Best Metal Albums of 2003 - Rated by Users


Album ratings averaged across users. Ranking does not represent staff consensus.
 

01
Galneryus
The Flag Of Punishment

Rating: 4.36
25 votes
02
Lacrimosa
Echoes

Rating: 4.34
19 votes
03
Hate
Awakening the Liar

Rating: 4.3
20 votes
04
Boris
Boris At Last - Feedbacker

Rating: 4.3
301 votes
05
Slough Feg
Traveller

Rating: 4.27
56 votes
06
Reverend Bizarre
Harbinger of Metal

Rating: 4.26
17 votes
07
The Angelic Process
Coma Waering

Rating: 4.25
57 votes
08
Edge of Sanity
Crimson II

Rating: 4.21
354 votes
09
Kamelot
Epica

Rating: 4.2
400 votes
10
Unexpect
_We, Invaders

Rating: 4.2
80 votes
11
Lost Horizon
A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Rating: 4.19
118 votes
12
Opeth
Still Day Beneath The Sun

Rating: 4.19
65 votes
13
Sleep
Dopesmoker

Rating: 4.17
352 votes
14
Rage
Soundchaser

Rating: 4.17
33 votes
15
Opeth
Damnation

Rating: 4.17
2570 votes
16
Vital Remains
Dechristianize

Rating: 4.16
242 votes
17
Gorerotted
Only Tools and Corpses

Rating: 4.14
32 votes
18
Psycroptic
The Scepter of the Ancients

Rating: 4.13
232 votes
19
SikTh
The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out

Rating: 4.1
549 votes
20
Ephel Duath
The Painter's Palette

Rating: 4.1
104 votes
21
Kekal
1000 Thoughts of Violence

Rating: 4.1
21 votes
22
Beecher
Breaking The Fourth Wall

Rating: 4.1
21 votes
23
Swallow The Sun
The Morning Never Came

Rating: 4.09
232 votes
24
Memento
Beginnings

Rating: 4.08
26 votes
25
Gorgasm
Masticate to Dominate

Rating: 4.08
26 votes
26
Hammers Of Misfortune
The August Engine

Rating: 4.08
20 votes
27
Poison the Well
You Come Before You

Rating: 4.07
603 votes
28
Shai Hulud
That Within Blood Ill-Tempered

Rating: 4.06
316 votes
29
YOB
Catharsis

Rating: 4.06
17 votes
30
Norther
Mirror of Madness

Rating: 4.06
172 votes
31
Masterplan
Masterplan

Rating: 4.05
55 votes
32
Dark Lunacy
Forget Me Not

Rating: 4.05
21 votes
33
Enslaved
Below the Lights

Rating: 4.03
284 votes
34
Gridlock
Formless

Rating: 4.03
17 votes
35
Kalmah
Swampsong

Rating: 4.02
313 votes
36
DIR EN GREY
Vulgar

Rating: 4.02
192 votes
37
The Old Dead Tree
The Nameless Disease

Rating: 4.02
23 votes
38
Boris
Akuma no uta

Rating: 4.01
242 votes
39
Intestine Baalism
Banquet in the Darkness

Rating: 4.01
86 votes
40
Falkenbach
Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty

Rating: 3.99
73 votes
41
Godflesh
Messiah

Rating: 3.98
31 votes
42
Every Time I Die
Hot Damn!

