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The top-rated metal album on Riffiter is Reign in Blood by Slayer, rated 4.8/5 by 5 listeners.
1,554 metal albums ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 338 of 1,554 metal albums, averaging 3.6/5, spanning 1968 to 2026.
02 Back in Black
AC/DC · 1980
★ 4.5 · 11
03 The Satanist
Behemoth · 2014
★ 4.9 · 4
04 Rust in Peace
Megadeth · 1990
★ 4.7 · 5
05 Highway to Hell
AC/DC · 1979
★ 4.5 · 10
06 obZen
Meshuggah · 2008
★ 4.5 · 8
07 Meteora
Linkin Park · 2003
★ 4.5 · 6
08 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass · 1986
★ 4.7 · 3
09 Recharged
Linkin Park · 2013
★ 4.5 · 4
10 Rage Against The Machine - XX (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
Rage Against the Machine · 2012
★ 4.3 · 7
11 The Dusk in Us
Converge · 2017
★ 4.8 · 2
12 Panopticon
Isis · 2004
★ 4.8 · 2
13 All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects · 2016
★ 4.5 · 3
14 The Studio Album Collection (1999 - 2008)
Slipknot · 2014
★ 4.4 · 4
15 Firepower
Judas Priest · 2018
★ 4.4 · 4
16 Living Things
Linkin Park · 2012
★ 4.3 · 5
17 Iowa (10th Anniversary Edition)
Slipknot · 2005
★ 4.3 · 5
18 We Are Not Your Kind
Slipknot · 2019
★ 4.3 · 5
19 Let There Be Rock
AC/DC · 1977
★ 4.1 · 7
20 Blackwater Park
Opeth · 2001
★ 4.1 · 7
21 Fortitude
Gojira · 2021
★ 4.3 · 3
22 Crack the Skye
Mastodon · 2009
★ 4.3 · 3
23 Monoliths & Dimensions
Sunn O))) · 2009
★ 4.3 · 3
24 The Great Heathen Army
Amon Amarth · 2022
★ 4.5 · 2
25 Morningrise (2023 Abbey Road Remaster)
Opeth · 1996
★ 4.5 · 2
26 Impera
Ghost · 2022
★ 5.0 · 1
27 Machine Head
Deep Purple · 1972
★ 4.1 · 9
28 Fear Inoculum
Tool · 2019
★ 4.1 · 6
29 The Hunting Party
Linkin Park · 2014
★ 4.1 · 5
30 Slipknot (10th Anniversary Edition)
Slipknot · 2008
★ 4.1 · 5
31 High Voltage
AC/DC · 1976
★ 4.1 · 5
32 Reanimation
Linkin Park · 2002
★ 4.1 · 5
33 South of Heaven
Slayer · 1988
★ 4.1 · 4
34 Leviathan
Mastodon · 2004
★ 4.1 · 4
35 Nothing
Meshuggah · 2002
★ 4.1 · 4
36 Magma
Gojira · 2016
★ 4.2 · 3
37 Immutable
Meshuggah · 2022
★ 4.2 · 3
38 Blunt Force Blues
Lamb of God · 2026
★ 4.2 · 3
39 For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC · 1981
★ 4.3 · 2
40 War Eternal
Arch Enemy · 2014
★ 4.3 · 2
41 What the Dead Men Say
Trivium · 2020
★ 4.3 · 2
42 Your Ghost Again
Mastodon · 2026
★ 4.3 · 2
43 Inferno
Motörhead · 2004
★ 4.3 · 2
44 I Don't Care
Cradle of Filth · 2026
★ 4.3 · 2
45 Back Street Kids (Remastered 2021)
Black Sabbath · 2026
★ 4.3 · 2
46 Ænima
Tool · 1996
★ 4.5 · 1
47 Super Collider
Megadeth · 2013
★ 4.5 · 1
48 The Essential Judas Priest
Judas Priest · 2015
★ 4.5 · 1
49 Decades: Live in Buenos Aires
Nightwish · 2019
★ 4.5 · 1
50 BLUE BLOOD
X JAPAN · 1989
★ 4.5 · 1
51 The Violent Sleep of Reason
Meshuggah · 2016
★ 4.5 · 1
52 The Manticore and Other Horrors - Extended Claws
Cradle of Filth · 2013
★ 4.5 · 1
53 King of the Grey Islands
