Best Progressive Metal Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
59	Master of Puppets - Metallica	1986	88.6	80.6	100	88.9	85.2	93.2	83	89
78	Symbolic - Death	1995	88	83	89	89.6	88.5	94	81	91
134	Live After Death - Iron Maiden	1985	87	82.6	86	86.9	88.2	92.2	81	92
161	The Sound of Perseverance - Death	1998	86.7	79.8	90	88.8	88.7	93	79	87.4
178	Blackwater Park - Opeth	2001	86.4	80	85	88.7	89.4	93.2	79	89.8
190	Ghost Reveries - Opeth	2005	86.4	79.8	89	87.9	89.6	92.8	80	85.4
212	Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch	2006	86.2	78.8	93	86.2	87.7	93.2	78	86.4
248	Still Life - Opeth	1999	85.9	80	85	87.4	89.4	91.8	78	89.4
251	Leviathan - Mastodon	2004	85.8	78.2	95	85.4	84.2	91.6	82	84.4
320	The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden	1982	85.3	78.6	88	84.6	84.3	91.8	81	88.6
335	Portal of I - Ne Obliviscaris	2012	85.1	76.6	92	86.2	88.5	93.2	77	82.4
360	Powerslave - Iron Maiden	1984	85	80.4	80	85.8	85.7	92.2	81	89.8
369	Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk - Emperor	1997	84.9	79.2	90	84.9	85.8	92.8	75	86.8
378	Individual Thought Patterns - Death	1993	84.9	79.4	88	85.8	83.3	92.4	79	86.2
392	Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden	1988	84.8	79.8	85	85.5	84.7	91.2	80	87.4
398	Lateralus - TOOL	2001	84.8	79.6	76	87.8	87.3	91.4	82	89.2
463	"Bath" - maudlin of the Well	2001	84.5	76	100	82.8	80.6	89.6	74	88.2
472	Crack the Skye - Mastodon	2009	84.4	79.6	81	87.7	88.6	91	80	83
494	Unquestionable Presence - Atheist	1991	84.3	77.4	90	82	85.9	89.6	77	88
510	Paracletus - Deathspell Omega	2010	84.2	78.4	90	83.4	83.9	92.8	75	85.8
513	Terminal Redux - Vektor	2016	84.2	77.8	83	84.8	87.9	92	78	85.6
516	Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree	2007	84.2	76.8	81	85.2	88.3	93.2	81	83.6
518	The Mountain - Haken	2013	84.2	74.2	95	81.9	85	91	79	83
537	My Arms, Your Hearse - Opeth	1998	84	77.6	90	84	83.5	90.6	78	84.4
542	Abigail - King Diamond	1987	84	76.8	90	80.5	83.3	92.8	77	87.6
556	Absolute Elsewhere - Blood Incantation	2024	83.9	77.6	87	82.7	84.5	95.8	75	85
560	The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity	1995	83.9	74.4	95	83.3	82.3	90.6	76	86
589	Human - Death	1991	83.8	81	70	87.1	86.2	93.2	80	89.2
618	Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate	1984	83.7	77.8	90	79.2	82	94	75	88
621	Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation	2002	83.7	74.8	90	81.1	86.6	90.4	77	86
640	Ænima - TOOL	1996	83.6	78.6	71	87	86.1	93	81	88.8
656	Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater	1999	83.6	73.8	80	83.4	89.8	92.6	78	87.4
677	Images and Words - Dream Theater	1992	83.5	73.2	90	81.4	84.4	91	78	86.4
678	From Mars to Sirius - Gojira	2005	83.5	79.4	71	88.4	88.7	94.6	80	82.2
743	Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche	1988	83.2	75.6	83	81.5	82.6	92.2	79	88.6
751	The Way of All Flesh - Gojira	2008	83.2	77.4	77	86.9	87.1	92.8	79	82
769	Colored Sands - Gorguts	2013	83.1	78.4	87	83.6	83.6	90.6	74	84.2
802	Crimson - Edge of Sanity	1996	83	78.2	80	84.7	83.3	91.6	75	88
816	...And Justice for All - Metallica	1988	82.9	76.6	81	84	83.3	91.6	80	84
857	Black Future - Vektor	2009	82.8	76.8	83	84.6	81.4	90.8	78	85
896	Nothingface - Voivod	1989	82.7	76	95	81.1	76	90.4	75	85.4
907	Nightfall in Middle-Earth - Blind Guardian	1998	82.7	75.6	85	82	86.4	90	74	85.6
911	Sound Awake - Karnivool	2009	82.7	75	80	83.6	87.2	92.4	77	83.4
928	Hidden History of the Human Race - Blood Incantation	2019	82.6	75.4	92	80.7	82.5	91.6	75	81
977	Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden	1986	82.4	78.8	74	84.7	85.7	91	78	84.8
988	Colors - Between the Buried and Me	2007	82.4	74.4	80	83.5	86.9	93	74	85
996	Purgatory Afterglow - Edge of Sanity	1994	82.4	76.6	90	82.6	81	90.8	72	83.6
1010	Imaginary Sonicscape - Sigh	2001	82.3	74.8	87	81.5	86.2	89.2	75	82.6
1022	Dimension Hatröss - Voivod	1988	82.3	76.2	88	80.4	75.9	91.2	78	86.4
