| 1) |  | Death - Symbolic (1995) | 9.27 (269 votes) |
| 2) |  | Agalloch - Split with Nest (ep) (2004) | 9.27 (18 votes) |
| 3) |  | Agalloch - The Mantle (2002) | 9.25 (176 votes) |
| 4) |  | Agalloch - Pale Folklore (1999) | 9.24 (125 votes) |
| 5) |  | Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure (2005) | 9.22 (40 votes) |
| 6) |  | Morgion - Solinari (1999) | 9.19 (34 votes) |
| 7) |  | Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (2006) | 9.18 (60 votes) |
| 8) |  | Death - Individual Thought Patterns (1993) | 9.16 (203 votes) |
| 9) |  | Weakling - Dead as Dreams (2000) | 9.16 (20 votes) |
| 10) |  | Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir (2007) | 9.12 (13 votes) |
| 11) | Suffocation - Pierced from Within (1995) | 9.11 (73 votes) |
| 12) | Death - Human (1991) | 9.07 (212 votes) |
| 13) | Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1990) | 9.06 (149 votes) |
| 14) | Novembers Doom - Reflecting in Grey Dusk (2004) | 9.05 (10 votes) |
| 15) | Absu - Tara (2001) | 9.04 (91 votes) |
| 16) | Death - Death live at Dynamo (1998) | 9.03 (8 votes) |
| 17) | Judas Iscariot - Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten (2000) | 9.00 (55 votes) |
| 18) | Evoken - Quietus (2001) | 9.00 (25 votes) |
| 19) | Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice (2005) | 9.00 (10 votes) |
| 20) | Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984) | 8.98 (292 votes) |
| 21) | Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) | 8.98 (290 votes) |
| 22) | Judas Iscariot - Of Great Eternity (1997) | 8.98 (22 votes) |
| 23) | Mindrot - Soul (1998) | 8.98 (8 votes) |
| 24) | Garden Of Shadows - Oracle Moon (2000) | 8.96 (14 votes) |
| 25) | Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) | 8.95 (108 votes) |
