Best Metal Albums of 2002

Stratovarius
EagleHeart

4.72
27 votes

Agalloch
The Mantle

4.37
3032 votes

ISIS
Oceanic

4.35
5310 votes

Nargaroth
Rasluka Part II

4.33
23 votes

Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane

4.3
715 votes

Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute

4.3
2784 votes

Daisuke Ishiwatari
Guilty Gear XX Original Soundtrack

4.26
34 votes

Saratoga
Agotaras

4.25
18 votes

Botch
An Anthology of Dead Ends

4.24
979 votes

Porcupine Tree
In Absentia

4.24
3527 votes

Shaman
Ritual

4.21
104 votes

Hopesfall
The Satellite Years

4.2
850 votes

earthtone9
Omega

4.18
17 votes

Buckethead
Electric Tears

4.16
331 votes

Knut
Challenger

4.14
522 votes

Luca Turilli
Demonheart

4.14
28 votes

Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors

4.14
1372 votes

Impaled
Mondo Medicale

4.14
77 votes

Alienation Mental
Ball Spouter

4.14
14 votes

Empyrium
Weiland

4.13
234 votes

The Postman Syndrome
Terraforming

4.13
53 votes

Reverend Bizarre
In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

4.13
396 votes

Kalmah
They Will Return

4.13
1776 votes

Immolation
Unholy Cult

4.12
640 votes

Taake
Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

4.12
240 votes

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is a Dead Scene

4.12
1674 votes

Manticora
Hyperion

4.12
117 votes

Bohren und der Club of Gore
Black Earth

4.11
292 votes

Symphony X
The Odyssey

4.11
2538 votes

Dark Tranquillity
Damage Done

4.11
2422 votes

Infest
No Man's Slave

4.1
281 votes

Destroyer 666
Cold Steel...for an Iron Age

4.1
543 votes

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

4.1
45 votes

Red Harvest
Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

4.09
55 votes

Immortal
Sons of Northern Darkness

4.09
2148 votes

Time Requiem
Time Requiem

4.09
22 votes

William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops I

4.07
306 votes

Deinonychus
Mournument

4.07
14 votes

Judas Iscariot
To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding

4.07
136 votes

Rhapsody of Fire
Power Of The Dragonflame

4.07
590 votes

Pandemonium
Insomnia

4.06
40 votes

Wyrd
Huldrafolk

4.05
56 votes

Sentenced
The Cold White Light

4.05
362 votes

Eden Maine
The Treachery Pact

4.05
40 votes

The Crown
Crowned in Terror

4.04
372 votes

Burst
In Coveting Ways

4.04
39 votes

This Day Forward
Kairos

4.04
40 votes

Charon
Downhearted

4.04
27 votes

Megaherz
Herzwerk II

4.04
28 votes

Fanisk
Die and Become

4.03
16 votes

Acumen Nation
The 5ifth Column

4.02
42 votes

Nile
In Their Darkened Shrines

4.02
1856 votes

Blind Guardian
A Night At The Opera

4.02
2247 votes

