Martin Popoff’s Top 500 Metal Albums Of All Time!

1. Metallica: Master Of Puppets:

2. Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast:
3. Slayer: Reign In Blood:
4. Metallica: Ride The Lightning:
5. AC/DC: Back In Black:
6. Black Sabbath: Paranoid:
7. Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime:
8. Iron Maiden: Piece Of Mind:
9. Van Halen: Van Halen:
10.Guns ‘n’ Roses: Appetite For Destruction:
11.Megadeth: Rust In Peace:
12.Judas Priest: Screaming For Vengeance
13.Iron Maiden: Powerslave:
14.Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath:
15.Ozzy: Blizzard Of Ozz:
16.Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell
17.Dio: Holy Diver:
18.Metallica: Kill Em All:
19.Metallica: And Justice For All:
20.Pantera: Vulgar Display Of Power:
21.Judas Priest: British Steel
22.Motley Crue: Shout At The Devil
23.AC/DC: Highway To Hell
24.Deep Purple: Machine Head
25.Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality
26.Judas Priest: Painkiller
27.Metallica: Metallica:
28.Slayer: Seasons In The Abyss:
29.Ozzy: Diary Of A Madman
30.Led Zeppelin IV:
31.Megadeth: Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?:
32.Iron Maiden: Killers:
33.Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
34.Judas Priest: Sad Wings Of Destiny
35.Mercyful Fate: Don’t Break The Oath
36.Helloween: Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II:
37.Accept: Restless And Wild
38.Deep Purple: Deep Purple In Rock
39.Rainbow: Rising
40.Black Sabbath: Sabotage
41.KISS: Alive!
42.Judas Priest: Live In Japan
43.Motorhead: Ace Of Spades:
44.Slayer: South Of Heaven:
45.Black Sabbath: Mob Rules
46.Black Sabbath: Vol 4
47.Dream Theater: Images And Words
48.Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti:
49.Anthrax: Among The Living
50.Venom: Black Metal
51.Judas Priest: Stained Class
52.Alice In Chains: Dirt:
53.Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction:
54.King Diamond: Abigail
55.Def Leppard: Pyromania:
56.Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son:
57.Slayer: Hell Awaits:
58.Accept: Balls To The Wall
59.Led Zeppelin 2:
60.Pantera: Cowboys From Hell:
61.Bruce Dickinson: The Chemical Wedding:
62.Judas Priest: Defenders Of The Faith
63.Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden:
64.Kiss: Destroyer
65.Metal Church: Metal Church
66.Carcass: Heartwork
67.Sepultura: Arise
68.Twisted Sister: Still Hungry
69.Mercyful Fate: Melissa
70.Iron Maiden: Somewhere In Time:
71.Aerosmith: Rocks
72.Bruce Dickinson: Accident Of Birth
73.Dio: The Last In Line
74.Pantera: Far Beyond Driven:
75.Rush: Moving Pictures
76.Riot: Fire Down Under
77.Exodus: Bonded By Blood:
78.Scorpions: Blackout
79.Judas Priest: Killing Machine
80.Led Zep 1:
81.Fear Factory: Demanufacture
82.Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic:
83.Black Sabbath: Born Again
84.Rainbow: Long Live Rock And Roll
85.WASP: WASP
86.Nevermore: Dead Heart In A Dead World
87.Iron Maiden: Live After Death:
88.Deep Purple: Made In Japan
89.Helloween: Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1:
90.Motley Crue: Too Fast For Love
91.UFO: Strangers In The Night
92.Queensryche: Empire
93.Deep Purple: Burn
94.Sepultura: Chaos AD
95.Faith No More: The Real Thing:
96.AC/DC: Powerage
97.Savatage: Hall Of The Mountain King
98.Blind Guardian: Nightfall In Middle Earth:
99.Rush: 2112
100. SOD: Speak English Or Die
101. Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force
102. Montrose: Montrose
103. Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger:
104. Anthrax: Sound Of White Noise
105. Celtic Frost: Morbid Tales
106. Emperor: Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
107. Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion:
108. Queensryche: Rage For Order
109. Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies:
110. Possessed: Seven Churches
111. King Diamond: Them
112. At The Gates: Slaughter Of The Soul
113. Skid Row: Slave To The Grind
114. Nirvana: Nevermind:
115. Scorpions: Love At First Sting
116. Whitesnake: Whitesnake
117. AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
118. Ratt: Out Of The Cellar
119. Celtic Frost: Into The Pandemonium
120. Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
121. Kiss: Kiss
122. Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak
123. Anthrax: Spreading The Disease
124. Van Halen: Van Halen 2
125. Annihilator: Alice In Hell:
126. Motorhead: Overkill
