Loudwire: The 66 Best Metal Albums of the Decade
- Behemoth — The Satanist
- Ghost B.C. — Meliora
- Gojira — L’Enfant Sauvage
- Septicflesh — The Great Mass
- Carcass — Surgical Steel
- Power Trip — Nightmare Logic
- Iron Maiden — The Book of Souls
- Between the Buried and Me — The Parallax II: Future Sequence
- Tool — Fear Inoculum
- Devin Townsend Project — Transcendence
- Ghost — Opus Eponymous
- Bring Me the Horizon — Sempiternal
- Mastodon — Emperor of Sand
- Cattle Decapitation — Monolith Of Inhumanity
- Code Orange — Forever
- Gorguts — Colored Sands
- Avenged Sevenfold — Nightmare
- Judas Priest — Firepower
- Deafheaven — Sunbather
- Rammstein — Rammstein
- Parkway Drive — Deep Blue
- Architects — Holy Hell
- The Dillinger Escape Plan — One of Us Is the Killer
- Sleep — The Sciences
- Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind
- Rivers of Nihil — Where Owls Know My Name
- Gojira — Magma
- Meshuggah — The Violent Sleep of Reason
- Napalm Death — Utiltarian
- YOB — Clearing the Path to Ascend
- Knocked Loose — A Different Shade of Blue
- Enslaved — Axioma Ethica Odini
- Anthrax — For All Kings
- Agalloch — Marrow of the Spirit
- Every Time I Die — Low Teens
- Tribulation — The Children of the Night
- The Ocean — Pelagial
- Trivium — In Waves
- Black Dahlia Murder — Ritual
- The Devil Wears Prada — Dead Throne
- BABYMETAL — Babymetal
- Periphery — Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
- Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
- Ghost — Infestissumam
- Body Count — Bloodlust
- Pallbearer — Foundations of Burden
- Woods of Ypres — Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
- Zeal & Ardor — Stranger Fruit
- Alcest — Écailles de lune
- Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats — Wasteland
- High On Fire — Luminiferous
- Fit for An Autopsy — Absolute Hope Absolute Hell
- Dying Fetus — Wrong One to Fuck With
- Epica — The Quantum Enigma
- Vein — Errorzone
- Sabaton — Carolus Rex
- Thy Art Is Murder — Hate
- Megadeth — Dystopia
- August Burns Red — Found in Far Away Places
- TesseracT — Altered State
- Ihsahn — After
- Amon Amarth — Deceiver of the Gods
- Protest the Hero — Volition
- Whitechapel — The Valley
- Born of Osiris — The Discovery
- Opeth — In Cauda Venenum