Dream Theater: Images and Words
Released in 1992, Images and Words is Dream Theater’s second album and the first with singer James LaBrie. It stands as one…
9.5/10 September 17, 2026
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Slipknot: Iowa
Slipknot’s second studio album, Iowa, arrived carried by the meteoric success of the debut and an exhausting tour. Recorded again with producer…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian’s sixth album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, released in 1998, is a summit of European power metal. Conceived as a concept album…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Misfits: Walk Among Us
Released in 1982, Walk Among Us is the Misfits’s first full studio album and one of the founding texts of horror punk.…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Ramones: Ramones
Released in 1976 on Sire, the Ramones’s self-titled debut is one of the birth certificates of punk rock. Recorded quickly and on…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Acid Bath: When the Kite String Pops
Acid Bath’s first album, When the Kite String Pops, released on Rotten Records in 1994, is one of the most disorienting records…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Sleep: Dopesmoker
Few albums carry a history as legendary as Sleep’s Dopesmoker. Recorded in the 1990s but released in full in 2003, this record…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
The third album by California’s Kyuss, Welcome to Sky Valley (1994), is often regarded as the cornerstone of desert rock. Born from…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Metallica: Master of Puppets
Metallica’s third album, Master of Puppets (1986), is routinely named as the peak of thrash metal. Cut at Sweet Silence Studios in…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Burzum: Hvis lyset tar oss
Recorded by Varg Vikernes in the early 1990s and released in 1994, Hvis lyset tar oss is recognised as a landmark of…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel’s debut, Altars of Madness, stands in 1989 as one of the founding acts of Florida death metal. Fast, chaotic and…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Decapitated: Nihility
Released in 2002, Nihility is Decapitated’s second album, and it already definitively establishes the Polish band as a major force in world…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Electric Wizard: Dopethrone
Often cited among the heaviest albums ever recorded, Dopethrone (2000) is the third record by Britain’s Electric Wizard and their absolute peak.…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Machine Head: The Blackening
Released in 2007, The Blackening marks Machine Head’s return to the forefront. The band led by Robb Flynn delivers here its most…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Soundgarden: Superunknown
Released in 1994 on A&M, Superunknown is Soundgarden’s fourth album and the record of maturity for the Seattle band. More ambitious, more…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Circle Jerks: Group Sex
Released in 1980, Group Sex is the Circle Jerks’s first album and one of the most radical records of early California hardcore.…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Black Sabbath’s second album, released in 1970, Paranoid is one of heavy metal’s birth certificates. Produced by Rodger Bain, it arrived the…
9.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Faith No More: Angel Dust
Faith No More’s fourth album, Angel Dust, released in 1992, is one of the most audacious and disorienting records of alternative metal.…
10/10 September 18, 2026
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Fear Factory: Demanufacture
Fear Factory’s second album, Demanufacture, imposed in 1995 a futuristic and implacable vision of metal. The Los Angeles band here perfects its…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Symphony X: The Odyssey
The sixth album by the American band Symphony X, The Odyssey, released in 2002, marks a decisive step in the evolution of…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Korn: Korn
The debut album from the Bakersfield band, Korn is often regarded as the birth certificate of nu metal. Produced by Ross Robinson,…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Hammerfall: Glory to the Brave
In the mid 1990s, when traditional heavy metal was widely dismissed as outdated next to grunge and death metal, a Swedish band…
8/10 September 19, 2026
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Descendents: Milo Goes to College
Released in 1982, Milo Goes to College is the Descendents’s first album and one of the most influential records in the genesis…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Eyehategod: Take as Needed for Pain
Eyehategod’s second album, Take as Needed for Pain, released on Century Media in 1993, is an absolute pillar of New Orleans sludge.…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Slayer: Reign in Blood
Released the same year as Master of Puppets, Slayer’s Reign in Blood took the opposite road: ten tracks, under thirty minutes, no…
9.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Satyricon: Nemesis Divina
Released in 1996, Nemesis Divina is Satyricon’s third album and one of the great records of the second Norwegian wave. The duo…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Deicide: Deicide
Deicide’s self-titled debut, released in 1990, immediately established the Florida band as one of the most radical and provocative acts in death…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Necrophagist: Epitaph
Nine years after Onset of Putrefaction, Muhammed Suicmez rebuilt Necrophagist around a top-tier lineup and delivered, in 2004, a record that would…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Saint Vitus: Born Too Late
The third album by America’s Saint Vitus, Born Too Late (1986), marks a major turning point: the arrival of singer Scott Wino…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Soulfly: Soulfly
The debut album of the project founded by Max Cavalera after his departure from Sepultura, Soulfly, released in 1998, extends and transforms…
8/10 September 19, 2026
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The Exploited: Punks Not Dead
Released in 1981, Punks Not Dead is The Exploited’s debut album and one of the most famous rallying cries in British punk.…
8/10 September 19, 2026
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Motörhead: Ace of Spades
Motorhead’s fourth studio album, Ace of Spades (1980), is the record that made the English trio a legend. Produced by Vic Maile,…
9/10 September 19, 2026
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Helmet: Meantime
The second album from New York band Helmet, Meantime, released in 1992, imposes a pared-down and cerebral vision of alternative metal. Led…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Ministry: Psalm 69
Often referred to as Psalm 69, whose full title is « KEFALHXQ », this 1992 record is Ministry’s most famous album. Led by Al…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Fates Warning: Awaken the Guardian
Released in 1986, Awaken the Guardian is the third album by the American band Fates Warning and the last with original singer…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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Sabaton: Carolus Rex
With Carolus Rex, released in 2012, the Swedish band Sabaton takes on a subject as ambitious as it is unusual for them:…
8.5/10 September 19, 2026
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