Heavy Metal Music Reviews

Music Critic's Heavy Metal section includes Metal, Nu Metal and Industrial Rock, and features 58 headbanging albums. You might also want to check out our Rock category.

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  Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition]

  By Smashing Pumpkins

  Fantastic, based on reviews by 8 critics

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  Release date: Nov 29, 2011
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 92
  

  Gish [Deluxe Edition]

  By Smashing Pumpkins

  Fantastic, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Nov 29, 2011
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Holy Hell

  By Architects

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Nov 9, 2018
  Genre: Metal
• 86
  

  Life Metal

  By Sunn O)))

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Apr 19, 2019
  Genre: Metal
• 85
  

  Nightbringers

  By The Black Dahlia Murder

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Oct 6, 2017
  Genre: Pop/Rock
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  Ghosts V: Together

  By Nine Inch Nails

  Exceptionally Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Mar 27, 2020
  Genre: Industrial
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  Ghosts VI: Locusts

  By Nine Inch Nails

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Mar 27, 2020
  Genre: Industrial
• 84
  

  The Sciences

  By Sleep

  Exceptionally Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Apr 20, 2018
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Ritual

  By The Black Dahlia Murder

  Exceptionally Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 21, 2011
  Genre: Pop/Rock
• 83
  

  Lament

  By Einstürzende Neubauten

  Excellent, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Nov 10, 2014
  Genre: Industrial
• 83
  

  Pleiades Dust [EP]

  By Gorguts

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: May 13, 2016
  Genre: Metal
• 81
  

  Widowmaker

  By Dragged into Sunlight

  Excellent, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Nov 6, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 80
  

  Shame

  By Uniform

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Sep 11, 2020
  Genre: Industrial
• 80
  

  Houses of the Molé

  By Ministry

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Jun 22, 2004
  Genre: Rock
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  All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us

  By Architects

  Excellent, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: May 27, 2016
  Genre: Metal
• 80
  

  I've Seen All I Need to See

  By The Body

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jan 29, 2021
  Genre: Industrial
• 80
  

  Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back

  By Uniform

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Aug 16, 2019
  Genre: Industrial
• 80
  

  Existential Reckoning

  By Puscifer

  Excellent, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Oct 30, 2020
  Genre: Industrial
• 80
  

  Admission

  By Torche

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jul 12, 2019
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Mental Wounds Not Healing

  By Uniform

  Excellent, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jun 8, 2018
  Genre: Industrial
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  Atra Mors

  By Evoken

  Excellent, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jul 31, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 79
  

  The Eldritch Dark

  By Blood Ceremony

  Excellent, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: May 28, 2013
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 79
  

  Fires Within Fires

  By Neurosis

  Excellent, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Sep 23, 2016
  Genre: Metal
• 78
  

  Electric Messiah

  By High on Fire

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Oct 5, 2018
  Genre: Metal
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  Low Teens

  By Every Time I Die

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Sep 23, 2016
  Genre: Metal
• 77
  

  Wake in Fright

  By Uniform

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Jan 20, 2017
  Genre: Industrial
• 77
  

  ATGCLVLSSCAP

  By Ulver

  Great, based on reviews by 6 critics

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  Release date: Jan 22, 2016
  Genre: Metal
• 77
  

  Sorceress

  By Opeth

  Great, based on reviews by 7 critics

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  Release date: Sep 30, 2016
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Purple

  By Baroness

  Great, based on reviews by 10 critics

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  Release date: Dec 18, 2015
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Welcome Home Armageddon

  By Funeral For A Friend

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Mar 15, 2011
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer.

  By The Body

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: May 11, 2018
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Incarnate

  By Killswitch Engage

  Great, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Mar 11, 2016
  Genre: Metal
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  ORO: Opus Alter

  By UFOmammut

  Great, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Sep 18, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  The Serpent & the Sphere

  By Agalloch

  Great, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: May 13, 2014
  Genre: Metal
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  Harmonicraft

  By Torche

  Great, based on reviews by 8 critics

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  Release date: Apr 24, 2012
  Genre: Metal
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  Sister

  By In Solitude

  Great, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Oct 1, 2013
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  A New Wave of Violence

  By Head Wound City

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: May 13, 2016
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 73
  

  Les Voyages de l'ame

  By Alcest

  Very Good, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Jan 31, 2012
  Genre: Metal
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  Made in Germany: 1995-2011

  By Rammstein

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Dec 13, 2011
  Genre: Industrial
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  Serpentine Path

  By Serpentine Path

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Sep 11, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Everblack

  By The Black Dahlia Murder

  Very Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Jun 11, 2013
  Genre: Pop/Rock
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  The Sun Comes Out Tonight

  By Filter

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Jun 4, 2013
  Genre: Industrial
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  Autotheism

  By The Faceless

  Very Good, based on reviews by 4 critics

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  Release date: Aug 14, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  An Omen EP

  By How to Destroy Angels

  Very Good, based on reviews by 5 critics

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  Release date: Nov 13, 2012
  Genre: Industrial
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  Grave of a Dog

  By Sightless Pit

  Very Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Feb 21, 2020
  Genre: Industrial
• 69
  

  Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

  By Metallica

  Very Good, based on reviews by 15 critics

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  Release date: Nov 18, 2016
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  Rize of the Fenix

  By Tenacious D

  Very Good, based on reviews by 8 critics

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  Release date: May 15, 2012
  Genre: Heavy Metal
• 68
  

  Moral Hygiene

  By Ministry

  Very Good, based on a review by 1 critic

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  Release date: Oct 1, 2021
  Genre: Industrial
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  The Blood of Gods

  By GWAR

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 3 critics

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  Release date: Oct 20, 2017
  Genre: Heavy Metal
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  The Trouble with Angels

  By Filter

  Fairly Good, based on reviews by 2 critics

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  Release date: Aug 17, 2010
  Genre: Industrial