter Theobalds)
1030.
34.
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
2010 (Fursy Teyssier)
1030.
35.
Alcest - Shelter
2014 (Andy Julia)
1030.
36.
Alcest - Kodama
2016 (Førtifem) (HM)
1030.
37.
Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore
2024 (Yoann Lossel, Sydney Long ["Spirit of the Plains"])
1030.
38.
Alda - :Tahoma:
2011 (Naomi Korchonnoff)
1030.
39.
Alice Cooper - School's Out
1972 (Craig Braun) (HM)
1030.
40.
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
1994 (Rocky Schenck)
1030.
41.
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
1995 (Faxed Image) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 1990s)
1030.
42.
Alkerdeel - Lede
2016 (Pede)
1030.
43.
Am I In Trouble? - Spectrum
2025 (Eva Darron) (HM)
1030.
44.
Amendfoil - Empyrean & Ophidian
2016 (Lassi Mäki-Kala)
1030.
45.
Amenra - Mass III
2005
1030.
46.
Amogh Symphony - IV.I
2019 (Saloni Sinha)
1030.
47.
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
2008 (Tom Thiel)
1030.
48.
Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
2016 (Tom Thiel) (HM)
1030.
49.
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
1994 (Sjlvain Bellemare) (HM)
1030.
50.
Amorphis - Queen Of Time
2018 (Metastazis) (HM)
1030.
51.
Anathema - Judgement
1999 (HM)
1030.
52.
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
2003 (Travis Smith)
1030.
53.
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
2009 (Derek Albeck)
1030.
54.
Ancestors - Suspended In Reflections
2018 (Nicole Momaney) (HM)
1030.
55.
Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
2024 (Adam Burke) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2024)
1030.
56.
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
2007 (Kris Angylus, Monica Dragynfly)
1030.
57.
Angizia - 39 Jahre Für Den Leierkastenmann
2001 (Gabriele Böck, Irene Denner)
1030.
58.
Angizia - Des Winters Finsterer Gesell
2013 (Gabriele Böck, Irene Denner, Michael Haas) (HM)
1030.
59.
Animosity - Animal
2007 (Paul Romano)
1030.
60.
Ankhagram - Where Are You Now
2010 (HM)
1030.
61.
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
1990 (Len Rooney Creative) (HM)
1030.
62.
Ante-Inferno - Antediluvian Dreamscapes
2022 (Stefan Todorovic) (HM)
1030.
63.
Anthem - Overload
2002 [Photograph of JET facility in Oxford, UK]
1030.
64.
Anthrax - Stomp 442
1995 (Storm Thorgerson)
1030.
65.
Anthropia - Non-Euclidean Spaces
2015 (David Demaret) (HM)
1030.
66.
Anubi - Kai Pilnaties Akis Užmerks Mirtis
1997 (Lord Ominous)
1030.
67.
Aquilus - Griseus
2011 [Unknown painting from 19th century]
1030.
68.
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
2021 (Giles Smith, Tom Welsh)
1030.
69.
Archspire - Bleed The Future
2021 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
70.
Argus - From Fields Of Fire
2017 (Brad Moore) (HM)
1030.
71.
Ark - Ark
1999 (Morten Hansen) (HM)
1030.
72.
Arkona - Явь
2014 (Gyula Havancsák)
1030.
73.
The Armed - Only Love
2018 (Jade Lauren)
1030.
74.
The Armed - The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed
2025 [Photograph of Rickshaw in Bangkok, Thailand]
1030.
75.
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
2017 (Adam Burke)
1030.
76.
Aseitas - Aseitas
2018 (Chenthooran Nambiarooran) (HM)
1030.
77.
Aseitas - False Peace
2020 (Noah Cutter Meihoff)
1030.
78.
ASG - Blood Drive
2013 (Malleus Rock Art Lab) (Co-selected with "Survive Sunrise")
1030.
79.
ASG - Survive Sunrise
2018 (Malleus Rock Art Lab)
1030.
80.
Ashbringer - Absolution
2019 (Luciana Nedelea)
1030.
81.
Ashbringer - We Came Here To Grieve
2023 (Andy Meyer)
1030.
82.
Ashbury - Endless Skies
1983 (Ernie Polo)
1030.
83.
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
2008 (Richard Forbes-Hamilton)
1030.
84.
Asunojokei - わたしと私だったもの (Awakening)
2018 (丁子紅子)
1030.
85.
Asunojokei - Think Of You
2025 (Redregenmann)
1030.
86.
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare
2023 (Adam Burke) (HM)
1030.
87.
Atramentus - Stygian
2020 (Mariusz Lewandowski)
1030.
88.
Attic - Sanctimonious
2017 (Markus Vesper)
1030.
89.
Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
2021 (Harry Jenkins)
1030.
90.
August Burns Red - Constellations
2009 (Invisible Creatures, Inc.) (HM)
1030.
91.
August Burns Red - Leveler
2011 (Jordan Crane) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
92.
August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore
2013 (Ryan Clark) (HM)
1030.
93.
Aureole - Aurora Borealis
2016 (Adam Burke) (Pick for AAOTY in 2016)
1030.
94.
Author & Punisher - Women & Children
2013 (Scott McPherson) (HM)
1030.
95.
Author & Punisher - Beastland
2018 (Juha Arvid Helminen)
1030.
96.
Author & Punisher - Krüller
2022 (Zlatko Mitev)
1030.
97.
Autopsy - Severed Survival
1989 (Kev Walker [Censored Version])
1030.
98.
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
1991 (Kev Walker) (HM)
1030.
99.
An Autumn - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
2013
1030.
100.
Avernus - Grievances
2024 (August Friedrich Schenck ["Anguish"])
1030.
101.
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
1975 (Artist: Hipgnosis)
1030.
102.
Baroness - Purple
2015 (John Dyer Baizley) (Co-selected with all Baroness albums and Kvelertak's "Meir" and self-titled)
1030.
103.
Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River
2010 (Travis Smith) (HM)
1030.
104.
Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers
2015 (Travis Smith)
1030.
105.
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
1988 (Peter Nicolai Arbo ["Åsgårdsreien"])
1030.
106.
Batushka - Litourgiya
2015 ([Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Orthodox Church], Христофор)
1030.
107.
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
2009 (Gianfrancesco A, Benvenuto Cellini ["Perseus with the Head of Medusa"]) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 2000s)
1030.
108.
Becoming The Archetype - Children Of The Great Extinction
2022 (Dan Seagrave) (HM)
1030.
109.
Bekor Qilish - Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
2022 (Francesco Gemelli) (HM)
1030.
110.
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
2017 (Mariusz Lewandowski) (Pick for AAOTY in 2017)
1030.
111.
Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon
1993 (Dan Seagrave) (HM)
1030.
112.
Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean
2019 (Riki Nitabaru)
1030.
113.
Bethlehem - Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
2014 (Jürgen Bartsch)
1030.
114.
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2007 (Brandon Proff)
1030.
115.
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
2009 (Brandon Proff)
1030.
116.
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2012 (Chandler Owen) (HM)
1030.
117.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
2009 (Tony Koehl) (HM)
1030.
118.
Black Flag - Family Man
1984 (Raymond Pettibon)
1030.
119.
The Black Mages - The Black Mages III: Darkness And Starlight
2008 (Hideo Minaba)
1030.
120.
Black Mountain - In The Future
2008 (Jeremy Schmidt)
1030.
121.
Black Narcissus - There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten
2025 (Vincent Christiaens)
1030.
122.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
1970 (Marcus Keef)
1030.
123.
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1973 (Drew Struzan) (HM)
1030.
124.
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
1980 (Lynn Curlee)
1030.
125.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
2023 (Adrian Baxter) (HM)
1030.
126.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
2025 (Adam Burke, Adrian Baxter) (HM)
1030.
127.
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
1992 (Andreas Marschall) (HM)
1030.
128.
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
2008 (George Barr)
1030.
129.
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
2023 (Mossy Wood Arts) (HM)
1030.
130.
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
2019 (Bruce Pennington [Taken from Brian Aldiss's "Space, Time and Nathaniel"])
1030.
131.
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
2024 (Steve R. Dodd) (HM)
1030.
132.
Blood Of Kingu - Sun In The House Of The Scorpion
2010 (Zdzisław Beksiński) (HM)
1030.
133.
Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
2018 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
134.
Bloodride - Planet Alcatraz
2016 (Niko Bauer) (HM)
1030.
135.
Bloodywood - Rakshak
2022 (Anirudh Singh)
1030.
136.
Blue Cheer - Outsideinside
1968 (Gary Finnoe) (HM)
1030.
137.
Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult
1972 (Bill Gawlik)
1030.
138.
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
1976 (Lynn Curlee)
1030.
139.
Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus
1980 (Richard Clifton-Dey)
1030.
140.
Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
1981 (Greg Scott) (HM)
1030.
141.
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
2014 (Marijke Koger-Dunham)
1030.
142.
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
2019 (Dehn Sora)
1030.
143.
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
2022 (Maciej Kamuda)
1030.
144.
Body Count - Carnivore
2020 (Zbigniew Bielak) (HM)
1030.
145.
Bongzilla - Gateway
2002 (Malleus Rock Art Lab) (HM)
1030.
146.
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
1988 (Paul McHale)
1030.
147.
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
1992 (Eugène Delacroix ["The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople"]) (HM)
1030.
148.
Boris - Flood
2000 (Atsuo aka Fangs Anal Satan)
1030.
149.
Bosse-De-Nage - All Fours
2015 (John Vochatzer)
1030.
150.
Botanist - III: Doom In Bloom
2012 (M.S. Waldom) (HM)
1030.
151.
Botanist - VI: Flora
2014 (Irrwisch Artdesign)
1030.
152.
Bride - Silence Is Madness
1989 (Don Swartzentruber)
1030.
153.
Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings
2006 (Michael Prince [Stock Photo])
1030.
154.
Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
2013 ["Flower of Life"]
1030.
155.
Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks
1996 (Storm Thorgerson, Richard Manning)
1030.
156.
Brujeria - Brujerizmo
2000 (Eric Horst)
1030.
157.
Brutal Truth - Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom
1997 (Eric Horst) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 1990s)
1030.
158.
Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life
2022 (Peter Mulders)
1030.
159.
Budgie - Bandolier
1975 (Patrick Woodroffe) (HM)
1030.
160.
Budgie - Impeckable
1978 (Sally Anne Thompson)
1030.
161.
Bull Of Apis Bull Of Bronze - Offerings Of Flesh And Gold
2019 (Alex CF)
1030.
162.
BUS - Never Decide
2019 (John Brosio)
1030.
163.
Buzzov•en - To A Frown
1993 (Harvey Bennett Stafford)
1030.
164.
ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives
2025 (Dmitry Rogatnev)
1030.
165.
El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams
2012 (Morten Transeth)
1030.
