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My Essential 250 Metal Albums
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My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

Created by: Ryanm123 | 23.12.2023


1. Æther Realm - Tarot
2017
2. Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
2008
3. Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
2016
4. Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
1998
5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
1994
6. Amorphis - Silent Waters
2007
7. Amorphis - Skyforger
2009
8. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
2011
9. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
2016
10. Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
1990
11. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
1993
12. Atheist - Piece Of Time
1990
13. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991
14. Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
2012
15. Baroness - Red Album
2007
16. Baroness - Blue Record
2009
17. Baroness - Yellow & Green
2012
18. Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods
1991
19. Bathory - Blood On Ice
1996
20. Bathory - Nordland I
2002
21. Bathory - Nordland II
2003
22. Beast In Black - Berserker
2017
23. Behexen - My Soul For His Glory
2008
24. Be'lakor - Coherence
2021
25. Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus
2003
26. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2007
27. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
2009
28. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2012
29. Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
2015
30. Blackfield - Blackfield
2004
31. Black Funeral - Ankou And The Death Fire
2016
32. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4
1972
33. Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind
1989
34. Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World
1990
35. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
1992
36. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
1995
37. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
1998
38. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
2002
39. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
2010
40. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror
2015
41. Blind Guardian - The God Machine
2022
42. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
2004
43. Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
1998
44. Borknagar - Empiricism
2001
45. Borknagar - Winter Thrice
2016
46. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
1993
47. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
1986
48. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2013
49. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
2009
50. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
2015
51. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
2023
52. Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
1998
53. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
2022
54. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
1997
55. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
1999
56. Clutch - The Elephant Riders
1998
57. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
2004
58. Coffins - Beyond The Circular Demise
2019
59. ColdWorld - Melancholie²
2008
60. Cynic - Focus
1993
61. Cynic - Traced In Air
2008
62. Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
2014
63. Cynic - Ascension Codes
2021
64. Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk
2001
65. Dark Fortress - Profane Genocidal Creations
2003
66. Dark Fortress - Eidolon
2008
67. Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World
2020
68. Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium
2001
69. Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
2016
70. Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
2000
71. Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion
2002
72. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
2002
73. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
2006
74. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1987
75. Death - Spiritual Healing
1990
76. Death - Human
1991
77. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
1998
78. Death Angel - The Art Of Dying
2004
79. Death Angel - Killing Season
2008
80. Death Angel - The Evil Divide
2016
81. Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
2005
82. Desultory - Bitterness
1994
83. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
1997
84. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
2003
85. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
2007
86. Devin Townsend - Addicted
2009
87. Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk In My Heart
1996
88. Diabolical Masquerade - The Phantom Lodge
1997
89. Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation
2004
90. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
1991
91. Dismember - Where Ironcrosses Grow
2004
92. Dissection - The Somberlain
1993
93. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995
94. Down - Nola
1995
95. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
2003
96. Dream Theater - Images And Words
1992
97. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
2002
98. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
2003
99. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2011
100. Duskmourn - Legends
2014
101. Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox
1992
102. Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
1993
103. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
1994
104. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1996
105. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
2003
106. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
1997
107. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
2001
108. Ensiferum - Iron
2004
109. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
2007
110. Ensiferum - From Afar
2009
111. Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
1994
112. Enslaved - Frost
1994
113. Enslaved - Monumension
2001
114. Enslaved - Vertebrae
2008
115. Enslaved - In Times
2015
116. Enslaved - Utgard
2020
117. Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
2005
118. Fear Factory - Obsolete
1998
119. Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
