| 1) |  | Bathory - Blood Fire Death (1988) | 9.25 (166 votes) |
| 2) |  | Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987) | 9.25 (154 votes) |
| 3) |  | Kreator - Pleasure to Kill (1986) | 9.12 (82 votes) |
| 4) |  | Kreator - Flag of Hate (1986) | 8.99 (49 votes) |
| 5) |  | Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984) | 8.98 (292 votes) |
| 6) |  | Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) | 8.98 (290 votes) |
| 7) |  | Sarcófago - I.N.R.I. (1987) | 8.94 (83 votes) |
| 8) |  | Slayer - South of Heaven (1988) | 8.87 (149 votes) |
| 9) |  | Slayer - Show No Mercy (1983) | 8.87 (137 votes) |
| 10) |  | Danzig - Danzig (1988) | 8.85 (79 votes) |
| 11) | Kreator - Endless Pain (1985) | 8.85 (77 votes) |
| 12) | Messiah - Powertrash (demo) (1985) | 8.84 (3 votes) |
| 13) | Messiah - The Infernal Thrashing (demo) (1985) | 8.84 (3 votes) |
| 14) | Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986) | 8.79 (341 votes) |
| 15) | Death - Death By Metal (demo) (1983) | 8.79 (28 votes) |
| 16) | Carcass - Pathologic (ep) (1987) | 8.79 (5 votes) |
| 17) | Coroner - Death Cult (1986) | 8.78 (13 votes) |
| 18) | Sepultura - Beneath the Remains (1989) | 8.77 (120 votes) |
| 19) | Vader - Necrolust (demo) (1989) | 8.75 (18 votes) |
| 20) | Pink Floyd - The Wall: Music From The Film (ep) (1982) | 8.75 (3 votes) |
| 21) | Gorefest - Tangled in Gore (demo) (1989) | 8.75 (3 votes) |
| 22) | Solitude Aeturnus - And Justice for All... (as Solitude) (demo) (1988) | 8.74 (7 votes) |
| 23) | Pestilence - Dysentery (demo) (1987) | 8.73 (5 votes) |
| 24) | Pink Floyd - Money (1981) | 8.69 (4 votes) |
| 25) | Death - Leprosy (1988) | 8.68 (167 votes) |