166.
Caliban - Dystopia
2022 (Bastian Gerlach) (HM)
1030.
167.
Caligula's Horse - Bloom
2015 (Chris Stevenson-Mangos)
1030.
168.
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
2017 (Connor Maguire)
1030.
169.
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
2020 (Chris Stevenson-Mangos)
1030.
170.
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
2024 (Chris Panatier) (HM)
1030.
171.
Calyces - Fleshy Waves Of Probability
2025 (Maria and Manthos Stergiou)
1030.
172.
Candlemass - Nightfall
1987 (Thomas Cole ["Old Age"]) (Co-selected with "Ancient Dreams")
1030.
173.
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
1988 (Thomas Cole ["Youth"])
1030.
174.
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth
1991 (Vincent Locke) (Co-selected with "Tomb of the Mutilated")
1030.
175.
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
1992 (Vincent Locke)
1030.
176.
Captor - Lay It To Rest
1993 (H.D. Alfredsson) (HM)
1030.
177.
Car Bomb - W^w^^w^w
2012 (Greg Kubacki)
1030.
178.
Car Bomb - Mordial
2019 (Greg Kubacki)
1030.
179.
Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
1988 (Gruesome Graphics Inc.) (HM)
1030.
180.
Carcass - Surgical Steel
2013 (Martin Nesbitt)
1030.
181.
Carcass - Torn Arteries
2021 (Zbigniew Bielak)
1030.
182.
Carpe Noctem - In Terra Profugus
2013 (Antti Salminen)
1030.
183.
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
2015 (Wes Benscoter)
1030.
184.
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
2023 (Wes Benscoter)
1030.
185.
Cave In - White Silence
2011 (Aaron Turner) (HM)
1030.
186.
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
2022 (Richey Beckett)
1030.
187.
Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter
2024 (Al Lane)
1030.
188.
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
2010 (Johan)
1030.
189.
Celtic Frost - Emperor's Return
1985 (Phil Lawvere) (HM)
1030.
190.
Ceremonium - Into The Autumn Shade
1995 (Junia Grimaldi-Villela)
1030.
191.
Changeling (GER) - Changeling
2025 (Aaron Pinto) (HM)
1030.
192.
Chaos Divine - Colliding Skies
2015 (Ryan Felton)
1030.
193.
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
2022 (Dan Goldsworthy)
1030.
194.
Chevelle - NIRATIAS
2021 (Boris Vallejo)
1030.
195.
Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy
2009 (James Miyazawa, [Photograph of Albert Fish at Trial]) (HM)
1030.
196.
Cicada The Burrower - Corpseflower
(Sawyer Hildebrandt) (Guilty Pleasure) (HM)
1030.
197.
Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead
1984 (Michael Whelan [Michael Moorcock's "The Bane of the Black Sword"])
1030.
198.
Cloud Rat - Threshold
2022 (Jacob Van Loon)
1030.
199.
Cloudkicker - Woum
2015 (Alyssa and Ben Sharp)
1030.
200.
Cloudkicker - Unending
2019 (Suruchi)
1030.
201.
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
2022 (Jared Muralt) (HM)
1030.
202.
The CNK - L'Hymne À La Joie
2007 (Metastazis) (HM)
1030.
203.
Conjurer - Páthos
2022 (Paul Johnson) (HM)
1030.
204.
Converge - Jane Doe
2001 (Jacob Bannon) (HM)
1030.
205.
Converge - Axe To Fall
2009 (Jacob Bannon)
1030.
206.
Cormorant - Dwellings
2011 (Artist: Alice Duke) (Pick for AAOTY in 2011)
1030.
207.
Coroner - Grin
1993 (Martin Becker)
1030.
208.
Costin Chioreanu - Afterlife Romance [Collaboration]
2019 (Costin Chioreanu) (HM)
1030.
209.
Couch Slut - My Life As A Woman
2014 (Leandro De Cotis)
1030.
210.
Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell And Home
2013 (Brendan Murphy, Daniel Wagner, Stephanie Mill) (HM)
1030.
211.
Countless Skies - Glow
2020 (Carl Ellis) (HM)
1030.
212.
Cretin - Freakery
2006 (Orion Landau)
1030.
213.
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
2010 (Justin Greaves)
1030.
214.
Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre
2022 (Lucy Marshall)
1030.
215.
The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
2018 (Christian Sloan Hall) (HM)
1030.
216.
Crystal Lake - Into The Great Beyond
2010 (Toby Fraser, [Photograph of the SS Baychimo])
1030.
217.
Cult Leader - A Patient Man
2018 (Anthony Lucero)
1030.
218.
Cultes Des Ghoules - Coven, Or Evil Ways Instead Of Love
2016 (Mar.A)
1030.
219.
Cunabula - The Weight Of Sleep
2023 (Nojus Petruaskas) (HM)
1030.
220.
Crypt Sermon - Out Of The Garden
2015 (Brooks Wilson) (HM)
1030.
221.
Cyborg Octopus - Learning To Breathe
2016 (Piere d'Arterie)
1030.
222.
Cynic - Focus
1993 (Robert Venosa ["Angelic Manifestation"])
1030.
223.
Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
2011 (Robert Venosa ["Mindscape"]) (HM)
1030.
224.
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
2014 (Robert Venosa ["Atomic Blossom"])
1030.
225.
Dalriada - Nyárutó
2018 (Júlia Lakihegyi-Binder)
1030.
226.
Dan Swanö - Moontower
1999 [Photograph of Dan Swanö's eye]
1030.
227.
Dark Sanctuary - Royaume Mélancolique
1999 (Arkdae [Photograph of Eilean Donan Castle])
1030.
228.
Dark Suns - Everchild
2016 (Alina Fontain) (HM)
1030.
229.
Dark Tranquillity - Moment
2020 (Niklas Sundin)
1030.
230.
Darkane - Expanding Senses
2002 (Thomas Ewerhard)
1030.
231.
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
1991 (Duncan Fegredo)
1030.
232.
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
1994 [Photograph of Fenriz] (HM)
1030.
233.
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
2007 (Dennis Dread) (HM)
1030.
234.
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails......
2021 (David A. Hardy ["Pluto and Charon"])
1030.
235.
Darkthrone - Goatlord: Original
2023 (Zbigniew Bielak) (HM)
1030.
236.
Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All......
2024 (Zbigniew Bielak)
1030.
237.
Darzamat - In The Opium Of Black Veil
1999 (Jan Saudek ["Oh! Those Fabulous Brom Sisters!")
1030.
238.
Daughters - Daughters
2010 (Rebecca Adams) (HM)
1030.
239.
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
2018 (Jesse Draxler) (HM)
1030.
240.
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy)
1998 (Deanna Alcorn)
1030.
241.
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
2024 (WelderWings)
1030.
242.
Dawnbringer - Unbleed
1997 (Chris Cooper)
1030.
243.
Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God
2012 (Christina Casperson)
1030.
244.
Dawnwalker - House Of Sand
2022 (Mitchell Nolte)
1030.
245.
De Arma - Strayed In Shadows
2021 (Ariel Zucker-Brull)
1030.
246.
De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis
2011 (Mories) (HM)
1030.
247.
Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
2008 (Ketalohelvete)
1030.
248.
Deadlock - Manifesto
2008 (Adam Wentworth)
1030.
249.
Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue
2023 (Alexios) (HM)
1030.
250.
Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree
2004 (Travis Smith) (HM)
1030.
251.
Deafheaven - Sunbather
2013 (Nick Steinhardt)
1030.
252.
Death - Leprosy
1988 (Ed Repka)
1030.
253.
Death - Spiritual Healing
1990 (Ed Repka) (HM)
1030.
254.
Death - Symbolic
1995 (René Miville) (HM)
1030.
255.
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
2004 (Timo Ketola) (HM)
1030.
256.
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
2010 (Davthvs)
1030.
257.
Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
2005 (Jowita Kamińska) (HM)
1030.
258.
Decline Of The I - Johannes
2021 (Dehn Sora) (HM)
1030.
259.
Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn
1968 (John Vernon Lord)
1030.
260.
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
1974 (Lucille Handberg) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 1970s)
1030.
261.
Deep Purple - Bananas
2003 (Bruce Payne)
1030.
262.
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
2020 (Jekyll & Hyde)
1030.
263.
Defect Designer - Neanderthal
2022 (Brad Moore) (HM)
1030.
264.
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2010 (John Ross)
1030.
265.
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2012 (Futura, Frank Maddocks)
1030.
266.
Deftones - Gore
2016 (Frank Maddocks)
1030.
267.
Deftones - Private Music
2025 (Kenneth Cappello, Frank Maddocks)
1030.
268.
Demon - Breakout
1987 (Keith Scaife)
1030.
269.
Demon Bitch - Hellfriends
2016 (Logon Saton) (HM)
1030.
270.
Demonic Death Judge - Absolutely Launched
2025 (Toni Raukola)
1030.
271.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn
2021 (Max Löffler) (HM)
1030.
272.
Despised Icon - Shadow Work
2025 (Eliran Kantor) (HM)
1030.
273.
Destruction - Release From Agony
1987 (Joachim Luetke)
1030.
274.
Devangelic - Ersetu
2020 (Nick Keller) (HM)
1030.
275.
Devil Doll - Eliogabalus
1990 (Mr. Doctor)
1030.
276.
Diablo - When All The Rivers Are Silent
2022 (Tatu Ritanen) (HM)
1030.
277.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole
2021 (Sebastian Kowoll) (HM)
1030.
278.
Diamond Head - Borrowed Time
1982 (Rodney Matthews) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
279.
Die Like Gentlemen - Hard Truths
2023 (Marcus Larson ["Ocean at Night with a Burning Ship"])
1030.
280.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
2013 (Brian Montuori) (HM)
1030.
281.
Dio - Holy Diver
1983 (Randy Berrett, Gene Hunter) (HM)
1030.
282.
Dio - The Last In Line
1984 (Barry Jackson)
1030.
283.
Dio - Dream Evil
1987 (Steve Huston)
1030.
284.
Dirty Shirt - Get Your Dose Now!
2022 (Lia Cucuianu) (HM)
1030.
285.
Disaffected - Vast
1995 (Victor Jesus) (HM)
1030.
286.
Disharmonic Orchestra - Pleasuredome
1994 (Gerhard Klopf)
1030.
287.
Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
1995 (Kristian Wåhlin)
1030.
288.
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995 (Necrolord) (HM)
1030.
289.
Distant Dream - Point Of View
2020 (Robert Kudera)
1030.
290.
Disturbed - The Sickness
2000 (P.R. Brown)
1030.
291.
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
2005 (Greg Capullo)
1030.
292.
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
2010 (Fursy Teyssier) (HM)
1030.
293.
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
2006 (Cory Cudney)
1030.
294.
