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The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the 21st Century (Metal Hammer)

Created : Mar 4, 2025 Last updated : Mar 6, 2025 92 items

1		Slipknot Iowa (2001)
2		Machine Head The Blackening (2007)
3		Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal (2013)
4		Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake (2004)
5		System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
6		Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen (2003)
7		Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache (2004)
8		Mastodon Crack the Skye (2009)
9		Behemoth The Satanist (2014)
10		Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000)
11		Trivium Ascendancy (2005)
12		Deftones White Pony (2000)
13		Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000)
14		Meshuggah ObZen (2008)
15		Gojira From Mars to Sirius (2005)
16		At the Drive-In Relationship of Command (2000)
17		Tool Lateralus (2001)
18		letlive The Blackest Beautiful (2013)
19		Megadeth Endgame (2009)
20		Iron Maiden The Book of Souls (2015)
21		Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon (2003)
22		Opeth Blackwater Park (2001)
23		Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together (2014)
24		Celtic Frost Monotheist (2006)
25		Bullet for My Valentine The Poison (2005)
26		Ghost Meliora (2015)
27		Poison the Well You Come Before You (2003)
28		Clutch Blast Tyrant (2004)
29		Satyricon Volcano (2002)
30		Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)
31		Electric Wizard Dopethrone (2000)
32		Within Temptation The Silent Force (2004)
33		Baroness Red Album (2007)
34		Converge Jane Doe (2001)
35		Rammstein Mutter (2001)
36		Trap Them Darker Handcraft (2011)
37		Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (2000)
38		Testament The Formation of Damnation (2008)
39		Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me (2014)
40		Watain Lawless Darkness (2010)
41		While She Sleeps This is the Six (2012)
42		Ihsahn After (2010)
43		HIM Dark Light (2005)
44		Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know (2009)
45		The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine (2004)
46		Carcass Surgical Steel (2013)
47		Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God (2008)
48		Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness (2002)
49		Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
50		Papa Roach Infest (2000)
51		Parkway Drive Ire (2015)
52		Isis Oceanic (2002)
53		Kvelertak Kvelertak (2010)
54		SikTh Death of a Dead Day (2006)
55		Nine Inch Nails With Teeth (2005)
56		Every Time I Die Ex Lives (2012)
57		Lacuna Coil Comalies (2002)
58		Nightwish Dark Passion Play (2007)
59		In Flames Come Clarity (2006)
60		The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual (2011)
61		Cannibal Corpse Kill (2006)
62		Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1 (2013)
63		Steel Panther Feel the Steel (2009)
64		Slayer God Hates Us All (2001)
65		Strapping Young Lad Alien (2005)
66		Turisas Battle Metal (2004)
67		Korn Untouchables (2002)
68		Dragonforce Inhuman Rampage (2006)
69		Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
70		Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living (2012)
71		Enslaved Isa (2004)
72		Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll (2003)
73		Anthrax We've Come for You All (2003)
74		Wolves In The Throne Room Black Cascade (2009)
75		Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny (2013)
76		Cult Of Luna The Beyond (2003)
77		Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses (2002)
78		Hatebreed Perseverance (2002)
79		Disturbed The Sickness (2000)
80		Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion (2003)
81		Tesseract Polaris (2015)
82		Municipal Waste The Art of Partying (2007)
83		Akercocke Choronzon (2003)
84		Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God (2003)
85		Babymetal Babymetal (2014)
86		Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason (2003)
87		Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat (2015)
88		Of Mice & Men The Flood (2011)
89		Orange Goblin A Eulogy for the Damned (2012)
90		Sabaton The Art of War (2008)
91		Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (2002)
92		Halestorm Into the Wild Life (2015)