Metal Album reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 129 Reddit reviews across 10 subreddits and 17 posts to rank the best Metal Album brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/MetalForTheMasses, r/doommetal, r/Deathmetal, r/numetal, r/MetalSuggestions. Top-rated brands include Candlemass (5.0/5), The Black Dahlia Murder (5.0/5), Necrophagist (5.0/5).
Stats
Reviews129
Subreddits10
Posts17
Brands90
Products80
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#1
Candlemass
5.0
(8)
"Candlemass - Nightfall"
"Candlemass and Sorcerer"
"Candlemass"
"Candlemass, Saint Vitus, Electric Wizard, Cathedral, Conan, Mephistofeles, Boris, Sleep, OM, Gaza, Toke, Gandalf the Green, Aiwass, Witch, Wo Fat, Stoned Jesus"
"I can't recommend the first 4 Candlemass albums enough."
"Candlemass, especially the album Nightfall"
"Candlemass - first 4"
"Probably looking for Candlemass to start with!"
#2
The Black Dahlia Murder
5.0
(4)
"Ritual by The Black Dahlia Murder fucking slap"
"Anything by The Black Dahlia Murder is great lmao, especially Nightbringers or Ritual...or Everblack"
"Anything by The Black Dahlia Murder is great lmao, especially Nightbringers or Ritual...or Everblack"
"The black dahlia murder - ritual"
#3
Necrophagist
5.0
(3)
"You could try Epitaph by Necrophagist"
"Buying epitaph on cd was the best thing i ever did"
"Epitaph by Necrophagist is a masterpiece in my opinion, definietly worth a listen."
#4
Cattle Decapitation
5.0
(3)
"Cattle Decapitation, any albums (the last ones are truely the better ones lmao, but their early shit slaps hard)"
"Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas"
"Death Atlas - Cattle Decapitation"
#5
Carcass
5.0
(3)
"Carcass -Heartwork"
"Carcass 1989 — Symphonies of Sickness 1991 — Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious 1993 — Heartwork 1996 — Swansong"
"I’m always going to recommend heartwork from carcass when i see iron maiden."
#6
Malignant Altar
4.7
(3)
"Second this. Malignant Altar is the best"
"Just go with the best to do it the past 10 years probably Malignant Altar"
"Malignant Altar fucking rule, but I’d call them just pure dm rather than death doom."
#7
Kyuss
4.7
(3)
"Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun"
"Anything by Kyuss is worth listening. They simply have no bad tracks."
"Well not like Emperor of Sand but the original kings of desert metal if you haven’t already heard them. Kyushu - Welcome to Sky Valley."
#8
Black Sabbath
5.0
(2)
"Master of Reality"
"Black sabbath - master of reality"
#9
Mastodon
5.0
(2)
"- Mastodon "Leviathan""
"Mastodon - Leviathan. It's a concept album about Moby Dick."
#10
Cradle of Filth
5.0
(2)
"Midian. The answer is always midian. It is their magnum opus in my opinion."
"Midian. The answer is always midian. It is their magnum opus in my opinion."
#11
Down
5.0
(2)
"As for sludge recs, I'd check out: DOWN - NOLA"
"Down - Nola"
#12
Dismember
5.0
(2)
"Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream / Indecent & Obscene"
"Dismember, Bolt Thrower and Asphyx. Start whenever you want."
#13
Bolt Thrower
5.0
(2)
"Dismember, Bolt Thrower and Asphyx. Start whenever you want."