Dopelord - Sign Of The Devil
2020 (Fabian Staniec)
1030.
295.
Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
2009 (Justin Bartlett) (HM)
1030.
296.
Drain - Living Proof
2023 (Silvio Capoferri) (HM)
1030.
297.
Dreadnought - Emergence
2019 (Mark Facey) (HM)
1030.
298.
Dreadnought - The Endless
2022 (Reza Afshar)
1030.
299.
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
1999 (Dave McKean) (HM)
1030.
300.
Dream Theater - Octavarium
2005 (Hugh Syme)
1030.
301.
Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal
2021 (Matthew Jaffe)
1030.
302.
Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation
2022 (Benjamin Vierling) (HM)
1030.
303.
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
2009 (Rohner Segnitz)
1030.
304.
Dripping Decay - Festering Grotesqueries
2023 (Toni Hietomaa) (HM)
1030.
305.
Droids Attack - Sci-Fi Or Die
2016 (Eli Quinn)
1030.
306.
Drudkh - Їм Часто Сниться Капіж (They Often See Dreams About The Spring)
2018 (Eduard Novikov, Sir Gorgoroth)
1030.
307.
Duel - Fears Of The Dead
2016 (Pol Abran Cantador)
1030.
308.
Duel - Breakfast With Death
2024
1030.
309.
Duma - Duma
2020 (Lola Lapiower)
1030.
310.
Duneeater - No Gas No Good
2019 (HM)
1030.
311.
Dustynation - Echoing Lullabies
2010 (Chrysa Sereti) (HM)
1030.
312.
Dvne - Asheran
2017 (Eli Quinn)
1030.
313.
Dying Wish - Symptoms Of Survival
2023 (Paul Romano)
1030.
314.
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
2008 (Arik Roper [Judges 14:8-10]) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 2000s)
1030.
315.
Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I
2011 (Stacey Rozich)
1030.
316.
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
2023 (Travis Smith) (HM)
1030.
317.
Effluence - Pianistic Dismemberment
2025 (Charred Vulture)
1030.
318.
Eidola - The Architect
2021 (Dan Schaub)
1030.
319.
Elder - Lore
2015 (Adrian Dexter)
1030.
320.
Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World
2017 (Adrian Dexter)
1030.
321.
Elderwind - Волшебство Живой Природы
2012 (Andre Kosslick) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
322.
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
1997 (Jus Oborn) (HM)
1030.
323.
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2000 (Tim Bagshaw)
1030.
324.
Ellende - Ellenbogengesellschaft
2022 (L.G.)
1030.
325.
Eluveitie - Helvetios
2012 (Chrigel Glanzmann, [Celtic Art of the Helvetii]) (HM)
1030.
326.
Eluveitie - Ànv
2025 (Travis Smith) (HM)
1030.
327.
Embrace Of Thorns - Entropy Dynamics
2022 (Frater Teth) (HM)
1030.
328.
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
1994 (Necrolord [Depiction of LOTR's Minas Morgul])
1030.
329.
Empyrium - A Wintersunset...
1996 (R. Reichert)
1030.
330.
Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays
1999 (Jürgen Holzhausen)
1030.
331.
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima
2017 (Saverio Give) (HM)
1030.
332.
Enslaved - RIITIIR
2012 (Truls Espedal) (HM)
1030.
333.
Enter Shikari - A Kiss For The Whole World
2023 (Polygon1993)
1030.
334.
Entombed - Morning Star
2001 (Alex Hellid) (HM)
1030.
335.
Ereb Altor - Gastrike
2012 (Nils Wåhlin) (HM)
1030.
336.
Erra - Drift
2016 (Aaron Marsh)
1030.
337.
Ershetu - Yomi
2024 (Maciej Kamuda) (HM)
1030.
338.
Esogenesi - Esogenesi
2019 (Korvo)
1030.
339.
Et Moriemur - Epigrammata
2018 [Ancient Greek Terracotta Funerary Plaque, Met Museum]
1030.
340.
Et Moriemur - Tamashii No Yama
2022 (Samantha Dibattista) (Co-selected with "Epigrammata")
1030.
341.
The Eternal - Waiting For The Endless Dawn
2018 (Bairon Rivera)
1030.
342.
Evanescence - Fallen
2003 (Ed Sherman, Frank Veronsky, [Photograph of Amy Lee]) (HM)
1030.
343.
Evangelist - Deus Vult
2018 (Diego Spezzoni)
1030.
344.
Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization
1989 (Ed Repka)
1030.
345.
Evile - The Unknown
2023 (Eliran Kantor) (HM)
1030.
346.
Evoken - Hypnagogia
2018 (Adam Burke)
1030.
347.
Ex Deo - The Immortal Wars
2017 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
348.
Exivious - Liminal
2013 (Henrik van Leeuwen)
1030.
349.
Expander - Endless Computer
2017 (Luca Carey)
1030.
350.
Exploding Zombies - Devour The Village
1996 (Dennis Ross, Brian Tomlinson) (HM)
1030.
351.
Extol - Synergy
2003 (Hugh Syme)
1030.
352.
Exulansis - Sequestered Sympathy
2019 (Adam Burke)
1030.
353.
Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime
1995 (Eric Drooker [Taken from "Flood"])
1030.
354.
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
2014 (Tomasz Alan Kopera)
1030.
355.
Fantômas - The Director's Cut
2001 (Martin Kvamme, Dziga Vertov ["Man With A Movie Camera"])
1030.
356.
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
1986 (Ioannis [Depiction of Star Trek's "Guardian of Forever"])
1030.
357.
Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night
2020 (Patrick Atkins) (HM)
1030.
358.
Feather Mountain - A Liminal Step
2025 (Arie Fasant)
1030.
359.
Feind - Ambulante Hirnamputation
2024 (Infested Art)
1030.
360.
Fir Bolg - Towards Ancestral Lands
2013 (Stephanie Simona) (HM)
1030.
361.
Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club
2023 (Christi du Toit, Jo Riou)
1030.
362.
First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
2021 (Adam Burke) (HM)
1030.
363.
Fleshgod Apocalypse - King
2016 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
364.
The Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi
2017 (David Csicsely)
1030.
365.
Flotsam And Jetsam - Drift
1995 (Scott Mutter)
1030.
366.
The Flower Kings - Back In The World Of Adventures
1995 (Roine Stolt) (HM)
1030.
367.
The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel
2006 (Andres Valle) (HM)
1030.
368.
Flower Travellin' Band - Anywhere
1970 (Masaichiro Fukami)
1030.
369.
A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
2015 (Alex CF) (HM)
1030.
370.
Forgotten Tomb - Love's Burial Ground
2004 (Herr Morbid)
1030.
371.
Freak Kitchen - Cooking With Pagans
2014 (Juanjo Guarnido) (HM)
1030.
372.
Freeways - True Bearings
2020 (Wayne DeAdder)
1030.
373.
Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go
1997 (Glen Friedman, [Photograph of the Z-Boys])
1030.
374.
Fuath - I
2016 (Artist: Luciana Nedelea)
1030.
375.
Full Of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
2024 (Brian Montuori) (HM)
1030.
376.
Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent
2019 (Mariusz Lewandowski) (HM)
1030.
377.
Funebre - Children Of The Scorn
1991 (M. Sulin) (HM)
1030.
378.
Gaerea - Coma
2024 (Nathan Lorenzana)
1030.
379.
Gazpacho - Night
2007 (Antonio Seijas)
1030.
380.
Gazpacho - Fireworker
2020 (Antonio Seijas)
1030.
381.
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
2008 (Jon Beasley)
1030.
382.
Ghost - Meliora
2015 (Zbigniew Bielak)
1030.
383.
Ghost - Impera
2022 (Zbigniew Bielak) (Co-selected with "Meliora")
1030.
384.
The Ghost Next Door - A Feast For The Sixth Sense
2019 (Aldo Katayanagi)
1030.
385.
Ghoul - Splatterthrash
2006 (Greg Oakes) (HM)
1030.
386.
Ghoul - Hang Ten
2014 (Sean Aaberg) (HM)
1030.
387.
Gillian Carter - .​.​.​This Earth Shaped Tomb
2018 (Adam Burke)
1030.
388.
Glass Hammer - Lex Rex
2002 (Rosana Azar)
1030.
389.
Glass Hammer - Valkyrie
2016 (Michał Loranc)
1030.
390.
Glass Hammer - Arise
2023 (Michał Loranc) (Co-selected with Deep Purple's "Whoosh!")
1030.
391.
Go Ahead And Die - Go Ahead And Die
2021 (Stewart Easton)
1030.
392.
Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management
2016 (Göran Nilsson) (HM)
1030.
393.
Godsmack - Godsmack
1998
1030.
394.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
2000 (William Schaff) (HM)
1030.
395.
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
2005 (Joe Duplantier) (HM)
1030.
396.
Good Tiger - Raised In A Doomsday Cult
2020 (Tim Grove)
1030.
397.
Gorguts - Considered Dead
1991 (Dan Seagrave)
1030.
398.
Gospel Of The Horns - A Call To Arms
2002 (Hellcunt)
1030.
399.
Gràb - Kremess
2025 (Benjamin König) (Pick for AAOTY in 2025)
1030.
400.
Grant The Sun - Voyage
2023 (William Hay) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2023)
1030.
401.
Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting To Die
2023
1030.
402.
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
2015 (Ulf Lundén)
1030.
403.
The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li
2014 (Jeff Grimal [Depiction of H.P. Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness"])
1030.
404.
Grayceon - Mothers Weavers Vultures
2020 (Kevin E. Taylor) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2020)
1030.
405.
Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow
2016 (Sebastian Jerke)
1030.
406.
Grima - Frostbitten
2022 (Artem Demura) (HM)
1030.
407.
Grip Inc. - Power Of Inner Strength
1995 (Media Logistics)
1030.
408.
Gulch - Burning Desire To Draw Last Breath
2018 (Boone Naka) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2018)
1030.
409.
Hail Spirit Noir - Eden In Reverse
2020 (StuZor) (HM)
1030.
410.
Haken - Fauna
2023 (Dan Goldsworthy)
1030.
411.
Hammers Of Misfortune - Overtaker
2022 (Saprophial) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2022)
1030.
412.
Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack
2025 (Hypnotist Design) (HM)
1030.
413.
Hannes Grossmann - To Where The Light Retreats
2021 (Caelan Stokkermans) (HM)
1030.
414.
Harm's Way - Common Suffering
2023 (Corran Brownlee)
1030.
415.
Hate Eternal - Infernus
2015 (Eliran Kantor) (HM)
1030.
416.
Havok - V
2020 (Eliran Kantor) (HM)
1030.
417.
Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know
2009 (Per Øyvind Haagensen) (HM)
1030.
418.
Heaven Shall Burn - Veto
2013 (John Collier ["Lady Godiva"])
1030.
