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Critics' Highest Rated Metal Albums of 2024
Ihsahn
IHSAHN
85
critic score
(9)
Escuela Grind
DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
84
critic score
(5)
Job for a Cowboy
Moon Healer
84
critic score
(7)
Borknagar
Fall
84
critic score
(6)
Vitriol
Suffer & Become
84
critic score
(6)
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Critics' Highest Rated Metal Albums of All Time
Metallica
Master of Puppets
100
critic score
(5)
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
96
critic score
(6)
Metallica
Ride the Lightning
92
critic score
(5)
Blood Incantation
Hidden History of the Human Race
92
critic score
(9)
Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction
92
critic score
(7)
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Users' Highest Rated Metal Albums of 2024
fallingwithscissors
the death and birth of an angel
79
user score
(1,796)
Ὁπλίτης [Hoplites]
Παραμαινομένη
77
user score
(571)
Spectral Voice
Sparagmos
73
user score
(154)
Job for a Cowboy
Moon Healer
73
user score
(288)
Knoll
As Spoken
73
user score
(102)
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Users' Highest Rated Metal Albums of All Time
System of a Down
Toxicity
91
user score
(6,108)
Boris With Merzbow
Rock Dream
91
user score
(354)
Metallica
Master of Puppets
90
user score
(4,768)
Death
Symbolic
90
user score
(1,784)
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
89
user score
(4,290)
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Recent Metal Albums
Necrophobic
In the Twilight Grey
85
critic score
(4)
DragonForce
Warp Speed Warriors
77
critic score
(4)
Aborted
Vault of Horrors
76
critic score
(5)
Whom Gods Destroy
Insanium
63
critic score
(3)
Gutfuck
Piranha Blowjob
Weston Super Maim
See You Tomorrow Baby
Windwaker
Enter The Wall
Hecatoncheir
Nightmare Utopia
80
critic score
(1)
Slimelord
Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
90
critic score
(1)
Domain
Life's Cold Grasp
90
critic score
(1)
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By Year
1969
1
1970
9
1971
5
1972
6
1973
3
1974
1
1975
1
1976
7
1977
5
1978
5
1979
9
1980
24
1981
20
1982
33
1983
47
1984
78
1985
86
1986
102
1987
111
1988
125
1989
124
1990
149
1991
165
1992
188
1993
224
1994
238
1995
261
1996
255
1997
274
1998
255
1999
267
2000
246
2001
289
2002
280
2003
304
2004
320
2005
338
2006
347
2007
388
2008
368
2009
424
2010
424
2011
426
2012
486
2013
556
2014
549
2015
624
2016
693
2017
844
2018
913
2019
1,223
2020
1,342
2021
1,770
2022
1,877
2023
1,789
2024
302
20,204 releases
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