Best Death Metal Albums
856 albums
| Rank | cover art | Artist name | Album title | Rating | Votes | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Blackwater Park (2001) | 93.9 | 122 | 10 | |
| 2 |  |
Damage Done (2002) | 93.1 | 114 | 9 | |
| 3 |  |
New World Shadows (2011) | 91.3 | 144 | 6 | |
| 4 |  |
Burning Bridges (1999) | 91.6 | 115 | 10 | |
| 5 |  |
None So Vile (1996) | 92.5 | 78 | 4 | |
| 6 |  |
Fiction (2007) | 91.6 | 93 | 8 | |
| 7 |  |
Winter's Gate (2016) | 93.9 | 54 | 1 | |
| 8 |  |
Symbolic (1995) | 93.4 | 56 | 3 | |
| 9 |  |
Beneath the Remains (1989) | 92.5 | 68 | 7 | |
| 10 |  |
Human (1991) | 94 | 45 | 3 | |
| 11 |  |
Cause of Death (1990) | 92.1 | 67 | 4 | |
| 12 |  |
12 Gauge (2010) | 91.5 | 73 | 2 | |
| 13 |  |
Rise of the Tyrant (2007) | 89.5 | 111 | 9 | |
| 14 |  |
Altars of Madness (1989) | 92.8 | 49 | 1 | |
| 15 |  |
Aathma (2017) | 93.9 | 37 | 1 | |
| 16 |  |
The Satanist (2014) | 91.9 | 57 | 4 | |
| 17 |  |
Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) | 89.8 | 81 | 3 | |
| 18 |  |
Heartwork (1993) | 90 | 75 | 5 | |
| 19 |  |
Leprosy (1988) | 93.3 | 35 | 1 | |
| 20 |  |
A Virgin and a Whore (2001) | 89.8 | 77 | 7 | |
| 21 |  |
Legion (1992) | 91.9 | 47 | 1 | |
| 22 |  |
Still Life (1999) | 90.9 | 58 | 6 | |
| 23 |  |
My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) | 91.5 | 49 | 4 | |
| 24 |  |
Spectrum of Death (1990) | 91.9 | 43 | 3 | |
| 25 |  |
Atoma (2016) | 91.7 | 44 | 3 | |
| 26 |  |
Beyond (2013) | 88.8 | 85 | 8 | |
| 27 |  |
Individual Thought Patterns (1993) | 93.5 | 28 | 1 | |
| 28 |  |
The Sound of Perseverance (1998) | 89.8 | 63 | 6 | |
| 29 |  |
King (2016) | 90.6 | 52 | 2 | |
| 30 |  |
Deicide (1990) | 91 | 47 | 3 | |
| 31 |  |
Colony (1999) | 87.9 | 95 | 3 | |
| 32 |  |
Mystic Places of Dawn (1994) | 94.4 | 21 | 1 | |
| 33 |  |
Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) | 92 | 36 | 1 | |
| 34 |  |
Spiritual Migration (2013) | 90.6 | 49 | 3 | |
| 35 |  |
Schizophrenia (1987) | 91.5 | 39 | 3 | |
| 36 |  |
Hatebreeder (1999) | 88.8 | 69 | 6 | |
| 37 |  |
Epoch of Methodic Carnage (2006) | 99.3 | 6 | 0 | |
| 38 |  |
Akróasis (2016) | 93.3 | 24 | 1 | |
| 39 |  |
Seven Churches (1985) | 91.3 | 38 | 3 | |
| 40 |  |
92.9 | 26 | 0 | ||
| 41 |  |
Crimson (1996) | 92.4 | 29 | 3 | |
| 42 |  |
Follow the Reaper (2000) | 87.5 | 90 | 7 | |
| 43 |  |
Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) | 93.4 | 23 | 2 | |
| 44 |  |
Spiritual Healing (1990) | 91.7 | 33 | 1 | |
| 45 |  |
Wages of Sin (2001) | 88.5 | 67 | 6 | |
| 46 |  |
Ritual of Infinity (1992) | 96.3 | 11 | 0 | |
| 47 |  |
Slaughter of the Soul (1995) | 89.7 | 50 | 4 | |
| 48 |  |
Pierced From Within (1995) | 94.8 | 15 | 1 | |
