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BurbotsRevenge's Top 50 Death Metal Albums
A list of my favourite death metal albums of all time, one listing per band, hopefully you may discover some new bands/albums from this list. They're not in any exact order but my real favourites…
| 1. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 2. | Decapitated - Winds Of Creation |
| 3. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 4. | Death - Spiritual Healing |
| 5. | Vital Remains - Dechristianize |
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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 |
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Top 200 Overlooked Albums
This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
| 1. | Solipsist - The Human Equation |
| 2. | Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind |
| 3. | Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity |
| 4. | Element (USA) - The Energy |
| 5. | Telepathy - 12 Areas |
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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 |
400+ Favorite Songs
Last updated on 17 May 2026.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 3. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| + 486 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 |
Top 27 Death Metal Albums
I struggled to get into “pure” death metal when I first got into metal around 2005. Gradually over time I started listening to melodic death metal (Dark Tranquillity and In Flames) and progressive death…
| 1. | Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh |
| 2. | Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| 3. | Pestilence - Consuming Impulse |
| 4. | Vomitory - Blood Rapture |
| 5. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
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Top 46 Death/Melodeath Albums
| 1. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 2. | Death - Scream Bloody Gore |
| 3. | Obituary - Slowly We Rot |
| 4. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 5. | Deicide - Legion |
| + 41 more |
Vomitory Albums - Best To Worst
| 1. | Vomitory - Revelation Nausea |
| 2. | Vomitory - Blood Rapture |
| 3. | Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria |
| 4. | Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize |
| 5. | Vomitory - Primal Massacre |
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Halloween-in'
A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 2. | Slayer - South Of Heaven |
| 3. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 4. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 5. | King Diamond - Abigail |
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Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s
Here are the 00s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Trivium - Shogun |
| 3. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 4. | Trivium - Ascendancy |
| 5. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
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pandrstudios Metal History
These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.
Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they…
Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 2. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| 5. | Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies |
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My Favourite Albums Of 2000s
| 1. | Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar |
| 2. | After Forever - After Forever |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 4. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 5. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| + 209 more |
My Top Of 2002
| 1. | Audioslave - Audioslave |
| 2. | Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage |
| 3. | Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness |
| 4. | Opeth - Deliverance |
| 5. | Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf |
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