Best Metal Albums of 1998

Gorguts
Obscura

4.38
3190 votes

Death
The Sound of Perseverance

4.37
10788 votes

Mortem (Per)
The Devil Speaks In Tongues

4.31
18 votes

Blind Guardian
Nightfall In Middle-Earth

4.28
3531 votes

Evereve
Stormbirds

4.26
34 votes

Seventh Avenue
Southgate

4.25
18 votes

Opeth
My Arms, Your Hearse

4.22
6552 votes

Bruce Dickinson
The Chemical Wedding

4.21
878 votes

Virgin Steele
Invictus

4.21
216 votes

Incantation
Diabolical Conquest

4.19
914 votes

Theatre Of Tragedy
Aégis

4.18
224 votes

Solstice (UK)
New Dark Age

4.18
152 votes

Zao
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

4.17
550 votes

Opera IX
Sacro Culto

4.17
36 votes

Sex Machineguns
Sex Machinegun

4.17
27 votes

Burning Witch
Rift.Canyon.Dreams

4.17
18 votes

Pagan Altar
Volume 1

4.15
186 votes

Therion
Vovin

4.15
222 votes

Dan Swano
Moontower

4.14
1212 votes

Strung Out
Twisted By Design

4.13
254 votes

Eldritch
El Niño

4.13
45 votes

Buckethead
Colma

4.12
424 votes

Mindrot
Soul

4.11
30 votes

Obtained Enslavement
Soulblight

4.11
62 votes

Bethlehem
S.U.I.Z.I.D

4.11
183 votes

Tristania
Widow's Weeds

4.1
250 votes

Iron Monkey
Our Problem

4.1
268 votes

Pink Cream 69
Electrified

4.1
20 votes

Crowbar
Odd Fellows Rest

4.09
702 votes

Nightwish
Oceanborn

4.08
907 votes

Forest
Foredooming the Hope for Eternity

4.08
18 votes

The Chasm
Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph

4.08
304 votes

System of a Down
System of a Down

4.08
8738 votes

Greenmachine
D.A.M.N.

4.08
26 votes

Praying Mantis
Forever in Time

4.08
13 votes

Ayreon
Into the Electric Castle

4.08
325 votes

Dodheimsgard
Satanic Art

4.07
85 votes

Cold As Life
Born To Land Hard

4.06
31 votes

Anathema
Alternative 4

4.06
837 votes

Arkangel
Prayers Upon Deaf Ears

4.04
48 votes

In Extremo
Weckt Die Toten!

4.03
30 votes

Sad Legend
Sad Legend

4.03
15 votes

X Japan
The Last Song

4.03
159 votes

Cave In
Until Your Heart Stops

4.03
668 votes

Cradle of Filth
Cruelty and the Beast

4.02
809 votes

Disembodied
If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead

4.02
136 votes

Conception
Flow

4.02
160 votes

Devin Townsend
Christeen + 4 Demos

4.02
50 votes

Grief
Torso

4.02
108 votes

Unholy (FIN)
Rapture

4.02
58 votes

Jag Panzer
Age of Mastery

4.01
90 votes

Diabolical Masquerade
Nightwork

4.01
328 votes

Meshuggah
Chaosphere

4.01
3654 votes

Gates of Ishtar
At Dusk and Forever

4
230 votes

Skepticism
Lead and Aether

4
95 votes

Desaster
Hellfire's Dominion

4
56 votes

Holocaust (UK)
Covenant

4
48 votes

Samael
Exodus

4
42 votes

Doro
Love Me in Black

4
28 votes

Sear Bliss
The Haunting

4
23 votes

Jane (GER)
A Doorway to Elsewhere

4
16 votes

Warrior
Ancient Future

4
15 votes

December Wolves
Completely Dehumanized

4
14 votes

Inquisition
Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient

4
372 votes

Training for Utopia
Plastic Soul Impalement

4
146 votes

Shadow Gallery
Tyranny

4
262 votes

Burning Witch
Crippled Lucifer

3.99
225 votes

Death By Stereo
If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die

3.98
58 votes

Megaherz
Kopfschuss

3.98
29 votes

Damnation A.D.
Kingdom of Lost Souls

3.98
50 votes

Order From Chaos
An Ending In Fire

3.98
98 votes

Dawn
Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)

