Best Metal Albums of 2002

Stratovarius
EagleHeart

4.67
27 votes

Agalloch
The Mantle

4.37
2993 votes

ISIS
Oceanic

4.35
5254 votes

Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane

4.3
704 votes

Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute

4.3
2761 votes

Nargaroth
Rasluka Part II

4.3
20 votes

Daisuke Ishiwatari
Guilty Gear XX Original Soundtrack

4.28
36 votes

Fanisk
Die and Become

4.25
14 votes

Botch
An Anthology of Dead Ends

4.24
962 votes

Porcupine Tree
In Absentia

4.23
3507 votes

Hopesfall
The Satellite Years

4.2
825 votes

earthtone9
Omega

4.19
32 votes

Impaled
Mondo Medicale

4.16
74 votes

The Postman Syndrome
Terraforming

4.15
49 votes

Buckethead
Electric Tears

4.15
328 votes

Luca Turilli
Demonheart

4.14
14 votes

Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors

4.14
1354 votes

Knut
Challenger

4.14
500 votes

Taake
Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

4.14
225 votes

Empyrium
Weiland

4.14
224 votes

Kalmah
They Will Return

4.13
1752 votes

Manticora
Hyperion

4.13
102 votes

Reverend Bizarre
In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

4.13
384 votes

Destroyer 666
Cold Steel...for an Iron Age

4.12
525 votes

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is a Dead Scene

4.12
1659 votes

Bohren und der Club of Gore
Black Earth

4.11
292 votes

Immolation
Unholy Cult

4.11
611 votes

Symphony X
The Odyssey

4.11
2481 votes

Infest
No Man's Slave

4.1
280 votes

Dark Tranquillity
Damage Done

4.1
3576 votes

Shaman
Ritual

4.1
90 votes

Pandemonium
Insomnia

4.09
36 votes

Immortal
Sons of Northern Darkness

4.09
2100 votes

William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops I

4.08
298 votes

Judas Iscariot
To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding

4.07
121 votes

Red Harvest
Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

4.07
53 votes

Megaherz
Herzwerk II

4.06
25 votes

Rhapsody of Fire
Power of the Dragonflame

4.06
572 votes

Sentenced
The Cold White Light

4.05
336 votes

This Day Forward
Kairos

4.05
39 votes

Defeated Sanity
The Parasite

4.05
20 votes

Coaltar of the Deepers
Newave

4.05
37 votes

The Crown
Crowned in Terror

4.05
366 votes

Charon
Downhearted

4.04
25 votes

The Fucking Champs
V

4.04
13 votes

Desire (POR)
Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul

4.04
28 votes

Falling Cycle
The Conflict

4.04
14 votes

Rapture
Songs for the Withering

4.03
207 votes

Acumen Nation
The 5ifth Column

4.02
41 votes

Prototype
Trinity

4.02
46 votes

Nile
In Their Darkened Shrines

4.02
1800 votes

Blind Guardian
A Night at the Opera

4.02
2205 votes

Power Quest
Wings of Forever

4.01
76 votes

Mourning Beloveth
The Sullen Sulcus

4
132 votes

Rage
Unity

4
108 votes

Vex Red
Start With A Strong & Persistant Desire

4
48 votes

Burst
In Coveting Ways

4
33 votes

Impiety
Kaos Kommand 696

4
27 votes

In Mourning
Senseless

4
14 votes

Rata Blanca
El Camino del Fuego

4
14 votes

Lovesliescrushing
Glissceule

4
13 votes

Dream Theater
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

4
4480 votes

Cephalic Carnage
Lucid Interval

