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Top-rated alternative metal bands

Find your next favourite through the community’s ratings.

How these rankings work

Weighted scores balance an item’s average with the community average and its number of ratings. Album and track scores are calculated separately. Their weighting uses at least 10 prior ratings, or the average number of ratings per rated item if that is higher. Artist charts keep the existing artist weighting. Unrated items do not enter the charts.

Formula: (votes × average + weight × community average) / (votes + weight). Choose “Average rating” for the unweighted score, or increase the minimum ratings to focus on established results.

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35 matching entries

  1. 1

    Bad Omens

    7.83/10439 ratings8.00 averageRate →
  2. 2

    Within Temptation

    7.68/10126 ratings8.13 averageRate →
  3. 3

    Sleep Token

    7.47/10243 ratings7.56 averageRate →
  4. 4

    Architects

    7.41/1045 ratings7.71 averageRate →
  5. 5

    Deftones

    7.40/1030 ratings7.80 averageRate →
  6. 6

    Apocalyptica

    7.40/1033 ratings7.76 averageRate →
  7. 7

    Halestorm

    7.35/1044 ratings7.45 averageRate →
  8. 8

    In This Moment

    7.32/1051 ratings7.31 averageRate →
  9. 9

    Tool

    7.31/1030 ratings7.23 averageRate →
  10. 10

    Flyleaf

    7.29/1029 ratings7.10 averageRate →
  11. 11

    Avenged Sevenfold

    7.28/1031 ratings7.10 averageRate →
  12. 12

    Maximum the Hormone

    7.27/1039 ratings7.05 averageRate →
  13. 13

    In Flames

    7.26/1023 ratings6.83 averageRate →
  14. 14

    System of a Down

    7.25/1041 ratings6.98 averageRate →
  15. 15

    Anthrax

    7.24/1021 ratings6.67 averageRate →
  16. 16

    Alien Weaponry

    7.23/1013 ratings6.23 averageRate →
  17. 17

    Code Orange

    7.23/1016 ratings6.38 averageRate →
  18. 18

    Korn

    7.22/1022 ratings6.50 averageRate →
  19. 19

    Memphis May Fire

    7.20/1019 ratings6.26 averageRate →
  20. 20

    Elysion

    7.20/1034 ratings6.68 averageRate →
  21. 21

    Breaking Benjamin

    7.20/1024 ratings6.42 averageRate →
  22. 22

    Godsmack

    7.19/1021 ratings6.29 averageRate →
  23. 23

    Northlane

    7.15/1015 ratings5.40 averageRate →
  24. 24

    Helmet

    7.14/1011 ratings4.64 averageRate →
  25. 25

    Melvins

    7.13/1033 ratings6.24 averageRate →