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1
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Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
November 22, 2019
Death Metal
,
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
92
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
2
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Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion
May 10, 2019
Post-Hardcore
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
90
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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Deafheaven - Sunbather
June 11, 2013
Blackgaze
,
Post-Black Metal
Critic Score
89
23
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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Periphery - Periphery IV: HAIL STAN
April 5, 2019
Progressive Metal
,
Djent
Critic Score
88
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
April 30, 2013
Atmospheric Black Metal
,
Post-Black Metal
Critic Score
87
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Cavalera Conspiracy - Psychosis
November 17, 2017
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
87
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
7
.
Gorguts - Colored Sands
August 6, 2013
Technical Death Metal
,
Dissonant Death Metal
Critic Score
87
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
November 10, 2014
Groove Metal
Critic Score
87
8
reviews
Amazon
Music
9
.
Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
June 29, 2015
Deathcore
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
March 16, 2018
Progressive Metal
,
Progressive Death Metal
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Fit For An Autopsy - The Great Collapse
March 17, 2017
Deathcore
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Carcass - Surgical Steel
September 17, 2013
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
86
11
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
April 15, 2014
Gothic Metal
,
Doom Metal
Critic Score
86
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Behemoth - The Satanist
February 3, 2014
Blackened Death Metal
Critic Score
86
13
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Voïvod - The Wake
September 21, 2018
Progressive Metal
,
Technical Thrash Metal
Critic Score
86
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Converge - The Dusk in Us
November 3, 2017
Metalcore
Critic Score
85
22
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Architects - Holy Hell
November 9, 2018
Progressive Metalcore
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
85
14
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Pallbearer - Heartless
March 24, 2017
Doom Metal
Critic Score
85
17
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
August 25, 2017
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
85
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
October 9, 2012
Metalcore
Critic Score
85
20
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
Code Orange - Forever
January 13, 2017
Metalcore
Critic Score
85
12
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Whitechapel - The Valley
March 29, 2019
Deathcore
,
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
85
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Sigh - Heir To Despair
November 16, 2018
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
85
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
October 6, 2017
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
85
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Machine Head - Unto the Locust
September 27, 2011
Thrash Metal
,
Groove Metal
Critic Score
85
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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