To add fuel to the fire of the "they'll never top their first album" rhetoric, here are all my favorite full length debuts in alphabetical order. Full lengths, not EPs.

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Ryanm123 | 18.06.2023

	1.	Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations 2008
	2.	Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon 1997
	3.	Agruss - Morok 2012
	4.	Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea 2006
	5.	Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde 2007
	6.	Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall 1998
	7.	Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus 1992
	8.	Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro 2001
	9.	Atheist - Piece Of Time 1989
	10.	Baroness - Red Album 2007
	11.	Bathory - Bathory 1984
	12.	Be'lakor - The Frail Tide 2007
	13.	Beast In Black - Berserker 2017
	14.	Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon 1993
	15.	Black Tusk - Passage Through Purgatory 2008
	16.	Blackbraid - Blackbraid I 2022
	17.	Carnation - Chapel Of Abhorrence 2018
	18.	Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops 1998
	19.	Children Of Bodom - Something Wild 1997
	20.	Clutch - Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes, And Undeniable Truths 1993
	21.	ColdWorld - Melancholie² 2008
	22.	Cynic - Focus 1993
	23.	Dark Forest - Aurora Borealis 2006
	24.	Dark Fortress - Tales From Eternal Dusk 2001
	25.	Darkthrone - Soulside Journey 1991
	26.	Death - Scream Bloody Gore 1987
	27.	Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence 1987
	28.	Desultory - Into Eternity 1993
	29.	Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk In My Heart 1996
	30.	Dio - Holy Diver 1983
	31.	Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream 1991
	32.	Dissection - The Somberlain 1993
	33.	Down - Nola 1995
	34.	Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn 2003
	35.	Dreamtale - Beyond Reality 2002
	36.	Duskmourn - Legends 2014
	37.	Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse 1994
	38.	Ensiferum - Ensiferum 2001
	39.	Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi 1994
	40.	Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr 2005
	41.	Exmortus - In Hatred's Flame 2008
	42.	Exocrine - Unreal Existence 2015
	43.	Fairyland - Of Wars In Osyrhia 2003
	44.	Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine 1992
	45.	Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles 2022
	46.	Freedom Call - Stairway To Fairyland 1999
	47.	Garden Of Shadows - Oracle Moon 2000
	48.	Ghost - Opus Eponymous 2010
	49.	Ghost Bath - Moonlover 2015
	50.	Godflesh - Streetcleaner 1989
	51.	Gojira - Terra Incognita 2001
	52.	Graveshadow - Nocturnal Resurrection 2015
	53.	Hypocrisy - Penetralia 1992
	54.	I Am The Night - While The Gods Are Sleeping 2022
	55.	Idle Hands - Mana 2019
	56.	In Mourning - Shrouded Divine 2008
	57.	Insomnium - In The Halls Of Awaiting 2002
	58.	Iotunn - Access All Worlds 2021
	59.	Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 1980
	60.	Kalmah - Swamplord 2000
	61.	Khemmis - Absolution 2015
	62.	Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed 2014
	63.	Konkhra - Sexual Affective Disorder 1993
	64.	Kreator - Endless Pain 1985
	65.	Kvelertak - Kvelertak 2010
	66.	Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat 1995
	67.	Mantar - Death By Burning 2014
	68.	Mastodon - Remission 2002
	69.	Mercyful Fate - Melissa 1983
	70.	Metal Allegiance - Metal Allegiance 2015
	71.	Mithotyn - In The Sign Of The Ravens 1997
	72.	Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 2016
	73.	Mourning Beloveth - Dust 2001
	74.	Mutoid Man - Bleeder 2015
	75.	Mysteriarch - The Majestic Fall 2007
	76.	Native Construct - Quiet World 2015
	77.	Necromantia - Crossing The Fiery Path 1993
	78.	Opeth - Orchid 1995
	79.	Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday Of Life... 1992
	80.	Purtenance - Member Of Immortal Damnation 1992
	81.	Rapture - Futile 1999
	82.	Red Fang - Red Fang 2008
	83.	Riverside - Out Of Myself 2003
	84.	Runemagick - The Supreme Force Of Eternity 1998
	85.	Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times 1993
	86.	Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design 2005
	87.	Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway 2008
	88.	Sear Bliss - Phantoms 1996
	89.	Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past 1991
	90.	Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead 2007
	91.	Sigh - Scorn Defeat 1993
	92.	Skratte - Akt I - Ein Feuer Entfacht 2021
	93.	Sojourner - Empires Of Ash 2016
	94.	Summoning - Lugburz 1995
	95.	System Of A Down - System Of A Down 1998
	96.	Temple Of Void - Of Terror And The Supernatural 2014
	97.	Testament - The Legacy 1987
	98.	The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost 2022
	99.	The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium 2003
	100.	The Sword - Age Of Winters 2006
	101.	Tribulation - The Horror 2009
	102.	Trivium - Ember To Inferno 2003
	103.	Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells 1991
	104.	Wintersun - Wintersun 2004
	105.	Witherscape - The Inheritance 2013