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    Top 100 Doom metal albums

    1 Black Sabbath
    Paranoid (1970)
    9.2
    2034
    2 Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath (1970)
    8.99
    1693
    3 Black Sabbath
    Master Of Reality (1971)
    8.98
    1469
    4 Saturnus
    Veronika Decides To Die (2006)
    8.94
    593
    5 Draconian
    Arcane Rain Fell (2005)
    8.92
    811
    6 Candlemass
    Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
    8.88
    743
    7 Paradise Lost
    Draconian Times (1995)
    8.87
    972
    8 Anathema
    Judgement (1999)
    8.85
    1067
    9 Anathema
    Alternative 4 (1998)
    8.83
    1019
    10 Katatonia
    Brave Murder Day (1996)
    8.83
    968
    11 My Dying Bride
    The Angel And The Dark River (1995)
    8.82
    696
    12 Empyrium
    Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields (1997)
    8.79
    474
    13 My Dying Bride
    Turn Loose The Swans (1993)
    8.79
    639
    14 My Dying Bride
    The Dreadful Hours (2001)
    8.76
    585
    15 Candlemass
    Nightfall (1987)
    8.76
    642
    16 Estatic Fear
    A Sombre Dance (1999)
    8.74
    330
    17 Betray My Secrets
    Betray My Secrets (1999)
    8.7
    46
    18 Swallow The Sun
    The Morning Never Came (2003)
    8.67
    668
    19 Saturnus
    Martyre (2000)
    8.65
    383
    20 Paradise Lost
    Icon (1993)
    8.65
    764
    21 Solitude Aeturnus
    Alone (2006)
    8.64
    131
    22 Slumber
    Fallout (2004)
    8.64
    351
    23 Wine From Tears
    Through The Eyes Of A Mad (2009)
    8.64
    132
    24 Trees Of Eternity
    Hour Of The Nightingale (2016)
    8.64
    435
    25 Draconian
    Where Lovers Mourn (2003)
    8.64
    532
    26 Ahab
    The Call Of The Wretched Sea (2006)
    8.64
    423
    27 Doom:VS
    Dead Words Speak (2008)
    8.63
    175
    28 Swallow The Sun
    New Moon (2009)
    8.63
    609
    29 Type O Negative
    Bloody Kisses (1993)
    8.62
    541
    30 Acid Bath
    When The Kite String Pops (1994)
    8.62
    264
    31 The Foreshadowing
    Days Of Nothing (2007)
    8.62
    185
    32 Saturnus
    Paradise Belongs To You (1997)
    8.61
    321
    33 Doom:VS
    Aeternum Vale (2006)
    8.61
    170
    34 Kauan
    Sorni Nai (2015)
    8.61
    257
    35 Type O Negative
    October Rust (1996)
    8.6
    498
    36 Mourning Beloveth
    Dust (2001)
    8.6
    88
    37 Shape Of Despair
    Angels Of Distress (2001)
    8.6
    277
    38 Uaral
    Sounds Of Pain (2005)
    8.6
    220
    39 Virgin Black
    Requiem - Mezzo Forte (2007)
    8.6
    222
    40 Warning
    Watching From A Distance (2007)
    8.6
    245
    41 Daylight Dies
    Dismantling Devotion (2006)
    8.59
    175
    42 Esoteric
    The Maniacal Vale (2008)
    8.59
    264
    43 Worship
    Last CD Before Doomsday (2004)
    8.59
    37
    44 Colosseum
    Chapter 1: Delirium (2007)
    8.59
    85
    45 October Tide
    Rain Without End (1997)
    8.59
    221
    46 Novembre
    Novembrine Waltz (2001)
    8.58
    173
    47 Desire
    Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul... (2002)
    8.58
    71
    48 Rapture
    Futile (1999)
    8.58
    159
    49 Officium Triste
    Reason (2004)
    8.57
    92
    50 Lacrimas Profundere
    Memorandum (1999)
