Top Ten Metal Albums Of Each Year
2010-2019

The Burning Cold by Omnium Gatherum and Portal of I by Ne Obliviscaris album covers
Criteria: These Top Ten Metal albums of each year from 2010 through 2019 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on metal music in general.

Last Updated: 2023-03-09
Metal Albums 2010-2019

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2010

  1. Marrow of the Spirit - Agalloch
  2. Epistera Daimones - Triptykon
  3. Paracletus - Deathspell Omega
  4. Snakes For The Divine - High On Fire
  5. After - Ihsahn
  6. At The Edge of Time - Blind Guardian
  7. Axioma Ethica Odini - Enslaved
  8. Ironbound - Overkill
  9. Majesty & Decay - Immolation
10. Spirit Shadow - Kylesa
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2011

  1. Outer Isolation - Vektor
  2. Human Remains - Hell
  3. Aesthetica - Liturgy
  4. Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa - Moonsorrow
  5. The Hunter - Mastodon
  6. Satanic Royalty - Midnight
  7. Dead Roots Stirring - Elder
  8. The Great Mass - Septicflesh
  9. Towards the Megalith - Disma
10. Immortal Soul - Riot
Outer Isolation album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2012

  1. Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris
  2. All We Love We Leave Behind - Converge
  3. With Hearts Toward None - Mgla
  4. Flesh Cathedral - Svartidaudi
  5. Monolith of Inhumanity - Cattle Decapitation
  6. RIITIIR - Enslaved
  7. L'Enfant Sauvage - Gojira
  8. De Vermis Mysteriis - High on Fire
  9. Koi No Yokan - Deftones
10. Sentenced to Life - Black Breath
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2013

  1. Sunbather - Deafheaven
  2. Colored Sands - Gorguts
  3. Pelagial - The Ocean
  4. One of Us Is the Killer - The Dillinger Escape Plan
  5. Life Sentence - Satan
  6. Surgical Steel - Carcass
  7. Vertikal - Cult of Luna
  8. Old Mornings Dawn - Summoning
  9. Teethed Glory and Injury - Altar of Plagues
10. The White Goddess - Atlantean Kodex
Deafheaven - Sunbather album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2014

  1. The Satanist - Behemoth
  2. Roads to the North - Panopticon
  3. Melana Chasmata - Triptykon
  4. Foundations of Burden - Pallbearer
  5. Clearing the Path to Ascend - Yob
  6. Aura - Saor
  7. Citadel - Ne Obliviscaris
  8. III - Spectral Lore
  9. Once More 'Round the Sun - Mastodon
10. Ecdysis - Horrendous
Behemoth - The Satanist album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2015

  1. New Bermuda - Deafheaven
  2. Scar Sighted - Leviathan
  3. Exercises in Futility - Mgła
  4. Autumn Eternal - Panopticon
  5. The Book of Souls - Iron Maiden
  6. Litourgiya - Batushka
  7. Gods at War - At War - Macabre Omen
  8. Aria of Vernal Tombs - Obsequiae
  9. Luminiferous - High on Fire
10. Anareta - Horrendous
Deafheaven - New Bermuda album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2016

  1. Terminal Redux - Vektor
  2. Värähtelijä - Oranssi Pazuzu
  3. Dissociation - The Dillinger Escape Plan
  4. Starspawn - Blood Incantation
  5. Mariner - Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
  6. The Armor of Ire - Eternal Champion
  7. Magma - Gojira
  8. Jumalten aika - Moonsorrow
  9. You Will Never Be One of Us - Nails
10. Hunted - Khemmis
Vektor - Terminal Redux album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2017

  1. Nightmare Logic - Power Trip
  2. Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch
  3. The Dusk in Us - Converge
  4. Exuvia - The Ruins of Beverast
  5. Heartless - Pallbearer
  6. Hiss Spun - Chelsea Wolfe
  7. Emperor of Sand - Mastodon
  8. Satan's Hallow - Satan's Hallow
  9. Kelle surut soi - Havukruunu
10. Forever - Code Orange
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2018

  1. The Sciences - Sleep
  2. Queen of Time - Amorphis
  3. The Wake - Voivod
  4. Firepower - Judas Priest
  5. Down Below - Tribulation
  6. Errorzone - Vein
  7. Vile Luxury - Imperial Triumphant
  8. Idol - Horrendous
  9. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love - Deafheaven
10. Our Raw Heart - YOB
The Sciences by Sleep album cover

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2019

  1. Hidden History of the Human Race - Blood Incantation
  2. A Dawn to Fear - Cult of Luna
  3. Empath - Devin Townsend
  4. Fear Inoculum - Tool
  5. Hallucinogen - Blut Aus Nord
  6. Mana - Idle Hands
  7. Planetary Clairvoyance - Tomb Mold
  8. Spiritual Instinct - Alcest
  9. Sulphur English - Inter Arma
10. The Palms of Sorrowed Kings - Obsequiae
Hidden History of the Human Race, 2019 album cover
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