"Bolt Thrower- All albums"
#14
Doomsword
4.5
(2)
"Doomsword"
"Doomsword"
#15
Dir En Grey
4.5
(2)
"I recommend you Uroboros by Dir En Grey"
"Dir En Grey - Uroboros"
#16
Pestilence
4.5
(2)
"Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum (1988) Consuming Impulse (1989) Testimony of the Ancients (1991)"
"Consuming Impulse by Pestilence is also great"
#17
Crypt Sermon
4.0
(2)
"Sorcerer, Crypt Sermon, While Heaven Wept"
"Crypt sermon"
#18
While Heaven Wept
4.0
(2)
"While Heaven Wept"
"Sorcerer, Crypt Sermon, While Heaven Wept"
#19
Sorcerer
4.0
(2)
"Sorceror"
"Sorcerer, Crypt Sermon, While Heaven Wept"
#20
Scald
4.0
(2)
"Scald"
"Scald"
#21
Memento Mori
4.0
(2)
"Memento Mori, basically prog version of Candlemass with Messiah Marcolin on vocals"
"Memento Mori, if you haven’t heard them already."
#22
Wheel
4.0
(2)
"Wheel (their most recent album)"
"Wheel (these two are more traditional than epic, but definitely straddle the line some)"
#23
Amaseffer
4.0
(2)
"Amaseffer - Slaves for Life"
"Amaseffer - Slaves for Life"
#24
Profiler
4.0
(2)
"Pretty good."
"Profiler - A Digital Nowhere"
#25
Solitude Aeturnus
4.0
(2)
"Solitude Aeternus"
"Solitude aeternus"
#26
Hooded Menace
3.0
(2)
"Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed. - Somewhat softer and "easier" stuff"
"Hooded Menace"
#27
Gorguts
5.0
(1)
"Gorguts - Considered Dead"
#28
Bio-Cancer
5.0
(1)
"Tormenting The Innocent by Bio-Cancer"
#29
Holy Grail
5.0
(1)
"Check out Holy Grail. All three of their albums kick ass but Times of Pride and Peril is a good place to start."
#30
Dissection
5.0
(1)
"Dissection - The Somberlain"
#31
AHAB
5.0
(1)
"My all time favorite is AHAB - The Giant"
#32
Witchcraft
5.0
(1)
"Witchcraft-The Alchemist. Their third album but I recommend their first two as well. Self titled and Firewood."
#33
Sleep
5.0
(1)
"Dopesmoker"
#34
Decapitated
5.0
(1)
"Decapitated - Winds of Creation and Nihility"
#35
Muddy Waters
5.0
(1)
"That 1971 Muddy Waters album with Johnny Winter is excellent, I think it's called "Hard Again.""
#36
Beneath the Massacre
5.0
(1)
"Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous and Fearmonger"
#37
200 Stab Wounds
5.0
(1)
"200 Stab wounds - Manual Procedures"
#38
Tomb Mold
5.0
(1)
"Tomb Mold - planetary clarvoyance"
#39
Light Dweller
5.0
(1)
"Light Dweller - Lucid Offering"
#40
The Acacia Strain
5.0
(1)
"The Acacia Strain - It Comes In Waves"
#41
Linkin Park
5.0
(1)
"Hybrid Theory"
#42
Frozen Soul
5.0
(1)
"Frozen Soul Glacial Domination"
#43
Manapart
5.0
(1)
"Their first album is incredible"
#44
Triptykon
5.0
(1)
"Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones. Crushing guitar tones from Tom Fischer."
#45
Misery Index
5.0
(1)
"Misery Index - Discordia and Traitors"
#46
Gatecreeper
5.0
(1)
"Gatecreeper - Deserted and Dark Superstition"
#47
Mael Mordha
5.0
(1)
"Mael Mordha - Damned when dead. It's a celtic doom metal album and I really love the song King of the English. The production really good."
#48
Between the Buried and Me
5.0
(1)
"Between The Buried And Me - Colors"
#49
Electric Wizard
5.0
(1)
"Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol 1 - Electric Wizard"
#50
Domkraft and Somatics
5.0
(1)
"Ascend/Ascend, the split between Domkraft and Somatics. Can't get enough of it"
#51
Eucharist
5.0
(1)
"Eucharist - A Velvet Creation"
#52
Lovebites
5.0
(1)
"Everything Lovebites has ever released, seriously."