Rating: 3.98
781 votes
43
The Ocean
Fogdiver

Rating: 3.97
77 votes
44
Dog Fashion Disco
Committed to a Bright Future

Rating: 3.97
53 votes
45
The Bled
Pass The Flask

Rating: 3.97
334 votes
46
Drudkh
Forgotten Legends

Rating: 3.97
158 votes
47
Cult of Luna
The Beyond

Rating: 3.96
260 votes
48
Katatonia
Viva Emptiness

Rating: 3.96
610 votes
49
Evergrey
Recreation Day

Rating: 3.96
101 votes
50
Apocalyptica
Reflections Revised

Rating: 3.96
37 votes
51
Grave Digger
Rheingold

Rating: 3.96
23 votes
52
Sonata Arctica
Winterheart's Guild

Rating: 3.96
246 votes
53
Aborted
Goremageddon

Rating: 3.95
196 votes
54
Amon Amarth
Versus the World

Rating: 3.93
499 votes
55
Between the Buried and Me
The Silent Circus

Rating: 3.92
1830 votes
56
Skyfire
Mind Revolution

Rating: 3.91
88 votes
57
Unmoored
Indefinite Soul-extension

Rating: 3.9
25 votes
58
Extol
Synergy

Rating: 3.9
73 votes
59
Darkspace
Dark Space I

Rating: 3.89
63 votes
60
Laibach
WAT

Rating: 3.89
18 votes
61
Einherjer
Blot

Rating: 3.89
22 votes
62
Rusty Cooley
Rusty Cooley

Rating: 3.89
22 votes
63
October Falls
Tuoni

Rating: 3.88
17 votes
64
The Black Mages
The Black Mages

Rating: 3.88
68 votes
65
Dream Theater
Train of Thought

Rating: 3.88
1567 votes
66
Blood Red Throne
Affiliated With the Suffering

Rating: 3.88
16 votes
67
Portal
Seepia

Rating: 3.87
59 votes
68
Melechesh
Sphynx

Rating: 3.87
68 votes
69
Solefald
In Harmonia Universali

Rating: 3.86
48 votes
70
Celldweller
Celldweller

Rating: 3.86
175 votes
71
Black Label Society
The Blessed Hellride

Rating: 3.86
210 votes
72
Moonspell
The Antidote

Rating: 3.86
94 votes
73
Deadwater Drowning
Deadwater Drowning EP

Rating: 3.85
17 votes
74
Marty Friedman
Music for Speeding

Rating: 3.85
26 votes
75
Skepticism
Farmakon

Rating: 3.84
29 votes
76
Before The Dawn
My Darkness

Rating: 3.84
29 votes
77
Forest Stream
Tears of Mortal Solitude

Rating: 3.84
16 votes
78
Nothingface
Skeletons

Rating: 3.84
85 votes
79
Spawn of Possession
Cabinet

Rating: 3.83
155 votes
80
Septic Flesh
Sumerian Daemons

Rating: 3.83
97 votes
81
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses

Rating: 3.83
420 votes
82
Deeds of Flesh
Reduced To Ashes

Rating: 3.83
43 votes
83
SuidAkrA
Signs of the Fallen

Rating: 3.82
17 votes
84
Ghoul
Maniaxe

Rating: 3.82
19 votes
85
Green Carnation
A Blessing In Disguise

Rating: 3.81
44 votes
86
Lamb of God
As The Palaces Burn

Rating: 3.81
1169 votes
87
Nunslaughter
Goat

Rating: 3.81
18 votes
88
Xasthur
The Funeral of Being

Rating: 3.8
33 votes
89
Hate Forest
Purity

Rating: 3.8
38 votes
90
Children of Bodom
Hate Crew Deathroll

Rating: 3.8
1255 votes
91
Mago de Oz
Gaia

Rating: 3.8
35 votes
92
Through the Eyes of the Dead
The Scars of Ages

Rating: 3.79
112 votes
93
Akercocke
Choronzon

Rating: 3.79
95 votes
94
Hate Forest
Battlefields

Rating: 3.79
26 votes
95
Burnt By the Sun
The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

Rating: 3.79
49 votes
96
The Crown
Possessed 13

Rating: 3.78
27 votes
97
Burst
Prey on Life

Rating: 3.78
87 votes
98
Rifles at Recess
To Whisper in Tongues

Rating: 3.78
20 votes
99
Severed Savior
Brutality is Law

Rating: 3.76
23 votes
100
A Life Once Lost
A Great Artist

Rating: 3.76
80 votes
101
HORSE the band
R. Borlax

Rating: 3.75
367 votes
102
The Black Dahlia Murder
Unhallowed

Rating: 3.75
785 votes
103
Apocalyptica
Reflections

Rating: 3.75
85 votes
104
Tyr
Eric The Red

Rating: 3.75
71 votes
105
Prayer for Cleansing
Rain In Endless Fall

Rating: 3.75
53 votes
106
Darkest Hour
Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation

Rating: 3.74
280 votes
107
Putrid Pile
Collection Of Butchery

Rating: 3.73
32 votes
108
Nodes of Ranvier
Nodes of Ranvier

Rating: 3.73
28 votes
109
Catamenia
Chaos Born

Rating: 3.73
28 votes
110
Municipal Waste
Waste 'Em All

Rating: 3.73
98 votes
111
Sargeist
Satanic Black Devotion

Rating: 3.73
20 votes
112
Suicide Commando
Axis of Evil

Rating: 3.72
18 votes
113
Zeromancer
Zzyzx

Rating: 3.72
25 votes
114
Decrepit Birth
...And Time Begins

Rating: 3.72
100 votes
115
Summoning
Lost Tales

Rating: 3.72
23 votes
116
Chimaira
Impossibility of Reason

Rating: 3.7
420 votes
117
Naglfar
Sheol

Rating: 3.7
96 votes
118
Machine Head
Through the Ashes of Empires

Rating: 3.7
678 votes
119
Belphegor
Lucifer Incestus

Rating: 3.7
60 votes
120
Iron Maiden
Dance Of Death

Rating: 3.7
1117 votes
121
On Broken Wings
Some Of Us May Never See The World

Rating: 3.7
28 votes
122
Gojira
The Link

Rating: 3.7
389 votes
123
Watain
Casus Luciferi

Rating: 3.69
67 votes
124
Mushroomhead
XIII

Rating: 3.69
311 votes
125
Benighted
Insane Cephalic Production

Rating: 3.69
26 votes
126
Nevermore
Enemies Of Reality

Rating: 3.69
292 votes
127
Leviathan
The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

Rating: 3.68
109 votes
128
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad

Rating: 3.66
351 votes
129
Mithras
Worlds Beyond the Veil

Rating: 3.66
22 votes
130
Alchemist
Austral Alien

Rating: 3.66
22 votes
131
Nightrage
Sweet Vengeance

Rating: 3.66
64 votes
132
Epica
The Phantom Agony

Rating: 3.65
117 votes
133
fordirelifesake
Breathing in Is Only Half the Function