419.
Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer
2016 (Christian Thiele)
1030.
420.
Heavens Gate - Livin' In Hysteria
1991 (Richard Corben) (HM)
1030.
421.
Helloween - Helloween
2021 (Eliran Kantor) (Co-selected with "Giants & Monsters") (HM)
1030.
422.
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
2014 (Aaron John Gregory)
1030.
423.
Hemina - Night Echoes
2019 (Dominique van Velsen) (HM)
1030.
424.
Hemina - Romancing The Ether
2023 (Patrick Quirke)
1030.
425.
Heretoir - Heretoir
2011 (Fursy Teyssier)
1030.
426.
Heretoir - Solastalgia
2025 (Rudolf Hima)
1030.
427.
Hexvessel - Polar Veil
2023 (Benjamin König)
1030.
428.
Hexvessel - Nocturne
2025 (Benjamin König) (Co-selected with "Polar Veil")
1030.
429.
Hippotraktor - Stasis
2024 (Chiaran Verheyden, Sam Coussens)
1030.
430.
Horndal - Head Hammer Man
2024 (Dave Levi Holand) (HM)
1030.
431.
Horrendous - Ecdysis
2014 (Brian Smith)
1030.
432.
Horrendous - Anareta
2015 (Brian Smith)
1030.
433.
Horrendous - Idol
2018 (Brian Smith)
1030.
434.
Hoth - Oathbreaker
2014 (Dusty Peterson) (HM)
1030.
435.
Howl - Full Of Hell
2010 (Ryan Begley) (HM)
1030.
436.
Howling Giant - Glass Future
2023 (Susan Davies)
1030.
437.
Hyperdontia - Harvest Of Malevolence
2024 (Wes Benscoter) (HM)
1030.
438.
Iapetus - The Body Cosmic
2019 (Tom Roberts)
1030.
439.
Ice Age - Liberation
2001 (Jimmy Pappas)
1030.
440.
Igorrr - Hallelujah
2012 (Mioshe) (HM)
1030.
441.
Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
1992 (Jannicke Wiese-Hansen) (HM)
1030.
442.
Impaled Nazarene - Ugra-Karma
1993 (Madame Koslovsky ["Mother Durga Riding on Her Tiger Carrier Offers Prayers to Lord Vishnu"]) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 1990s)
1030.
443.
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
2020 (Zbigniew Bielak) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2020)
1030.
444.
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
2022 (Louis F. Cuffari) (HM)
1030.
445.
In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
2008 (Alex Pardee) (HM)
1030.
446.
In Flames - Foregone
2023 (Blake Armstrong)
1030.
447.
In Vain - Currents
2018 (Costin Chioreanu) (HM)
1030.
448.
Incandescence - Le Coeur De L'Homme
2022 (Adam Burke)
1030.
449.
Incantation - Unholy Deification
2023 (Eliran Kantor) (HM)
1030.
450.
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Temples Colliding in Fire
2024 (Dávid Glomba)
1030.
451.
Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay
2012 (Jaume Mayans, Daniela Kropeit) (HM)
1030.
452.
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
2007 (Daniel Shaw) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
453.
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
2016 (Orion Landau)
1030.
454.
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
2019 (Kari Greer) (Pick for APOTD in the 2010s)
1030.
455.
The Interbeing - Among The Amorphous
2017 (Michel Winckler-Krog) (HM)
1030.
456.
Interloper - Search Party
2021 (Caelan Stokkermans)
1030.
457.
Internal Bleeding - Voracious Contempt
1995 (Sean Carr, PJ Loughran) (HM)
1030.
458.
Intervals - The Shape Of Colour
2015 (Daniel Wagner)
1030.
459.
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
2008 (Ryan Wade) (Co-selected with "The Direction of Last Things" and "Fluid Existential Inversions")
1030.
460.
Intronaut - Valley Of Smoke
2010 (David D'Andrea)
1030.
461.
Invent Animate - Heavener
2023 (Hayden Clay Williams)
1030.
462.
Iomair - Fishing For An Apparition
2022 (Marie Cherniy)
1030.
463.
Iron Butterfly - Metamorphosis
1970 (Roger Webster)
1030.
464.
Iron Maiden - Killers
1981 (Derek Riggs) (HM)
1030.
465.
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
1983 (Derek Riggs) (HM)
1030.
466.
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1984 (Derek Riggs)
1030.
467.
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
1986 (Derek Riggs) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 1980s)
1030.
468.
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
1988 (Derek Riggs)
1030.
469.
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
1992 (Melvyn Grant)
1030.
470.
Iron Monkey - Our Problem
1998 (Mike Diana)
1030.
471.
Isis - Wavering Radiant
2009 (Aaron Turner)
1030.
472.
Izthmi - The Arrows Of Our Ways
2020 (Moonroot)
1030.
473.
Jaguar - Power Games
1983 (Andrew Warwick) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
474.
Jakob - Sines
2014 (Michael Hawksworth) (HM)
1030.
475.
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
1969 (James Grashow) (HM)
1030.
476.
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
1971 (Burton Silverman)
1030.
477.
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
1972 (Roy Eldridge)
1030.
478.
Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery
1975 (Joseph Nash ["Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire"], Joe Garnett, Ron Kriss) (HM)
1030.
479.
Jethro Tull - The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
2003 (Frederik Marianus Kruseman ["Skaters on a Frozen Pond"])
1030.
480.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Cry Of Love
1971 (Nancy Reiner)
1030.
481.
Jinjer - Macro
2019 (Reuben Bhattacharya)
1030.
482.
Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
2024 (Tony Koehl) (HM)
1030.
483.
Joe Bonamassa - Royal Tea
2020 (Kate Moss)
1030.
484.
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
1987 (John Byrne [Marvel Comic "Silver Surfer #1"])
1030.
485.
Journey - Escape
1981 (Stanley Mouse)
1030.
486.
Judas Iscariot - To Embrace The Corpses Bleeding
2002 (Gustave Doré [Taken from Samuel Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"])
1030.
487.
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
1976 (Patrick Woodroffe) (HM)
1030.
488.
Judas Priest - Stained Class
1978 (Rosław Szaybo)
1030.
489.
Judas Priest - British Steel
1980 (Rosław Szaybo)
1030.
490.
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1982 (Doug Johnson) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 1980s)
1030.
491.
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
1984 (Doug Johnson) (HM)
1030.
492.
Judas Priest - Painkiller
1990 (Mark Wilkinson) (HM)
1030.
493.
Juggernaut (BRA) - La Bestia
2021 (Alcides Burn) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
494.
Kaipa - Inget Nytt Under Solen
1976 (NASA Photography)
1030.
495.
Kaipa - Solo
1978 (Lars Holm)
1030.
496.
Kalaveraztekah - Nikan Axkan
2025 (Brvyja XIII)
1030.
497.
Kaleikr - Heart Of Lead
2019 (Metastazis)
1030.
498.
Kalmah - Kalmah
2023 (Niklas Sundin)
1030.
499.
Kalmankantaja - Waldeinsamkeit
2016 (Linda Piekäinen) (HM)
1030.
500.
Kalmankantaja - Korpi
2019 (Hellish Razor)
1030.
501.
Kalmankantaja - Waeltaja
2021 (Hellish Razor)
1030.
502.
Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
1997 (Season of Mist, [Photograph of Portage Lake, Alaska])
1030.
503.
Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
2021 (Mihály Biró [Hungarian Anti-War Poster in WW1])
1030.
504.
Kardashev - Liminal Rite
2022 (Faith Veloro)
1030.
505.
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
1998 [Stock Art] (HM)
1030.
506.
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
2012 (Travis Smith)
1030.
507.
Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars
2023 (Roberto Bordin) (HM)
1030.
508.
Kauan - Sorni Nai
2015 (Sonya Melnyk)
1030.
509.
Kayo Dot - Plastic House On Base Of Sky
2016 (Fuco Ueda)
1030.
510.
Kekal - Multilateral
2015 (Levi Sianturi)
1030.
511.
KEN Mode - Loved
2018 (Randy Ortiz) (HM)
1030.
512.
Kenn Nardi - Dancing With The Past
2014 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
513.
Khemmis - Deceiver
2021 (Sam Turner) (Co-selected with "Hunted" and "Desolation") (HM)
1030.
514.
Khonsu - The Xun Protectorate
2016 (Adrien Bousson) (HM)
1030.
515.
Khôrada - Salt
2018 (Cedric Wentworth)
1030.
516.
Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
2006 (Viktor Safonkin ["Inhuman Rearing"])
1030.
517.
Killswitch Engage - Atonement
2019 (Richey Beckett) (HM)
1030.
518.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Oddments
2014 (Jason Galea)
1030.
519.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup
2017 (Jason Galea)
1030.
520.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies
2019 (Jason Galea) (HM)
1030.
521.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
2021 (Jason Galea)
1030.
522.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation
2023 (Jason Galea) (HM)
1030.
523.
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
1969 (Barry Godber) (HM)
1030.
524.
King Crimson - Lizard
1970 (Gini Barris)
1030.
525.
King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon
1970 (Tammo De Jongh)
1030.
526.
King Diamond - "Them"
1988 (Thomas Holm, Torbjörn Jörgensen)
1030.
527.
King Diamond - Voodoo
1998 (Kristian Wåhlin) (Co-selected with "Them")
1030.
528.
King Woman - Celestial Blues
2021 (Nedda Afsari)
1030.
529.
Klone - Le Grand Voyage
2019 (Francesco Dell'Orto)
1030.
530.
Klone - Meanwhile
2023 (Umut Recber) (HM)
1030.
531.
KMFDM - Angst
1993 (Brute)
1030.
532.
KMFDM - Hell Yeah
2017 (Brute) (Co-selected with "Angst")
1030.
533.
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks
2016 (Danielle Otrakji) (HM)
1030.
534.
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue
2019 (Ridge Rhine)
1030.
535.
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
2024 (Briscoe Park)
1030.
536.
Kongh - Sole Creation
2013
1030.
537.
Konvent - Puritan Masochism
2020 (Mads Berg)
1030.
538.
Körgull The Exterminator - Sharpen Your Spikes
2020 (Alastor Nihilosatan) (Co-selected with "Built to Kill") (HM)
1030.
539.
Korn - Korn
1994 (Stephen Stickler) (Co-pick for APOTD of the 1990s)
1030.
540.
Korn - Issues
1999 (Alfredo Carlos)
1030.
541.
Korn - Untouchables
2002 (Eric White)
1030.
542.
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
2012 (Roy Zipstein [Photograph of "Columbus Wellington" in Chittagong, Bangladesh])
1030.
543.
Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
2019 (Timo Ketola) (HM)
1030.
544.
Kuolemanlaakso - Tulijoutsen
2014 (Maahy Abdul Muhsin)
1030.
545.
Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu
2022 (Evelyn De Morgan ["The Light Shineth in the Darkness and the Darkness Comprehended It Not"])
1030.
546.
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
2010 (John Dyer Baizley) (Co-selected with Baroness's "Purple")
1030.
547.
Kvelertak - Meir
2013 (John Dyer Baizley) (Co-selected with Baroness's "Purple")
1030.
548.
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
2024 (Sir Gorgoroth) (HM)
1030.
549.
Lacrimosa - Stille
1997 (Stelio Diamantopoulos)
1030.
550.
Lacrimosa - Elodia
1999 (Stelio Diamantopoulos) (Co-selected with "Stille")
1030.
551.
Lacrimosa - Echos
2003 (Stelio Diamantopoulos) (HM)
1030.
552.
Lake Of Tears - Headstones
1995 (Kristian Wåhlin) (HM)
1030.
553.
Lake Of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
1997 (Kristian Wåhlin)
1030.
554.
Lake Of Tears - The Neonai
2002 (Kristian Wåhlin) (HM)
1030.
555.
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
2004 (K3n Adams)
1030.
556.
Lantlôs - Melting Sun
2014 (Pascal Hauer)
1030.
557.
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - Know Your Exits
2011 (James Sisti) (HM)
1030.
558.
Latitudes - Agonist
2009 (Vania Zouravliov)
1030.
559.
Leather Glove - Perpetual Animation
2019 (Max Rain) (HM)
1030.
560.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
1969 (George Hardie, [Photograph of the Hindenburg Disaster])
1030.
561.
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
1973 (Aubrey Powell)
1030.
562.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
1975 (Peter Corriston, Mike Doud)
1030.
563.
Legend - Fröm The Fjörds
1979 (Ioannis)
1030.
564.
Leprous - Bilateral
2011 (Jeff Jordan) (HM)
1030.
565.
Leprous - Coal
2013 (Jeff Jordan)
1030.
566.
Lethe - The First Corpse On The Moon
2017 (Costin Chioreanu)
1030.
567.
Lifesick - Misanthropy
2022 (Paolo Girardi)
1030.
568.
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
2019 (Brian Chippendale)
1030.
569.
The Lion's Daughter - Existence Is Horror
2016 (Paolo Girardi) (HM)
1030.
570.
The Lion's Daughter - Bath House
2023 (Dan Peacock)
1030.
571.
Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway
2009
1030.
572.
Living Metal - Do You Believe In Steel?
2021 (João Alves) (HM)
1030.
573.
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind Of Light
2017 (Helm) (HM)
1030.
574.
Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
2017 (Greg Bogart)
1030.
575.
Lord Mantis - Pervertor
2012 (Justin Bartlett)
1030.
576.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2003 (Martin Hanford) (HM)
1030.
577.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Atavism
2005 (Deanna Cilli, Greg Haa)
1030.
578.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Hardworlder
2007 (James E. Lyle)
1030.
579.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
2009 (Larry Luna) (HM)
1030.
580.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
2010 (Mike Scalzi)
1030.
581.
Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness
2021 (Mariusz Lewandowski) (HM)
1030.
582.
Loss - Horizonless
2017 (Adam Burke)
1030.
583.
Loudness - Sunburst
2021 (Iwata Keiichi)
1030.
584.
Lowen - A Crypt In The Stars
2018 (Hervé Scott Flament ["L'initiation"]) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2018)
1030.
585.
Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
2024 (Hervé Scott Flament)
1030.
586.
Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet
2015 (Chris Sukut)
1030.
587.
Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II
2020 (Mr. Crystalface) (HM)
1030.
588.
Lucifer's Child - Under Satan's Wrath
2022 (Mitchell Nolte) (HM)
1030.
589.
Luna's Call - Divinity
2015
1030.
590.
Lunar Aurora - Seelenfeuer
1998 (Aran)
1030.
591.
Lunar Shadow - Wish To Leave
2021 (Denis Forkas Kostromitin) (HM)
1030.
592.
Lutharo - Chasing Euphoria
2024 (Niklas Sundin) (HM)
1030.
593.
Lux Occulta - Kołysanki
2014 (Ela Biryło)
1030.
594.
Magic Pie - Maestro
2025 (Kim Stenberg)
1030.
595.
Major Parkinson - Songs From A Solitary Home
2010 (Martin Kvamme) (HM)
1030.
596.
Malevolence - Malicious Intent
2022 (Eliran Kantor) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2022)
1030.
597.
Malokarpatan - Stridžie Dni
2015 (Lívia Gréková) (HM)
1030.
598.
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
2017 (Dávid Glomba [Depiction of Juraj Janošik])
1030.
599.
Mamaleek - Diner Coffee
2022 (Eric Livingston)
1030.
600.
Manes - Under Ein Blodraud Maane
1999 (Fenomeno Design)
1030.
601.
Mantar - Death By Burning
2014 (Aron Wiesenfeld)
1030.
602.
Many Blessings - Emanation Body
2020 (Teddie Taylor) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 2020s)
1030.
603.
Marche Funèbre - Einderlicht
2020 (Brooke Shaden) (HM)
1030.
604.
Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
1999 [Photograph of Sweden's Stridsvagn 104, Re-Release: Photograph of Nazi's Panzer VI "Tiger" at the Battle of Kursk in WW2)
1030.
605.
Mare Cognitum - The Sea Which Has Become Known
2011
1030.
606.
Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
1983 (Mark Wilkinson)
1030.
607.
Marillion - Brave
1994 (Carl Glover, Bill Smith Studios, Michael Johnson) (HM)
1030.
608.
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
2005 (Storm Thorgerson)
1030.
609.
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
2006 (Jeff Jordan ["Big Mutant"])
1030.
610.
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
2008 (Jeff Jordan)
1030.
611.
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
2009 (Jeff Jordan) (HM)
1030.
612.
Maudlin Of The Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
1999 (Toby Driver) (Co-selected with "Leaving Your Body Map" and "Bath")
1030.
613.
Mastodon - Leviathan
2004 (Paul Romano)
1030.
614.
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2009 (Paul Romano) (HM)
1030.
615.
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
2014 (Skinner)
1030.
616.
Mawiza - Ül
2025 (Kata Ulloa)
1030.
617.
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
1986 (Ed Repka [Depiction of the United Nations])
1030.
618.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
1990 (Ed Repka) (HM)
1030.
619.
Melvins - Lysol
1992 (Cyrus Edwin Dallin ["Appeal to the Great Spirit"])
1030.
620.
Melvins - Houdini
1993 (Frank Kozik)
1030.
621.
Melvins - Nude With Boots
2008 (Mackie Osborne) (HM)
1030.
622.
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
1984 (Thomas Holm)
1030.
623.
Meslamtaea - Weemoedsklanken
2022 (Maya Kurhuli)
1030.
624.
Messa - Belfry
2016 (Marco Zanin [Photograph of Lake Reschen, Italy])
1030.
625.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
1986 (Don Brautigam, Peter Mensch) (HM)
1030.
626.
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
1988 (Stephen Gorman, Pushead)
1030.
627.
Methadone Skies - Retrofuture Caveman
2021 (Mihai Manescu aka Obsidian Nibs)
1030.
628.
Mgła - Exercises In Futility
2015 (Marcel Roux)
1030.
629.
Mgła - Age Of Excuse
2019 (Zbigniew Bielak) (HM)
1030.
630.
Midnight Priest - Aggressive Hauntings
2019 (Jowita Kamińska-Peruzzi) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
631.
Ministry - Dark Side Of The Spoon
1999 (Paul Elledge)
1030.
632.
Misery Signals - Ultraviolet
2020 (Sam Octigan)
1030.
633.
Misþyrming - Algleymi
2019 (Manuel Tinnemans)
1030.
634.
Mitochondrial Sun - Machine Dialectics
2025 (Niklas Sundin)
1030.
635.
Mizmor - Yodh
2016 (Zdzisław Beksiński ["Untitled"])
1030.
636.
Mizmor - Cairn
2019 (Mariusz Lewandowski) (HM)
1030.
637.
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
2006 (Amanda Church ["Milkbar"])
1030.
638.
Molly Hatchet - Molly Hatchet
1978 (Frank Fazetta ["Death Dealer"]) (Co-selected with "Flirtin' With Disaster") (HM)
1030.
639.
Mono - You Are There
2006 (Esteban Rey)
1030.
640.
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
2009 (Esteban Rey) (HM)
1030.
641.
Mono - Requiem For Hell
2016 (Gustave Doré [Taken from "Paradiso" of the "Divine Comedy"]) (HM)
1030.
642.
Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul
2021 (Ahmed Emad Eldin)
1030.
643.
Monolord - Empress Rising
2014 (Nik Dudukovic)
1030.
644.
Monuments - In Stasis
2022 (Visual Amnesia)
1030.
645.
Moon Tooth - Phototroph
2022 (Caroline Harrison)
1030.
646.
Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
2001 (Skrymer)
1030.
647.
Moonspell - Hermitage
2021 (Artūrs Bērziņš) (HM)
1030.
648.
Moratory - The Old Tower Burns
2021 (Alexey Tompson)
1030.
649.
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
1989 (Dan Seagrave)
1030.
650.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
1993 (Luton Sinfield, Martin Nesbitt)
1030.
651.
Morbid Angel - Gateways To Annihilation
2000 (Dan Seagrave) (HM)
1030.
652.
Morbid Evils - Deceases
2017 (Jerker Ramberg) (HM)
1030.
653.
Morgul Blade - Heavy Metal Wraiths
2024 (James Bousema [Depiction of LOTR's Ringwraiths])
1030.
654.
Morkera - Entangled Excavations
2022 (Vladimir Chebakov)
1030.
655.
Moron Police - A Boat On The Sea
2019 (Dulk) (Co-selected with "Pachinko") (HM)
1030.
656.
Morta Skuld - As Humanity Fades
1994 (Dominic Marino) (HM)
1030.
657.
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
2022 (Marald Van Haasteren)
1030.
658.
Motörhead - Bomber
1979 (Adrian Chesterman [Depiction of Heinkel 111 Bomber])
1030.
659.
Motörhead - Orgasmatron
1986 (Joe Petagno) (HM)
1030.
660.
Mountaineer - Dawn And All That Follows
2024 (Nicolas Spearman)
1030.
661.
Municipal Waste - Electrified Brain
2022 (James Bousema) (HM)
1030.
662.
Murder Inc. - Umlčen Navěky
2018 (Boris Bauer)
1030.
663.
Mutoid Man - War Moans
2017 (John Santos)
1030.
664.
Myrkur - Folkesange
2020 (Hans Dahl ["On the Mountaintop"])
1030.
665.
Nadja - Sonnborner
2018 (Le Nevralgie Costanti ["Lontana Fugace Realtà"]) (HM)
1030.
666.
