Album Releases by Genre

All The Right Reasons

All The Right Reasons

by Nickelback
October 4, 2005
The Canadian alt-metal outfit returns with a self-produced fourth album.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
4.3
Dark Horse

Dark Horse

by Nickelback
November 18, 2008
The Canadian rock band releases its sixth album produced with Mutt Lange.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
4.5
One Day As A Lion [EP]

One Day As A Lion [EP]

by One Day As A Lion
July 22, 2008
Rage Against the Machine's Zack De La Rocha releases his solo EP, which includes Mars Volta's Jon Theodore on drums.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.0
Watershed

Watershed

by Opeth
June 3, 2008
The Swedish metal band's ninth album is the first with Martin Axenrot and Fredrik Akesson, who replaced Martin Lopez and Peter Lindgren.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.7
Payable On Death

Payable On Death

by P.O.D.
November 4, 2003
The born-again Christian rap-metal band returns with a follow-up to their 2001 hit 'Satellite.' Jason Truby replaces departed guitarist Marcos.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
7.7
Testify

Testify

by P.O.D.
January 24, 2006
Glen Ballard produced the nu-metal band's fifth album.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
7.5
Getting Away With Murder

Getting Away With Murder

by Papa Roach
August 31, 2004
The Northern California alt-metal band returns with a third album.
Metascore:
59
User Score:
7.7
Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

by Papa Roach
March 24, 2009
Jay Baumgardner returns to produce the California rock band's sixth album with James Michael.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
6.0
What We All Come To Need

What We All Come To Need

by Pelican
October 27, 2009
This is the fourth album for the metal band from Chicago.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
8.2
Prior To The Fire

Prior To The Fire

by Priestess
February 2, 2010
The Canadian rock band releases its second album produced by David Schiffman.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.4
Probot

Probot

by Probot
February 10, 2004
Probot is the all-star metal band founded by Nirvana/Foo Fighters drummer Dave Grohl and fronted by a variety of singers, including King Diamond, Max Cavalera (Sepultura), and Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead).
Metascore:
72
User Score:
8.4
Fortress

Fortress

by Protest the Hero
January 29, 2008
The sophomore album for the post-hardcore/metal band from Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
7.7
Pyramids

Pyramids

by Pyramids
April 22, 2008
This is the debut album for the Denton, Texas, metal band.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
7.0
Songs For The Deaf

Songs For The Deaf

by Queens of the Stone Age
August 27, 2002
Stoner metal is back in the form of the third LP from Queens of the Stone Age, who are supplemented for this release (and supporting tour) by drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) and former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan.
Metascore:
89
User Score:
8.9
Rage Against the Machine XX [20th Anniversary Edition]

Rage Against the Machine XX [20th Anniversary Edition]

by Rage Against the Machine
November 27, 2012
The self-titled 1992 debut album from Rage Against the Machine is reissued and remastered. Additional B-sides, songs from the band's demo tape, and DVDs are included on the special edition/deluxe box set versions.
Metascore:
87
User Score:
8.8
Hellbilly Deluxe II

Hellbilly Deluxe II

by Rob Zombie
February 2, 2010
Produced by Zombie himself, Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is a follow-up to his 1998 debut solo effort called Hellbilly Deluxe.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
7.3
Survival Of The Sickest

Survival Of The Sickest

by Saliva
August 17, 2004
The Memphis-based band continues to move away from their early rap-metal sound, instead adding Southern rock into the mix on this fourth album.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
6.0
Scars On Broadway

Scars On Broadway

by Scars on Broadway
July 29, 2008
The debut album for the band that includes System of a Down's Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.7
Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

by Seether
October 23, 2007
Its third album on Wind-Up Records finds the band without lead guitarist Pat Callahan.
Metascore:
39
User Score:
6.8
Nation

Nation

by Sepultura
March 20, 2001
The first release in three years from the Brazilian heavy metal band, which is fronted for the second time out by new vocalist Derrick Green.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.6
Blackjazz

Blackjazz

by Shining
February 2, 2010
The Norwegian band led by Jorgen Munkeby has a sharper metal edge than Jaga Jazzist, which was Munkeby's previous band.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
7.1
God Hates Us All

God Hates Us All

by Slayer
September 11, 2001
Produced by Matt Hyde, 'God Hates Us All' is the eighth studio album (and first in three years) for the Southern California thrash-metal band. Originally set for a July 2001 release, the album was delayed so that American Recordings head Rick Rubin and producer Sean Beavan could remix each of the tracks.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.4
Christ Illusion

Christ Illusion

by Slayer
August 8, 2006
This is the first studio output for the original lineup of the metal band since 1990's Seasons In The Abyss.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.7
World Painted Blood

World Painted Blood

by Slayer
November 3, 2009
Greg Fidelman and Rick Rubin produced the latest disc for the thrash metal band.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.4
Iowa

Iowa

by Slipknot
August 28, 2001
Produced by Ross Robinson, 'Iowa' is the metal band's third album.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
8.4
Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

by Slipknot
May 25, 2004
Rick Rubin produced this third LP for the popular mask-wearing Des Moines-based metal outfit, who are set to headline Ozzfest this summer.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
8.4
All Hope Is Gone

All Hope Is Gone

by Slipknot
August 26, 2008
The fourth album for the metal band was produced with Dave Fortman.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.8
Break The Cycle

Break The Cycle

by Staind
May 8, 2001
This is the sophomore major-label release for the New England alt-metal band.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
8.5
14 Shades Of Grey