#53
Asphyx
5.0
(1)
"Dismember, Bolt Thrower and Asphyx. Start whenever you want."
#54
Earshot
5.0
(1)
"If you like TOOL you need to check out Earshot"
#55
Indhentet af Døden
5.0
(1)
"Start with Indhentet af Doden. One of my all time favorite death metal albums"
#56
Testament
5.0
(1)
"Practice What You Preach by Testament"
#57
Deeds of Flesh
5.0
(1)
"Deeds of Flesh - Reduced to Ashes and Crown of Souls"
#58
Mortification
5.0
(1)
"Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth"
#59
Leper Colony
5.0
(1)
"Leper Colony - Self titled"
#60
Tchornobog
5.0
(1)
"Tchornobog - s/t"
#61
Artificial Brain
5.0
(1)
"Artificial Brain - s/t"
#62
Mortician
4.0
(1)
"Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbecue"
#63
Raging Speedhorn
4.0
(1)
"I recommend the first Raging Speedhorn album."
#64
Iron Monkey
4.0
(1)
"Latest Iron Monkey "Spleen & Goad" - heavy and sludgy"
#65
Inter Arma
4.0
(1)
"Inter Arma - “The Summer Drones” and ”The Cavern”"
#66
Cryptopsy
4.0
(1)
"Cryptopsy's recent stuff is nice as well, The Unspoken King is underrated at best"
#67
Monkey 3
4.0
(1)
"Monkey 3 - Through the Desert is a trip and one of the most underrated gems imo."
#68
Disturbed
4.0
(1)
"The Sickness"
#69
Trillion Ton Beryllium Ships
4.0
(1)
"Lately I've been really enjoying Trillion Ton Beryllium Ships - The Mind Like Fire Unbound"
#70
Desert Mantra
4.0
(1)
"If you like stoner metal/psyc rock and want something desert themed, “The Desert I” by Desert Mantra is a pretty solid album."
#71
Moondark
4.0
(1)
"Moondark - The Abysmal Womb. Similar stuff, but with a more swededeath sound."
#72
Procession
4.0
(1)
"Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart"
#73
Malevolent Creation
4.0
(1)
"Malevolent Creation - Retribution"
#74
Crimeny
4.0
(1)
"Crimeny who probably released the first ever album, Peat that we could call - at least partly - nu metal and it was pretty sludgy here and there"
#75
Deicide
4.0
(1)
"Deicide - Once Upon The Cross"
#76
MSW
4.0
(1)
"MSW - Obliviosus"
#77
Rippikoulu
4.0
(1)
"Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia. Cult classic."
#78
Nomadic Rituals
4.0
(1)
"Nomaic Rituals - Marking The Day"
#79
Pagan Altar
4.0
(1)
"Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead"
#80
Malignancy
4.0
(1)
"Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism"
#81
Time Rift
4.0
(1)
"I recently heard Time Rift - In Flight, released this year. Cozy a-la retro hard rock with female vocals, check it out"
#82
Decomposed
4.0
(1)
"You should try Decomposed - Hope Finally Died..."
#83
Sanguisugabogg
4.0
(1)
"Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy & Tortured Whole"
#84
Rabies Castle
4.0
(1)
"For the Vomiting Tractor Drivers from Rabies Castle is pretty good sludge-nu metal mixture"
#85
Pentagram
4.0
(1)
"The first 3 pentagram albums"
#86
Barren Earth
4.0
(1)
"Barren Earth’s first couple albums always give me some desert vibes"
#87
Melechesh
4.0
(1)
"I think Melechesh - Enki should do"
#88
Unearthly Rites
4.0
(1)
"Unearthly Rites "Ecdysis" is definitely worth a listen if you like Coffins!"
#89
Om and Yob
4.0
(1)
"Om and Yob discography"
#90
Kittie
4.0
(1)
"Kittie’s demos before Spit’s release are good too."
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