This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

All bands will be limited to one album unless they had a significant change in style (e.g. Amorphis and Katatonia). It goes without saying that as this is my personal list the genres that are included more than others expresses my bias and I am open to listening to any suggestions on additional albums to add. This list will be separated by letters as including them all in one list would make it overly long. Just to give you an idea: my personal collection is over 10,000 songs, most of them in the metal genre.

Most of the bands featured here have other great albums so if you like the album featured here be sure to peruse their other works. Artists whose names start with 'The' or A/An' will be included in whatever letter follows, e.g. ' A Forest of Stars' will be included in F. This list(s) contains the most well-known bands e.g. Opeth, to the most obscure e.g. Vanguard x Mortem.

The list(s) will be updated periodically. If you have trouble locating an album on this list or think I missed a particular album feel free to contact me, and share this list far and wide so that more people can benefit from the incredible array of musical experience metal has to offer.

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Uxküll | 28.10.2020

	1.	D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper
	2.	Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism
	3.	Damim - The Difference Engine
	4.	Dämmerfarben - Im Abendrot
	5.	Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations
	6.	Dan Swanö - Moontower
	7.	Daniel Tompkins - Ruins
	8.	Darchon - Oionos https://mercenarymusik.bandcamp.com/album/oionos
	9.	Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
	10.	Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata
	11.	Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
	12.	Dark Forest (CAN) - Aurora Borealis
	13.	Dark Fortress - Ylem
	14.	Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
	15.	Dark Lunacy - The Diarist
	16.	Dark Millennium - Ashore The Celestial Burden
	17.	Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
	18.	Dark Oath - When Fire Engulfs The Earth
	19.	Dark Princess - Zhestokaya Igra
	20.	Dark Quarterer - Symbols
	21.	Dark Sanctuary - Exaudi Vocem Meam (Part II)
	22.	Dark Sonority - Kaosrekviem https://terraturpossessions.bandcamp.com/album/kaosrekviem
	23.	Dark Suns - Everchild
	24.	Dark The Suns - All Ends In Silence
	25.	Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
	26.	Dark Tribe - In Jeraspunta - Die Rückkehr Der Tollwütigen Bestie
	27.	Darkane - Layers Of Lies
	28.	Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Hora Nocturna
	29.	Darkenhöld - Castellum
	30.	Darkest Era - The Last Caress Of Light
	31.	Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road
	32.	Darkher - Realms
	33.	Darkology - Altered Reflections
	34.	Darkseed - Diving Into Darkness
	35.	Darkspace - Dark Space III
	36.	Darksun - El Lado Oscuro
	37.	Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
	38.	Darkwater - Calling The Earth To Witness
	39.	Darvaza - Darkness in Turmoil https://darvazablackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/darkness-in-turmoil
	40.	Darzamat - Solfernus' Path
	41.	Dauþuz - In Finstrer Teufe https://dauthuzbm.bandcamp.com/album/in-finstrer-teufe
	42.	David Maxim Micic - Bilo 3​.​0
	43.	Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy)
	44.	Dawn Of Dreams - Eidolon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2W45KbAkk
	45.	Dawn Of Ouroboros - The Art Of Morphology
	46.	Dawn Of Relic - Lovecraftian Dark
	47.	Dawn Of Solace - The Darkness
	48.	Dawn Of Tears - Descent
	49.	Dawn Ray'd - The Unlawful Assembly
	50.	Dawnbringer - Nucleus
	51.	Dawnless - A Way Of Escape
	52.	Dawnwalker - Ages
	53.	Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
	54.	De Arma - Lost, Alien & Forlorn
	55.	De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis
	56.	De Profundis - The Emptiness Within
	57.	De Silence Et D'Ombre - 3: The Fall
	58.	Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
	59.	Dead Moon Temple - Ænigmasólvoid https://deadmoontemple.bandcamp.com/album/nigmas-lvoid
	60.	Dead Shape Figure - The Disease Of St. Vitus
	61.	Dead To A Dying World - Elegy
	62.	Deadborn - Dogma Anti God
	63.	Deadlock - Wolves
	64.	Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder Of Crows
	65.	Deadwood - Picturing A Sense Of Loss
	66.	Deadwood Lake - Forest Of Whispers