Rapture
Songs For The Withering

4.02
225 votes

Impiety
Kaos Kommand 696

4.02
33 votes

Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing

4
7530 votes

Meshuggah
Nothing

4
3530 votes

Defeated Sanity
The Parasite

4
28 votes

Rata Blanca
El Camino del Fuego

4
21 votes

In Mourning
Senseless

4
14 votes

The Fucking Champs
V

4
14 votes

Dream Theater
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

4
4538 votes

Rage
Unity

3.99
114 votes

The Red Chord
Fused Together in Revolving Doors

3.99
658 votes

Power Quest
Wings Of Forever

3.99
80 votes

Mourning Beloveth
The Sullen Sulcus

3.99
136 votes

Decapitated
Nihility

3.98
1800 votes

Yyrkoon
Dying Sun

3.98
84 votes

Pulse Ultra
Headspace

3.98
106 votes

Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora
Split

3.98
26 votes

Boris
Heavy Rocks

3.98
964 votes

Endthisday
Sleeping Beneath the Ashes of Creation

3.98
40 votes

Belenos
Spicilege

3.97
57 votes

Vex Red
Start With A Strong & Persistant Desire

3.97
52 votes

Spiritual Beggars
On Fire

3.97
68 votes

Falling Cycle
The Conflict

3.97
17 votes

Wolf
Black Wings

3.97
48 votes

Cephalic Carnage
Lucid Interval

3.97
247 votes

Freedom Call
Eternity

3.97
89 votes

Nehemah
Light of a Dead Star

3.96
13 votes

Prototype
Trinity

3.96
50 votes

Dark Age
The Silent Republic

3.96
72 votes

Eths
Samantha

3.96
36 votes

At Vance
Only Human

3.95
66 votes

Green Carnation
Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

3.95
223 votes

Disgorge
Consume the Forsaken

3.95
113 votes

Amon Amarth
Versus the World

3.95
1866 votes

Primal Fear
Black Sun

3.95
210 votes

Keith Fullerton Whitman
Playthroughs

3.94
18 votes

Mortal Decay
Forensic

3.94
38 votes

Naglfar
Ex Inferis

3.94
62 votes

Iron Savior
Condition Red

3.93
92 votes

As Hope Dies
Birthplace and Burial Site

3.93
45 votes

Thyrfing
Vansinnesvisor

3.93
67 votes

Winds
Reflections Of The I

3.93
74 votes

Cog
Just Visiting - Part 2

3.93
29 votes

Ron Jarzombek
Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement

3.93
70 votes

Apotheosis
Farthest from the Sun

3.93
42 votes

Martin Grech
Open Heart Zoo

3.93
27 votes

Bongzilla
Gateway

3.93
322 votes

Ildjarn
Hardangervidda (with Nidhogg)

3.92
33 votes

Chevelle
Wonder What's Next

3.92
1969 votes

Cadaveria
The Shadows' Madame

3.92
26 votes

December
The Lament Configuration

3.92
50 votes

Vehemence
God Was Created

3.92
152 votes

Dir En Grey
Kisou

3.91
522 votes

Opeth
Deliverance

3.91
7220 votes

Arghoslent
Incorrigible Bigotry

3.91
801 votes

Snapcase
End Transmission

3.91
118 votes

Cog
Just Visiting - Part 1

3.91
28 votes

Blaze Bayley
Tenth Dimension (as Blaze)

