The Best Metal Albums of 2018

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Judas Priest Firepower	Mar 9, 2018	90.5	86	6
2	Seventh Wonder Tiara	Oct 12, 2018	93.1	32	2
3	Dark Mirror ov Tragedy The Lord ov Shadows	Aug 20, 2018	91.4	31	2
4	Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye	Nov 23, 2018	93	17	0
5	Amorphis Queen of Time	May 18, 2018	91.2	25	2
6	Michael Romeo War of the Worlds // Pt. 1	Jul 27, 2018	92.3	15	0
7	Psychonaut Unfold the God Man	Sep 1, 2018	93.8	10	1
8	Silence Lies Fear Shadows of the Wasteland	Mar 20, 2018	93	12	1
9	Graupel Bereavement	Jul 4, 2018	98.3	3	0
10	Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name	Mar 16, 2018	87.5	36	3
11	Day of Mourning This Too Will Pass	Apr 13, 2018	93.1	8	0
12	Opeth Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre [Live]	Nov 2, 2018	90.9	13	1
13	Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms	Jun 8, 2018	95	5	0
14	Kalmah Palo	Apr 6, 2018	87.2	29	1
15	Within Destruction Deathwish	Mar 30, 2018	91	12	1
16	Monuments Phronesis	Oct 5, 2018	96.7	3	0
17	Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror	Sep 28, 2018	90.5	12	0
18	Dynazty Firesign	Sep 28, 2018	95	4	0
19	The Night Flight Orchestra Sometimes the World Ain't Enough	Jun 29, 2018	88.9	16	0
20	All That Remains Victim of the New Disease	Nov 9, 2018	91.9	8	0
21	Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs	Jan 26, 2018	91.3	8	0
22	Slugdge Esoteric Malacology	Mar 1, 2018	89.5	12	0
23	Maestrick Espresso della vita: Solare	May 23, 2018	93	5	0
24	Traitor 4th Rated Waste [EP]	Oct 22, 2018	93	5	0
25	Drudkh Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring)	Mar 9, 2018	93.8	4	0
26	Eneferens The Bleakness of Our Constant	Oct 26, 2018	93.8	4	1
27	Convulsing Grievous	Aug 22, 2018	95	3	0
28	Death Karma The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part II	Nov 24, 2018	95	3	2
29	Band-Maid World Domination	Feb 14, 2018	95	3	0
30	Sleep The Sciences	Apr 20, 2018	88.9	11	0
31	Shylmagoghnar Transience	Jun 29, 2018	90.7	7	0
32	Archgoat The Luciferian Crown	Sep 14, 2018	90.7	7	0
33	Haken Vector	Oct 26, 2018	90.7	7	0
34	Barren Earth A Complex of Cages	Mar 30, 2018	92	5	0
35	Augury Illusive Golden Age	Mar 30, 2018	92	5	0
36	Accept Symphonic Terror - Live at Wacken 2017 [Live]	Nov 23, 2018	92	5	0
37	Architects Holy Hell	Nov 9, 2018	89.4	9	1
38	Fabio Lione / Alessandro Conti Fabio Lione / Alessandro Conti	Jan 26, 2018	86.8	16	1
39	Impellitteri The Nature of the Beast	Oct 12, 2018	87.7	13	1
40	Beyond Creation Algorythm	Oct 12, 2018	88	12	0
41	Summoning As Echoes from the World of Old [EP]	2018	92.5	4	0
42	Gorod Aethra	Oct 19, 2018	92.5	4	1
43	Elderwind Чем холоднее ночь	Oct 22, 2018	92.5	4	0
44	Sacral Rage Beyond Celestial Echoes	Oct 19, 2018	92.5	4	0
45	Unlucky Morpheus CHANGE OF GENERATION	Sep 19, 2018	92.5	4	2
46	Mad Hatter Mad Hatter	Feb 23, 2018	90	7	0
47	Kalidia The Frozen Throne	Nov 23, 2018	93.3	3	1
48	Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love	Jul 13, 2018	85.7	17	1
49	Embrace of Thorns Scorn Aesthetics	Jun 22, 2018	91	5	0
50	Metal Church Damned If You Do	Dec 7, 2018	91	5	0

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