Following on from my last post about the Rate Your Music best metal albums of all time, I thought I’d focus on making things a bit more contemporary and relevant to today’s music scene. So I set the limits on the chart system to show me the best metal albums again, but this time from the 2010s, and have added all of these to my Spotify collection. Once again, the list is not set in stone, and will be likely to change a lot more due to its more up-to-date and current nature in comparison with a more ‘rigid’ all-time list. So here are the best 100 metal albums from the 2010s, as they were as of the writing of this post. No embedded or linked playlist this time, since these are now the entirety of my Spotify ‘Your Music’ collection, which at this time is not browsable by anyone else, but you can see the list over at Rate Your Music here.
- Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
- Vektor – Outer Isolation
- Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
- Gorguts – Colored Sands
- Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini
- Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
- Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Blood Lust
- Blindead – Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
- Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
- Elder – Dead Roots Stirring
- Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
- Leprous – Bilateral
- Enslaved – RIITIIR
- Deafheaven – Sunbather
- Haken – Visions
- Alcest – Écailles de lune
- Thy Catafalque – Rengeteg
- Ihsahn – After
- Septicflesh – The Great Mass
- Gris – À l’âme enflammée, l’âme constellée…
- Moonsorrow – Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa
- Deftones – Koi no yokan
- Seventh Wonder – The Great Escape
- Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance
- Accept – Blood of the Nations
- Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel
- Sólstafir – Svartir Sandar
- Avatarium – Avatarium
- Threshold – March of Progress
- Nails – Unsilent Death
- Haken – The Mountain
- Subrosa – More Constant Than the Gods
- Behemoth – The Satanist
- Cult of Luna – Vertikal
- Be’lakor – Of Breath and Bone
- Insomnium – One for Sorrow
- Overkill – Ironbound
- Woods of Desolation – Torn beyond Reason
- Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand
- Mgła – With Hearts Toward None
- Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time
- Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
- Leprous – Coal
- Saor – Aura
- Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
- Àrsaidh – Roots
- Midnight – Satanic Royalty
- Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
- Blood Ceremony – Living with the Ancients
- Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
- Murmuüre – Murmuüre
- Galneryus – Resurrection
- Carcass – Surgical Steel
- Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
- Atoma – Skylight
- Deftones – Diamond Eyes
- Darkspace – Dark Space III I
- Dir en Grey – Arche
- Mastodon – The Hunter
- Inquisition – Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
- Immolation – Majesty and Decay
- Satan – Life Sentence
- Myrath – Tales of the Sands
- Mournful Congregation – The Book of Kings
- Omnium Gatherum – New World Shadows
- Aquilus – Griseus
- The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us Is the Killer
- Dordeduh – Dar de duh
- Summoning – Old Mornings Dawn
- Star One – Victims of the Modern Age
- Enslaved – In Times
- Beyond Creation – The Aura
- Panopticon – Roads to the North
- Hell – Human Remains
- Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury
- The Ocean – Pelagial
- Todtgelichter – Angst
- Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction
- Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
- Theocracy – As the World Bleeds
- Hell – Curse & Chapter
- Ancient Bards – Soulless Child
- Nails – Abandon All Life
- Symphony X – Iconoclast
- Year of No Light – Ausserwelt
- Ash Borer / Fell Voices – Ash Borer / Fell Voices
- Svartidauði – Flesh Cathedral
- Uneven Structure – Februus
- Arch / Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance
- Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All
- Cormorant – Dwellings
- Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
- Mors Principium Est – …And God Said Live
- Cult of Fire – मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
- Soilwork – The Living Infinite
- Dragonland – Under the Grey Banner
- Ufomammut – Eve
- Blindead – Absence
- Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun
I hope you are turned on to some excellent releases through this list. There are a few that aren’t available on Spotify, but these are generally available with a quick search on Bandcamp or Youtube if you’re curious to check them out. Otherwise, the (nearly) full list of albums makes for a truly excellent, and contemporary, shuffled listening experience. Not to mention an excellent collage of album covers…