Metal · Albums
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The top-rated metal album on Riffiter is Reign in Blood by Slayer, rated 5.0/5 by 4 listeners.
1,325 metal albums ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 214 of 1,325 metal albums, averaging 3.7/5, spanning 1968 to 2026.
02 Back in Black
AC/DC · 1980
★ 4.6 · 9
03 Highway to Hell
AC/DC · 1979
★ 4.6 · 9
04 Rust in Peace
Megadeth · 1990
★ 4.9 · 4
05 The Satanist
Behemoth · 2014
★ 4.9 · 4
06 Meteora
Linkin Park · 2003
★ 4.5 · 5
07 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass · 1986
★ 4.7 · 3
08 Recharged
Linkin Park · 2013
★ 4.5 · 4
09 The Dusk in Us
Converge · 2017
★ 4.8 · 2
10 Panopticon
Isis · 2004
★ 4.8 · 2
11 All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects · 2016
★ 4.5 · 3
12 The Studio Album Collection (1999 - 2008)
Slipknot · 2014
★ 4.4 · 4
13 Firepower
Judas Priest · 2018
★ 4.4 · 4
14 Living Things
Linkin Park · 2012
★ 4.3 · 5
15 Iowa (10th Anniversary Edition)
Slipknot · 2005
★ 4.3 · 5
16 We Are Not Your Kind
Slipknot · 2019
★ 4.3 · 5
17 Impera
Ghost · 2022
★ 5.0 · 1
18 obZen
Meshuggah · 2008
★ 5.0 · 1
19 The Great Heathen Army
Amon Amarth · 2022
★ 4.5 · 2
20 Fortitude
Gojira · 2021
★ 4.3 · 3
21 Crack the Skye
Mastodon · 2009
★ 4.3 · 3
22 Nothing
Meshuggah · 2002
★ 4.3 · 3
23 Monoliths & Dimensions
Sunn O))) · 2009
★ 4.3 · 3
24 Rage Against The Machine - XX (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
Rage Against the Machine · 2012
★ 4.2 · 6
25 Fear Inoculum
Tool · 2019
★ 4.1 · 6
26 The Hunting Party
Linkin Park · 2014
★ 4.1 · 5
27 High Voltage
AC/DC · 1976
★ 4.1 · 5
28 South of Heaven
Slayer · 1988
★ 4.1 · 4
29 Leviathan
Mastodon · 2004
★ 4.1 · 4
30 Magma
Gojira · 2016
★ 4.2 · 3
31 Immutable
Meshuggah · 2022
★ 4.2 · 3
32 For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC · 1981
★ 4.3 · 2
33 War Eternal
Arch Enemy · 2014
★ 4.3 · 2
34 What the Dead Men Say
Trivium · 2020
★ 4.3 · 2
35 Ænima
Tool · 1996
★ 4.5 · 1
36 Super Collider
Megadeth · 2013
★ 4.5 · 1
37 The Essential Judas Priest
Judas Priest · 2015
★ 4.5 · 1
38 Decades: Live in Buenos Aires
Nightwish · 2019
★ 4.5 · 1
39 BLUE BLOOD
X JAPAN · 1989
★ 4.5 · 1
40 The Violent Sleep of Reason
Meshuggah · 2016
★ 4.5 · 1
41 Oceanic
Isis · 2002
★ 4.5 · 1
42 Let There Be Rock
AC/DC · 1977
★ 4.0 · 6
43 Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (Special Edition)
Slipknot · 2004
★ 4.0 · 5
44 Live in Texas
Linkin Park · 2003
★ 4.0 · 4
45 Blackwater Park
Opeth · 2001
★ 4.0 · 4
46 Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth · 1986
★ 4.0 · 4
47 The Sacrament of Sin
Powerwolf · 2018
★ 4.0 · 4
48 Antennas to Hell (Special Edition)
Slipknot · 2012
★ 4.0 · 3
49 Live (Collector's Edition)
AC/DC · 2014
★ 4.0 · 3
50 Powerage
AC/DC · 1978
★ 4.0 · 3
