Genre
Heavy Metal
Heavy metal is the genre's classic core: riff-led songs, virtuosic guitar solos, and commanding vocals, codified by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Its iconography and album-length ambition shaped every extreme style that followed.
Heavy Metal on Riffiter: 199 albums from artists including Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, ranked by popularity and community ratings.
Key artists
Albums
Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold · 2010
The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden · 2015
Immortalized
Disturbed · 2015
Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989
Iron Maiden · 2008
Senjutsu
Iron Maiden · 2021
Venom
Bullet for My Valentine · 2015
13
Black Sabbath · 2013
From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990–2010
Iron Maiden · 2011
Painkiller
Judas Priest · 1990
Prequelle
Ghost · 2018
En vivo!
Iron Maiden · 2012
Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack
Iron Maiden · 2009
Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed · 2005
City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold · 2005
Infestissumam
Ghost · 2013
Ed Hunter
Iron Maiden · 1999
No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne · 1991
Kings of Metal
Manowar · 1988
British Steel
Judas Priest · 1980
Impera
Ghost · 2022
Firepower
Judas Priest · 2018
The Lost Children
Disturbed · 2011
Opus Eponymous
Ghost · 2010
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold · 2001
Meliora
Ghost · 2015
Death on the Road
Iron Maiden · 2005
The Sickness
Disturbed · 2000
Diary of a Madman
Ozzy Osbourne · 1981
Ozzmosis
Ozzy Osbourne · 1995
Metal Works '73-'93
Judas Priest · 1993
The Ultimate Sin
Ozzy Osbourne · 1986
Bark at the Moon
Ozzy Osbourne · 1983
Patient Number 9
Ozzy Osbourne · 2022
Redeemer of Souls
Judas Priest · 2014
Memoirs of a Madman
Ozzy Osbourne · 2014
If You Have Ghost
Ghost · 2013
Scream
Ozzy Osbourne · 2010
Black Rain
Ozzy Osbourne · 2007
Believe
Disturbed · 2002
Louder Than Hell
Manowar · 1996
Fighting the World
Manowar · 1987
Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest · 1984
Battle Hymns
Manowar · 1982
Skeletá
Ghost · 2025
Hail to the King: Deathbat (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
Avenged Sevenfold · 2015
Angel of Retribution
Judas Priest · 2005
The Triumph of Steel
Manowar · 1992
Popestar
Ghost · 2016
Ram It Down
Judas Priest · 1988
No Rest for the Wicked
Ozzy Osbourne · 1988
Tribute
Ozzy Osbourne · 1987
Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest · 1982
Stained Class
Judas Priest · 1978
Sin After Sin
Judas Priest · 1977
Sign of the Hammer
Manowar · 1984
Point of Entry
Judas Priest · 1981
Killing Machine
Judas Priest · 1978
Invincible Shield
Judas Priest · 2024
Nostradamus
Judas Priest · 2008
Under Cover
Ozzy Osbourne · 2005