Nailbomb - Point Blank
1994 ("Alternative" Associated Press Photography of Vietnam War)
1030.
667.
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
2024 (WHEAD) (HM)
1030.
668.
Napalm Death - Scum
1987 (Jeff Walker) (Co-selected with "Utilitarian")
1030.
669.
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
2012 (Frode Sylthe)
1030.
670.
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
2014 (R. Jonsson)
1030.
671.
Necroblaspheme - Destination: Nulle Part
2008 (Valnoir) (HM)
1030.
672.
Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal
2024 (Manifest) (HM)
1030.
673.
Nekrogoblikon - Welcome To Bonkers
2018 (Nicholas Knudson)
1030.
674.
Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
2020 (Tomiyuki Kaneko ["Vajrabhairava"])
1030.
675.
Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony
2021 (Hervé Scott Flament [“Sacrifices”]) (HM)
1030.
676.
Neptunian Maximalism - Set Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon
2022 (Tomiyuki Kaneko ["Sagara Nagaraja"])
1030.
677.
Nero Di Marte - Immoto
2020 (Alex Eckman-Lawn)
1030.
678.
Neurosis - Times Of Grace
1999 (Bob McDonald)
1030.
679.
Nidingr - The High Heat Licks Against Heaven
2017 (Metastazis)
1030.
680.
Night Sun - Mournin'
1972
1030.
681.
Night Verses - Into The Vanishing Light
2016 (Reilly Herrera)
1030.
682.
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
2019 (Tim Call, Tom Burdette, Dan Fried) (HM)
1030.
683.
Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift
2023 (Jeanne Comateuse)
1030.
684.
Nightwish - Oceanborn
1998 (Maria Sandell)
1030.
685.
Ningen Isu - 黄金の夜明け
1992 (Kotaro Ookoshi) (HM)
1030.
686.
Ningen Isu - 頽廃芸術展
1998
1030.
687.
Ningen Isu - 怪人二十面相
2000 (Kotaro Koushi [Depiction of Fiend with Twenty Faces])
1030.
688.
Ningen Isu - 見知らぬ世界
2001 (HM)
1030.
689.
Nocte Obducta - Irrlicht (Es Schlägt Dem Mond Ein Kaltes Herz)
2020 (Marcel)
1030.
690.
Nocternity - Onyx
2003
1030.
691.
Nocturnus - The Key
1990 (Dan Seagrave)
1030.
692.
Norska - Too Many Winters
2017 (Mark McCormick) (HM)
1030.
693.
Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
1995 (HM)
1030.
694.
Novembre - Materia
2006 (Travis Smith) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 2000s)
1030.
695.
Nuclear Assault - Game Over
1986 (Ed Repka) (HM)
1030.
696.
Nuclear Death - Bride Of Insect
1990 (Phil Hampson) (HM)
1030.
697.
Oak - Lone
2019 (Paolo Girardi)
1030.
698.
Obiat - Eye Tree Pi
2009 (Mihály Gergely) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
699.
Obituary - Cause Of Death
1990 (Michael Whelan) (HM)
1030.
700.
Odraza - Esperalem Tkane
2014 (J. Drzewiecki) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
701.
Officium Triste - The Death Of Gaia
2019 (Chris Smith) (HM)
1030.
702.
Olhava - Reborn
2022 (MarGoat)
1030.
703.
Om - Advaitic Songs
2012 [Greek Orthodox Icon of John the Baptist] (HM)
1030.
704.
Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent
2023 (Adrien Bousson) (HM)
1030.
705.
One Of Nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow
2025 (Ted Nasmith) (HM)
1030.
706.
Opeth - Morningrise
1996 (Tuija Lindström)
1030.
707.
Opeth - Sorceress
2016 (Travis Smith)
1030.
708.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
2009 (Samuli Huttunen)
1030.
709.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument
2011 (Olli Kiviluoto)
1030.
710.
Orgone - Pleroma
2024 (David D’Andrea)
1030.
711.
Oromet - The Sinking Isle
2025 (Ted Nasmith) (Co-selected with "Oromet") (HM)
1030.
712.
Oryx - Primordial Sky
2024 (John Harris)
1030.
713.
Osiah - Kairos
2023 (Shindy Reehal) (HM)
1030.
714.
Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith
2023 (MM Fabrications, Blaqk Rabbit) (HM)
1030.
715.
Oxbow - King Of The Jews
1991 (Jim Blanchard [Portrait of Sammy Davis, Jr.])
1030.
716.
Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
2006 (Harry Clarke) (HM)
1030.
717.
Pallbearer - Heartless
2017 (Michael Lierly) (HM)
1030.
718.
Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
2020 (Michael Lierly) (HM)
1030.
719.
Pan.thy.monium - Khaooohs
1993 (Fritz Quasthoff)
1030.
720.
Panopticon - Kentucky
2012 (Bekah and Austin Lunn, [Photographs of Kentucky])
1030.
721.
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
1992 (Brad Guice) (HM)
1030.
722.
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
1996 (Zig Leszczynski) (HM)
1030.
723.
Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
1992 (Dave McKean)
1030.
724.
Paradise Lost - One Second
1997 (Susan Andrews)
1030.
725.
Paradise Lost - Believe In Nothing
2001 (Martin)
1030.
726.
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life
2002 (Nick Veasey)
1030.
727.
Parius - The Eldritch Realm
2018 (Stephen Andrade)
1030.
728.
Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
2022 (Stephen Andrade) (HM)
1030.
729.
Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
2010 (Dan Mumford) (HM)
1030.
730.
Pelican - Australasia
2003 (Aaron Turner, Gregory White)
1030.
731.
Pendragon - The Window Of Life
1993 (Simon Williams) (HM)
1030.
732.
Pendragon - Love Over Fear
2020 (Liz Saddington)
1030.
733.
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
2003 (Steven R. Gilmore, Maynard James Keenan)
1030.
734.
Persefone - Shin-Ken
2009 (Bernat Argemí)
1030.
735.
Phantom Spell - Heather & Hearth
2025 (Jean deMers)
1030.
736.
Pharmakon - Contact
2017 (Jane Chardiet)
1030.
737.
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
2004 (Chris Taylor) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 2000s)
1030.
738.
The Plot In You - Swan Song
2021 (Rowan Daly)
1030.
739.
Polaris - Fatalism
2023 (Sean Mundy, Bobby Hendry)
1030.
740.
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
1999 (Robert Harding)
1030.
741.
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2002 (Lasse Hoile)
1030.
742.
Portal - ION
2018 (Zbigniew Bielak) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2018)
1030.
743.
Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion
2019 (Zbigniew Bielak) (HM)
1030.
744.
Predatory Light - Death And The Twilight Hours
2022 (Aron John Dubois) (HM)
1030.
745.
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
2014 (Miluță Flueraș [Photograph from Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest])
1030.
746.
Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
1991 (Mark Kohr, Mitch Romananski, Lance Montoya, Snap) (HM)
1030.
747.
Primus - Green Naugahyde
2011 (Tod Sorum, [Photograph of "The Gyro-Cycle" made in 1938]) (HM)
1030.
748.
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U​.​M​.​A.
2013 (Alexander Preuss) (Co-selected with "OltreLuna")
1030.
749.
Progenie Terrestre Pura - OltreLuna
2017 (Alexander Preuss)
1030.
750.
Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
2011 (Jafar Petgar)
1030.
751.
Protest The Hero - Volition
2013 (Jeff Jordan) (Alternative Cover)
1030.
752.
Pryapisme - Rococo Holocaust
2010 (Johan Deschamps Couturier)
1030.
753.
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
1990 (Mike Clift) (HM)
1030.
754.
Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns
2018 (Mariusz Lewandowski) (HM)
1030.
755.
Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys And Mountains
2020 (Chris Panatier)
1030.
756.
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
1991 (Joel-Peter Witkin)
1030.
757.
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
2022 (Jill Tegan Doherty ["Deaf Mute"])
1030.
758.
Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up To Consciousness
2024 (Jill Tegan Doherty ["As We Disappear"]) (Co-selected with "Above Cirrus")
1030.
759.
Pure Wrath - Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
2022 (Aghy Purakusuma)
1030.
760.
Pyramaze - Bloodlines
2023 (Remedy Art Design) (HM)
1030.
761.
Pyramids - Pyramids
2008 (Heather & Ivan Morison)
1030.
762.
Pyrrhon - The Mother Of Virtues
2014 (Caroline Harrison)
1030.
763.
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
2017 (Caroline Harrison)
1030.
764.
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
2024 (Caroline Harrison)
1030.
765.
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
2007 (Morning Breath Inc.) (HM)
1030.
766.
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
2017 (Boneface) (HM)
1030.
767.
Rage - Perfect Man
1988 (Joachim Luetke)
1030.
768.
Rage - Lingua Mortis
1996 (Peter Dell)
1030.
769.
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
1992 (Malcolm Browne, [Photograph of Thích Quảng Đức])
1030.
770.
Rainbow - Rising
1976 (Ken Kelly) (Pick for AAOTD in the 1970s)
1030.
771.
Rammstein - Mutter
2001 (Formgeber) (HM)
1030.
772.
Rammstein - Rosenrot
2005 [Photograph of the Icebreaker USS Atka in Ross Ice Shelf/Antarctica 1960] (HM)
1030.
773.
Realm - Endless War
1988 (Chi Choni)
1030.
774.
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension
2020 (Førtifem) (HM)
1030.
775.
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects
2005 (Frederick Coffay Yohn ["Witchcraft Victims on the Way to the Gallows"])
1030.
776.
Rhapsody - Power Of The Dragonflame
2002 (Marc Klinnert) (HM)
1030.
777.
Rings Of Saturn - Gidim
2019 (Mark Cooper) (HM)
1030.
778.
Riot - The Brethren Of The Long House
1995 (John Macaluso)
1030.
779.
Rishloo - Feathergun
2009 (HM)
1030.
780.
Rival Sons - Hollow Bones
2016 (Martin Wittfooth ["Rainsong"]) (Co-selected with "Feral Roots")
1030.
781.
Rival Sons - Feral Roots
2019 (Martin Wittfooth ["Wildmother"])
1030.
782.
Rival Sons - Darkfighter
2023 (Martin Wittfooth)
1030.
783.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
2025 (Dan Seagrave)
1030.
784.
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
2009 (Travis Smith, Wojtek Kutyla)
1030.
785.
Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology
2010 (Simon Moody)
1030.
786.
Rotten Sound - Cursed
2011 (Orion Landau) (HM)
1030.
787.
Ruff Majik - The Devil's Cattle
2020 (Ale & Cake Illustration)
1030.
788.
The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
2017 (Julia Schneider)
1030.
789.
Rush - Moving Pictures
1981 (Hugh Syme) (Pick for APOTD in the 1980s)
1030.
790.
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
1984 (Hugh Syme)
1030.
