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