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Black Sabbath (album)
Black Sabbath is the 1970 debut studio album by the English band of the same name, widely regarded as the first heavy metal album and a landmark of the genre.
Blackwater Park
Blackwater Park is Opeth's fifth studio album, released March 2001, recorded at Studio Fredman and co-produced by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree. Eight tracks blending death metal with progressive and acoustic passages; the band's international breakthrough, later certified silver.
Blizzard of Ozz
Blizzard of Ozz (The Blizzard of Ozz) is Ozzy Osbourne's 1980 Jet Records debut solo album, recorded at Ridge Farm with Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake; US No. 21, RIAA 5x Platinum, featuring "Crazy Train" and "Mr. Crowley."
Blood Dynasty
Blood Dynasty is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, released March 28, 2025 on Century Media; produced by Jens Bogren, first album with guitarist Joey Concepcion, and the last with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz.
Blood of Your Empire
Blood of Your Empire is the 2026 debut album by masked UK metal band PRESIDENT, released via Atlantic on September 4. Ten tracks, 37 minutes, blending metalcore, EDM and R&B, exploring lost faith; successor to the King of Terrors EP.
Bloody Kisses
Bloody Kisses is Type O Negative's third album, a gothic metal landmark released August 17, 1993 on Roadrunner; recorded in Brooklyn, produced by Peter Steele and Josh Silver, and the label's first US gold album.
Blow Up Your Video
Blow Up Your Video is a 1988 studio album by AC/DC, their first produced by Harry Vanda and George Young since 1978, reaching No. 2 in the UK.
Bon Jovi (album)
Bon Jovi (1984) is the American hard rock band Bon Jovi's self-titled debut album on Mercury, produced by Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn at the Power Station, with the Top 40 hit Runaway.
Born Again (Black Sabbath album)
Born Again (1983) is Black Sabbath's eleventh studio album, with Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan replacing Ronnie James Dio; recorded at the Manor Studio, reached UK No. 4, toured with a Stonehenge set that inspired Spinal Tap.
Brave New World (Iron Maiden album)
Brave New World is Iron Maiden's twelfth studio album, released 29 May 2000 on EMI. First album with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith back and three guitars; recorded live at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris, produced by Kevin Shirley; UK number 7.
Bright as Blasphemy
Bright as Blasphemy is Chevelle's tenth studio album, released August 15, 2025 on Alchemy Recordings/BMG. Self-produced by Pete and Sam Loeffler after leaving Epic Records, its nine 39-minute tracks critique government, religion, and technology.
British Steel (album)
British Steel is Judas Priest's sixth studio album, released April 1980 on CBS/Columbia. Recorded in about four weeks at Ringo Starr's Tittenhurst Park with producer Tom Allom, it peaked at UK number 4 and broke the band into the US Top 40.
Burn (Deep Purple album)
Burn (1974) is Deep Purple's eighth studio album and the debut of the Mark III lineup with David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes, recorded in Montreux, reaching US number 9.
Burn My Eyes
Burn My Eyes is Machine Head's 1994 debut album on Roadrunner Records, blending groove metal, thrash, and hip hop. Produced by Colin Richardson, it became the label's biggest-selling debut until Slipknot.
Calculating Infinity
Calculating Infinity is the 1999 debut album by New Jersey mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan, released by Relapse Records; 11 tracks, 37 minutes, recorded at Trax East with Steve Evetts, and a genre-defining mathcore landmark.
Call the Devil
Call the Devil is the ninth studio album by masked metal band Mushroomhead, released August 9, 2024 on Napalm Records; 13 tracks, debuting at #2 US Current Hard Music, featuring vocalists Jackie LaPonza, Scott Beck, and Steve Rauckhorst.
Carolus Rex (album)
Carolus Rex (2012) is Sabaton's sixth studio album, a power metal concept album about the Swedish Empire, released by Nuclear Blast in parallel English and Swedish versions, produced by Peter Tägtgren, quadruple platinum in Sweden.
Chama (album)
Chama (Portuguese for "flame") is the thirteenth studio album by Soulfly, released October 24, 2025 on Nuclear Blast. Produced by Zyon Cavalera and Arthur Rizk, it returns to the band's tribal groove-metal roots in a 32-minute concept record about a boy from Brazil's favelas.
Chaos A.D.
Chaos A.D. is the fifth studio album by Brazilian metal band Sepultura, released by Roadrunner Records in 1993 and ranked among the greatest heavy metal albums.
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is Limp Bizkit's third studio album (2000, Flip/Interscope), a nu metal record that sold over 1,054,511 US copies in week one, hit number one in the UK, and was certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA.
Christ Illusion
Christ Illusion is Slayer's ninth studio album (2006, American Recordings/Warner), the first since 2001 and the first with the original King, Araya, Hanneman, Lombardo lineup since 1990, peaking at No. 5 on Billboard and winning a Best Metal Performance Grammy.
City of Evil
City of Evil is Avenged Sevenfold's third album, released June 6, 2005 on Warner Bros. The band's major-label debut dropped metalcore screaming for sung vocals, produced by Mudrock, peaked at No. 30 on Billboard, and went RIAA Platinum in 2009.
Come This Madness
Come This Madness is the twelfth studio album by Swedish hard rock band Europe, released 25 September 2026 on Silver Lining Music, their first in nine years, produced by Tom Dalgety, mixed by Mike Fraser, with guests Tobias Forge and Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Cometh the Storm
Cometh the Storm is the ninth studio album by American stoner/sludge metal band High on Fire, released April 19, 2024 on MNRK Heavy; first album with drummer Coady Willis, recorded with Kurt Ballou, featuring Turkish folk influences.
Contraband (Velvet Revolver album)
Contraband is Velvet Revolver's 2004 RCA debut album by Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Dave Kushner, and Scott Weiland; it debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with 256,000 first-week copies and features the singles Slither, Fall to Pieces, and Dirty Little Thing.
Count Your Blessings (Bring Me the Horizon album)
Count Your Blessings is the 2006 deathcore debut album by British band Bring Me the Horizon, released on Visible Noise (US: Epitaph), 10 songs, 36 minutes; re-recorded in 2026 as Count Your Blessings | Repented with producer Buster Odeholm.
Countdown to Extinction
Countdown to Extinction is Megadeth's fifth studio album (Capitol, September 14, 1992), produced with Max Norman, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200, double Platinum, featuring Symphony of Destruction and Sweating Bullets.
Cowboys from Hell
Cowboys from Hell is Pantera's fifth studio album, released July 24, 1990 on ATCO Records; the Texas band's major-label debut and first platinum album, it shed their glam metal past and pioneered groove metal.
Crack the Skye
Crack the Skye is Mastodon's fourth studio album (2009, Reprise), a concept album about astral projection, Rasputin, and ether, produced by Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta; its title track honors drummer Brann Dailor's late sister Skye.
Cross Purposes
Cross Purposes is Black Sabbath's seventeenth studio album, released January 31, 1994 on I.R.S. Records; the only Martin-era album with Geezer Butler, featuring Eddie Van Halen uncredited on Evil Eye, remastered in 2024.