2001
120. Finntroll - Nattfödd
2004
121. Finntroll - Nifelvind
2010
122. Firewind - The Premonition
2008
123. Freedom Call - Stairway To Fairyland
1999
124. Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
2001
125. Freedom Call - Eternity
2002
126. Freedom Call - Legend Of The Shadowking
2010
127. Freedom Call - Beyond
2014
128. Freedom Call - Master Of Light
2016
129. Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation
2012
130. God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
2017
131. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
2012
132. Haken - Virus
2020
133. Haken - Fauna
2023
134. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
1987
135. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
2007
136. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
2005
137. Horna - Sudentaival
2001
138. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
2009
139. In Flames - The Jester Race
1996
140. In Flames - Whoracle
1997
141. In Flames - Colony
1999
142. In Flames - Clayman
2000
143. In Flames - Reroute To Remain
2002
144. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
2008
145. In Mourning - Garden Of Storms
2019
146. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
2021
147. Inquisition - Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan
2002
148. Insomnium - One For Sorrow
2011
149. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
1983
150. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
1988
151. Judas Priest - British Steel
1980
152. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1982
153. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
1984
154. Judas Priest - Painkiller
1990
155. Judas Priest - Firepower
2018
156. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2024
157. Kalmah - Swamplord
2000
158. Kalmah - They Will Return
2002
159. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
2010
160. King Diamond - Abigail
1987
161. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
1990
162. Kreator - Gods Of Violence
2017
163. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void
2023
164. Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate
1997
165. Lord Belial - Nocturnal Beast
2005
166. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2006
167. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2009
168. Melechesh - Sphynx
2003
169. Melechesh - Enki
2015
170. Meshuggah - Koloss
2012
171. Meshuggah - Immutable
2022
172. Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon
2016
173. Motörhead - Overkill
1979
174. Mutoid Man - War Moans
2017
175. Mysteriarch - The Majestic Fall
2007
176. Mysteriarch - Mournful Embrace Of Aeons
2012
177. Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black
1995
178. Necrophobic - Darkside
1997
179. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
2000
180. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002
181. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
2005
182. Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift
2008
183. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
2011
184. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
2013
185. Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens
2016
186. Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold
2018
187. Omnium Gatherum - Origin
2021
188. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
1998
189. Opeth - Still Life
1999
190. Opeth - Watershed
2008
191. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
1986
192. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
1990
193. Panopticon - Roads To The North
2014
194. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
1999
195. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
2000
196. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2002
197. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2005
198. Rapture - Futile
1999
199. Rapture - Songs For The Withering
2002
200. Rapture - Silent Stage
2005
201. Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine
2015
202. Riverside - ID.Entity
2023
203. Sacred Reich - Awakening
2019
204. Sargeist - Let The Devil In
2010
205. Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
2005
206. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)
2014
207. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
2023
208. Sear Bliss - Letters From The Edge
2018
209. Sentenced - Amok
1995
210. Sevendust - Animosity
2001
211. Sigh - Scorn Defeat
1993
212. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
2001
213. Sigh - Scenes From Hell
2010
214. Sigh - In Somniphobia
2012
215. Sigh - Heir To Despair
2018
216. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
2018
217. Sonata Arctica - Silence
2001
218. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
2013
219. Stormlord - At The Gates Of Utopia
2001
220. Summoning - Lugburz
1995
221. Summoning - Minas Morgul
1995
222. Summoning - Dol Guldur
1997
223. Summoning - Nightshade Forests
1997
224. Summoning - Stronghold
1999
225. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
2001
226. Summoning - Oath Bound
2006
227. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
2013
228. Summoning - With Doom We Come
2018
229. Symphony X - Underworld
2015
230. System Of A Down - Toxicity
2001
231. Temple Of Void - Of Terror And The Supernatural
2014
232. Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death
2017
233. Testament - The Legacy
1987
234. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
2012
235. Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
2016
236. The Sword - Age Of Winters
2006
237. The Sword - Apocryphon
2012
238. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
2015
239. Trivium - Ember To Inferno
2003
240. Trivium - Shogun
2008
241. Type O Negative - October Rust
1996
242. Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
2009
243. Týr - The Lay Of Thrym
2011
244. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
2011
245. Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude
2016
246. Idle Hands - Mana
2019
247. Unto Others - Strength
2021
248. Vulture - Sentinels
2024
249. Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow
2020
250. Worm - Gloomlord
2020


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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