127. Slayer: Show No Mercy:
128. Tool: Aenima
129. Iron Maiden: Brave New Blood:
130. Motorhead: No Sleep Til Hammersmith:
131. Manowar; Kings Of Metal
132. Testament: The New Prder
133. Quiet Riot: Metal Health
134. Led Zep 3: 1
135. Rush: Hemispheres
136. Amorphis: Tales From The Thousand Lakes
137. Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine :
138. Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers
139. Testament: The Gathering
140. Scorpions: Lovedrive
141. Angel Witch: Angel Witch
142. Helloween: Walls Of Jericho
143. Machinehead: Burn My Eyes
144. Ozzy: No More Tears
145. Nevermore: Dreaming Neon Black
146. Led Zep: Houses Of The Holy:
147. Testament: Practice What You Preach
148. Ozzy/Randy: Tribute
149. Pantera: The Great Southern Trendkill
150. AC/DC: High Voltage
151. Van Halen: 1984
152. Type O Negative: October Rust
153. Emperor: In The Nightside Eclipse
154. Def Leppard: Hysteria:
155. Strapping Young Lad: City
156. Death: Human
157. KISS: Creatures Of The Night
158. Van Halen: Fair Warning
159. Helloween: Better Than Raw
160. Dream Theater: Metropolis Pt 2
161. Judas Priest: Sin After Sin
162. Slipknot: Slipknot:
163. Blind Guardian: Imaginations From The Other Side:
164. Uriah Heep: Demons And Wizards
165. Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet:
166. Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses
167. Iced Earth: Something Wicked This Way Comes
168. Tool: Undertow
169. Candlemass: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
170. Sepultura: Roots:
171. Halford: Resurrection
172. Skid Row: Skid Row:
173. Pearl Jam: Ten:
174. Accept: Metal Heart
175. Danzig: Danzig
176. Alice In Chains: Facelift:
177. Queen: A Night At The Opera:
178. Fates Warning: Awaken The Guardian
179. Korn: Korn
180. Badlands: Badlands
181. Faith No More: Angel Dust
182. Saxon: Strong Arm Of The Law
183. Soundgarden: Superunknown:
184. Testament: The Legacy
185. Death: Scream Bloody Gore
186. Dokken: Tooth And Nail
187. Gamma Ray: Land Of The Free
188. Death: Symbolic
189. Alice Cooper: Love It To Death:
190. Mayhem: De mysteriis dom Sathanas
191. Corrosion Of Conformity: Deliverance
192. Queensryche: The Warning
193. Rush: A Farewell To Kings
194. Blue Oyster Cult: Agents Of Fortune
195. White Zombie: La Sexorcisto
196. Therion: Theli
197. Thin Lizzy: Thunder And Lightning
198. Motorhead: No Remorse:
199. Uriah Heep: Look At Yourself
200. Death: Leprosy
201. Megadeth: So Far So Good So What:
202. Overkill: The Years Of Decay
203. Down: NOLA
204. Testament Low
205. Carcass: Necroticism
206. Crimson Glory: Transcendence
207. Manowar: The Triumph Of Steel
208. Tesla: Mechanical Resonance
209. Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties
210. White Zombie: Astro Creep
211. In Flames: Clayman
212. Ozzy: Bark At The Moon
213. Saxon: Power & The Glory
214. Bathory: Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
215. Def Leppard: High ‘n’ Dry
216. Kreator: Pleasure To Kill
217. Dissection: Storm Of The Light’s Bane
218. Stratovarious: Visions
219. Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous
220. Opeth: Still Life:
221. Morbid Angel: Blessed Are The Sick
222. Sepultura: Beneath The Remains
223. Voivod: Nothingface
224. Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
225. Guns N Roses: Use Your Illusion 2:
226. Manowar: Hail To England
227. Savatage: Streets A Rock Opera
228. Death: Individual Thought Patterns
229. Dokken: Under Lock And Key
230. Fear Factory: Obsolete
231. Dream Theater: Awake
232. Paradise Lost: Gothic
233. Black Sabbath: We Sold Our Soul For Rock And Roll
234. In Flames: The Jester Race
235. Motley Crue: Dr Feelgood
236. Savatage: Gutter Ballet
237. Iron Maiden: Fear Of The Dark:
238. Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare:
239. Entombed: Wolverine Blues
240. Slayer: Divine Intervention:
241. Whitesnake: Slide It In
242. Megadeth: Youthanasia:
243. KISS: Dressed To Kill
244. Opeth: Blackwater Park:
245. Rising Force: Marching Out
246. Dimmu Borgir: Spiritual Black Dimensions
247. Armoured Saint: Symbol Of Salvation
248. Cradle Of Filth: Cruelty And The Beast
249. Krokus: Headhunter
250. Manowar: Into Glory Ride
251. AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
252. Angra: Angels Cry
253. Iced Earth: Horror Show
254. Jag Panzer: Ample Destruction
255. Van Halen: Women And Children First
256. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?
