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The 500 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time

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Rank Cover art Artist name / Album title Rating Votes Reviews
1Rust in Peace
August 21, 1990
Thrash Metal
96.832216
2Painkiller
September 3, 1990
Heavy Metal
96.927317
3Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
October 26, 1999
Progressive Metal
95.921314
4Images and Words
July 7, 1992
Progressive Metal
94.722916
5Reign in Blood
October 7, 1986
Thrash Metal
94.822612
6Ride the Lightning
July 27, 1984
Thrash Metal
94.621211
7Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
August 1, 1988
Power Metal
93.917813
8The Number of the Beast
March 22, 1982
Heavy Metal, NWOBHM
94.71319
9Terminal Redux
May 6, 2016
Technical Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal
94.21528
10Powerslave
September 3, 1984
Heavy Metal
94.61266
11Blackwater Park
March 12, 2001
Progressive Metal, Death Metal
94.514112
12Paranoid
September 18, 1970
Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
94.91147
13Awake
October 4, 1994
Progressive Metal
93.314611
14Defenders of the Faith
January 24, 1984
Heavy Metal
941216
15Damage Done
July 22, 2002
Melodic Death Metal
92.61329
16Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
July 20, 1986
Thrash Metal
93.81339
17Temple of Shadows
September 6, 2004
Power Metal
92.41607
18Heaven and Hell
April 25, 1980
Heavy Metal
941036
19Operation: Mindcrime
May 3, 1988
Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal
93.91008
20New World Shadows
February 4, 2011
Melodic Death Metal
921486
21De mysteriis dom Sathanas
May 24, 1994
Black Metal
92.413811
22The Black Halo
March 15, 2005
Power Metal
92.711012
23Symbolic
March 21, 1995
Technical Death Metal
94.8875
24Visions
April 28, 1997
Power Metal
93.7998
25Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
May 23, 1987
Power Metal
92.512811
26Master of Puppets
February 21, 1986
Thrash Metal
90.124819
27None So Vile
July 3, 1996
Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
92.81055
28Train of Thought
November 11, 2003
Progressive Metal
92.91056
29Elodia
1999
Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal
93.5786
30Rising Force
March 5, 1984
Neoclassical Metal, Heavy Metal
93.8815
31Blizzard of Ozz
September 20, 1980
Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
92.7985
32Beneath the Remains
September 5, 1989
Thrash Metal, Death Metal
93.71028
33In the Nightside Eclipse
February 21, 1994
Symphonic Black Metal
91.61094
34Power of the Dragonflame
March 18, 2002
Power Metal, Symphonic Metal
93.8788
35A Blaze in the Northern Sky
February 26, 1992
Black Metal
92.21036
36Oceanborn
October 1, 1998
Symphonic Metal, Power Metal
92.31066
37Hell Awaits
March 1985
Thrash Metal
91.61018
38Hybrid Theory
October 24, 2000
Nu Metal, Rap Rock
93.2643
39Altars of Madness
May 12, 1989
Death Metal
93.3746
40Fiction
April 24, 2007
Melodic Death Metal
921038
41Winter's Gate
September 23, 2016
Melodic Death Metal
94693
42Кровоизлияние
May 1993
Technical Thrash Metal
92.9776
43Portal of I
May 7, 2012
Progressive Metal, Melodic Black Metal
91.311510
44Cause of Death
September 19, 1990
Death Metal
92.4824
45Rage Against the Machine
November 10, 1992
Rap Metal, Alternative Metal
92.4644
46The Metal Opera
July 10, 2001
Power Metal, Rock Opera
92.3956
47Burning Bridges
May 21, 1999
Melodic Death Metal
90.81299
48Paradox
September 23, 1997
Progressive Metal
93.8545
49Écailles de lune
March 29, 2010
Blackgaze, Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Rock
92.1829
50Screaming for Vengeance
July 14, 1982
Heavy Metal
91.9946
51Virus
