Favorite Albums in Each Sub-Metal Category I Enjoy
So many albums fall into multiple categories so this list was annoying as hell to come up with. I probably squeezed albums in categories they don't belong in just to highlight some albums I love.
Send me some rec's, let me know your favorite albums in these categories, rip my opinions apart and tell me how Windir and Soar aren't melodic black metal bands (their black folk metal man!) or that Judas priest is power metal and was not apart of NWOBHM |
| 1 |  | Morbid Angel
Altars of Madness
Old School Death Metal
Runners up
2 - Autopsy – Metal Funeral
3 - Death – Leprosy |
| 2 |  | Death
The Sound of Perseverance
Progressive Death Metal
Runners up
2 - Persefone - Core
3 - Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy |
| 3 |  | Death
Human
Technical Death Metal
Runners up
2 - Nocturnus – The Key
3 - Decapitated – Winds of Creation |
| 4 |  | Dark Tranquillity
Character
Melodic Death Metal
Runners up
2 - In Flames – Clayman
3 - Insomnium - Above the Weeping World |
| 5 |  | Shadow Of Intent
Melancholy
Deathcore
Runners up
2 - Make them Suffer – Old Souls
3 - Shadow of Intent – Reclaimer |
| 6 |  | Horn
Naturkraft
Black Metal
Runners up
2 - Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
3 - Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times |
| 7 |  | Extol
Extol
Progressive Black Metal
Runners up
2 - Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel
3 - Enslaved – Isa |
| 8 |  | Windir
Likferd
Melodic Black Metal
Runners up
2 - Saor – Aura
3 - Hoth – Oathbreaker |
| 9 |  | Vektor
Black Future
Black Thrash
Runners up
2 - Vektor – Terminal Redux
3 - Melechesh - Sphynx |
| 10 |  | Forefather
Steadfast
Viking Metal
Runners up
2 - Mithotyn – In the Sign of the Raven
3 - Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God |
| 11 |  | Iron Maiden
Powerslave
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Runners up
2 - Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
3 - Judas Priest – Painkiller |
| 12 |  | Lamb of God
Ashes of the Wake
Groove Metal / NWOAHM
Runners up
2 - Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin
3 - Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power |
| 13 |  | Slayer
Seasons in the Abyss
Thrash Metal
Runners up
2 - Metallica – Ride the Lightning
3 - Megadeth – Rust in Peace |
| 14 |  | Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
Alternative Metal
Runners up
2 - Deftones – White Pony
3 - Tool – Lateralus |
| 15 |  | Amia Venera Landscape
The Long Procession
Post Metal
Runners up
2 - The Ocean – Prelagial
3 - Isis – Panopticon |
| 16 |  | Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing
Metalcore
Runners up
2 - Poison the Well – You come before you
3 - Parkway Drive – Horizons |
| 17 |  | Rolo Tomassi
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Post Hardcore
Runners up
2 - State Faults – Resonate/Desperate
3 - Thursday – War all the Time |
| 18 |  | Pig Destroyer
Terrifyer
Grind
Runners up
2 - Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
3 - Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard |
| 19 |  | Katatonia
Brave Murder Day
Death / Doom
Runners up
2 - Rapture - Futile
3 - Slumber - Fallout |
| 20 |  | Immolation
Close to a World Below
Brutal Death Metal
Runners Up
2 - Immolation - Majesty and Decay
3 - Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients |
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