3.98
190 votes

Vision of Disorder
Imprint

3.97
230 votes

You and I
Within The Frame

3.97
18 votes

Rhapsody of Fire
Symphony Of Enchanted Lands

3.97
714 votes

Iced Earth
Something Wicked This Way Comes

3.97
2013 votes

Paysage d'Hiver
Steineiche

3.97
171 votes

The Kovenant
Nexus Polaris

3.96
120 votes

Gorgasm
Stabwound Intercourse

3.96
26 votes

Evoken
Embrace the Emptiness

3.96
134 votes

Brainstorm
Unholy

3.95
30 votes

Coalesce
Functioning on Impatience

3.95
412 votes

Eternal Autumn
The Storm

3.94
18 votes

Edguy
Vain Glory Opera

3.94
312 votes

Saviour Machine
Legend Part II

3.94
25 votes

Axel Rudi Pell
Oceans Of Time

3.94
96 votes

Boris
Amplifier Worship

3.94
1084 votes

Grave Digger
Knights Of The Cross

3.94
243 votes

Embraced
Amorous Anathema

3.93
15 votes

Otyg
Älvefärd

3.93
15 votes

Oathean
The Eyes of Tremendous Sorrow

3.93
14 votes

Labyrinth
Return to Heaven Denied

3.93
264 votes

Extol
Burial

3.92
411 votes

Branikald
Хмель мизантропии

3.92
13 votes

Skepticism
Aes

3.92
32 votes

Suffocation
Despise the Sun

3.92
310 votes

Time Machines
Time Machines

3.92
54 votes

Fear Factory
Obsolete

3.92
1012 votes

Angel Dust
Border Of Reality

3.91
120 votes

Botch
American Nervoso

3.91
904 votes

Spiritual Beggars
Mantra III

3.91
61 votes

Falkenbach
...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...

