What are your best albums of every metal genre?
I originally posted this in the "Release Lists" thread, but ultimately I decided to move it to its own. And that idea is...the best albums of (almost) every metal genre, inspired by this Metal Trenches video:
Here's mine:
Thrash metal: Annihilator - Alice in Hell (1989)
Groove metal: Orbit Culture - Death Above Life (2025)
Death metal: Dark Sermon - The Oracle (2015)
Melodic death metal: The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost (2022)
Blackened death metal: Shade Empire - Omega Arcane (2013)
Black metal: Samael - Blood Ritual (1992)
Nu metal: Cane Hill - Smile (2016)
Doom metal: October Tide - Rain Without End (1997)
Power metal: DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage (2006)
Heavy metal: Enforcer - Zenith (2019)
Symphonic metal: Avantasia - Ghostlights (2016)
Progressive metal: Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I (2012)
Metalcore: Trivium - In Waves (2011)
Mathcore: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity (1999)
Deathcore: Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me (2025)
Post-metal: Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (2022)
Sludge metal: Will Haven - WHVN (1999)
Industrial metal: Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989)
Grindcore: N/A
Folk metal: N/A (for now)
So what are some of your best albums of every metal genre? Discuss!
