Year-End Lists

Loudwire: The 66 Best Metal Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

1. The Satanist
   Behemoth
2. Meliora
   Ghost B.C.
3. L’Enfant Sauvage
   Gojira
4. The Great Mass
   Septicflesh
5. Surgical Steel
   Carcass
6. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
7. The Book of Souls
   Iron Maiden
8. The Parallax II: Future Sequence
   Between the Buried and Me
9. Fear Inoculum
   Tool
10. Transcendence
    Devin Townsend Project
11. Opus Eponymous
    Ghost
12. Sempiternal
    Bring Me the Horizon
13. Emperor of Sand
    Mastodon
14. Monolith Of Inhumanity
    Cattle Decapitation
15. Forever
    Code Orange
16. Colored Sands
    Gorguts
17. Nightmare
    Avenged Sevenfold
18. Firepower
    Judas Priest
19. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
20. Rammstein
    Rammstein
21. Deep Blue
    Parkway Drive
22. Holy Hell
    Architects
23. One of Us Is the Killer
    The Dillinger Escape Plan
24. The Sciences
    Sleep
25. We Are Not Your Kind
    Slipknot
26. Where Owls Know My Name
    Rivers of Nihil
27. Magma
    Gojira
28. The Violent Sleep of Reason
    Meshuggah
29. Utiltarian
    Napalm Death
30. Clearing the Path to Ascend
    YOB
31. A Different Shade of Blue
    Knocked Loose
32. Axioma Ethica Odini
    Enslaved
33. For All Kings
    Anthrax
34. Marrow of the Spirit
    Agalloch
35. Low Teens
    Every Time I Die
36. The Children of the Night
    Tribulation
37. Pelagial
    The Ocean
38. In Waves
    Trivium
39. Ritual
    Black Dahlia Murder
40. Dead Throne
    The Devil Wears Prada
41. Babymetal
    BABYMETAL
42. Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
    Periphery
43. All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge
44. Infestissumam
    Ghost
45. Bloodlust
    Body Count
46. Foundations of Burden
    Pallbearer
47. Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
    Woods of Ypres
48. Stranger Fruit
    Zeal & Ardor
49. Écailles de lune
    Alcest
50. Wasteland
    Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
51. Luminiferous
    High On Fire
52. Absolute Hope Absolute Hell
    Fit for An Autopsy
53. Wrong One to Fuck With
    Dying Fetus
54. The Quantum Enigma
    Epica
55. Errorzone
    Vein
56. Carolus Rex
    Sabaton
57. Hate
    Thy Art Is Murder
58. Dystopia
    Megadeth
59. Found in Far Away Places
    August Burns Red
60. Altered State
    TesseracT
61. After
    Ihsahn
62. Deceiver of the Gods
    Amon Amarth
63. Volition
    Protest the Hero
64. The Valley
    Whitechapel
65. The Discovery
    Born of Osiris
66. In Cauda Venenum
    Opeth