The Best Metal Albums of 2003

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
51	Windir Likferd	Mar 27, 2003	90.6	8	2
52	Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires	Oct 27, 2003	86.6	19	2
53	Stratovarius Elements Pt.2	Oct 27, 2003	83.9	35	5
54	Bathory Nordland II	Mar 21, 2003	89.1	10	0
55	Mir K.M.R	Jul 21, 2003	89.1	10	0
56	Rush Rush in Rio [Live]	Oct 21, 2003	93	4	0
57	Cryonic Temple Bleed, Guts & Glory	Oct 27, 2003	93	4	0
58	Space Odyssey Embrace the Galaxy	2003	89.4	9	0
59	Korn Take a Look in the Mirror	Nov 21, 2003	89.4	9	0
60	Draconian Where Lovers Mourn	Oct 20, 2003	89.8	8	2
61	Dream Evil Evilized	Jan 27, 2003	88.3	11	1
62	Silent Eye Silent Eye [EP]	Mar 28, 2003	87.9	12	1
63	Gorgasm Masticate to Dominate	Oct 31, 2003	87.9	12	1
64	Disgorge Necrholocaust	Feb 1, 2003	87.5	13	2
65	Godiva Godiva	Sep 22, 2003	90.8	6	0
66	Evanescence Fallen	Mar 4, 2003	86.5	15	2
67	Redemption Redemption	Jan 1, 2003	93.3	3	0
68	While Heaven Wept Of Empires Forlorn	2003	93.3	3	0
69	Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness	Mar 2003	93.3	3	0
70	Dir En Grey Vulgar	Sep 10, 2003	93.3	3	0
71	In The Woods Live At the Caledonien Hall [Live]	Aug 25, 2003	92	4	0
72	Kalmah Swampsong	May 23, 2003	83.9	26	2
73	Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God	Mar 17, 2003	92	4	1
74	Blind Guardian Live [Live]	May 26, 2003	87.6	11	2
75	Tad Morose Modus Vivendi	Nov 17, 2003	90.2	6	0
76	Mushroomhead XIII	Oct 14, 2003	90	6	0
77	Riverside Out of Myself	Dec 15, 2003	88.1	9	1
78	Avulsed Yearning for the Grotesque	Feb 2003	89	7	1
79	Nevermore Enemies of Reality	Jul 28, 2003	87.4	10	1
80	Dark Moor Between Light and Darkness [EP]	Apr 28, 2003	88.9	7	1
81	To/Die/For Jaded	Mar 24, 2003	91.3	4	1
82	Helloween Rabbit Don't Come Easy	May 12, 2003	82.3	31	4
83	Dimension Zero This Is Hell	Oct 27, 2003	84.2	20	3
84	Firewind Burning Earth	Nov 17, 2003	86.4	12	1
85	Revenge Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist	Jan 6, 2003	88.1	8	0
86	The Funeral Orchestra Feeding the Abyss	Jun 30, 2003	89.3	6	2
87	Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came	Nov 2003	86.3	12	3
88	Katatonia Viva Emptiness	Mar 24, 2003	86.6	11	0
89	Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason	May 13, 2003	87.9	8	1
90	Drudkh Forgotten Legends	Aug 18, 2003	86.9	10	2
91	Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque	Mar 5, 2003	85.4	14	0
92	Rage Soundchaser	Aug 27, 2003	84.3	18	3
93	Septic Flesh Sumerian Daemons	Feb 18, 2003	87.8	8	0
94	Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing	May 13, 2003	87.5	8	0
95	Arthemis Golden Dawn	Oct 2003	91.7	3	1
96	Agent Steel Order of the Illuminati	Jun 10, 2003	91.7	3	0
97	Naglfar Sheol	Mar 24, 2003	86	11	1
98	Catamenia Chaos Born	May 26, 2003	86.8	9	2
99	Power Quest Neverworld	2003	87.3	8	1
100	Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride	Apr 22, 2003	87.7	7	3

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