Best Death Metal Albums
1,771 albums
| Rank | Cover art | Artist / Album | Rating | Votes | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Blackwater Park (2001) | 93.7 | 144 | 12 |
| 2 |  | Damage Done (2002) | 93.4 | 129 | 9 |
| 3 |  | New World Shadows (2011) | 91.8 | 157 | 6 |
| 4 |  | None So Vile (1996) | 93 | 101 | 4 |
| 5 |  | Symbolic (1995) | 94 | 77 | 4 |
| 6 |  | Beneath the Remains (1989) | 93.1 | 94 | 8 |
| 7 |  | Altars of Madness (1989) | 93.7 | 72 | 5 |
| 8 |  | Fiction (2007) | 91.9 | 109 | 8 |
| 9 |  | Cause of Death (1990) | 92.8 | 82 | 4 |
| 10 |  | Human (1991) | 93.6 | 67 | 6 |
| 11 |  | Winter's Gate (2016) | 94 | 61 | 3 |
| 12 |  | Burning Bridges (1999) | 90.8 | 126 | 9 |
| 13 |  | Leprosy (1988) | 94.1 | 50 | 3 |
| 14 |  | Legion (1992) | 92.7 | 60 | 2 |
| 15 |  | 12 Gauge (2010) | 91.4 | 77 | 2 |
| 16 |  | Rise of the Tyrant (2007) | 89.5 | 115 | 9 |
| 17 |  | Deicide (1990) | 91.9 | 66 | 4 |
| 18 |  | The Satanist (2014) | 92 | 64 | 5 |
| 19 |  | Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) | 90 | 97 | 5 |
| 20 |  | Aathma (2017) | 93.3 | 44 | 1 |
| 21 |  | Individual Thought Patterns (1993) | 93.5 | 41 | 2 |
| 22 |  | Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) | 94.3 | 34 | 2 |
| 23 |  | Still Life (1999) | 91.3 | 67 | 6 |
| 24 |  | Heartwork (1993) | 89.9 | 92 | 5 |
| 25 |  | My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) | 91.9 | 56 | 4 |
| 26 |  | King (2016) | 91.3 | 63 | 2 |
| 27 |  | The Sound of Perseverance (1998) | 90.4 | 76 | 7 |
| 28 |  | Follow the Reaper (2000) | 88.8 | 109 | 10 |
| 29 |  | Deliverance (2002) | 91 | 63 | 6 |
| 30 |  | Spiritual Healing (1990) | 92.5 | 44 | 3 |
| 31 |  | Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) | 92.2 | 47 | 1 |
| 32 |  | Akróasis (2016) | 94 | 31 | 2 |
| 33 |  | Spectrum of Death (1990) | 91.5 | 54 | 3 |
| 34 |  | Colony (1999) | 88.4 | 110 | 3 |
| 35 |  | Beyond (2013) | 89.4 | 87 | 8 |
| 36 |  | Pierced From Within (1995) | 94.9 | 24 | 2 |
| 37 |  | Schizophrenia (1987) | 91.5 | 52 | 3 |
| 38 |  | A Virgin and a Whore (2001) | 89.4 | 83 | 7 |
| 39 |  | The Jester Race (1996) | 88.9 | 91 | 4 |
| 40 |  | Spiritual Migration (2013) | 91.2 | 53 | 3 |
| 41 |  | Whoracle (1997) | 89.8 | 72 | 5 |
| 42 |  | Slaughter of the Soul (1995) | 90.2 | 64 | 4 |
| 43 |  | Hatebreeder (1999) | 89.1 | 82 | 8 |
| 44 |  | Atoma (2016) | 91.2 | 49 | 4 |
| 45 |  | 93 | 32 | 0 | |
| 46 |  | Heart Like a Grave (2019) | 93 | 31 | 2 |
| 47 |  | Seven Churches (1985) | 90.9 | 50 | 4 |
| 48 |  | Nespithe (1993) | 92.4 | 35 | 0 |
| 49 |  | Crimson (1996) | 92.1 | 37 | 3 |
| 50 |  | Morningrise (1996) | 91.7 | 40 | 5 |
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