51 Holy Hell
Architects · 2018
★ 4.0 · 3
52 Machine Head
Deep Purple · 1972
★ 3.9 · 7
53 Got Your Six
Five Finger Death Punch · 2015
★ 4.0 · 2
54 Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater · 1999
★ 4.0 · 2
55 Still Life
Opeth · 1999
★ 4.0 · 2
56 Wintersun
Wintersun · 2004
★ 4.0 · 2
57 Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
Periphery · 2023
★ 4.0 · 2
58 Lamb of God
Lamb of God · 2020
★ 4.0 · 2
59 Foregone
In Flames · 2023
★ 4.0 · 2
60 Call of the Wild
Powerwolf · 2021
★ 4.0 · 2
61 Fly on the Wall
AC/DC · 1985
★ 4.0 · 1
62 And Justice for None
Five Finger Death Punch · 2018
★ 4.0 · 1
63 Ozzmosis
Ozzy Osbourne · 1995
★ 4.0 · 1
64 Redeemer of Souls
Judas Priest · 2014
★ 4.0 · 1
65 American Capitalist
Five Finger Death Punch · 2011
★ 4.0 · 1
66 Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage · 2000
★ 4.0 · 1
67 Defenders of the Faith (30th Anniversary Edition) (Remastered)
Judas Priest · 2015
★ 4.0 · 1
68 Not Alone
Linkin Park · 2011
★ 4.0 · 1
69 Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian · 1998
★ 4.0 · 1
70 Deceivers
Arch Enemy · 2022
★ 4.0 · 1
71 Nostradamus
Judas Priest · 2008
★ 4.0 · 1
72 The History of Heresy II (2009 - 2012)
Powerwolf · 2014
★ 4.0 · 1
73 In the Court of the Dragon
Trivium · 2021
★ 4.0 · 1
74 The Sin and the Sentence
Trivium · 2017
★ 4.0 · 1
75 METAL RESISTANCE
BABYMETAL · 2016
★ 4.0 · 1
76 Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition)
Slipknot · 2008
★ 3.9 · 4
77 Reanimation
Linkin Park · 2002
★ 3.9 · 4
78 Cowboys From Hell
Pantera · 1990
★ 3.9 · 4
79 If You Want Blood You've Got It (Live)
AC/DC · 2015
★ 3.9 · 4
80 Lateralus
Tool · 2001
★ 3.9 · 4
81 Roots
Sepultura · 1996
★ 3.8 · 3
82 The Way of All Flesh
Gojira · 2008
★ 3.8 · 3
83 Phantom Anthem
August Burns Red · 2017
★ 3.8 · 3
84 .5: The Gray Chapter
Slipknot · 2014
★ 3.8 · 2
85 An Ocean Between Us
As I Lay Dying · 2007
★ 3.8 · 2
86 Invincible Shield
Judas Priest · 2024
★ 3.8 · 2
87 Jomsviking
Amon Amarth · 2016
★ 3.8 · 2
88 Life Metal
Sunn O))) · 2019
★ 3.8 · 2
89 Atonement
Killswitch Engage · 2019
★ 3.8 · 2
90 Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God · 2004
★ 3.8 · 2
91 Sempiternal
Bring Me the Horizon · 2013
★ 3.8 · 6
92 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC · 1976
★ 3.8 · 6
93 The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1
Five Finger Death Punch · 2013
★ 3.5 · 1
94 A Real Live Dead One (Live; 1998 Remaster)
Iron Maiden · 2013
★ 3.5 · 1
95 God Hates Us All
Slayer · 2001
★ 3.5 · 1
96 The Blackening
Machine Head · 2007
★ 3.5 · 1
97 Terra Incognita
Gojira · 2001
★ 3.5 · 1
98 Patient Number 9
Ozzy Osbourne · 2022
★ 3.5 · 1
99 Black Rain
Ozzy Osbourne · 2007
★ 3.5 · 1
100 Scream
Ozzy Osbourne · 2010
★ 3.5 · 1
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