The Best Metal Albums of 2002

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
101	Harem Scarem Weight of the World	Mar 25, 2002	86.5	6	1
102	Lacuna Coil Comalies	Sep 23, 2002	82.9	13	1
103	System of a Down Steal This Album!	Nov 26, 2002	83.8	10	0
104	Dragonland Holy War	2002	83.6	10	3
105	Grand Illusion View From the Top	Jul 7, 2002	87.5	4	0
106	Decapitated Nihility	2002	85	7	0
107	Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me	Apr 22, 2002	85.5	6	1
108	Lake Of Tears The Neonai	Sep 2, 2002	88.3	3	0
109	Tiamat Judas Christ	Feb 13, 2002	88.3	3	0
110	Axel Rudi Pell Shadow Zone	Apr 29, 2002	88.3	3	0
111	Tyrant Legend	2002	88.3	3	0
112	Scanner Scantropolis	Apr 5, 2002	88.3	3	0
113	Craft Terror Propaganda	Nov 3, 2002	83.3	9	1
114	Sepultura Under a Pale Grey Sky [Live]	Sep 22, 2002	85	6	1
115	Power Quest Wings of Forever	2002	81.3	14	1
116	Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force Attack!!	Sep 23, 2002	80.1	18	1
117	Woodtemple Feel the Anger of the Wind	2002	87.7	3	1
118	Explorers Club Raising the Mammoth	Aug 20, 2002	86.3	4	1
119	Reverend Bizarre In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend	2002	86.3	4	0
120	The Dillinger Escape Plan / Mike Patton Irony Is a Dead Scene [EP]	Aug 27, 2002	86.3	4	0
121	Pain Nothing Remains the Same	Jul 15, 2002	86.3	4	0
122	Cryonic Temple Chapter I	May 2002	84.5	6	1
123	Sad Legend Searching for the Hope in Utter Darkness [EP]	2002	80.7	13	0
124	Internal Suffering Chaotic Matrix	Apr 26, 2002	87	3	1
125	Star One Space Metal	May 21, 2002	83.1	7	1
126	Black Hole Live of Live [Live]	2002	83.1	7	1
127	Temnozor Horizons...	2002	86.7	3	0
128	Carcariass Killing Process	Sep 2002	86.7	3	0
129	All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude	Mar 26, 2002	86.7	3	0
130	Spiritual Beggars On Fire	Oct 8, 2002	86.7	3	0
131	Wolfnacht Heidentum	2002	86.7	3	1
132	Gospel of the Horns A Call to Arms	2002	86.7	3	0
133	Requiem The Arrival	Apr 8, 2002	86.7	3	0
134	Wizards The Kingdom	2002	84.4	5	2
135	Poison Hollyweird	May 21, 2002	85.3	4	0
136	Kalpa The Path of the Eternal Years	Jun 6, 2002	77	27	3
137	Dream Evil Dragonslayer	Jul 20, 2002	79.7	14	2
138	Darkane Expanding Senses	Sep 2002	86.3	3	0
139	Sirenia At Sixes and Sevens	May 21, 2002	83.3	6	2
140	Cradle Of Filth Eleven Burial Masses [Live]	2002	86.3	3	0
141	Nachtfalke Doomed to Die	2002	85	4	0
142	Necrophobic Bloodhymns	2002	85	4	0
143	Otep Sevas Tra	Jun 18, 2002	85	4	0
144	Paradise Lost Symbol of Life	Oct 21, 2002	84	5	0
145	Penumbra The Last Bewitchment	Jun 22, 2002	82.8	6	0
146	Enthroning Silence Unnamed Quintessence of Grimness	2002	82.5	6	1
147	Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage	Nov 25, 2002	78.5	15	1
148	Novembers Doom To Welcome the Fade	Sep 10, 2002	81.7	7	2
149	Superior Ultima Ratio	2002	84	4	0
150	Nonexist Deus Deceptor	May 28, 2002	81	8	0

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