257. Motorhead: Another Perfect Day
258. Deicide: Deicide
259. Morbid Angel: Covenant
260. Candlemass: Nightfall
261. Dark Angel: Darkness Descends
262. Trouble: Manic Frustration
263. Destruction: Infernal Overkill
264. Iced Earth: The Dark Saga
265. Saxon: Denim And Leather
266. Entombed: 666
267. Savatage: Edge Of Thorns
268. KISS: Alive II
269. Trouble: Trouble
270. AC/DC: For Those About To Rock
271. Cradle Of Filth: Dusk And Her Embrace
272. Queen: Queen
273. Saxon: Wheels Of Steel
274. King Diamond Conspiracy
275. Dimmu Borgir: Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
276. Dimmu Borgir: Entrone Darkness Triumphant
277. Cradle Of Filth: Midian
278. Ted Nugent: Cat Scratch Fever
279. Danzig: Danzig II
280. Judas Priest: Point Of Entry
281. Samael: Ceremony Of Opposites
282. Diamond Head: Lightning To The Nations
283. Anthrax: Persistence Of Time
284. Cannibal Corpse: The Bleeding
285. Hammerfall: Glory To The Brave
286. Michael Schenker Group: Assault Attack
287. Ozzy: No Rest For The Wicked
288. Entombed: Left Hand Path
289. The Cult: Electric
290. Savatage: Sirens
291. Voivod: Dimension Hatross
292. KISS: Hotter Than Hell
293. Malmsteen: Trilogy
294. Deep Purple: Purpendicular
295. Manowar: Battle Hymns
296. Slayer: God Hates Us All:
297. Paradise Lost: Icon
298. UFO: Lights Out
299. Van Halen: 5150
300. In Flames: Whoracle
301. Alice Cooper: Killer:
302. Entombed: Clandestine
303. Overkill: Taking Over
304. Megadeth: Killing Is My Business And Business Is
Good: 2
305. In Flames: Colony
306. Pantera: Reinventing The Steel
307. Overkill: Horrorscope
308. Venom: Welcome To Hell
309. Ministry: Psalm 69
310. Moonspell: Wolfheart
311. Motorhead: Orgasmatron
312. Savatage: Power Of The Night
313. Fastway: Fastway
314. The Gathering: Nighttime Birds:
315. The Gathering: Mandylion:
316. Judas Priest: Turbo
317. Hammerfall: Legacy Of Kings
318. Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun
319. Thin Lizzy: Johnny The Fox
320. Dark Tranquility: The Gallery
321. Twisted Sister: Under The Blade
322. Judas Priest: Jugulator
323. Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
324. King’s X: Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
325. Amorphis: Elegy
326. Godsmack: Godsmack
327. Scorpions: Taken By Force
328. Death Angel: Act 3
329. Fight: War Of Words
330. Rhapsody: Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
331. Destruction: Eternal Devastation
332. Paradise Lost: Draconian Times
333. Armoured Saint: Delirious Nomad
334. Boston: Boston
335. Corrosion Of Conformity: Wiseblood
336. Testament: Souls Of Black
337. Tygers Of Pan Tang: Spellbound
338. Metal Church: The Dark
339. WASP: The Crimson Idol
340. Dokken: Back For The Attack
341. Kreator: Extreme Agression
342. Suffocation: Effigy Of The Forgotten
343. Anthrax: Fistful Of Metal
344. Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy
345. Extreme: II Pornograffitti
346. Kyuss: Kyuss
347. Metal Church: Blessing In Disguise
348. Motorhead: Iron Fist
349. Scorpions: Animal Magnetism
350. Exodus: Fabulous Disaster
351. My Dying Bride: Turn Loose The Swans:
352. Dio: Dream Evil
353. Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine
354. WASP: The Headless Children
355. Nevermore: The Politics Of Ecstasy
356. UFO: Obsession
357. King’s X: Dogman
358. KISS: Revenge
359. WASP: The Last Command
360. Bathory: Blood Fire Death
361. Black Label Society: Stronger Than Death
362. Meshuggah: Destroy Erase Improve
363. Rush: Rush
364. System Of A Down: Toxicity:
365. Voivod: Killing Technology
366. The Cult: Sonic Temple
367. Opeth: My Arms Your Hearse:
368. Raven: All For One
369. Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
370. Death Angel: The Ultra Violence:
371. Trouble: Psalm 9:
372. Queen: News Of The World
373. Twisted Sister: You Can’t Stop Rock And Roll
374. Prong: Cleansing
375. Emperor: IX Equilibrium
376. Korn: Follow The Leader
377. Ratt: Invasion Of Your Privacy
378. Vai: Sex And Religion