3.91
153 votes

Rotting
Crushed

3.9
15 votes

Anathema
Alternative Future

3.89
14 votes

Fall of the Leafe
Evanescent, Everfading

3.89
14 votes

Aura Noir
Deep Tracts of Hell

3.89
112 votes

Odium (NOR)
The Sad Realm of the Stars

3.89
67 votes

His Hero Is Gone
Fool's Gold

3.88
26 votes

Antestor
The Return of the Black Death

3.88
180 votes

Kekal
Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams

3.88
34 votes

Drowningman
Busy Signal At The Suicide Hotline

3.88
50 votes

U.D.O.
No Limits

3.88
40 votes

Elegy (NLD)
Manifestation of Fear

3.88
24 votes

Morgul
Parody Of The Mass

3.88
16 votes

System of a Down
Sugar

3.87
180 votes

Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment

3.87
406 votes

Skycamefalling
To Forever Embrace The Sun

3.87
54 votes

Frozen Shadows
Dans les Bras des Immortels

3.87
19 votes

All Out War
For Those Who Were Crucified

3.87
134 votes

Slauter Xstroyes
Free the Beast

3.86
22 votes

Sculptured
The Spear Of The Lily Is Aureoled

3.86
63 votes

Tarot
For The Glory Of Nothing

3.86
28 votes

Saturnus
For The Loveless Lonely Nights

3.86
28 votes

Impellitteri
Eye of the Hurricane

3.86
14 votes

While Heaven Wept
Sorrow of the Angels

3.85
62 votes

Dehumanized
Prophecies Foretold

3.85
37 votes

Vintersorg
Till fjälls

3.85
212 votes

Stratovarius
Destiny

3.85
699 votes

Primordial
A Journey's End

3.84
268 votes

Savatage
The Wake of Magellan

3.84
570 votes

Arckanum
Kampen

3.84
25 votes

Morning Again
As Tradition Dies Slowly

3.83
66 votes

Mithotyn
King of the Distant Forest

3.83
51 votes

Godkiller
The Rebirth of the Middle Ages

3.83
36 votes

Anata
The Infernal Depths of Hatred

3.83
378 votes

Marilyn Manson
Mechanical Animals

3.83
1551 votes

Vlad Tepes
The Black Legions

3.82
17 votes

Explorers Club
Age of Impact

3.82
17 votes

Cryptopsy
Whisper Supremacy

3.82
1470 votes

Aeternus
...and So the Night Became

3.82
50 votes

Nostromo (CHE)
Argue

3.82
25 votes

I Have Dreams
Three Days 'Til Christmas

3.82
77 votes

Runemagick
The Supreme Force of Eternity

3.82
148 votes

Suicide Nation (USA-AZ)
Suicide Nation

3.81
32 votes

Daisuke Ishiwatari
Guilty Gear Original Sound Collection

3.81
16 votes

Katatonia
Discouraged Ones

3.81
1328 votes

Heavenwood
Swallow

3.81
26 votes

Acid Drinkers
High Proof Cosmic Milk

3.81
26 votes

Converge
When Forever Comes Crashing

3.81
1527 votes

Symphony X
Twilight in Olympus

3.8
1404 votes

Mago de Oz
La Leyenda de la Mancha

3.8
122 votes

Witchery
Restless & Dead

3.8
99 votes

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Under the Running Board

3.8
620 votes

Appalling Spawn
Freedom, Hope And Fury

3.8
110 votes

Eliane Radigue
Trilogie de la Mort

3.8
40 votes

Depresy
A Grand Magnificence

3.8
15 votes

Athena XIX
A New Religion?

3.8
15 votes

Buzzov-en
...At A Loss

3.8
74 votes

Gasp
Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People

3.8
49 votes

Nokturnal Mortum
To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire

3.79
90 votes

Nothingface
An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity

3.79
232 votes

Soilent Green
A String of Lies

3.79
14 votes

Oxiplegatz
Sidereal Journey

3.79
14 votes

Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation

3.79
14 votes

Primal Fear
Primal Fear

3.78
168 votes

Nasum
Inhale/Exhale

3.78
226 votes

Soilent Green
Sewn Mouth Secrets

3.78
176 votes

The Body Lovers
Number One of Three

3.78
27 votes

Helloween
Better Than Raw

3.77
722 votes

Iniquity
The Hidden Lore

3.77
22 votes

Deeds of Flesh
Inbreeding the Anthropophagi

3.77
135 votes

The Mad Capsule Markets
digidogheadlock

3.77
13 votes

Seth
Les Blessures De l'Ame

3.77
30 votes

The Sins of Thy Beloved
Lake of Sorrow

3.77
94 votes

Electric Wizard
Supercoven

3.76
122 votes

Judas Iscariot
Distant In Solitary Night

3.76
68 votes

Thyrfing
Thyrfing

3.75
51 votes

Ancient Rites
Fatherland

3.75
32 votes

Tang Dynasty
演義 Epic

3.75
24 votes

Night in Gales
Thunderbeast

3.75
24 votes

Trelldom
Til et Annet...

3.75
22 votes

Sinner
The Nature Of Evil

3.75
20 votes

Katatonia
Saw You Drown

3.75
110 votes

Morbid Angel
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

3.74
1434 votes

HammerFall
Legacy Of Kings

3.74
458 votes

Rob Zombie
Hellbilly Deluxe

3.74
834 votes

Bloodlet
The Seraphim Fall

3.73
48 votes

Thorns
Thorns vs Emperor (split w/ Emperor)

3.73
35 votes

Hecate Enthroned
Dark Requiems And The Unsilent Massacre

3.72
76 votes

Unsane
Occupational Hazard

3.72
57 votes

Dir En Grey
Jealous

3.72
46 votes

Nile
Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

3.71
1214 votes

Beheaded
Perpetual Mockery

3.71
33 votes

Arghoslent
Galloping Through the Battle Ruins

3.71
492 votes

Dying Fetus
Killing on Adrenaline

3.7
392 votes

Moonspell
Sin / Pecado

3.7
170 votes

Irate
Burden Of A Crumbling Society

3.7
20 votes

Gargoyle
Gaia

3.7
15 votes

Apocalyptica
Inquisition Symphony

3.7
164 votes

Merzbow
Tauromachine

3.7
23 votes

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