{"id":545921,"date":"2026-03-26T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:49:19","slug":"ghost-deftones-sleep-token-etc-ranked-on-metal-hammers-the-30-best-metal-albums-of-the-decade-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost, Deftones, Sleep Token, Etc. Ranked On Metal Hammer&#8217;s &#8216;The 30 Best Metal Albums Of The Decade (So Far)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six years into the 2020s, respected British metal publication Metal Hammer have assembled a list of the albums they feel serve as the best of this ongoing decade has served us thus far. There\u2019s definitely some divisive choices and jarring omissions to be found in the list, which you can find in full with writeups for each choice over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/music\/albums\/the-30-best-metal-albums-of-the-decade-so-far\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loudersound.com<\/a>. As for which 30 albums made the cut, read on:<\/p>\n<p>30. Green Lung \u2013 \u201cThis Heathen Land\u201c<\/p>\n<p>29. Bloodywood \u2013 \u201cRakshak\u201c<\/p>\n<p>28. Nightwish \u2013 \u201cYesterwynde\u201c<\/p>\n<p>27. Loathe \u2013 \u201cI Let It In And It Took Everything\u201c<\/p>\n<p>26. Halestorm \u2013 \u201cEverest\u201c<\/p>\n<p>25. Code Orange \u2013 \u201cThe Underneath\u201c<\/p>\n<p>24. Trivium \u2013 \u201cWhat The Dead Men Say\u201c<\/p>\n<p>23. Slipknot \u2013 \u201cThe End, So Far\u201c<\/p>\n<p>22. Evanescence \u2013 \u201cThe Bitter Truth\u201c<\/p>\n<p>21. Poppy \u2013 \u201cNegative Spaces\u201c<\/p>\n<p>20. Judas Priest \u2013 \u201cInvincible Shield\u201c<\/p>\n<p>19. Bring Me The Horizon \u2013 \u201cPOST HUMAN: NeX GEn\u201c<\/p>\n<p>18. Knocked Loose \u2013 \u201cYou Won\u2019t Go Before You\u2019re Supposed To\u201c<\/p>\n<p>17. Creeper \u2013 \u201cSanguivore\u201c<\/p>\n<p>16. Lorna Shore \u2013 \u201cPain Remains\u201c<\/p>\n<p>15. Blood Incantation \u2013 \u201cAbsolute Elsewhere\u201c<\/p>\n<p>14. BABYMETAL \u2013 \u201cMETAL FORTH\u201c<\/p>\n<p>13. Avenged Sevenfold \u2013 \u201cLife Is But A Dream\u2026\u201c<\/p>\n<p>12. Electric Callboy \u2013 \u201cTekkno\u201c<\/p>\n<p>11. Metallica \u2013 \u201c72 Seasons\u201c<\/p>\n<p>10. Heilung \u2013 \u201cDriff\u201c<\/p>\n<p>09. Architects \u2013 \u201cThe Sky, The Earth &amp; All Between\u201c<\/p>\n<p>08. Bad Omens \u2013 \u201cThe Death Of Peace Of Mind\u201c<\/p>\n<p>07. Rammstein \u2013 \u201cZeit\u201c<\/p>\n<p>06. Spiritbox \u2013 \u201cEternal Blue\u201c<\/p>\n<p>05. Iron Maiden \u2013 \u201cSenjutsu\u201c<\/p>\n<p>04. Sleep Token \u2013 \u201cTake Me Back To Eden\u201c<\/p>\n<p>03. Gojira \u2013 \u201cFortitude\u201c<\/p>\n<p>02. Deftones \u2013 \u201cprivate music\u201c<\/p>\n<p>01. Ghost \u2013 \u201cImpera\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six years into the 2020s, respected British metal publication Metal Hammer have assembled a list of the albums&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[66781,88,22521,216],"class_list":["post-545921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-deftones","tag-entertainment","tag-ghost","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}