14 Shades Of Grey

by Staind
May 20, 2003
The alt-metal band returns with a follow-up to their 2001 megahit, 'Break The Cycle.'
Metascore:
41
User Score:
6.9
Chapter V

Chapter V

by Staind
August 9, 2005
The band's fifth album was produced by David Bottrill (Tool).
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.1
Feel The Steel

Feel The Steel

by Steel Panther
October 6, 2009
The second album for the Los Angeles band features The Darkness' Justin Hawkins and Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows as guest singers.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
8.3
Monoliths & Dimensions

Monoliths & Dimensions

by Sunn O)))
May 26, 2009
The metal band worked with composer Eyvind Kang on its seventh album, which features Australian guitar player Oren Ambarchi, vocalists Attila Csihar, Jessika Kenney, Earth's Dylan Carlson, and trombonists Julian Priester and Stuart Dempster as guest artists.
Metascore:
88
User Score:
6.8
Life Metal

Life Metal

by Sunn O)))
April 19, 2019
The Seattle drone metal specialists return with the first of two planned 2019 follow-ups to 2015's Kannon. This four-song set was produced by Steve Albini.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
7.4
Toxicity

Toxicity

by System Of A Down
September 4, 2001
This is the alternative metal band's follow-up to their hit 1998 self-titled debut. Rick Rubin produced the 14-track effort.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
8.9
Steal This Album

Steal This Album

by System Of A Down
November 26, 2002
Not the true follow-up to 'Toxicity' that fans were hoping for, 'Steal This Album' instead consists of outtakes from that 2001 album, originally leaked on the Internet in rough versions and now polished up for release on CD.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
8.7
Mezmerize

Mezmerize

by System Of A Down
May 17, 2005
Rick Rubin co-produced this first of two planned 2005 releases for SOAD (with 'Hypnotize' coming in the fall).
Metascore:
85
User Score:
8.5
Hypnotize

Hypnotize

by System Of A Down
November 22, 2005
Co-produced by Rick Rubin, this 12-song disc was recorded during the same sessions as 'Mesmerize,' and is intended to be heard with that earlier 2005 disc as one complete set.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
8.6
The Old Believer

The Old Believer

by The Atlas Moth
June 10, 2014
The third full-length release for the Chicago sludge rock band features guest appearances from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier as well as Subrosa violinists Kim Pack and Sarah Pendleton.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
tbd
The Best In Town

The Best In Town

by The Blackout
June 9, 2009
This is the second full-length album for the Welsh hard rock band.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
8.0
Burn Piano Island, Burn

Burn Piano Island, Burn

by The Blood Brothers
March 18, 2003
Known for their loud, angry, and extreme take on metal (well, even more so than your average metal band), The Blood Brothers return with their third album in as many years.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.5
Born Into This

Born Into This

by The Cult
October 2, 2007
The latest album from the British metal band and its first on Roadrunner Records.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
8.4
Option Paralysis

Option Paralysis

by The Dillinger Escape Plan
March 23, 2010
The fourth album for the rock band is its first on its Season of Mist label and with drummer Billy Rymer (Gil Sharone left to concentrate on his band Stolen Babies).
Metascore:
82
User Score:
7.4
Nude With Boots

Nude With Boots

by The Melvins
July 8, 2008
The latest album for the metal band from Washington includes members from Big Business who joined the band on their last album.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
8.0
Gods Of The Earth

Gods Of The Earth

by The Sword
April 1, 2008
This is the sophomore album for the metal band from Austin, Texas.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
8.2
Salival

Salival

by Tool
December 12, 2000
This box set includes a 70-minute CD of previously unreleased material (both live and studio recordings), a 56-page book of photographs, and a VHS/DVD featuring the group's videos.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
8.8
Lateralus

Lateralus

by Tool
May 15, 2001
The band's first album of new material in five years was produced by Tool with David Bottrill and features 13 tracks.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.9
10,000 Days

10,000 Days

by Tool
May 2, 2006
The dark, proggy, hugely-popular alt-metal outfit fronted by Maynard James Keenan returns with that rarest of things: a new Tool album. It's the band's first release in five years and just their fourth full-length in their 16-year history.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
8.4
Harmonicraft

Harmonicraft

by Torche
April 24, 2012
The third full-length album for the metal quartet from Miami was produced by the band's guitarist, Kurt Ballou.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
8.3
Shogun

Shogun

by Trivium
September 30, 2008
The fourth album for the Florida-based metal quartet was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
8.9
ATGCLVLSSCAP

ATGCLVLSSCAP

by Ulver
January 22, 2016
The 12th full-length release from the Norwegian experimental group features tracks recorded live from 12 different shows in February 2014.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.7
Lost In The Sound Of Separation

Lost In The Sound Of Separation

by Underoath
September 2, 2008
The sixth album for the metal band from Florida was produced by Adam Dutkiewicz, Matt Goldman, and David Bendeth.
Metascore:
92
User Score:
7.1
Punctuated Equilibrium

Punctuated Equilibrium

by Wino
January 20, 2009
Scott "Wino" Weinrich, former member of such bands as The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, and The Hidden Hand, releases his debut solo album.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
tbd
Wolfmother

Wolfmother

by Wolfmother
May 2, 2006
This is the first full-length release for the hard-rocking, classic rock-influenced Australian power trio.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.5
Cosmic Egg

Cosmic Egg

by Wolfmother
October 26, 2009
The second album for the Australian rock band was produced by Alan Moulder.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.7
Black Cascade

Black Cascade

by Wolves in the Throne Room
March 31, 2009
The third album for the Washington-based metal band was produced by Randall Dunn.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.6