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Slow/Depress/Funeral/Love/Gloom/Beauty/Sorrow/Obscure/Cold/Atmospheric/
| 1. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 2. | Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane |
| 3. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 4. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 5. | Corrupted - El Mundo Frio |
| + 44 more |
Top 50 Album Covers (Updated)
My personal top 50 list.
(In no particular order)
(In no particular order)
| 1. | Decrepit Birth - Polarity |
| 2. | Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse |
| 3. | Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult |
| 4. | Joe Satriani - Time Machine |
| 5. | Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull |
| + 45 more |
Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection
Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
| 1. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 2. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 3. | Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| 4. | Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy |
| 5. | Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls |
| + 54 more |
Best Albums Of The New Millennium
On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg
| 1. | Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years |
| 4. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 5. | Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine |
| + 618 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 |
THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER.
A little something I threw together, the order matters but not entirely.
| 1. | Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising |
| 2. | In Death I Beome - Black Wings, Grey Skies |
| 3. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| 4. | Funeral Mist - Salvation |
| 5. | Watain - Sworn To The Dark |
| + 22 more |
My Favorite Metal Albums
I doubt I’ll update this regularly, my taste has changed a bit
| 1. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 2. | Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead |
| 3. | Converge - Jane Doe |
| 4. | Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer |
| 5. | Nails - Unsilent Death |
| + 51 more |
Top 15 Sludge Metal Albums
| 1. | Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood |
| 2. | Kylesa - Static Tensions |
| 3. | Dvne - Etemen Ænka |
| 4. | Neurosis - Times Of Grace |
| 5. | High On Fire - Death Is This Communion |
| + 10 more |
My Top Of 2001
| 1. | Tool - Lateralus |
| 2. | Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| 3. | Evoken - Quietus |
| 4. | Finntroll - Jaktens Tid |
| 5. | My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours |
| + 6 more |