The Best Metal Albums of 2015

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Black Medicine Irreversible	Jul 28, 2015	97.3	13	1
2	Batushka Литургия (Litourgiya)	Dec 4, 2015	91.4	47	5
3	Mgła Exercises in Futility	Sep 4, 2015	89.9	53	2
4	Tempel The Moon Lit Our Path	Jun 16, 2015	91.9	30	2
5	Swallow the Sun Songs From the North I, II & III	Nov 13, 2015	93.8	19	0
6	Stratovarius Eternal	Sep 11, 2015	89	56	8
7	Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.	Mar 2, 2015	96.3	10	3
8	Deafheaven New Bermuda	Oct 2, 2015	89.3	44	2
9	Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia	Mar 21, 2015	93.3	17	2
10	Kamelot Haven	May 5, 2015	87.8	54	4
11	Leprous The Congregation	May 25, 2015	94	12	1
12	Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction	Aug 7, 2015	90.3	22	2
13	Lamb of God VII: Sturm Und Drang	Jul 24, 2015	88.1	35	2
14	Iron Maiden The Book of Souls	Sep 4, 2015	87	45	5
15	Paradise Lost The Plague Within	Jun 1, 2015	91.7	14	0
16	Soilwork The Ride Majestic	Aug 28, 2015	89.7	22	1
17	Silence Lies Fear Future: the Return	Jun 16, 2015	98.3	3	0
18	Deiphago Into the Eye of Satan	Jun 2, 2015	95	6	0
19	Pyramaze IV: Disciples of the Sun	May 22, 2015	92.2	11	0
20	Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash	Feb 21, 2015	90	18	3
21	Akhlys The Dreaming I	Apr 20, 2015	92.5	10	2
22	Crystal Lake The Sign	Oct 9, 2015	92.5	10	1
23	Symphony X Underworld	Jul 24, 2015	86.2	42	7
24	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Prometheus: Symphonia Ignis Divinus	Jun 19, 2015	86.6	37	4
25	Enisum Arpitanian Lands	Nov 15, 2015	94.2	6	1
26	Galneryus Under the Force of Courage	Dec 9, 2015	87.9	25	1
27	Method Abstract	Sep 15, 2015	88.3	22	1
28	Revenge Behold.Total.Rejection	Nov 13, 2015	90	14	0
29	Violet Cold Desperate Dreams	Apr 11, 2015	89	17	2
30	Encenathrakh Encenathrakh	Apr 10, 2015	95	4	0
31	Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere	Apr 3, 2015	90	12	2
32	Amorphis Under the Red Cloud	Sep 4, 2015	88.3	17	0
33	Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror	Jan 30, 2015	86.5	24	2
34	Jørn Lande / Trond Holter Dracula: Swing of Death	Jan 23, 2015	88.8	14	0
35	Tribulation The Children of the Night	Apr 20, 2015	88.5	15	1
36	Impellitteri Venom	Apr 17, 2015	85.7	27	1
37	厄鬼靈樹林 (Forest of Ghost)	Apr 18, 2015	93	5	1
38	Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno	Jun 9, 2015	87.9	16	0
39	Der Weg einer Freiheit Stellar	Mar 22, 2015	91.4	7	0
40	Devin Townsend Project Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall [Live]	Nov 13, 2015	93.8	4	0
41	Cain's Offering Stormcrow	May 15, 2015	86.4	22	4
42	The Kill Kill Them...All	Jan 4, 2015	95	3	0
43	Iskra Ruins	Jul 10, 2015	95	3	0
44	Caligula's Horse Bloom	Oct 16, 2015	95	3	0
45	Agent Fresco Destrier	Aug 7, 2015	95	3	0
46	Gloryhammer Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards	Sep 25, 2015	88.6	13	2
47	Shape of Despair Monotony Fields	Jun 15, 2015	91.7	6	0
48	Gruesome Savage Land	Apr 17, 2015	89.4	10	0
49	Arcturus Arcturian	May 8, 2015	87	17	2
50	Thousand Eyes Endless Nightmare	Sep 16, 2015	90.7	7	0

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