Rating: 3.65
17 votes
134
Psyclon Nine
Divine Infekt

Rating: 3.65
34 votes
135
Deftones
Deftones

Rating: 3.64
1803 votes
136
Combichrist
The Joy Of Gunz

Rating: 3.64
18 votes
137
Dream Evil
Evilized

Rating: 3.63
60 votes
138
Iced Earth
The Reckoning

Rating: 3.63
30 votes
139
Graveworm
Engraved in Black

Rating: 3.63
61 votes
140
Toxic Holocaust
Evil Never Dies

Rating: 3.63
39 votes
141
Funeral Mist
Salvation

Rating: 3.63
24 votes
142
Blood Has Been Shed
Spirals

Rating: 3.62
52 votes
143
Type O Negative
Life Is Killing Me

Rating: 3.61
185 votes
144
Himsa
Courting Tragedy & Disaster

Rating: 3.61
74 votes
145
Sevendust
Seasons

Rating: 3.6
256 votes
146
Integrity
To Die For

Rating: 3.6
62 votes
147
King Diamond
The Puppet Master

Rating: 3.59
97 votes
148
Mirrorthrone
Of Wind and Weeping

Rating: 3.59
55 votes
149
Mnemic
Mechanical Spin Phenomena

Rating: 3.59
97 votes
150
Mors Principium Est
Inhumanity

Rating: 3.59
88 votes
151
Zombie Apocalypse
This is a Spark of Life

Rating: 3.58
25 votes
152
Korpiklaani
Spirit Of The Forest

Rating: 3.58
73 votes
153
Misery Signals
Misery Signals

Rating: 3.57
107 votes
154
Krisiun
Works of Carnage

Rating: 3.56
34 votes
155
Virgin Black
Elegant and Dying

Rating: 3.56
36 votes
156
Deathchain
Deadmeat Disciples

Rating: 3.55
21 votes
157
Nortt
Gudsforladt

Rating: 3.55
22 votes
158
Caliban
Shadow Hearts

Rating: 3.54
51 votes
159
Eluveitie
Ven

Rating: 3.53
45 votes
160
Arch Enemy
Anthems of Rebellion

Rating: 3.53
508 votes
161
Impaled Nazarene
All That You Fear

Rating: 3.53
19 votes
162
This Runs Through
Until Forever Finds Me

Rating: 3.53
59 votes
163
Emilie Autumn
Enchant

Rating: 3.52
43 votes
164
Soilwork
Figure Number Five

Rating: 3.52
440 votes
165
From Autumn To Ashes
The Fiction We Live

Rating: 3.52
338 votes
166
Khanate
Things Viral

Rating: 3.51
36 votes
167
Cave In
Antenna

Rating: 3.51
269 votes
168
Stratovarius
Elements, Pt. 1

Rating: 3.5
110 votes
169
Tourniquet
Where Moth and Rust Destroy

Rating: 3.5
34 votes
170
Falconer
The Sceptre of Deception

Rating: 3.48
27 votes
171
Omnium Gatherum
Spirits And August Light

Rating: 3.48
21 votes
172
Crimson Moonlight
The Covenant Progress

Rating: 3.47
19 votes
173
Pleymo
Rock

Rating: 3.47
18 votes
174
Dimmu Borgir
Death Cult Armageddon

Rating: 3.47
629 votes
175
Firewind
Burning Earth

Rating: 3.47
58 votes
176
Spineshank
Self Destructive Pattern

Rating: 3.46
197 votes
177
Goatwhore
Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun

Rating: 3.46
27 votes
178
Andromeda
II=I

Rating: 3.46
34 votes
179
Zyklon
Aeon

Rating: 3.45
32 votes
180
ohGr
SunnyPsyOp

Rating: 3.45
30 votes
181
The Agony Scene
The Agony Scene

Rating: 3.42
130 votes
182
Cradle of Filth
Damnation and a Day

Rating: 3.42
383 votes
183
Animosity
Shut It Down

Rating: 3.39
108 votes
184
Godsmack
Faceless

Rating: 3.39
545 votes
185
As I Lay Dying
Frail Words Collapse

Rating: 3.38
1278 votes
186
Asmegin
Hin Vordende Sod & Sø

Rating: 3.38
21 votes
187
Motograter
Motograter

Rating: 3.38
78 votes
188
Trivium
Trivium

Rating: 3.38
110 votes
189
Manegarm
Dodsfard

Rating: 3.38
16 votes
190
Bathory
Nordland II

Rating: 3.37
109 votes
191
Living Colour
Collideoscope

Rating: 3.37
30 votes
192
Destruction
Metal Discharge

Rating: 3.36
58 votes
193
Tvangeste
FireStorm

Rating: 3.36
25 votes
194
Breather Resist
Only in the Morning

Rating: 3.35
17 votes
195
Hour of Penance
Disturbance

Rating: 3.35
20 votes
196
DragonForce
Valley Of The Damned

Rating: 3.34
538 votes
197
Superjoint Ritual
A Lethal Dose of American Hatred

Rating: 3.33
83 votes
198
Bleeding Through
This Is Love, This Is Murderous

Rating: 3.33
355 votes
199
Anaal Nathrakh
When Fire Rains Down From the Sky...

Rating: 3.33
50 votes
200
Aborym
With No Human Intervention

Rating: 3.33
26 votes



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