1086	Citadel - Ne Obliviscaris	2014	82.2	75.4	80	84.2	87.1	92	74	82.4
1092	This Godless Endeavor - Nevermore	2005	82.1	74.4	83	81.4	86.2	90.6	76	83.4
1102	Mental Vortex - Coroner	1991	82.1	77.8	75	82.4	83.1	90.6	78	87.8
1122	Melissa - Mercyful Fate	1983	82.1	77.8	80	79.7	80.9	93.4	75	87.6
1175	Written in Waters - Ved Buens Ende.....	1995	81.9	75.6	90	78.2	76.9	92.8	76	84
1215	Focus - Cynic	1993	81.8	74.4	85	79	80.9	91.6	76	86
1224	Deadwing - Porcupine Tree	2005	81.8	76.8	71	83.5	85.8	92.4	80	83.2
1243	"Them" - King Diamond	1988	81.8	75.8	80	82.1	82.3	91	77	84.2
1294	Train of Thought - Dream Theater	2003	81.7	71.4	90	83.7	84.1	86.4	78	78
1336	City - Strapping Young Lad	1997	81.6	76.6	80	82.6	80.7	90.6	73	87.4
1361	Starspawn - Blood Incantation	2016	81.5	75.6	84	80	81.5	91	76	82.6
1367	obZen - Meshuggah	2008	81.5	73.4	84	83.2	81.6	91.6	77	79.8
1414	I - Meshuggah	2004	81.4	78	77	84.4	83.7	89.8	74	83
1425	OM - Negură Bunget	2006	81.4	73.2	85	80.4	82.9	92.6	73	82.6
1442	Dead Heart in a Dead World - Nevermore	2000	81.3	74.8	83	82.3	81.5	89.8	74	84
1463	Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden	1983	81.3	76.4	76	80.9	80.6	91	80	84
1475	L'enfant Sauvage - Gojira	2012	81.3	73.8	84	84.4	82.2	90.4	76	78
1494	Hostile Architecture - Ashenspire	2022	81.2	74.4	90	80.8	81.3	89	74	79
1499	Fortress - Protest The Hero	2008	81.2	71.4	81	83	85.1	91.6	75	81.4
1511	The Joy of Motion - Animals as Leaders	2014	81.2	71.6	86	78.9	85.2	91	75	80.6
1569	Killing Technology - Voïvod	1987	81.1	76.4	85	81.4	79.6	89.4	72	83.6
1578	Watershed - Opeth	2008	81	75.4	78	82.5	84.2	90.2	79	78
1617	The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X	1997	81	74.4	80	82	80	89	77	84.4
1624	In Absentia - Porcupine Tree	2002	81	76	67	80.5	85.4	93	80	84.8
1643	Blood Mountain - Mastodon	2006	80.9	75.4	80	83.1	82.5	87.2	78	80.2
1654	Where Owls Know My Name - Rivers of Nihil	2018	80.9	72.4	80	82.3	85	93.8	74	78.8
1662	Outer Isolation - Vektor	2011	80.9	74.8	80	81.7	81.9	91.4	74	82.4
1668	Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum - Deathspell Omega	2007	80.9	77.2	80	82.2	79.7	89.8	72	85.2
1675	A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater	1995	80.9	72.6	90	84.2	80.9	83.8	74	80.6
1694	Chaosphere - Meshuggah	1998	80.8	74	83	83	79.5	90.2	76	80.2
1698	No More Color - Coroner	1989	80.8	77.4	70	82.9	84.1	90.8	74	86.6
1707	Alaska - Between the Buried and Me	2005	80.8	70.8	88	80.8	81.7	88.2	75	81.2
1723	The Sham Mirrors - Arcturus	2002	80.8	72.6	90	78.4	78.3	89.4	74	82.8
1732	PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	2023	80.8	75.2	78	81.5	80.8	94.2	78	77.6
1760	Testimony of the Ancients - Pestilence	1991	80.7	74	80	80.8	82.5	93	74	80.6
1779	10,000 Days - TOOL	2006	80.7	75	71	84	85.1	90.6	79	80
1799	Mandylion - The Gathering	1995	80.6	75.4	73	79.6	83.9	91.2	78	83.4
1805	Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden	2002	80.6	79.6	57	83.8	90.2	91.8	76	86
1810	Tales from the Thousand Lakes - Amorphis	1994	80.6	73.4	85	79.9	77.1	91.4	76	81.6
1814	Wintersun - Wintersun	2004	80.6	73.2	80	81.5	84	91.2	70	84.4
1874	The Spin - Messa	2025	80.5	73.8	84	77.8	80.3	93.8	75	78.8
1910	The Blackening - Machine Head	2007	80.4	73	72	83.8	85.9	90	78	80.2
1915	The Great Misdirect - Between the Buried and Me	2009	80.4	75.4	70	85	86.4	92	76	78
1917	Terria - Devin Townsend	2001	80.4	74.8	80	79.8	80.8	87	75	85.4
1993	Alien - Strapping Young Lad	2005	80.2	75.2	80	82.3	83.8	88.4	69	83
2079	Marrow Deep - Mastodon	2026	80.1	75	78	80.5	77.4	95.8	74	79.8
2083	Awake - Dream Theater	1994	80.1	72.6	80	79.8	80.9	89	76	82.2
2153	Deliverance - Opeth	2002	79.9	76.6	72	82.7	84.2	88	78	78
2178	Morningrise - Opeth	1996	79.9	75.4	80	78.8	79.3	88.8	77	80
2200	Dissonance Theory - Coroner	2025	79.9	74.8	83	79	74.8	95	73	79.4
2205	Remission - Mastodon	2002	79.8	74	85	80.4	77.5	89	77	76

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