Candlemass · 2007
★ 4.5 · 1
54 Murdered Love
P.O.D. · 2012
★ 4.5 · 1
55 Missa Cantorem I
Powerwolf · 2021
★ 4.5 · 1
56 Lost Not Forgotten Archives: When Dream And Day Unite Demos (1987-1989)
Dream Theater · 2023
★ 4.5 · 1
57 Holiday at Lake Bodom: 15 Years of Wasted Youth
Children of Bodom · 2012
★ 4.5 · 1
58 The Ophidian Trek (Live)
Meshuggah · 2014
★ 4.5 · 1
59 Ground Culture
KINGDOM OF GIANTS · 2014
★ 4.5 · 1
60 Oceanic
Isis · 2002
★ 4.5 · 1
61 The Wörld Is Ours, Vol. 2 (Anyplace Crazy as Anywhere Else)
Motörhead · 2026
★ 4.5 · 1
62 Ember to Inferno: Ab Initio
Trivium · 2003
★ 4.5 · 1
63 Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (Special Edition)
Slipknot · 2004
★ 4.0 · 5
64 Live in Texas
Linkin Park · 2003
★ 4.0 · 4
65 Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth · 1986
★ 4.0 · 4
66 The Sacrament of Sin
Powerwolf · 2018
★ 4.0 · 4
67 Antennas to Hell (Special Edition)
Slipknot · 2012
★ 4.0 · 3
68 Live (Collector's Edition)
AC/DC · 2014
★ 4.0 · 3
69 Powerage
AC/DC · 1978
★ 4.0 · 3
70 Holy Hell
Architects · 2018
★ 4.0 · 3
71 Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Live In Tokyo, 2010
Dream Theater · 2026
★ 4.0 · 3
72 Got Your Six
Five Finger Death Punch · 2015
★ 4.0 · 2
73 Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater · 1999
★ 4.0 · 2
74 Still Life
Opeth · 1999
★ 4.0 · 2
75 Wintersun
Wintersun · 2004
★ 4.0 · 2
76 Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
Periphery · 2023
★ 4.0 · 2
77 Lamb of God
Lamb of God · 2020
★ 4.0 · 2
78 Foregone
In Flames · 2023
★ 4.0 · 2
79 Call of the Wild
Powerwolf · 2021
★ 4.0 · 2
80 Skeletons in the Closet (Japan Edition)
Children of Bodom · 2009
★ 4.0 · 2
81 March of Time (1984-1998)
Helloween · 2026
★ 4.0 · 2
82 Cowboys From Hell
Pantera · 1990
★ 3.9 · 4
83 If You Want Blood You've Got It (Live)
AC/DC · 2015
★ 3.9 · 4
84 Lateralus
Tool · 2001
★ 3.9 · 4
85 Fly on the Wall
AC/DC · 1985
★ 4.0 · 1
86 And Justice for None
Five Finger Death Punch · 2018
★ 4.0 · 1
87 Ozzmosis
Ozzy Osbourne · 1995
★ 4.0 · 1
88 Redeemer of Souls
Judas Priest · 2014
★ 4.0 · 1
89 American Capitalist
Five Finger Death Punch · 2011
★ 4.0 · 1
90 Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage · 2000
★ 4.0 · 1
91 Defenders of the Faith (30th Anniversary Edition) (Remastered)
Judas Priest · 2015
★ 4.0 · 1
92 Not Alone
Linkin Park · 2011
★ 4.0 · 1
93 Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian · 1998
★ 4.0 · 1
94 Deceivers
Arch Enemy · 2022
★ 4.0 · 1
95 Nostradamus
Judas Priest · 2008
★ 4.0 · 1
96 The History of Heresy II (2009 - 2012)
Powerwolf · 2014
★ 4.0 · 1
97 Theatre of Death (Live at Hammersmith 2009)
Alice Cooper · 2010
★ 4.0 · 1
98 Broken Valley
Life of Agony · 2005
★ 4.0 · 1
99 In the Court of the Dragon
Trivium · 2021
★ 4.0 · 1
100 The Sin and the Sentence
Trivium · 2017
★ 4.0 · 1
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