The Best Metal Albums of 2018

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
51	Metal Church Damned If You Do	Dec 7, 2018	91	5	0
52	Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos	Dec 21, 2018	88.8	8	2
53	Parkway Drive Reverence	May 4, 2018	90	6	0
54	Gama Bomb Speed Between the Lines	Oct 12, 2018	90	6	0
55	Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit	Jun 8, 2018	89.3	7	1
56	Voivod The Wake	Sep 21, 2018	87.8	9	0
57	Lords of Black Icons of the New Days	May 11, 2018	91.3	4	0
58	Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold	Aug 31, 2018	83	26	0
59	Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light	Jul 20, 2018	88.6	7	0
60	Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day	Jul 27, 2018	88.6	7	0
61	Alice in Chains Rainier Fog	Aug 24, 2018	90	5	0
62	Shining X - Varg Utan Flock	Jan 5, 2018	89.2	6	0
63	Kamelot The Shadow Theory	Apr 6, 2018	82.6	27	1
64	YOB Our Raw Heart	Jun 8, 2018	91.7	3	0
65	Cultes des Ghoules Sinister, Or Treading the Darker Paths	Sep 23, 2018	91.7	3	0
66	Stillbirth Annihilation of Mankind	Aug 31, 2018	91.7	3	0
67	Heir Apparent The View From Below	Oct 15, 2018	91.7	3	1
68	Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom Part 2	Nov 30, 2018	87.9	7	0
69	Thousand Eyes Day of Salvation	Feb 21, 2018	86.7	9	0
70	The Ocean Collective Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic	Nov 2, 2018	86.7	9	0
71	A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant	Apr 20, 2018	84.6	14	0
72	Infernal Coil Within a World Forgotten	Sep 14, 2018	90	4	0
73	Sojourner The Shadowed Road	Mar 15, 2018	89	5	0
74	Tribulation Down Below	Jan 26, 2018	84.2	14	0
75	Fecundation Decomposition of Existence	Feb 17, 2018	87.5	6	0
76	Eternity's End Unyielding	Dec 26, 2018	87.5	6	0
77	Mors Subita Into the Pitch Black	Apr 6, 2018	88	5	0
78	Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest	Oct 5, 2018	82.7	17	3
79	Visigoth Conqueror's Oath	Feb 9, 2018	88.8	4	0
80	Nekrogoblikon Welcome to Bonkers	Apr 13, 2018	88.8	4	0
81	Craft White Noise and Black Metal	Jun 22, 2018	88.8	4	0
82	Madmans Esprit 무의식의 의식화 (Conscientization of Unconsciousness)	Oct 1, 2018	88.8	4	0
83	Monstrosity The Passage of Existence	Sep 7, 2018	90	3	0
84	Brainstorm Midnight Ghost	Sep 28, 2018	90	3	0
85	Amon Amarth The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm [Live]	Nov 16, 2018	90	3	0
86	Labÿrinth Return to Live [Live]	Jan 26, 2018	90	3	0
87	goathammer Ceremony of Morbid Destruction	Dec 7, 2018	90	3	1
88	Путь Песни смерти	Dec 9, 2018	90	3	0
89	Primal Fear Apocalypse	Aug 10, 2018	84.4	10	0
90	Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy	Sep 14, 2018	83.5	12	0
91	Fatuous Rump Disposing Slobs of Corporal Fatberg	May 6, 2018	85	8	1
92	Nozomu Wakai's Destinia Metal Souls	May 23, 2018	87	5	0
93	Riverside Wasteland	Sep 28, 2018	87	5	1
94	Horrendous Idol	Sep 28, 2018	87	5	1
95	1914 The Blind Leading the Blind	Nov 11, 2018	87	5	0
96	Dragonlord Dominion	Sep 21, 2018	87.5	4	0
97	Soulfly Ritual	Oct 19, 2018	85	7	1
98	Royal Hunt Cast in Stone	Feb 21, 2018	84.4	8	0
99	Obscura Diluvium	Jul 13, 2018	83.1	10	0
100	Avatar Avatar Country	Jan 12, 2018	88.3	3	0

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