Top avant-garde metal albums
The top-rated avant-garde metal album on Riffiter is Mezmerize by System of a Down, rated 4.3/5 by 8 listeners.
60 avant-garde metal albums ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 10 of 60 avant-garde metal albums, averaging 4.0/5, spanning 1985 to 2026.
02 Avatar Country
Avatar · 2018
★ 4.3 · 3
03 Watershed
Opeth · 2008
★ 4.0 · 1
04 The Congregation
Leprous · 2015
★ 4.5 · 1
05 Agriculture
Agriculture · 2023
★ 4.0 · 1
06 Years Past Matter
Krallice · 2012
★ 3.5 · 1
07 Elect the Dead
Serj Tankian · 2007
★ 3.5 · 1
08 Dimensional Bleedthrough
Krallice · 2009
★ 3.5 · 1
09 Go Be Forgotten
Krallice · 2017
★ 3.0 · 1
10 Radici
Diespnea · 2026
★ 3.5 · 1
11 Fogdiver
The Ocean · 2005
12 Inorganic Rites
Krallice · 2024
13 Ygg huur
Krallice · 2015
14 Devil Is Fine X
Zeal & Ardor · 2026
15 Diotima
Krallice · 2011
16 Krallice
Krallice · 2008
17 Prelapsarian
Krallice · 2016
18 Mass Cathexis
Krallice · 2020
19 Cause for Conflict
Kreator · 1995
20 Mass Cathexis 2 – The Kinetic Infinite
Krallice · 2023
21 Feathers & Flesh
Avatar · 2016
22 B.Y.O.B.
System of a Down · 2005
23 Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Ulver · 1998
24 Trust No One
Zeal & Ardor · 2020
25 Built on Ashes (short version)
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
26 Wake of a Nation
Zeal & Ardor · 2020
27 Firewake
Zeal & Ardor · 2022
28 Erase
Zeal & Ardor · 2021
29 Zeal and Ardor
Zeal & Ardor · 2014
30 We Never Fall
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
31 Unreleased Songs
Zeal & Ardor · 2015
32 Vigil
Zeal & Ardor · 2020
33 Hide in Shade
Zeal & Ardor · 2024
34 Live in Montreux
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
35 Stranger Fruit
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
36 Built on Ashes
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
37 Live in London
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
38 Fend You Off
Zeal & Ardor · 2024
39 GREIF
Zeal & Ardor · 2024
40 Calloway
Zeal & Ardor · 2021
41 You Ain’t Coming Back
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
42 Tuskegee
Zeal & Ardor · 2020
43 Run (GEIZ version)
Zeal & Ardor · 2021
44 Zeal & Ardor
Zeal & Ardor · 2022
45 Blood in the River
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
46 2019‐10‐18: Desertfest Antwerp, Trix Zaal, Borgerhout, Belgium
Zeal & Ardor
47 Baphomet
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
48 Come On Down
Zeal & Ardor · 2017
49 to my ilk
Zeal & Ardor · 2024
50 Cut Me
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
51 Waste
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
52 Clawing out
Zeal & Ardor · 2024
53 2022‐11‐11: Òran Mór, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Zeal & Ardor · 2022
54 Gravedigger’s Chant
Zeal & Ardor · 2018
55 I Can’t Breathe
Zeal & Ardor · 2020
56 Devil Is Fine
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
57 Run
Zeal & Ardor · 2021
58 Children’s Summon
Zeal & Ardor · 2016
59 Ship on Fire
Zeal & Ardor · 2019
60 Emperor's Return
Celtic Frost · 1985
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