791.
Rush - Roll The Bones
1991 (Hugh Syme)
1030.
792.
Rush - Vapor Trails
2002 (Hugh Syme)
1030.
793.
Russian Circles - Station
2008
1030.
794.
Russian Circles - Empros
2011 (Dave Turncrantz)
1030.
795.
Russian Circles - Guidance
2016 (HM)
1030.
796.
Ryujin - Ryujin
2024 (Mathieu Noizeres) (HM)
1030.
797.
Sacred Son - Sacred Son
2017 [Photograph of Dane Cross on Vacation] (HM)
1030.
798.
Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn
2009 (Michael Rosner)
1030.
799.
Saga - Steel Umbrellas
1994 (Ioannis, Penny Crichton, Stephen Jacaruso)
1030.
800.
Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming Of Psychotic Depravity
2024 (Kelly Lu) (HM)
1030.
801.
Sanguine Glacialis - Maladaptive Daydreaming
2023 (Alex O’Dowd)
1030.
802.
Santacreu - Cançons D'amor, Dol I Enyorança
2024 (Guillem Bosch) (HM)
1030.
803.
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You
1997 (Martin Moos)
1030.
804.
Saturnus - Martyre
2000 (Paul Delaroche ["La Jeune Martyre"]) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 2000s)
1030.
805.
Satyricon - Volcano
2002 (Fernander F. Flux)
1030.
806.
Savage - Hyperactive
1985 (Garry Sharpe)
1030.
807.
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
1989 (Gary Smith)
1030.
808.
Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
1993 (Gary Smith) (HM)
1030.
809.
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
2009 [Photograph of "The Wave" in Arizona]
1030.
810.
Scale The Summit - The Migration
2013 (Duncan Storr ["Migration"]) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2013)
1030.
811.
Scale The Summit - In A World Of Fear
2017 (Josh Nall)
1030.
812.
Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble
1990 (Robert Williams)
1030.
813.
Scorpions - Lovedrive
1979 (Storm Thorgerson) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 1970s)
1030.
814.
Sear Bliss - The Haunting
1998 (Kris Verwimp)
1030.
815.
A Sense Of Gravity - Atrament
2016 (Ryohei Hase)
1030.
816.
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
1989 (Michael Whelan)
1030.
817.
Sepultura - Arise
1991 (Michael Whelan) (HM)
1030.
818.
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
1993 (Michael Whelan) (HM)
1030.
819.
Sepultura - Roots
1996 (Michael Whelan [Brazilian "1000 Cruzeiro" in early-1990s]) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 1990s)
1030.
820.
Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun
2023 (Santiago Caruso) (HM)
1030.
821.
Seventh Angel - The Torment
1990 (Rodney Matthews [Revelation 9:3])
1030.
822.
Sigh - Infidel Art
1995 (Utagawa Hiroshige ["Taira Kiyomori Sees an Apparition"])
1030.
823.
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
2001 (Stephen O'Malley)
1030.
824.
Sigh - In Somniphobia
2012 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
825.
Sigh - Heir To Despair
2018 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
826.
Signs Of The Swarm - Absolvere
2021 (Gabor Toth) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2021)
1030.
827.
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
1999 (Gotti Bernhöft) (HM)
1030.
828.
SikTh - The Future In Whose Eyes?
2017 (Meats Meier) (HM)
1030.
829.
The Silver - Ward Of Roses
2021 (Paul Romano)
1030.
830.
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
1970 (Doug Taylor, John Craig)
1030.
831.
Sivyj Yar - Burial Shrouds
2015 (Vasily Perov ["Return of the Peasants from a Funeral in Winter"], Sir Gorgoroth) (HM)
1030.
832.
Skelator - Cyber Metal
2019 (Two Headed Giant) (HM)
1030.
833.
Skogen - Eld
2012 (Wolkogniv)
1030.
834.
Skyclad - Prince Of The Poverty Line
1994 (Duncan Storr) (HM)
1030.
835.
Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea
1995 (Duncan Storr) (HM)
1030.
836.
Skyforest - Unity
2016 (Sergey Shenderovsky)
1030.
837.
Skyforest - A New Dawn
2020 (Sergey Shenderovsky)
1030.
838.
Skyforger - Kauja Pie Saules
1998 (Voldemārs Vimba ["Kauja pie Saules”]) (HM)
1030.
839.
Skumstrike - Deadly Intrusions
2022 (Ibay Arifin)
1030.
840.
Slayer - Reign In Blood
1986 (Larry Carroll) (HM)
1030.
841.
Sleep - Dopesmoker
2003 (Arik Roper) (2012 Reissue)
1030.
842.
Sleep - The Sciences
2018 (Jason Roeder)
1030.
843.
Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
2024 (Brad Moore)
1030.
844.
Slipknot - Iowa
2001 (Shawn "Clown" Crahan)
1030.
845.
Slomatics - Canyons
2019 (Familiar Ink)
1030.
846.
Slomatics - Ungraven / Slomatics
2021 (Ryan Lesser)
1030.
847.
Slomatics - Atomicult
2025 (Ryan Lesser) (HM)
1030.
848.
Slung - In Ways
2025 (Dommy Sullivan) (HM)
1030.
849.
Smohalla - Nova Persei
2007
1030.
850.
Smoulder - Violent Creed Of Vengeance
2023 (Michael Whelan)
1030.
851.
Snooze - Actually, Extremely
2017 (Breanna Utz)
1030.
852.
Sodom - Agent Orange
1989 (Andreas Marschall, [Vietnam War Photography]) (Co-pick for AAOTD in the 1980s)
1030.
853.
Sodom - The Arsonist
2025 (Zbigniew Bielak)
1030.
854.
Soen - Tellurian
2014 (José Luis López Galván) (Pick for AAOTY in 2014)
1030.
855.
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
2002 (Travis Smith)
1030.
856.
Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
1997 (Odd Nerdrum ["Return of the Sun"])
1030.
857.
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
2006 (Travis Smith) (HM)
1030.
858.
Sólstafir - Svartir Sandar
2011 (Kim Holm)
1030.
859.
Sólstafir - Ótta
2014 (Ragnar Axelsson) (HM)
1030.
860.
Soreption - Jord
2022 (Caelan Stokkermans) (HM)
1030.
861.
Spectral Lore - III
2014 (Benjamin Vierling)
1030.
862.
Spectral Lore - Gnosis
2015 (John William Godward ["Lycinna"]) (Co-selected with Weald and Woe's "Far from the Light of Heaven")
1030.
863.
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
2021 (Kevin Moore, Pawel Czerwinksi) (HM)
1030.
864.
Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One
2016 (Caspar David Friedrich [“The Sea of Ice”]) (HM)
1030.
865.
SpiritWorld - Deathwestern
2022 (James Bousema)
1030.
866.
Spock's Beard - The Light
1995
1030.
867.
Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn & Peel
1996 (Gabrielle Raumberger, Dylan Tran) (HM)
1030.
868.
Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts
2022 (David Seidman)
1030.
869.
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2015 (Hajo Müller, Lasse Hoile) (Co-selected with Sunburst's "Manifesto")
1030.
870.
Stillbirth - Revive The Throne
2020 (Aghy Purakusuma)
1030.
871.
Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
2006 (Crab Scrambly)
1030.
872.
Storm - Nordavind
1995 (K. O. Storvik, [Photograph of "Geitgallien"]) (HM)
1030.
873.
Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime
2021 (Les Edwards)
1030.
874.
Street Sects - End Position
2016 (A.J. Garcés Bohmer)
1030.
875.
SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones
2011 (Glyn Smyth)
1030.
876.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
1991 (Dan Seagrave) (HM)
1030.
877.
Sulphur Aeon - Swallowed By The Ocean's Tide
2012 (Ola Larsson) (Co-selected with "Gateway to the Antisphere") (HM)
1030.
878.
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals
2023 (Paolo Girardi) (HM)
1030.
879.
Summoning - Lugburz
1995 (Mark Harrison [Roger Taylor's "The Fall of Fyorlund"])
1030.
880.
Summoning - Minas Morgul
1995 (Mark Harrison [Roger Taylor's "The Call of the Sword"]) (Co-selected with "Lugburz")
1030.
881.
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
2001 (Mark Harrison) (HM)
1030.
882.
Summoning - Oath Bound
2006 (Albert Bierstadt) (HM)
1030.
883.
Sunburst - Manifesto
2024 (Vasilis Georgiou)
1030.
884.
Sleep Token - Sundowning
2019 (Kevin Saint Grey)
1030.
885.
Sumo Cyco - Initiation
2021 (Francesca Ludikar)
1030.
886.
Sunnata - Zorya
2016 (Jeffrey Smith)
1030.
887.
Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
2021 (Juha Raivio) (HM)
1030.
888.
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
1991 (Deryk Thomas)
1030.
889.
Swans - Love Of Life
1992 (Deryk Thomas) (Co-selected with "White Light from The Mouth of Infinity")
1030.
890.
The Sword - Warp Riders
2010 (Dan McPharlin)
1030.
891.
Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
2011 (Dan Goldsworthy) (Co-selected with "Dormant Heart") (HM)
1030.
892.
System Of A Down - Steal This Album!
2002 (John Dolmayan)
1030.
893.
T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
2012 (Jeff Jordan)
1030.
894.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Wires/Dream\Wires
2015
1030.
895.
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
2017 (Adam Burke) (Co-selected with Whitechapel's "The Valley") (HM)
1030.
896.
Tempel - On The Steps Of The Temple
2014 (Li Cheng ["A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks"])
1030.
897.
Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path
2015 (Lucas Ruggieri) (HM)
1030.
898.
Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor
2024 (Adam Burke)
1030.
899.
Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels
2011 (Johan Dahlroth) (HM)
1030.
900.
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
2014 (Jerry Cooke)
1030.
901.
Theotoxin - Consilivm
2018 (James Quinn) (HM)
1030.
902.
Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World
1973 (Jim Fitzpatrick)
1030.
903.
Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
1974 (Jim Fitzpatrick)
1030.
904.
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
1976 (Jim Fitzpatrick)
1030.
905.
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend
1979 (Jim Fitzpatrick)
1030.
906.
Thornhill - The Dark Pool
2019 (Kenzie Adams) (Pick for AAOTY in 2019)
1030.
907.
Thou - Summit
2010
1030.
908.
Thought Industry - Songs For Insects
1992 (Salvador Dalí ["Soft Construction with Boiled Beans"]) (HM)
1030.
909.
Thought Industry - Mods Carve The Pig: Assassins, Toads And God's Flesh
1993 (Salvador Dalí ["Apotheosis Of Homere"]) (HM)
1030.
910.
Thought Industry - Short Wave On A Cold Day
2001 (Jeff Till)
1030.
911.
Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation
2017 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
912.
Thy Catafalque - Meta
2016 (Agnessa Kessiakova)
1030.
