Top 100 Metal Albums
by 
RockyRaccoon 
I've got a bunch of charts dedicated to the different subgenres of metal, but this chart is an all-encompassing chart for my favorite metal albums (and I'll specify the specific subgenre of metal within the comments of each entry, assuming there is one).
NOTE: This chart is not going to include early metal (i.e. Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath) nor will it include hair metal (despite the fact that hair metal is the coolest and if you like hair metal, I've got a top 100 hair metal albums chart you should check out).
- Chart updated: 06/07/2023 00:45
- (Created: 06/05/2023 19:36).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Death Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
Year of Release:
1995
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Rank Score:
1,605
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Thrash Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
Year of Release:
1984
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Rank Score:
8,869
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Doom Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
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Power Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
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Thrash Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
Year of Release:
1986
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Rank Score:
12,031
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Power Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
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Black Metal/Folk Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
Year of Release:
2002
Appears in:
Rank Score:
1,297
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Death Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
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Power Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
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Post-Metal/Sludge Metal
[First added to this chart: 06/05/2023]
Year of Release:
1996
Appears in:
Rank Score:
788
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Metal Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 26% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 30 | 30% | |
| 2020s | 4 | 4% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Metallica | 4 | 4% | |
| Agalloch | 3 | 3% | |
| Mastodon | 3 | 3% | |
| Kamelot | 2 | 2% | |
| Pantera | 2 | 2% | |
| Neurosis | 2 | 2% | |
| Panopticon | 2 | 2% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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48 | 48% | |
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8 | 8% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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Top 100 Metal Albums chart changes
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Up 1 from 84th to 83rd |
Up 1 from 83rd to 82nd |
Up 1 from 82nd to 81st |
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Down 19 from 71st to 90th |
Down 3 from 94th to 97th |
Down 3 from 95th to 98th |
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Top 100 Metal Albums ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
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N.B. The average rating for this chart will not be reliable as it has been rated very few times.
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 06/12/2023 02:59 |  Repo | 592 | 100/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2023 00:52 | LedZep | 1,100 | 84/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2023 00:51 |  Mercury | 257 | 95/100 |
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From Mercury 06/11/2023 19:33 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
Mercury 06/11/2023 19:33 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!“Okay, the ballots are in. The votes are cast. Me and LedZep and Gowi and Repo and RockyRaccoon all made top 100 Fave metal albums charts in recent weeks. They are all cool. And they have all been tabulated. Note to those who made these charts, thanks agaon! They are awesome and have given me lots…”
View forum topic (2 mentions) →From Mercury 06/06/2023 22:26 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
Mercury 06/06/2023 22:26 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys“So I went ahead and put together a top 100 metal albums list - for anyone interested! Did You delete it? Or private it? It isn’t coming up and is saying it’s deleted or private.”
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