    8.57
    145
    51 Officium Triste
    Giving Yourself Away (2007)
    8.57
    87
    52 Enshine
    Origin (2013)
    8.57
    272
    53 My Dying Bride
    Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light (2004)
    8.57
    528
    54 Shape Of Despair
    Monotony Fields (2015)
    8.56
    298
    55 Sleep
    Sleep's Holy Mountain (1992)
    8.56
    178
    56 Process Of Guilt
    Erosion (2009)
    8.56
    128
    57 Saturnus
    Saturn In Ascension (2012)
    8.56
    423
    58 Draconian
    Under A Godless Veil (2020)
    8.56
    457
    59 Skepticism
    Stormcrowfleet (1995)
    8.55
    123
    60 Estatic Fear
    Somnium Obmutum (1996)
    8.55
    198
    61 My Dying Bride
    The Light At The End Of The World (1999)
    8.55
    442
    62 Evoken
    Quietus (2001)
    8.54
    134
    63 Empyrium
    A Wintersunset... (1996)
    8.54
    285
    64 Swallow The Sun
    Songs From The North I, II & III (2015)
    8.54
    480
    65 Mourning Beloveth
    The Sullen Sulcus (2002)
    8.54
    115
    66 Forest Stream
    Tears Of Mortal Solitude (2003)
    8.54
    115
    67 Evoken
    Antithesis Of Light (2005)
    8.54
    164
    68 Mar De Grises
    Streams Inwards (2010)
    8.53
    209
    69 Swallow The Sun
    Hope (2007)
    8.53
    483
    70 Esoteric
    Paragon Of Dissonance (2011)
    8.52
    205
    71 Mar De Grises
    The Tatterdemalion Express (2004)
    8.52
    115
    72 Sleep
    Dopesmoker (2003)
    8.52
    141
    73 Shape Of Despair
    Illusion's Play (2004)
    8.52
    190
    74 Poema Arcanus
    Arcane XIII (1999)
    8.52
    31
    75 Draconian
    Sovran (2015)
    8.51
    443
    76 Mar De Grises
    Draining The Waterheart (2008)
    8.51
    153
    77 Virgin Black
    Sombre Romantic (2001)
    8.51
    176
    78 Novembers Doom
    The Pale Haunt Departure (2005)
    8.51
    238
    79 Worship
    Dooom (2007)
    8.51
    39
    80 Scald
    Will Of Gods Is A Great Power (1996)
    8.51
    35
    81 Novembre
    Classica (2000)
    8.51
    170
    82 My Dying Bride
    Like Gods Of The Sun (1996)
    8.5
    489
    83 Void Of Silence
    The Grave Of Civilization (2010)
    8.5
    50
    84 Solitude Aeturnus
    Into The Depths Of Sorrow (1991)
    8.5
    112
    85 Supuration
    The Cube (1992)
    8.5
    30
    86 Stoned Jesus
    Seven Thunders Roar (2012)
    8.49
    72
    87 Bilocate
    Sudden Death Syndrome (2008)
    8.49
    124
    88 Forest Stream
    The Crown Of Winter (2009)
    8.49
    91
    89 Paradise Lost
    Obsidian (2020)
    8.49
    599
    90 Electric Wizard
    Dopethrone (2000)
    8.49
    303
    91 Dolorian
    When All The Laughter Has Gone (1999)
    8.48
    61
    92 Void Of Silence
    Human Antithesis (2004)
    8.48
    60
    93 Lacrimas Profundere
    Burning: A Wish (2001)
    8.48
    128
    94 DoomSword
    Let Battle Commence (2003)
    8.48
    58
    95 Reverend Bizarre
    In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend (2002)
    8.48
    89
    96 Trouble
    Trouble (1990)
    8.47
    77
    97 Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (1972)
    8.47
    1066
    98 Isole
    Silent Ruins (2009)
    8.47
    130
    99 Avatarium
    Avatarium (2013)
    8.47
    262
    100 Virgin Black
    Elegant... And Dying (2003)
    8.46
    170