Top Heavy Metal Albums





Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
160
Black Sabbath Paranoid Hard Rock 1970
2
220
Metallica Metallica ["The Black Album"] 1991
3
429
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast NWOBHM 1982
4
497
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Hard Rock 1970
5
682
Motörhead Ace of Spades Hard Rock 1980
6
747
Motörhead No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith Hard Rock 1981
7
784
Black Sabbath Master of Reality Hard Rock 1971
8
1120
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz Hard Rock 1980
9
1200
Black Sabbath Vol. 4 Hard Rock 1972
10
1313
Motörhead Overkill Hard Rock 1979
11
1349
Judas Priest British Steel 1980
12
1485
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden NWOBHM 1980
13
1512
Queensrÿche Operation: Mindcrime Progressive Metal 1988
14
1676
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell Hard Rock 1980
15
1868
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Hard Rock 1973
16
1929
Rainbow Rising Hard Rock 1976
17
1941
Venom Black Metal NWOBHM Speed Metal 1982
18
1973
Dio Holy Diver 1983
19
2207
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance 1982
20
2341
Iron Maiden Powerslave NWOBHM 1984
21
2383
Mötley Crüe Shout at the Devil Glam Metal 1983
22
2508
Scorpions Lovedrive Hard Rock 1979
23
2715
Judas Priest Painkiller 1990
24
2940
Scorpions Blackout Hard Rock 1982

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Iron Maiden Killers NWOBHM 1981
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman Hard Rock 1981
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll Hard Rock 1978
Black Sabbath Sabotage Hard Rock 1975
Scorpions Love at First Sting Hard Rock 1984
Ghost Meliora Hard Rock 2015
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East - Live in Japan 1979
Danzig Danzig Hard Rock 1988
Tribulation The Children of the Night Gothic Metal 2015
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 1988
Iron Maiden Live After Death NWOBHM 1985
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny 1976
Def Leppard High 'n' Dry NWOBHM Hard Rock 1981
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls 2015
Metallica Hardwired...to Self-Destruct 2016
Ghost Infestissumam Hard Rock 2013
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death 2006
Judas Priest Firepower 2018
Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge Blues Rock, Hard Rock 1990
Black Sabbath 13 2013
Tribulation Down Below Gothic Metal 2018
High on Fire Snakes For The Divine Stoner Metal 2010
Motörhead Motörizer Hard Rock 2008