November 13, 2006
Power Metal
91.1965
52Human
October 22, 1991
Technical Death Metal, Death Metal
94746
53Seasons in the Abyss
October 9, 1990
Thrash Metal
91.61076
54Punishment for Decadence
August 1, 1988
Technical Thrash Metal
95.1460
55Stille
March 14, 1997
Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal
93.3614
56Master of Reality
July 21, 1971
Heavy Metal
93.1684
57Black Sabbath
February 13, 1970
Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
93.1836
58V: The New Mythology Suite
October 9, 2000
Progressive Metal
94.2453
59Storm of the Light's Bane
November 17, 1995
Melodic Black Metal
92.9908
60Pleasure to Kill
November 1, 1986
Thrash Metal
91.9725
61Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
April 11, 1988
Heavy Metal
93.4726
62Cruelty and the Beast
April 27, 1998
Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal
91.9838
63Liquid Tension Experiment 2
June 15, 1999
Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Jazz Fusion
94.8422
64The Great Escape
December 3, 2010
Progressive Metal
94.4442
65Holy Diver
May 23, 1983
Heavy Metal
92.69210
66Symphony of Enchanted Lands
October 5, 1998
Power Metal, Symphonic Metal
9111114
67Moonglow
February 15, 2019
Symphonic Metal, Power Metal
93.1628
68...And Justice for All
August 25, 1988
Thrash Metal
88.916514
69Leprosy
November 16, 1988
Death Metal
93.9593
70Ghost Reveries
August 29, 2005
Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
91.88110
71Pentagram
October 12, 1994
Black Metal
93.9444
72Sad Legend
December 1998
Melodic Black Metal
92.6583
73The Downward Spiral
March 8, 1994
Industrial Rock, Industrial Metal
95311
74Eternal Devastation
July 12, 1986
Thrash Metal
93512
75Legion
June 9, 1992
Death Metal
92.7612
76Mandrake
September 24, 2001
Power Metal
92.3664
77Transcendence
November 1, 1988
Heavy Metal
92.6675
78Ace of Spades
November 8, 1980
Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
93.3513
7912 Gauge
March 3, 2010
Melodic Death Metal
91.6773
80The Divine Wings of Tragedy
March 24, 1997
Progressive Metal, Neoclassical Metal
93.2506
81Ecliptica
September 4, 1999
Power Metal
90.61037
82Karma
July 10, 2001
Power Metal
92.2658
83Vovin
May 4, 1998
Symphonic Metal
93.8435
84Hvis lyset tar oss
May 15, 1994
Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
91.8721
85Drudenhaus
April 1, 2000
Symphonic Black Metal
90.2928
86Rebirth
November 13, 2001
Power Metal
91.1817
87Dust to Dust
January 12, 2004
Power Metal
91.2779
88Rise of the Tyrant
September 24, 2007
Melodic Death Metal
901079
897 Sinners
October 31, 2010
Power Metal
89.5913
90Lateralus
May 15, 2001
Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal
94372
91Arcane Rain Fell
January 24, 2005
Gothic Metal, Doom Metal
93.8383
92The Return of N.EX.T Part 1 - The Being
May 1994
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
92.2583
93Deicide
June 25, 1990
Death Metal
91.6674
94Dusk... and Her Embrace
August 28, 1996
Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal
90.3908
95Rising
May 17, 1976
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
92.8634
96Hate Crew Deathroll
January 7, 2003
Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal
90975
97Still Life
October 18, 1999
Progressive Metal, Death Metal
91.6737
98The Satanist
February 3, 2014
Black Metal, Blackened Death Metal
91.9594
99Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution)
July 5, 2019
Symphonic Metal, Power Metal
93.5414
100당신의 환상을 동정하라
February 2010
Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Ethereal Wave
93.1445
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Info / Statistics
Artists : 47,456
Reviews : 10,460
Albums : 171,023
Lyrics : 218,348