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Top 500 Albums of All Time
I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Opeth - Still Life |
| + 495 more |
The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)
*** MAX 3 ALBUMS PER ARTIST!!! (Except Death) Also... While extra weight will be given to classic death metal albums, this list will also include exceptional examples of melodic death, death-grind, technical/progressive…
| 1. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 2. | Death - Symbolic |
| 3. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 4. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 5. | Death - Human |
| + 158 more |
All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums
An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
| 1. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 2. | Opeth - Morningrise |
| 3. | Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum |
| 4. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 5. | Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss |
| + 310 more |
My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time (Last Update: June 2022)
(Last Update: 2022)
These are my top 100 favorite albums - they are the reason why I love metal!
Enjoy!
Format: Band | Album | (genre, release year, country) What I like about the album; Favorite…
These are my top 100 favorite albums - they are the reason why I love metal!
Enjoy!
Format: Band | Album | (genre, release year, country) What I like about the album; Favorite…
| 1. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 2. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 5. | Death - Spiritual Healing |
| + 95 more |
"The Golden Years Of Death Metal"
| 1. | Adramelech - PsychoStasia |
| 2. | Armageddon - Crossing The Rubicon |
| 3. | Asphyx - Last One On Earth |
| 4. | At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease |
| 5. | Atheist - Piece Of Time |
| + 102 more |
Top 250 Metal Releases Of All Time
Here’s my list of what I consider to be the best metal albums (+2 compilations and like 2 demo I think) of all time.
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Sigh - In Somniphobia |
| 3. | Vektor - Terminal Redux |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl |
| + 245 more |
All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs
| 1. | Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum |
| 2. | Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy |
| 3. | My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 5. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| + 317 more |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
RESTRICTIONS
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 |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
My Favorite Instrumental Metal Songs
I love instrumentals (songs without vocals)!
One doesn't need words to convey a message and evoke emotions. Instrumentals also show how metal is very closely related to classical music!
These are…
One doesn't need words to convey a message and evoke emotions. Instrumentals also show how metal is very closely related to classical music!
These are…
| 1. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Summoning - Minas Morgul |
| 4. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance |
| + 67 more |
200+ Favorite Albums
Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.
Last updated: 24 Jan 2026.
Last updated: 24 Jan 2026.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Vital Remains - Dechristianize |
| + 279 more |
"The Greatest Vocalists In Rock & Metal Music"
This is a guide list to some of the greatest voices in the history of rock & metal music, ranked in alphabetical order, by singer's name. I know that there are many more great singers/vocalists…
| 1. | My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans |
| 2. | Primordial - To The Nameless Dead |
| 3. | Watchtower - Control And Resistance |
| 4. | Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies |
| 5. | Evanescence - Fallen |
| + 153 more |
Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)
This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Death - Symbolic |
| 3. | At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness |
| 4. | At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul |
| 5. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| + 570 more |
My Ultimate List Of Favorite Albums
Welcome to my new ultimate list of favorite albums!
After 5 years on Metal Storm, I think it's time to give an update to my old list of favorite albums.
This time, I meticulously ranked each…
After 5 years on Metal Storm, I think it's time to give an update to my old list of favorite albums.
This time, I meticulously ranked each…
| 1. | Arizmenda - Stillbirth In The Temple Of Venus |
| 2. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 3. | Devil Master - Satan Spits On Children Of Light |
| 4. | Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| 5. | Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence |
| + 195 more |
The Death Metal Essentials
The only one. No order particularly, except the order I thought of them in.
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Vader - Litany |
| 3. | Monstrosity - Millennium |
| 4. | Malevolent Creation - Retribution |
| 5. | Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory |
| + 22 more |