4
234 votes

Meshuggah
Nothing

3.99
3462 votes

Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing

3.99
7404 votes

Belenos
Spicilege

3.99
52 votes

The Red Chord
Fused Together in Revolving Doors

3.99
643 votes

Yyrkoon
Dying Sun

3.98
84 votes

Cog
Just Visiting - Part 2

3.98
28 votes

Wyrd
Huldrafolk

3.98
54 votes

Decapitated
Nihility

3.98
884 votes

Pulse Ultra
Headspace

3.98
103 votes

Dark Age
The Silent Republic

3.98
72 votes

Boris
Heavy Rocks

3.98
946 votes

Eden Maine
The Treachery Pact

3.98
44 votes

Freedom Call
Eternity

3.98
87 votes

Warmen
Beyond Abilities

3.98
40 votes

Slechtvalk
The War That Plagues The Lands

3.97
16 votes

Naglfar
Ex Inferis

3.97
62 votes

Wolf
Black Wings

3.97
45 votes

Cog
Just Visiting - Part 1

3.96
27 votes

Spiritual Beggars
On Fire

3.96
66 votes

Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora
Split

3.96
26 votes

Nehemah
Light of a Dead Star

3.96
13 votes

Trail Of Tears
A New Dimension Of Might

3.96
50 votes

Eths
Samantha

3.95
33 votes

Ildjarn
Hardangervidda (with Nidhogg)

3.95
31 votes

Disgorge
Consume the Forsaken

3.95
100 votes

At Vance
Only Human

3.95
40 votes

Amon Amarth
Versus the World

3.95
1856 votes

Green Carnation
Light of Day, Day of Darkness

3.95
416 votes

Iron Savior
Condition Red

3.95
92 votes

Primal Fear
Black Sun

3.94
200 votes

Melvins
Hostile Ambient Takeover

3.94
207 votes

Winds
Reflections of the I

3.93
72 votes

Endthisday
Sleeping Beneath the Ashes of Creation

3.93
28 votes

Bongzilla
Gateway

3.93
316 votes

Martin Grech
Open Heart Zoo

3.93
27 votes

Dir En Grey
Kisou

3.93
502 votes

Apotheosis
Farthest from the Sun

3.93
20 votes

Vomitory
Blood Rapture

3.92
64 votes

Ron Jarzombek
Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

3.92
64 votes

Keith Fullerton Whitman
Playthroughs

3.92
19 votes

Thyrfing
Vansinnesvisor

3.92
63 votes

Chevelle
Wonder What's Next

3.92
1937 votes

Manilla Road
Spiral Castle

3.92
186 votes

Nostromo (CHE)
Ecce Lex

3.92
48 votes

Injected
Burn It Black

3.92
36 votes

Dream Evil
Dragon Slayer

3.91
254 votes

Opeth
Deliverance

3.91
7128 votes

Madder Mortem
Deadlands

3.91
52 votes

Negura Bunget
'N Crugu Bradului

3.9
142 votes

Merzbow
Amlux

3.9
26 votes

Arghoslent
Incorrigible Bigotry

3.9
777 votes

The Killing Tree
The Romance of Helen Trent

3.9
76 votes

Soilwork
Natural Born Chaos

3.9
2757 votes

December
The Lament Configuration

3.9
48 votes

Snapcase
End Transmission

3.9
105 votes

MUCC
Homura Uta

3.89
32 votes

The Chasm
Conjuration of the Spectral Empire

3.89
144 votes

Vehemence
God Was Created

3.89
126 votes

Lovesliescrushing
Voirshn

3.89
18 votes

Blaze Bayley
Tenth Dimension (as Blaze)

3.88
102 votes

Warlord
Rising Out of the Ashes

3.88
51 votes

Axis of Advance
The List

3.88
34 votes

Jerry Cantrell
Degradation Trip

3.88
195 votes

Mortal Decay
Forensic

3.88
21 votes

Burnt By the Sun
Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution

3.88
137 votes

Deformity
Superior

3.88
24 votes

Nightwish
Century Child

3.87
820 votes

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Yanqui U.X.O.