| 49 |  |
Morningrise (1996) | 91.5 | 32 | 5 | |
| 50 |  |
The Jester Race (1996) | 87.5 | 78 | 4 | |
| 51 |  |
Nespithe (1993) | 92.6 | 24 | 0 | |
| 52 |  |
Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) | 91.7 | 29 | 1 | |
| 53 |  |
Slumber of Sullen Eyes (1992) | 89.8 | 45 | 2 | |
| 54 |  |
The Light-Devouring Darkness (2009) | 96.3 | 10 | 0 | |
| 55 |  |
Whoracle (1997) | 89.1 | 52 | 5 | |
| 56 |  |
One for Sorrow (2011) | 91.7 | 28 | 1 | |
| 57 |  |
The Key (1990) | 92.7 | 22 | 1 | |
| 58 |  |
Deliverance (2002) | 89.2 | 49 | 6 | |
| 59 |  |
Chaotic Beauty (2000) | 90.4 | 37 | 5 | |
| 60 |  |
Southern Storm (2008) | 91.6 | 28 | 1 | |
| 61 |  |
War Eternal (2014) | 86.7 | 85 | 6 | |
| 62 |  |
Evangelion (2009) | 89.9 | 40 | 3 | |
| 63 |  |
Above the Weeping World (2006) | 91.4 | 28 | 1 | |
| 64 |  |
Mental Funeral (1991) | 94.4 | 14 | 2 | |
| 65 |  |
Where Death Is Most Alive (2009) [Live] | 93.5 | 17 | 0 | |
| 66 |  |
Surgical Steel (2013) | 88.6 | 52 | 3 | |
| 67 |  |
Character (2005) | 89.1 | 46 | 3 | |
| 68 |  |
Focus (1993) | 89.1 | 46 | 5 | |
| 69 |  |
Orchid (1995) | 90.4 | 34 | 3 | |
| 70 |  |
In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) | 92.2 | 22 | 2 | |
| 71 |  |
Dechristianize (2003) | 92.2 | 22 | 0 | |
| 72 |  |
Omega Arcane (2013) | 88.2 | 54 | 3 | |
| 73 |  |
Invictus (2010) | 89.6 | 39 | 1 | |
| 74 |  |
The Weight of Oceans (2012) | 90.2 | 33 | 4 | |
| 75 |  |
90.8 | 28 | 1 | ||
| 76 |  |
Fragments of D-Generation (2004) | 91 | 26 | 2 | |
| 77 |  |
They Will Return (2002) | 89.3 | 38 | 2 | |
| 78 |  |
Sedition (2012) | 90.6 | 28 | 1 | |
| 79 |  |
The Black Waltz (2006) | 89 | 40 | 2 | |
| 80 |  |
Omnicide (2009) | 98 | 5 | 0 | |
| 81 |  |
95 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 82 |  |
Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) | 91.1 | 24 | 0 | |
| 83 |  |
Shin-Ken (2009) | 90.5 | 27 | 2 | |
| 84 |  |
Time Tears Down (2013) | 91.5 | 21 | 0 | |
| 85 |  |
Epidemic of Violence (1992) | 90.7 | 25 | 1 | |
| 86 |  |
95.6 | 8 | 1 | ||
| 87 |  |
94.6 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 88 |  |
Demigod (2004) | 89 | 36 | 3 | |
| 89 |  |
92.7 | 15 | 1 | ||
| 90 |  |
Torture (2012) | 88.9 | 36 | 0 | |
| 91 |  |
Cultivate the Apostate (2014) | 94.4 | 10 | 0 | |
| 92 |  |
Dawn of Possession (1991) | 91.8 | 18 | 2 | |
| 93 |  |
Oracles (2009) | 88.2 | 41 | 1 | |
| 94 |  |
91.3 | 20 | 0 | ||
| 95 |  |
Mind Tricks (2006) | 89.4 | 31 | 2 | |
| 96 |  |
Cold Steel...for an Iron Age (2002) | 93.5 | 12 | 0 | |
| 97 |  |
92.8 | 14 | 1 | ||
| 98 |  |
...and Death said live (2012) | 88.3 | 39 | 3 | |
| 99 |  |
Architect of Lies (2008) | 89.1 | 31 | 1 | |
| 100 |  |
Construct (2013) | 87.3 | 47 | 3 |