3.91
110 votes

Warmen
Beyond Abilities

3.91
44 votes

Injected
Burn It Black

3.91
37 votes

Pinkly Smooth
Unfortunate Snort

3.91
186 votes

Trail Of Tears
A New Dimension Of Might

3.9
25 votes

Poema Arcanvs
Iconoclast

3.9
15 votes

Merzbow
Amlux

3.9
29 votes

The Chasm
Conjuration of the Spectral Empire

3.9
172 votes

Dream Evil
Dragon Slayer

3.89
270 votes

Warlord
Rising Out Of The Ashes

3.89
57 votes

Axis of Advance
The List

3.89
38 votes

Soilwork
Natural Born Chaos

3.89
2784 votes

Melvins
Hostile Ambient Takeover

3.89
218 votes

MUCC
Homura Uta

3.89
32 votes

Ram-Zet
Escape

3.89
54 votes

Lovesliescrushing
Voirshn

3.89
18 votes

Jerry Cantrell
Degradation Trip

3.89
208 votes

Negura Bunget
'N Crugu Bradului

3.89
148 votes

The Killing Tree
The Romance of Helen Trent

3.88
78 votes

Leviathan
White Devil, Black Metal

3.88
13 votes

Joshua Fit For Battle
To Bring Our Own End

3.88
294 votes

Nostromo (CHE)
Ecce Lex

3.88
50 votes

Burnt By the Sun
Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution

3.88
142 votes

Madder Mortem
Deadlands

3.88
56 votes

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

3.88
1886 votes

Diablo
Renaissance

3.88
24 votes

Vomitory
Blood Rapture

3.87
75 votes

Manilla Road
Spiral Castle

3.87
201 votes

Insomnium
In the Halls of Awaiting

3.87
1884 votes

Nightwish
Century Child

3.87
834 votes

Doomsword
Resound the Horn

3.86
111 votes

Tad Morose
Matters Of The Dark

3.86
72 votes

Fleshpress
Fleshpress

3.86
36 votes

Necrophobic
Bloodhymns

3.86
396 votes

Funeral
In Fields of Pestilent Grief

3.86
35 votes

Harkonen
Shake Harder Boy

3.86
35 votes

Onmyo-Za
Fuin Kairan

3.86
14 votes

Threshold
Critical Mass

3.86
146 votes

Five Pointe O
Untitled

3.85
156 votes

Dark Suns
Swanlike

3.85
13 votes

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

3.85
81 votes

Black Label Society
1919 Eternal

3.84
538 votes

Avantasia
The Metal Opera Pt. II

3.84
462 votes

Forgotten Tomb
Songs to Leave

3.84
248 votes

Paul Gilbert
Burning Organ

3.83
27 votes

Onmyo-Za
Koujin Rasetsu

3.83
24 votes

Stormwarrior
Stormwarrior

3.83
21 votes

Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Rampton

3.83
141 votes

Mastodon
Remission

3.83
5578 votes

Dark Moor
The Gates of Oblivion

3.83
86 votes

Living Sacrifice
Conceived In Fire

3.82
426 votes

Vanden Plas
Beyond Daylight

3.82
100 votes

Firewind
Between Heaven And Hell

3.82
216 votes

Hank Williams III
Lovesick, Broke & Driftin´

3.82
30 votes

Norther
Dreams of Endless War

3.82
546 votes

Slechtvalk
The War That Plagues The Lands

3.82
19 votes

Dimmu Borgir
World Misantrophy

3.82
19 votes

Strung Out
An American Paradox

3.81
202 votes

SikTh
Let the Transmitting Begin

3.81
70 votes

Floor
Floor

3.81
144 votes

Symphorce
Phorceful Ahead

3.81
16 votes

Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens

3.81
99 votes

Inquisition
Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan

3.81
280 votes

Wigrid
Hoffnungstod

3.81
18 votes

Luca Turilli
Prophet of the Last Eclipse

3.8
130 votes

Keelhaul
Keelhaul II

3.8
45 votes

Throne of Chaos
Pervertigo

3.8
15 votes

Paragon
Law of the Blade

3.8
15 votes

Pleymo
Episode 2: Medicine Cake

3.79
45 votes

CKY
Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

3.79
405 votes

Rotten Sound
Murderworks

3.79
147 votes

Deformity
Superior

3.79
28 votes

Sentence
War

3.79
14 votes

Myrkskog
Superior Massacre

3.78
16 votes

Tech N9ne
Absolute Power

3.78
181 votes

Callenish Circle
Flesh Power Dominion

3.78
54 votes

Ludicra
Hollow Psalms

3.78
18 votes

Acid Drinkers
Acidofilia

3.78
18 votes

Shadows Fall
The Art of Balance

3.77
2190 votes

Down
Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow

3.77
1178 votes

Beseech
Souls Highway

3.77
13 votes

Enchant
Blink of An Eye

3.77
13 votes

Primordial
Storm Before Calm

3.77
306 votes

Angra
Hunters and Prey

3.77
108 votes

Krux
Krux

3.77
84 votes

Forefather
Engla Tocyme

3.76
21 votes

Manilla Road
Mark of the Beast

3.76
144 votes

Dir En Grey
Child prey

3.76
50 votes

Lost Soul
Ubermensch (Death Of God)

3.76
25 votes

Severe Torture
Misanthropic Carnage

3.76
62 votes

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