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Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
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Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
| 1. | Death - Symbolic |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 395 more |
Groovitational... The Metal Edition
Smooth as a babe's bottom on a well oiled judas chair.
| 1. | Pantera - Far Beyond Driven |
| 2. | Strapping Young Lad - Alien |
| 3. | Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension |
| 4. | Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse |
| 5. | Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill |
| + 31 more |
Top 100 Albums Of All Time
Current Top 100 as of September 2019. Having listened to metal for 45 years or so - here are my favourites (favourite track). One album limit per band. Enjoy!
| 1. | Absu - Absu |
| 2. | AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 4. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 5. | Alcest - Écailles De Lune |
| + 95 more |
Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 1999
A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.
1999 was surprisingly a really solid year for metal at least outside the mainstream,…
1999 was surprisingly a really solid year for metal at least outside the mainstream,…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance |
| 3. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 4. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| 5. | Agalloch - Pale Folklore |
| + 15 more |
Best Metal Albums Ever (IMO)
Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Faith No More - Angel Dust |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence |
| 4. | Tool - Ænima |
| 5. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| + 136 more |
My Top Albums Of The Decade: 1990's (On Going)
| 1. | Death - Human |
| 2. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 3. | At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul |
| 4. | Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| 5. | Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk |
| + 139 more |
My Favourite Industrial Albums
Pretty straight-forward, these are my favourite industrial rock/metal albums I've heard to date. Limiting it to 3 albums per band.
| 1. | Rammstein - Mutter |
| 2. | Rammstein - Reise Reise |
| 3. | Rammstein - Rosenrot |
| 4. | Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip |
| 5. | Static-X - Shadow Zone |
| + 45 more |
Top Favourite Industrial Metal Albums
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Rammstein - Mutter |
| 3. | Godflesh - Streetcleaner |
| 4. | Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park |
| 5. | Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ |
| + 14 more |
A Little Further (Into The Progressive)
One album per artist in alphabetical order which happen to be my favorites. Feels like an addendum to the ?Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection" (http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=58)…
| 1. | 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance |
| 2. | Agrypnie - 16[485] |
| 3. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 4. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 5. | Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy |
| + 101 more |
My Top Of 1999
| 1. | Anathema - Judgement |
| 2. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| 3. | Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| 4. | My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World |
| 5. | Cradle Of Filth - From The Cradle To Enslave |
| + 6 more |
