Top 100 Most Popular Metal Albums on Rate Your Music

Name the metal albums on Rate Your Music with the highest number of ratings.

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No. of Ratings	Year of Release	Sub-Genre	Album
50,289	1970	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Paranoid
41,958	1986	Thrash Metal	Master of Puppets
39,008	1984	Thrash Metal	Ride the Lightning
33,665	1970	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Black Sabbath
32,983	1971	Heavy Metal / Traditional Doom Metal	Master of Reality
32,008	2001	Alternative Metal	Toxicity
31,001	1992	Rap Metal	Rage Against the Machine
29,244	1983	Thrash Metal	Kill 'Em All
29,202	2001	Alternative / Progressive Metal	Lateralus
29,178	1988	Thrash Metal	…And Justice for All
28,898	1991	Heavy Metal	Metallica
28,544	2000	Alternative Metal	White Pony
26,342	1992	Grunge / Alternative Metal	Dirt
25,224	1990	Thrash Metal	Rust In Peace
25,046	1996	Alternative Metal	Ænima
24,924	1986	Thrash Metal	Reign In Blood
23,867	2013	Blackgaze / Post-Metal	Sunbather
23,294	1997	Nu Metal / Alternative Metal	Around the Fur
23,289	1996	Atmospheric Black Metal / Ambient	Filosofem
22,523	1982	NWOBHM / Heavy Metal	The Number of the Beast
21,299	1995	Technical Death Metal	Symbolic
20,567	1984	Heavy Metal	Powerslave
20,347	1972	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Vol. 4
20,291	2000	Nu Metal / Rap Rock	Hybrid Theory
19,922	1973	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
19,855	2000	Stoner Metal / Doom Metal	Dopethrone
19,441	2001	Mathcore / Metalcore	Jane Doe
18,901	2001	Progressive Metal	Blackwater Park
18,833	2006	Alternative / Progressive Metal	10,000 Days
18,521	2003	Post-Metal / Drone Metal	Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
17,742	1998	Alternative Metal	System of A Down
17,497	2005	Noise Rock / Stoner Metal	Pink
17,106	2003	Alternative Metal	St. Anger
17,035	1994	Stoner Rock / Stoner Metal	Kyuss [Welcome to Sky Valley]
16,905	2005	Alternative Metal	Mezmerize
16,418	1980	NWOBHM / Heavy Metal	Iron Maiden
16,169	1993	Alternative Metal	Undertow
15,730	2003	Nu Metal / Rap Rock	Meteora
15,672	1986	Thrash Metal	Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
15,483	2004	Sludge / Progressive Metal	Leviathan
15,476	1991	Technical Death Metal	Human
15,124	1988	Heavy Metal	Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
14,971	2002	Post-Metal / Folk Metal	The Mantle
14,960	1983	Heavy Metal / NWOBHM	Piece of Mind
14,873	1990	Heavy Metal	Painkiller
14,683	1998	Technical Death Metal / Progressive Metal	The Sound of Perseverance
14,425	1995	Atmospheric Black Metal / Pagan Black Metal	Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
14,380	1992	Alternative Metal	Angel Dust
14,373	1996	Hard Rock / Heavy Metal	Load
14,049	2008	Thrash Metal	Death Magnetic
14,035	1980	Heavy Metal	Heaven and Hell
13,850	2009	Progressive Metal	Crack the Skye
13,773	2019	Thrash Metal / Stoner Metal	Infest the Rats' Nest
13,758	2012	Alternative Metal	Koi No Yokan
13,740	1981	NWOBHM / Heavy Metal	Killers
13,709	2005	Alternative Metal	Hypnotize
13,623	1994	Atmospheric Black Metal	Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
13,585	1996	Rap Metal / Alternative Metal	Evil Empire
13,584	1999	Nu Metal	Slipknot
13,434	1990	Grunge / Alternative Metal	Facelift
13,427	1975	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Sabotage
13,365	1992	Black Metal	A Blaze In the Northern Sky
13,303	1994	Black Metal	De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
13,169	1992	Progressive Metal	Images and Words
13,160	1999	Rap Metal / Alternative Metal	The Battle of Los Angeles
13,158	1997	Hard Rock / Heavy Metal	Reload
13,042	2010	Alternative Metal	Diamond Eyes
13,016	1986	Heavy Metal	Somewhere In Time
13,004	1990	Thrash Metal	Seasons In the Abyss
12,951	1999	Progressive Metal	Still Life
12,901	2005	Progressive / Death Metal	From Mars to Sirius
12,881	2002	Alternative Metal	Steal This Album!
12,561	2007	Shoegaze / Blackgaze / Post-Metal	Souvenirs d'un autre monde
12,522	1992	Groove Metal	Vulgar Display of Power
12,514	1988	Death Metal	Leprosy
12,383	2004	Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post-Metal	Panopticon
12,345	2003	Stoner Metal / Doom Metal	Dopesmoker
12,321	1988	Thrash Metal	South of Heaven
12,095	2006	Post-Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal	Ashes Against the Grain
12,055	2005	Progressive Metal	Ghost Reveries
12,042	1994	Nu Metal	Korn
12,009	1994	Symphonic Black Metal	In the Nightside Eclipse
11,811	1993	Technical Death Metal	Individual Thought Patterns
11,742	1987	Death Metal	Scream Bloody Gore
11,624	2006	Alternative Metal / Alternative Rock	Saturday Night Wrist
11,609	1994	Black Metal	Transilvanian Hunger
11,576	1992	Heavy Metal	Countdown to Extinction
11,508	1991	Grunge / Alternative Metal	Badmotorfinger
11,398	1996	Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal	None So Vile
11,394	2019	Progressive Metal	Fear Inoculum
11,392	2003	Stoner Metal	あくまのうた (Akuma No Uta)
11,348	2001	Nu Metal / Alternative Metal	Iowa
11,265	1990	Groove Metal / Thrash Metal	Cowboys From Hell
11,247	1999	Progressive Metal	Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
11,242	1980	Heavy Metal / Hard Rock	Ace of Spades
11,203	1982	Heavy Metal	Screaming for Vengeance
11,199	2023	Progressive Metal / Thrash Metal	PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
11,106	1983	Heavy Metal	Holy Diver
11,021	1995	Grunge / Alternative Metal	Alice In Chains
10,879	1995	Nu Metal / Alternative Metal	Adrenaline

Level 61

Oct 5, 2023

you spelled rust in peace wrong... cool quiz though!

Level 68

Oct 10, 2023

Fixed. My bad.

Level 90

Oct 11, 2023

This is a very well-made quiz, but we need the artists somewhere.

Level 68

Oct 12, 2023

I feel as though providing the artists as a hint would make this a little too easy.

Level 58

Oct 11, 2023

So many albums I know but so little I remembered...

Level 62

Oct 15, 2023

Some of these seem crazy. Like, there are bands here I've never heard of before. They beat out everything by Rammstein, Disturbed, and Sabaton? I'm guessing the Rate Your Music userbase skews heavily towards certain subgenres then.

Level 50

Oct 29, 2023

Badmotorfinger included but not Superunknown ? How ?

Level 68

Nov 1, 2023

Not classed as metal, just grunge.