Updated: Check out the best new heavy metal albums of 2020!
From progressive metal to symphoneic metal and everything in between, the best heavy metal albums of 2019 provide the perfect reason to rock out at 11. Each year a new collection of metal albums emerges and time will tell which record becomes the release that defines 2019. Fast tempos, raucous riffs, and gnarly vocals combine in the best new heavy metal albums of 2019.
Featuring everyone from Avantasia to Within Temptation, the best 2019 metal albums were created by the top names in the game.
Which metal album do you think will go down in history as the best of 2019? Check out this list and vote the best releases up to the top spot. Please feel free to add any great full-length heavy metal records we may have missed.
1
264190Ready for the Apocalypse
KilleryRelease Date: April, 2019
Tracks: Ready for the Apocalypse
Genres (Music): Thrash Metal
2
364382Fear Inoculum
ToolRelease Date: August 30, 2019
Length (mins): 1:29
Genres (Music): Progressive metal
3
419457We Are Not Your Kind
Slipknot"Unsainted"
"Solway Firth"
"Birth of the Cruel"
4
204224Humanicide
Death Angel"Humanicide"
"The Pack"
"Divine Defector"
5
104111Shaped by Fire
As I Lay DyingRelease Date: 2019
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genres (Music): Rock, Metal
"My Own Grave"
"Redefined"
"Shaped by Fire"
6
356420Empath
Devin Townsend"Castaway"
"Genesis"
"Spirits Will Collide"
7
203235The Great War
Sabaton"Fields of Verdun"
"The Red Baron"
"Great War"
8
176204Lotus
SoenRelease Date: February 1, 2019
Label: Silver Lining Music
Genres (Music): Progressive Metal
9
325394Distance Over Time
Dream Theater"Untethered Angel"
"Paralyzed"
"Fall Into the Light"
10
223267The Wings of War
Overkill"Last Man Standing"
"Head of a Pin"
"Welcome to the Garden State"
11
139162The Nothing
KornRelease Date: 2019
Label: Roadrunner, Elektra
Genres (Music): Metal
"You'll Never Find Me"
"Cold"
"Can You Hear Me"
12
117134Atonement
Killswitch Engage"Unleashed"
"I Am Broken Too"
"The Signal Fire"
13
166196When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Swallow the SunRelease Date: January 25, 2019
Producer: Jaani Peuhu, Juha Raivio
Length (mins): 52:26
Label: Century Media
Genres (Music): Doom Metal
14
133158In Cauda Venenum
OpethRelease Date: September 27, 2019
Length (mins): 67:44
Label: Moderbolaget
Genres (Music): Progressive metal
15
296367The Valley
Whitechapel"When a Demon Defiles a Witch"
"Forgiveness is Weakness"
"Brimstone"
16
6674Death Atlas
Cattle Decapitation17
160201The Door to Doom
Candlemass"Splendor Demon Majesty"
"Death's Wheel"
"House of Doom"
18
102125Of Rot and Ruin
HathRelease Date: April 12th, 2019
Length (mins): 54:52
Label: Willowtip Records
Genres (Music): Progressive Blackened Death Metal
19
137172Divided by Darkness
Spirit AdriftRelease Date: May 10th, 2019
Producer: Nate Garrett, Chase Mason, Marcus Bryant, Jeff Owens
Length (mins): 41:53
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Genres (Music): Doom Metal
20
130164Veleno
Fleshgod ApocalypseRelease Date: 24/05/2019
Tracks: 11
Length (mins): 62
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genres (Music): Symphonic Death metal
21
103130Outstrider
Abbath"Hecate"
"Bridge of Spasms"
"The Artifex"
22
151195Gold & Grey
Baroness"Front Toward Enemy"
"I'm Already Gone"
"Seasons"
23
165215Sulphur English
Inter ArmaRelease Date: April 12, 2019
Length (mins): 66
Genres (Music): Post-metal
24
154201Weeping Choir
Full of HellRelease Date: May 17, 2019
Producer: Kurt Ballou
Length (mins): 24:47
Label: Relapse Records
Genres (Music): Grindcore/Death Metal
25
242321I, the Mask
In Flames"I Am Above"
"(This Is Our) House"
"I, the Mask"