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
62,618
1970
Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Paranoid
50,044
1986
Thrash Metal
Master of Puppets
47,577
1984
Thrash Metal
Ride the Lightning
41,902
2001
Alternative Metal
Toxicity
41,716
1970
Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Black Sabbath
41,433
1971
Heavy Metal / Traditional Doom Metal
Master of Reality
38,164
2000
Alternative Metal
White Pony
37,655
1992
Rap Metal
Rage Against the Machine
35,036
2001
Alternative / Progressive Metal
Lateralus
34,546
1983
Thrash Metal
Kill 'Em All
34,419
1988
Thrash Metal
…And Justice for All
33,921
1992
Grunge / Alternative Metal
Dirt
33,756
1991
Heavy Metal
Metallica
32,548
1997
Nu Metal / Alternative Metal
Around the Fur
30,881
1990
Thrash Metal
Rust In Peace
29,271
1996
Alternative Metal / Progressive Metal
Ænima
29,177
2013
Blackgaze / Post-Metal
Sunbather
29,138
1986
Thrash Metal
Reign In Blood
28,310
1996
Atmospheric Black Metal / Ambient
Filosofem
27,256
1995
Technical Death Metal
Symbolic
26,619
1982
Heavy Metal
The Number of the Beast
26,336
2000
Nu Metal / Rap Rock
Hybrid Theory
25,356
1972
Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Vol. 4
24,780
2000
Stoner Metal / Doom Metal
Dopethrone
24,261
1973
Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
24,246
1984
Heavy Metal
Powerslave
23,497
2003
Post-Metal / Drone Metal / Drone
Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
23,461
2001
Mathcore / Metalcore
Jane Doe
22,628
1998
Alternative Metal
System of A Down
22,270
2005
Noise Rock / Stoner Metal
Pink
22,268
2001
Progressive Metal
Blackwater Park
22,000
2006
Alternative Metal / Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock
10,000 Days
21,088
2005
Alternative Metal
Mezmerize
20,833
2003
Nu Metal / Rap Rock
Meteora
19,945
1994
Stoner Rock / Stoner Metal
Kyuss [Welcome to Sky Valley]
19,498
2003
Alternative Metal
St. Anger
19,404
1980
Heavy Metal
Iron Maiden
19,312
2012
Alternative Metal
Koi No Yokan
19,271
1991
Technical Death Metal / Death Metal
Human
18,908
1993
Alternative Metal
Undertow
18,654
1986
Thrash Metal
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
18,493
1998
Progressive Metal / Technical Death Metal
The Sound of Perseverance
18,437
2004
Sludge Metal / Progressive Metal
Leviathan
18,270
2010
Alternative Metal
Diamond Eyes
17,976
1990
Heavy Metal
Painkiller
17,699
1988
Heavy Metal
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
17,515
2002
Post-Metal / Folk Metal / Dark Folk
The Mantle
17,482
1983
Heavy Metal
Piece of Mind
17,197
1990
Grunge / Alternative Metal
Facelift
16,929
2005
Alternative Metal
Hypnotize
16,904
1995
Atmospheric Black Metal / Pagan Black Metal
Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
16,883
2005
Progressive Metal / Death Metal
From Mars to Sirius
16,703
1980
Heavy Metal
Heaven and Hell
16,684
1999
Nu Metal
Slipknot
16,588
1992
Black Metal
A Blaze In the Northern Sky
16,542
1975
Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Sabotage
16,540
1992
Alternative Metal
Angel Dust
16,452
1996
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Load
16,320
2009
Progressive Metal
Crack the Skye
16,159
2019
Thrash Metal / Stoner Metal
Infest the Rats' Nest
16,130
1981
Heavy Metal
Killers
16,114
1996
Rap Metal / Alternative Metal
Evil Empire
16,113
2006
Alternative Metal / Alternative Rock
Saturday Night Wrist
15,990
2002
Alternative Metal
Steal This Album!
15,887
2008
Thrash Metal
Death Magnetic
15,830
1988
Death Metal
Leprosy
15,747
1994
Black Metal
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
15,607
1994
Atmospheric Black Metal
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
15,433
2025
Blackgaze / Post-Metal
Lonely People With Power
15,372
1986
Heavy Metal
Somewhere In Time
15,320
1999
Progressive Metal
Still Life
15,306
1994
Nu Metal
Korn
15,245
1996
Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
None So Vile
15,168
1999
Rap Metal / Alternative Metal
The Battle of Los Angeles
15,147
1992
Groove Metal
Vulgar Display of Power
15,065
1992
Progressive Metal
Images and Words
14,996
1990
Thrash Metal
Seasons In the Abyss
14,980
1997
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Reload
14,971
2003
Stoner Metal / Doom Metal
Dopesmoker
14,826
1995
Nu Metal / Alternative Metal
Adrenaline
14,767
1987
Death Metal
Scream Bloody Gore
14,626
1994
Sludge Metal
When the Kite String Pops
14,584
2007
Shoegaze / Blackgaze / Post-Metal
Souvenirs d'un autre monde
14,568
2004
Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post-Metal
Panopticon
14,568
1993
Technical Death Metal
Individual Thought Patterns
14,519
2006
Post-Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal
Ashes Against the Grain
14,491
2023
Progressive Metal / Thrash Metal
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
14,454
2003
Stoner Metal
あくまのうた (Akuma No Uta)
14,438
1994
Symphonic Black Metal
In the Nightside Eclipse
14,289
1970
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Deep Purple In Rock
14,280
2005
Progressive Metal
Ghost Reveries
14,267
1988
Thrash Metal
South of Heaven
14,196
2001
Nu Metal
Iowa
14,151
1994
Black Metal
Transilvanian Hunger
13,896
1995
Grunge / Alternative Metal
Alice In Chains
13,742
1991
Grunge / Alternative Metal
Badmotorfinger
13,717
1995
Melodic Black Metal
Storm of the Light's Bane
13,644
2019
Progressive Metal / Post-Metal
Fear Inoculum
13,479
1990
Groove Metal / Thrash Metal
Cowboys From Hell
13,425
2022
Noise Rock / Sludge Metal / Pigfuck
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9 Comments

Level 63

Oct 5, 2023

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

Level 68

Oct 10, 2023

Fixed. My bad.

Level 92

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 59

Oct 11, 2023

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

Level 76

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 48

Sep 12, 2025

I mean, all of these artists are very well known in their respective subgenres, it's just that many people really do not like Disturbed and Sabaton.

Level 50

Oct 29, 2023

Badmotorfinger included but not Superunknown ? How ?

Level 68

Nov 1, 2023

Not classed as metal, just grunge.