3.87
1870 votes

Keelhaul
Keelhaul II

3.87
78 votes

Insomnium
In the Halls of Awaiting

3.87
1842 votes

Doomsword
Resound the Horn

3.87
102 votes

Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Rampton

3.87
135 votes

Pinkly Smooth
Unfortunate Snort

3.87
184 votes

Necrophobic
Bloodhymns

3.87
378 votes

As Hope Dies
Birthplace and Burial Site

3.86
33 votes

Harkonen
Shake Harder Boy

3.86
36 votes

Funeral
In Fields of Pestilent Grief

3.86
33 votes

Onmyo-Za
Fuin Kairan

3.86
14 votes

Threshold
Critical Mass

3.85
136 votes

Wigrid
Hoffnungstod

3.85
17 votes

Tad Morose
Matters of the Dark

3.85
66 votes

Fleshpress
Fleshpress

3.85
40 votes

Jason Becker
The Blackberry Jams

3.85
26 votes

Dark Suns
Swanlike

3.85
13 votes

Five Pointe O
Untitled

3.84
154 votes

Floor
Floor

3.84
134 votes

Black Label Society
1919 Eternal

3.84
530 votes

Living Sacrifice
Conceived In Fire

3.84
405 votes

Pleymo
Episode 2: Medicine Cake

3.83
41 votes

Avantasia
The Metal Opera Pt. II

3.83
440 votes

Firewind
Between Heaven And Hell

3.83
207 votes

Yakuza
Way of the Dead

3.83
51 votes

Ram-Zet
Escape

3.83
27 votes

Onmyo-Za
Koujin Rasetsu

3.83
24 votes

Cadaveria
The Shadows' Madame

3.83
24 votes

Sear Bliss
Forsaken Symphony

3.83
18 votes

Manilla Road
Mark of the Beast

3.83
141 votes

Norther
Dreams of Endless War

3.83
531 votes

Inquisition
Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan

3.82
274 votes

Mastodon
Remission

3.82
8277 votes

Vanden Plas
Beyond Daylight

3.82
141 votes

Dark Moor
The Gates of Oblivion

3.82
77 votes

Diablo
Renaissance

3.82
22 votes

Disillusion
The Porter

3.82
22 votes

Stormwarrior
Stormwarrior

3.82
19 votes

Dimmu Borgir
World Misantrophy

3.82
19 votes

Strung Out
An American Paradox

3.81
199 votes

Love Lost But Not Forgotten
Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery

3.81
75 votes

Chastisement
Alleviation Of Pain

3.81
16 votes

Symphorce
Phorceful Ahead

3.81
16 votes

Acid Drinkers
Acidofilia

3.81
16 votes

Opera IX
Maleventum

3.81
16 votes

Forgotten Tomb
Songs to Leave

3.81
242 votes

SikTh
Let the Transmitting Begin

3.81
68 votes

Paul Gilbert
Burning Organ

3.81
26 votes

Krux
Krux

3.8
46 votes

Throne of Chaos
Pervertigo

3.8
15 votes

Luca Turilli
Prophet of the Last Eclipse

3.79
60 votes

Down
Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow

3.79
1144 votes

CKY
Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

3.79
392 votes

SuidAkrA
Emprise to Avalon

3.79
94 votes

Primordial
Storm Before Calm

3.79
294 votes

Forefather
Engla Tocyme

3.78
16 votes

Rotten Sound
Murderworks

3.78
139 votes

Tech N9ne
Absolute Power

3.77
179 votes

Raging Speedhorn
We Will Be Dead Tomorrow

3.77
44 votes

Callenish Circle
Flesh Power Dominion

3.77
52 votes

Hank Williams III
Lovesick, Broke & Driftin´

3.77
28 votes

Shadows Fall
The Art of Balance

3.77
2148 votes

Severe Torture
Misanthropic Carnage

3.77
58 votes

Angra
Hunters and Prey

3.76
106 votes

Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens

3.76
90 votes

Dir En Grey
Child prey

3.76
50 votes

Loscil
Submers

3.75
66 votes

With Dead Hands Rising
Behind Inquisition

3.75
24 votes

Ludicra
Hollow Psalms

3.75
18 votes

Nodes of Ranvier
Lost Senses, More Innocence

3.75
16 votes

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