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The Best Heavy Metal Albums of All Time
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1
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
September 18, 1970
Heavy Metal
,
Hard Rock
Critic Score
96
6
reviews
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2
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Motörhead - Overkill
March 24, 1979
Heavy Metal
,
Hard Rock
,
Speed Metal
Critic Score
88
5
reviews
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3
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Green Lung - This Heathen Land
November 3, 2023
Heavy Metal
,
Doom Metal
,
Stoner Metal
,
Hard Rock
Critic Score
85
6
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4
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Ghost - Opus Eponymous
October 18, 2010
Heavy Metal
,
Hard Rock
Critic Score
84
5
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5
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Judas Priest - Painkiller
September 3, 1990
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
84
5
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6
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Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows
August 18, 2023
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
84
6
reviews
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7
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Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
October 20, 2017
Heavy Metal
,
Melodic Metalcore
Critic Score
83
5
reviews
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8
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VHÖL - Deeper Than Sky
October 23, 2015
Heavy Metal
,
Metal
Critic Score
83
7
reviews
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9
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Tribulation - Down Below
January 26, 2018
Gothic Metal
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
82
10
reviews
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10
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Metallica - Metallica
August 12, 1991
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
82
6
reviews
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11
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Ghost - Prequelle
June 1, 2018
Hard Rock
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
82
14
reviews
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12
.
Darkthrone - Old Star
May 31, 2019
Black Metal
,
Heavy Metal
,
Raw Black Metal
Critic Score
81
9
reviews
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13
.
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
February 17, 2023
Black Metal
,
Speed Metal
Critic Score
81
5
reviews
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14
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Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
September 3, 2021
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
81
21
reviews
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15
.
Ghost - Meliora
August 21, 2015
Hard Rock
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
81
18
reviews
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16
.
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
June 2, 2023
Hard Rock
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
80
5
reviews
Amazon
17
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Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
May 29, 2012
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
80
5
reviews
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18
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BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance
April 1, 2016
Alternative Metal
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
14
reviews
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19
.
In Solitude - Sister
September 30, 2013
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
6
reviews
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20
.
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
September 4, 2015
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
30
reviews
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21
.
Judas Priest - Firepower
March 9, 2018
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
14
reviews
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22
.
Megadeth - Endgame
September 9, 2009
Thrash Metal
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
8
reviews
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23
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The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
February 18, 2014
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
78
6
reviews
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24
.
Metallica - S&M2
August 28, 2020
Symphonic Metal
,
Heavy Metal
,
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
78
11
reviews
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25
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Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
April 25, 1980
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
78
5
reviews
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