So here's the best metal album of every metal sub genre (or at least every sub genre that has more than like 2 bands)
Trad Metal: Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Proto Metal: Rising - Rainbow
Speed Metal: Painkiller - Judas Priest
NWOBHM: Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Doom Metal: Nightfall - Candlemass
Stoner Metal: Dopethrone - Electric Wizard
Drone Metal: Monoliths and Dimensions - Sunn O)))
Sludge Metal: Blessed Black Wings - High On Fire
Thrash Metal: Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Crossover Thrash: Nightmare Logic - Power Trip
Teutonic Thrash: Agent Orange - Sodom
Hair Metal: Pornograffiti - Extreme
Death Metal: Human - Death
Melodeath: Are You Dead Yet? - Children Of Bodom
Tech-Death: Epitaph - Necrophagist
Brutal Death Metal: None So Vile - Cryptopsy
Blackened Death Metal: Demigod - Behemoth
Symphonic Death Metal: Communion - Septicflesh
Death Doom: Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
Prog Death: Ghost Reveries - Opeth
Grindcore: Scum - Napalm Death
Deathgrind: Monolith of Inhumanity - Cattle Decapitation
First Wave Black Metal: Blood Fire Death - Bathory
Second Wave Black Metal: In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
Meloblack: Exercises In Futility - Mgla
Atmospheric Black Metal: Bergtatt - Ulver
Symphonic Black Metal: Enthrone Darkness Triumphant - Dimmu Borgir
DSBM: Halmstad - Shining
Prog: Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theatre
Neoclassical: The Odyssey - Symphony X
Power Metal: Sonic Firestorm - Dragonforce
Classic Metalcore: Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Modern Metalcore: Post Human: Survival Horror - Bring Me the Horizon
Deathcore: The Cleansing - Suicide Silence
Groove Metal: Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Nu Metal: Iowa - Slipknot
Alt Metal: Toxicity - System Of A Down
Symphonic Metal: Once - Nightwish
Goth Metal: Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative
Folk Metal: Midnattens Widunder - Finntroll
Industrial: Mutter - Rammstein
Dissonant Metal: Ion - Portal
Djent: Catch Thirtythree - Meshuggah
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