	67.	Deafheaven - Sunbather
	68.	Dearth - To Crown All Befoulment
	69.	Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
	70.	Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
	71.	Death Fetishist - Clandestine Sacrament
	72.	Death Fortress - Deathless March Of The Unyielding
	73.	Death Karma - The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
	74.	Death. Void. Terror. - To The Great Monolith II
	75.	Deathbound - Doomsday Comfort
	76.	Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
	77.	Deathrow - Deception Ignored
	78.	Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
	79.	The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
	80.	Deathwhite - Grave Image
	81.	Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
	82.	Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
	83.	Décembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
	84.	Deceptic - The Artifact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQSuONHk8s
	85.	Decline Of The I - Escape
	86.	Decoherence - Unitarity
	87.	Decomposed - Hope Finally Died...
	88.	Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
	89.	Deeds Of Flesh - Of What's To Come
	90.	Defacement - Deviant
	91.	Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
	92.	Defleshed - Under The Blade
	93.	Deftones - Ohms
	94.	Déhà - A Fleur De Peau - III - A Fire That Does Not Burn
	95.	Deicide - Legion
	96.	Deinonychus - Mournument
	97.	Dekadent - Venera: Trial & Tribulation
	98.	Delain - Lucidity
	99.	Délétère - De Horae Leprae
	100.	Delight - The Fading Tale
	101.	Délirant - Délirant
	102.	Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare
	103.	Delta - Deny Humanity
	104.	Déluge - Ægo Templo
	105.	Demetori - Il Mondo dove e finito il Tempo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVhICZdm9tU
	106.	Demians - Building An Empire
	107.	Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
	108.	Demilich - Nespithe
	109.	Demimonde - Mutant Star https://demimondeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/mutant-star
	110.	Demiurg - Slakthus Gamleby
	111.	Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence
	112.	Demoniac (CHL) - So It Goes
	113.	Demonical - Death Infernal
	114.	Demonoid - Riders Of The Apocalypse
	115.	Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
	116.	Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism
	117.	Denouncement Pyre - Almighty Arcanum
	118.	Départe - Failure, Subside
	119.	Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise To Power
	120.	Depravity - Evil Upheaval
	121.	Depressive Age - First Depression
	122.	Depths Above - Ex Nihilo https://depthsabove.bandcamp.com/album/ex-nihilo
	123.	Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
	124.	Derdian - Limbo
	125.	Derek Sherinian - Blood Of The Snake
	126.	Derelict Earth - And So Fell The Last Leaves...
	127.	Desaster - Divine Blasphemies
	128.	Descend - The Deviant
	129.	Descend Into Despair - Opium
	130.	Desecravity - Orphic Signs
	131.	Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul...
	132.	Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum Of Human Darkness
	133.	Dessiderium - Shadow Burn
	134.	Destiny Potato - Lun
	135.	Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
	136.	Destruction - Eternal Devastation
	137.	Desultory - Into Eternity
	138.	Det Eviga Leendet - Lenience
	139.	Deus Mortem - Kosmocide
	140.	Deus Vermin - Monument to Decay https://deusvermin.bandcamp.com/album/monument-to-decay
	141.	Devastation - Idolatry
	142.	Devathorn - Vritra
	143.	Deviant Process - Paroxysm https://deviantprocess.bandcamp.com/album/paroxysm
	144.	DevilDriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand
	145.	Devilish Impressions - Simulacra
	146.	Devilment - II: The Mephisto Waltzes
	147.	Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
	148.	Devolved - Calculated
	149.	Devouring Star - The Arteries Of Heresy
	150.	Devourment - Obscene Majesty
	151.	DGM - Different Shapes
	152.	Diablo - Eternium
	153.	Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
	154.	Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork
	155.	Diabolique - The Black Flower
	156.	Diabulus In Musica - Argia
	157.	Dialith - Extinction Six https://dialith.bandcamp.com/album/extinction-six
	158.	Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Riders On The Storm
	159.	Die Like Gentlemen - Five Easy Lies
	160.	Dies Irae - Sculpture Of Stone
	161.	The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
