Heavy Metal
32,721works
214,550pressings
1968first year
Works per year
Pressed in
Formats
Format by decade
| Format | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD | · | · | 10% | 54% | 68% | 42% | 29% |
| Vinyl | 93% | 78% | 60% | 12% | 9% | 34% | 53% |
| Cassette | 2% | 15% | 28% | 30% | 6% | 3% | 6% |
| File | · | · | · | · | 2% | 7% | 5% |
| DVD | · | · | · | · | 8% | 4% | · |
Sounds like
Hard RockPower MetalSpeed MetalThrashProgressive MetalDoom MetalStoner RockGlamProg RockNu MetalHardcoreDeath MetalGroove MetalPunk
Most-pressed works
| Title | Artist | Year | Pressings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paranoid | Black Sabbath | 1970 | 675 |
| Appetite For Destruction | Guns N' Roses | 1987 | 615 |
| Metallica | Metallica | 1991 | 600 |
| Master Of Reality | Black Sabbath | 1971 | 578 |
| Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | 1970 | 543 |
| The Number Of The Beast | Iron Maiden | 1982 | 524 |
| Black Sabbath Vol 4 | Black Sabbath | 1972 | 507 |
| ...And Justice For All | Metallica | 1988 | 505 |
| Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | Black Sabbath | 1973 | 444 |
| Piece Of Mind | Iron Maiden | 1983 | 426 |
| Iron Maiden | Iron Maiden | 1980 | 422 |
| Powerslave | Iron Maiden | 1984 | 405 |
| Let There Be Rock | AC/DC | 1977 | 395 |
| Somewhere In Time | Iron Maiden | 1986 | 389 |
| Van Halen | Van Halen | 1978 | 383 |
| Killers | Iron Maiden | 1981 | 369 |
| Use Your Illusion I | Guns N' Roses | 1991 | 363 |
| Pyromania | Def Leppard | 1983 | 355 |
| Sabotage | Black Sabbath | 1975 | 354 |
| Use Your Illusion II | Guns N' Roses | 1991 | 354 |
| Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son | Iron Maiden | 1988 | 343 |
| Burn | Deep Purple | 1974 | 313 |
| New Jersey | Bon Jovi | 1988 | 312 |
| Live After Death | Iron Maiden | 1985 | 307 |
| Heaven And Hell | Black Sabbath | 1980 | 293 |
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Built from the Discogs monthly data dumps (CC0), snapshot 2026-09-01. Counts are of catalogued works and pressings, not of listening.