379. Manowar: Fighting The World
380. KISS: Love Gun
381. Neurosis: Through Silver In Blood
382. Rhapsody: Legendary Tales
383. Cinderella: Night Songs
384. Sentenced: Down
385. Anvil: Metal On Metal
386. Carcass: Symphonies Of Sickness
387. Budgie: Budgie
388. Alice Cooper: School’s Out:
389. King Diamond: Voodoo
390. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
391. Queen: Queen II
392. Scorpions: Virgin Killer
393. Tiamat: Wild Honey
394. KISS: Rock And Roll Over
395. Motorhead: Motorhead
396. Rhapsody: Dawn Of Victory
397. Grim Reaper: See You In Hell
398. Savatage: The Wake Of Magellan
399. Saigon Kick: The Lizard
400. Edge Of Sanity: Crimson
401. Rainbow: On Stage
402. My Dying Bride: The Angel And The Dark River
403. Opeth: Morningrise:
404. Cream: Disraeli Gears
405. Sex Pistols: Nevermind The Bollocks:
406. Warlock: Triumph And Agony
407. Death: The Sound Of Perseverance
408. Judas Priest: Live
409. Nightwish: Oceanborn:
410. Primal Fear: Jaws Of Death
411. Cinderella: Long Cold Winter
412. Motorhead: Bomber
413. UFO: Force It
414. GnR: Use Your Illusion 1:
415. Tesla: The Great Radio Controversy
416. Children Of Bodom: Hatebreeder
417. Exciter: Violence And Force
418. Stratovarious: Episode
419. Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat
420. Kreator: Coma Of Souls
421. Life Of Agony: River Runs Red
422. Monster Magnet: Powertrip
423. Tool: Lateralus:
424. Angra: Holy Land
425. Motley Crue: Theatre Of Pain
426. Fates Warning: No Exit
427. Metallica: S&M:
428. Suicidal Tendencies: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When
I Can’t Even Smile Today
429. Black Sabbath: Headless Cross
430. Nirvana: In Utero:
431. AC/DC: The Razor’s Edge
432. Carcass: Swansong
433. Flotsam And Jetsam: Doomsday For The Deceiver
434. Vanderberg: Vandenberg
435. Aerosmith: Pump:
436. Nazareth: Hair Of The Dog
437. Sanctuary: Into The Mirror Black
438. Voivod: War And Pain
439. Rush: Fly By Night
440. Cathedral: The Carnival Bizarre
441. Deep Purple: Fireball
442. Poison: Look What The Cat Dragged In
443. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis Bold As Love:
444. King Diamond: The Eye
445. Coroner: Mental Vortex
446. Stone Temple Pilots: Core:
447. Symphony X: The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
448. AC/DC: If You Want Blood
449. Aerosmith: Get A Grip:
450. Black Sabbath: Live Evil
451. Blue Oyster Cult: Fire Of Unknown Origin
452. Ace Frehley: Ace Frehley
453. Riot: Thundersteel
454. Dio: Strange Highways;
455. Uriah Heep: Sweet Freedom
456. Helmet: Meantime
457. KISS: Lick It Up
458. Ted Nugent: Free For All
459. Autopsy: Severed Survival
460. Mercyful Fate:
461. Scorpions: Tokyo Tapes
462. Avantasia: The Metal Opera
463. Def Leppard: On Through The Night
464. Europe: The Final Countdown
465. Rush: Permanent Waves
466. Disturbed: The Sickness
467. Dream Theater: When Dream And Day Unite
468. Armoured Saint: March Of The Saint
469. Motorhead: 1916
470. Witchfinder General: Death Penalty
471. The Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
472. Exciter: Heavy Metal Maniac
473. Jethro Tull: Aqualung
474. The Who: Live At Leeds:
475. Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster Cult
476. Fates Warning: Parallels
477. Van Halen: Balance
478. Kick Axe: Vices
479. Steve Vai: Passion And Warfare
480. Witchery: Restless And Dead
481. Bad Brains: I Against I
482. Accept: Russian Roulette
483. Marilyn Manson: Mechanical Animals
484. Budgie: Bandolier
485. Love/Hate: Blackout In The Red Room
486. Sweet: Desolation Boulevard
487. Rainbow: Down To Earth
488. Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
489. Ted Nugent: Double Live Gonzo
490. Amorphis: Tuonela
491. Metal Church: The Human Factor
492. Rush: Signals
493. Nightwish: Wishmaster:
494. Raven: Wiped Out
495. Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick
496. Nirvana: Bleach:
497. Riot: Narita
498. Holocaust: The Nightcomers
499. Savage: Loose And Lethal
500. Y&T: Black And Tiger