	162.	Dimlight - Obtenebration
	163.	Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
	164.	Dio - Holy Diver
	165.	Dir En Grey - Uroboros
	166.	Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
	167.	Dirty Shirt - Dirtylicious
	168.	Disaffected - Vast
	169.	Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks
	170.	Disavowed - Perceptive Deception
	171.	Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
	172.	Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
	173.	Disforia - The Age Of Ether
	174.	Disgorge - Consume The Forsaken
	175.	Disharmonic Orchestra - Pleasuredome
	176.	Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
	177.	Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind
	178.	Diskord - Dystopics
	179.	Dismal Euphony - Autumn Leaves - The Rebellion Of Tides
	180.	Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
	181.	Disperse - Journey Through The Hidden Gardens
	182.	Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
	183.	Dissona - Paleopneumatic
	184.	Distorted Harmony - Chain Reaction
	185.	Divinity Destroyed - The Plague
	186.	Division By Zero - Independent Harmony
	187.	Djevel - Norske Ritualer
	188.	Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation Ov The Black Suns
	189.	Dö - Black Hole Mass https://doofficial666.bandcamp.com/album/black-hole-mass
	190.	Dodecahedron - Kwintessens
	191.	Dodenkrocht - Misery Chords
	192.	Dødheimsgard - 666 International
	193.	Dødsengel - Imperator
	194.	Dødsferd - Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World
	195.	Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
	196.	Dol Theeta - The Universe Expands
	197.	(Dolch) - Feuer
	198.	Dolorian - Voidwards
	199.	Domination Through Impurity - Essence Of Brutality
	200.	Domine - Stormbringer Ruler (The Legend Of The Power Supreme)
	201.	Dominia - Divine Revolution
	202.	Dominici - O3 A Trilogy - Part 3
	203.	Doom:VS - Aeternum Vale
	204.	Doomed - In My Own Abyss
	205.	Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
	206.	The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom
	207.	DoomSword - Let Battle Commence
	208.	Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
	209.	Dormant Ordeal - We Had It Coming https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/we-had-it-coming
	210.	Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen
	211.	Downfall Of Gaia - Ethic Of Radical Finitude
	212.	Downfall Of Nur - Umbras De Barbagia
	213.	Dozer - Beyond Colossal
	214.	Dr. Living Dead! - Crush The Sublime Gods
	215.	Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
	216.	Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
	217.	DragonForce - Maximum Overload
	218.	Dragonland - Astronomy
	219.	Dragonlord - Black Wings Of Destiny
	220.	Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
	221.	Drastus - Serpent's Chalice - Materia Prima
	222.	Draugsól - Volaða Land
	223.	Drautran - Throne Of The Depths
	224.	Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs
	225.	Dreadful Shadows - Estrangement
	226.	Dreadnought - Bridging Realms
	227.	Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
	228.	A Dream Of Poe - An Infinity Emerged
	229.	Dream Theater - Images And Words
	230.	Dreamscape - 5th Season
	231.	Dredg - Catch Without Arms
	232.	Drown - Subaqueous
	233.	The Drowning - The Radiant Dark
	234.	- 52013
	235.	Druadan Forest - The Lost Dimension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8SeSBYHYXg
	236.	Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
	237.	Druids - Monument
	238.	DSKNT - PhSPHR Entropy
	239.	Dukatalon - Involuntary Action
	240.	Dumal - The Lesser God
	241.	Dusk - ...Majestic Thou In Ruin
	242.	Dusk (HNG) - Deathgate https://open.spotify.com/album/0YTkx8ChLB9y9HUNmq8ktN
	243.	The Duskfall - Frailty
	244.	Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
	245.	Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yfyDwh5fT4
	246.	Dvne - Etemen Ænka
	247.	Dwaal - Gospel Of The Vile
	248.	Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
	249.	Dying Sun - Transcendence
	250.	Dynazty - Renatus
	251.	Dynfari - Sem Skugginn
	252.	Dysangelium - Thánatos Áskēsis https://dysangelium.bandcamp.com/album/th-natos-sk-sis
	253.	Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
	254.	Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
	255.	Dyssidia - Costly Signals
	256.	Dystopia Nå! - Dweller On The Threshold
	257.	Dysylumn - Occultation
	258.	Dzö-nga - Thunder In The Mountains