913.
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
2018 (Tamás Kátai) (HM)
1030.
914.
Thyrfing - Valdr Galga
1999 (Kris Verwimp) (HM)
1030.
915.
Tiamat - Wildhoney
1994 (Kristian Wåhlin)
1030.
916.
Tiamat - The Scarred People
2012 (Johan Edlund)
1030.
917.
Time Rift - In Flight
2025 (Hickory Mertsching)
1030.
918.
Toehider - I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories
2022 (Andrew Saltmarsh)
1030.
919.
Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
2022 (Mariusz Lewandowski)
1030.
920.
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
2019 (Jesse Jacobi)
1030.
921.
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
2023 (Jesse Jacobi) (Co-selected with "Planetary Clairvoyance")
1030.
922.
Tool - Lateralus
2001 (Alex Grey)
1030.
923.
Torche - Harmonicraft
2012 (John Santos) (Pick for AAOTY in 2012)
1030.
924.
Toundra - III
2012 (Chelsea Greene Lewyta) (HM)
1030.
925.
Toundra - IV
2015 (Chelsea Greene Lewyta) (HM)
1030.
926.
Toxik - Think This
1989 (Ed Repka)
1030.
927.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve And Other Stories
1996 (Edgar Jerins)
1030.
928.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Attic
1998 (Edgar Jerins) (Co-selected with "Christmas Eve and Other Stories")
1030.
929.
Trespasser - Αποκάλυψις
2023
1030.
930.
Trial - Feed The Fire
2022 (Costin Chioreanu) (HM)
1030.
931.
Tribulation - Down Below
2018 (Jonathan Hultén) (HM)
1030.
932.
Trist - Hin-fort
2007 (Tristan)
1030.
933.
Trivium - In Waves
2011 (Danny Jones)
1030.
934.
Troldhaugen - Obzkure Anekdotez For Maniakal Massez
2014 (Andrew Saltmarsh)
1030.
935.
Trudger - Dormiveglia
2014 (Michael Ribeiro)
1030.
936.
Turbid North - Eyes Alive
2015 (Samantha Muljat)
1030.
937.
Turisas - The Varangian Way
2007 (John Coulthart)
1030.
938.
Tzompantli - Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force
2024 (Adam Burke)
1030.
939.
Ueldes - Foreverer
2022 (Tom Roberts)
1030.
940.
Ufomammut - Godlike Snake
2000 (Malleus Rock Art Lab)
1030.
941.
Ufomammut - Snailking
2004 (Malleus Rock Art Lab) (HM)
1030.
942.
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
2020 (Jamie Saint Merat) (HM)
1030.
943.
Ulthar - Anthronomicon
2023 (Ian Miller)
1030.
944.
Ulthar - Helionomicon
2023 (Ian Miller) (Co-selected with "Anthronomicon")
1030.
945.
Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler
1995 (Tanya "Nacht" Stene)
1030.
946.
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
1997 (Tanya "Nacht" Stene) (Co-selected with "Bergtatt...")
1030.
947.
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
2007 (Trine Paulsen, Kim Sølve, [Taken from Natural History Magazine Oct/1978])
1030.
948.
Ulver - Neverland
2025 (Paschalis Zervas)
1030.
949.
Uneven Structure - Februus
2011 (Igor Omodei)
1030.
950.
Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
2018
1030.
951.
Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote
1999 (HM)
1030.
952.
Unleash The Archers - Abyss
2020 (Adam Burke) (HM)
1030.
953.
Unreqvited - Mosaic I: L'amour Et L'ardeur
2018 (Luciana Nedelea) (Co-selected with "Mosaic II")
1030.
954.
Unreqvited - Mosaic II: La Déteste Et La Détresse
2020 (Luciana Nedelea)
1030.
955.
Upon A Burning Body - The World Is My Enemy Now
2014 (Daniel McBride)
1030.
956.
Upon A Burning Body - Straight From The Barrio
2016 (Daniel McBride)
1030.
957.
Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying
2015 (Jeff Christensen)
1030.
958.
Urfaust - Untergang
2023 (Izabela Carlucci)
1030.
959.
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
1971 [Photograph of a British Chieftain in Wiltshire, England]
1030.
960.
Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
1972 (Roger Dean)
1030.
961.
Uriah Heep - Firefly
1977 (Martin White) (HM)
1030.
962.
Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
2023 (Rachael Talibart) (Co-pick for APOTD in the 2020s)
1030.
963.
Van Halen - Fair Warning
1981 (William Kurelek ["The Maze"])
1030.
964.
Van Halen - 1984
1984 (Margo Nahas)
1030.
965.
Vanish - A Hint Of Solace
2023 (David SC) (HM)
1030.
966.
Vanishing Kids - Heavy Dreamer
2018 (Daria Hlazatova)
1030.
967.
Vauruvã - Mar Da Deriva
2025 (Bruno Augusto Ribeiro, Caio Lemos)
1030.
968.
Vehemence - Helping The World To See
2004 (Wes Benscoter)
1030.
969.
Vein.fm - This World Is Going To Ruin You
2022 (Autumn Morgan) (HM)
1030.
970.
Venom Prison - Erebos
2022 (Eliran Kantor)
1030.
971.
Verwoed - The Mother
2024 (Joost Vervoort) (Guilty Pleasure) (HM)
1030.
972.
Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!
2023 (Helvetica Blanc) (HM)
1030.
973.
Vildhjarta - Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Grana
2025 (Chris Williams)
1030.
974.
Vintersorg - Visions From The Spiral Generator
2002 (Asgeir Mickelson [Depiction of the Golden Spiral])
1030.
975.
Virgin Steele - The House Of Atreus Act I
1999 [Greek Shield and David DeFeis Family Heirloom]
1030.
976.
Vita Imana - Uluh
2012 (David Sobrino) (HM)
1030.
977.
Vita Imana - Bosa
2019
1030.
978.
Vitriol - Suffer & Become
2024 (Dylan Humphries)
1030.
979.
Void Of Silence - The Grave Of Civilization
2010 (Mauro Berchi) (HM)
1030.
980.
Voivod - War And Pain
1984 (Away) (Co-selected with "Rrröööaaarrr")
1030.
981.
Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
1986 (Away)
1030.
982.
Voivod - Nothingface
1989 (Artist: Away)
1030.
983.
Vokonis - Odyssey
2021 (Kyrre Bjurling)
1030.
984.
Vokonis - Transitions
2024 (Kyrre Bjurling) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2024)
1030.
985.
Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
2018 (Jessica Lee Ives ["Joyful Participation"])
1030.
986.
Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
2015 (Aron Briggs) (HM)
1030.
987.
Volbeat - Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie
2016 (Karsten Sand, Michael Poulsen)
1030.
988.
Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
2024 (Adam Burke) (Co-selected with Vektor's "Terminal Redux") (HM)
1030.
989.
Vulture Industries - Ghosts From The Past
2023 (Kim Diaz Holm) (HM)
1030.
990.
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
1989 (John Kosh, Daniel R. Fitzpatrick ["Gateway to Stalingrad"])
1030.
991.
Wage War - Pressure
2019 (Jim Hughes) (HM)
1030.
992.
Waltari - Rare Species
2004 (Benny Rebel) (HM)
1030.
993.
Warforged - The Grove / Sundial
2022 (Sam Nelson) (HM)
1030.
994.
Watain - Casus Luciferi
2003 (Ketoladog) (HM)
1030.
995.
Weald And Woe - Far From The Light Of Heaven
2025 (John William Waterhouse ["The Soul of the Rose"])
1030.
996.
Weapönizer - Lawless Age
2017 (Ariel Zucker-Brull)
1030.
997.
Weedpecker - Weedpecker
2013 (Maciej Kamuda)
1030.
998.
Weedpecker - III
2018 (Maciej Kamuda) (Guilty Pleasure)
1030.
999.
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
2009 (John Martin ["Christ Stilleth the Tempest"])
1030.
1000.
While She Sleeps - So What?
2019 (Giles Smith) (HM)
1030.
1001.
White Walls - Mad Man Circus
2010 (Costin Chioreanu)
1030.
1002.
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
2019 (Luke Pownall) (Co-selected with Riverside's "Anno Domini High Definition")
1030.
1003.
Whitechapel - Kin
2021 (Jillian Savage)
1030.
1004.
Whitesnake - Lovehunter
1979 (Chris Achilleos) (HM)
1030.
1005.
Wicked Maraya - Cycles
1994 (Philip Karger)
1030.
1006.
Windir - Arntor
1999 (Harald Damsleth ["Toward Brighter Futures" Propaganda Poster in WW2])
1030.
1007.
Windir - Likferd
2003 (Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude ["Likferd På Sognefjorden"])
1030.
1008.
Witch Vomit - Poisoned Blood
2017 (Matt Stikker) (HM)
1030.
1009.
Wolvennest - Procession
2025 (Art of Maquenda) (HM)
1030.
1010.
Wolves In The Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
2021 (Amjad Faur)
1030.
1011.
Wongraven - Fjelltronen
1995 (Theodor Kittelsen ["Til Den Grønne Ridder"])
1030.
1012.
Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars
2014 (Lucas Ruggieri) (Co-selected with "The Falling Tide")
1030.
1013.
Woods Of Desolation - The Falling Tide
2022 (Lucas Ruggieri)
1030.
1014.
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
2012 (David D'Andrea)
1030.
1015.
Wormhole - Almost Human
2023 (Adam Burke)
1030.
1016.
Wormrot - Hiss
2022 (Alyssa Tawin, Jon Chan, Ryan Chang)
1030.
1017.
Wormwood - The Star
2024 (SoloMacello)
1030.
1018.
Wuthering Heights - Salt
2010 (John Perry)
1030.
1019.
Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords
2023 (Dungeoncinth)
1030.
1020.
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
2023 (Nathaniel Winter Herbert) (HM)
1030.
1021.
Xanthochroid - Blessed He With Boils
2012 (Natacha Nielsen) (HM)
1030.
1022.
Xibalba - Tierra Y Libertad
2015 (Dan Seagrave) (HM)
1030.
1023.
XIV Dark Centuries - Skithingi
2006 (Stefanie) (HM)
1030.
1024.
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
2019 (Mark Richards) (HM)
1030.
1025.
Yob - Atma
2011 (Stevie Floyd)
1030.
1026.
The Young Gods - Everybody Knows
2010 (Dominic Kamp)
1030.
1027.
Yūrei - Saudade
2019 (ShePaintsWithBlood) (HM)
1030.
1028.
Yuri Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin
2013 (Påhl Sundström) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2013)
1030.
1029.
ZAÄAR - Magická Džungl’a
2021 (Peter Kľúčik) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2021)
1030.
1030.
Zulu - A New Tomorrow
2023 (Savannah Imani Wade) (Co-pick for AAOTY in 2023)
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