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Scream Bloody Gore
Scream Bloody Gore (Death, 1987) is the death metal band's debut album, recorded by Chuck Schuldiner with drummer Chris Reifert at The Music Grinder, LA; often cited, against Possessed's Seven Churches, as the first true death metal album.
Screaming for Vengeance
Screaming for Vengeance, Judas Priest's eighth studio album (July 17, 1982, CBS), produced by Tom Allom in Ibiza; double platinum in the US, with the radio hit "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" and opener "The Hellion/Electric Eye".
Season of Surrender
Season of Surrender is the tenth studio album by Pennsylvania metalcore band August Burns Red, released June 5, 2026 on Fearless Records; 11 songs, 44 minutes, guests Mike Hranica, Jamie Hails, and Make Them Suffer.
See You on the Other Side (Korn album)
See You on the Other Side is the seventh studio album by Korn, released in 2005. It was the band's first album recorded as a quartet after Brian "Head" Welch's departure.
Sehnsucht (Rammstein album)
Sehnsucht (German for "longing") is Rammstein's 1997 second album on Motor Music, produced by Jacob Hellner. It hit number 1 in Germany and Austria, went platinum in the US, and its singles Engel and Du hast made the band international.
Sempiternal (album)
Sempiternal (2013) is the fourth album by British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon, their RCA major-label debut produced by Terry Date with keyboardist Jordan Fish. Debuted at No. 3 in the UK; Gold-certified, with Platinum single Can You Feel My Heart.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is Iron Maiden's seventh studio album, released 11 April 1988. A concept album about a clairvoyant seventh son, it was their first UK number one since 1982 and last classic-lineup record.
Seventh Star
Seventh Star (Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi) is the 1986 album written as Tony Iommi's first solo record, released under the Sabbath name on label and manager Don Arden's pressure; its only Sabbath album with singer Glenn Hughes, fired five dates into the tour.
Shaped by Fire
Shaped by Fire is the seventh studio album by San Diego metalcore band As I Lay Dying, released in 2019 through Nuclear Blast, its first album since 2012.
Shout at the Devil
Shout at the Devil is Mötley Crüe's second studio album, released September 1983 on Elektra, produced by Tom Werman. Certified 4x platinum, it peaked around #17 in the US and defined early glam metal with its Satanic Panic-era imagery.
Show No Mercy
Show No Mercy is Slayer's debut thrash metal album, released December 3, 1983 on Metal Blade (MBR 1013). Recorded in a week for $1,500, it became Metal Blade's best-selling release and a thrash landmark.
Significant Other (album)
Significant Other is Limp Bizkit's second studio album, released June 22, 1999 on Interscope. Produced by Terry Date, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, sold 640,000 copies in its first week, and features Nookie, Break Stuff, and Re-Arranged.
Silence Outlives the Earth
silence outlives the earth (also Silence Outlives the Earth) is the seventh studio album by Alabama progressive metalcore band ERRA, released March 6, 2026 via UNFD; 11 tracks, 42 minutes, closing trilogy, produced by Daniel Braunstein.
Sin After Sin
Sin After Sin is the third studio album by the heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on CBS in 1977 and their first for a major label.
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (SDOIT) is Dream Theater's sixth studio album, a 2002 Elektra double CD whose 42-minute, eight-section title track portrays six mental health conditions.
Size Matters
Size Matters is Helmet's fifth studio album, released October 5, 2004 on Interscope: the first after the 1998 breakup, with Page Hamilton joined by John Tempesta and Chris Traynor, largely written about his breakup with Winona Ryder.
Skeletá
Skeletá is Ghost's sixth studio album, released April 25, 2025 on Loma Vista, featuring Papa V Perpetua; it gave the band its first US Billboard 200 No. 1.
Slipknot (album)
Slipknot (1999) is the self-titled debut album by Iowa metal band Slipknot, produced by Ross Robinson for Roadrunner Records; it went platinum by April 2000 and launched the masked nine-piece.
So Far, So Good... So What!
So Far, So Good... So What! is Megadeth's third studio album, released January 1988 on Capitol Records; recorded with Jeff Young and Chuck Behler, it peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 and No. 18 in the UK.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Iced Earth album)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, the 1998 fifth album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth on Century Media, recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa; best known for the closing Something Wicked trilogy introducing Set Abominae and starting the band's Something Wicked concept saga.
Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album)
Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden's sixth studio album (29 September 1986, EMI/Capitol), first to use guitar synthesizers, written without Bruce Dickinson, produced by Martin Birch, RIAA platinum, revived on The Future Past tour.
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, also shortened to Seventh Trumpet, is Avenged Sevenfold's 2001 metalcore debut album on Good Life Recordings: 13 tracks, 52 minutes, raw production, with 'Warmness on the Soul' as its piano ballad.
South of Heaven
South of Heaven is Slayer's fourth studio album, released July 5, 1988 on Def Jam and produced by Rick Rubin. It slowed the tempos of Reign in Blood, peaked at #57 on the Billboard 200, and was RIAA-certified gold in 1992.
Speak English or Die
Speak English or Die is the 1985 Megaforce debut album by crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), the Anthrax side project of Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Dan Lilker, and Billy Milano: 21 songs in under 29 minutes, recorded in three days.
Splat! (album)
Splat! is Deep Purple's 24th studio album, released July 3, 2026 on earMUSIC, produced by Bob Ezrin, second album with guitarist Simon McBride, a 13-track concept album by Ian Gillan on humanity's end as transformation.
St. Anger
St. Anger is Metallica's eighth studio album, released June 5, 2003 on Vertigo. Recorded amid Jason Newsted's exit and James Hetfield's rehab, with Bob Rock on bass, no guitar solos, a Grammy-winning title track, and famously divisive raw production.
Stained Class
Stained Class: Judas Priest's fourth studio album, released 10 February 1978 on CBS/Columbia, first with drummer Les Binks and the band's iconic logo; produced by Dennis MacKay, home of 'Exciter', a cited speed/thrash prototype.
Steal This Album!
Steal This Album! is System of a Down's third studio album, released November 26, 2002 on American/Columbia: 16 finished Toxicity-session outtakes leaked as 'Toxicity II', titled after Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book, produced by Rick Rubin and Daron Malakian.
Still Life (Opeth album)
Still Life is Opeth's fourth studio album (1999, Peaceville), a progressive death metal concept album about an exiled man, his lover Melinda, murder, and execution; first with Martin Mendez and Travis Smith, and the record that drew in Steven Wilson.
Strap It On
Strap It On (also Strap It On by Helmet) is the 1990 debut studio album by the American alternative metal band Helmet, released on Amphetamine Reptile Records; its nine tracks and roughly 40,000 sales on a small indie label triggered the Interscope bidding war that produced Meantime.