Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Unfortunately, I didn’t receive the chart information necessary to complete MBN last week, so I’m a week behind over here. Hope you all had a happy and metal Halloween.
Notable Debuts:
Robert Plant, Carry Fire (Nonesuch)
24,000 sold
Not quite metal, but we thought it was worth making a note of Robert Plant’s debut for this week.
Stick To Your Guns, True View (Pure Noise)
8,000 sold
This debut with more units sold than its predecessor.
Fozzy, Judas (Century Media)
4,800 sold
The band’s seventh album sold less than its 2014 predecessor.
L.A. Guns, The Missing Peace (Frontier Record)
3,600 sold
The band’s eleventh album is the first to feature Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns in fifteen years.
Revolution Saints, Light in the Dark (Frontiers)
2,100 sold
The supergroup’s sophomore album sold less than the first.
Enslaved, E (Nuclear Blast)
2,000 sold
The band’s fourteenth studio album, while awesome, sold almost 1k less than its 2015 predecessor.
Exhumed, Death Revenge (Relapse)
1,500 sold
This is the band’s seventh studio album, not counting the re-recording of their debut.
Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Disomus (eOne)
1,400 sold
This is the band’s fourth LP and first on eOne.
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Volume 1 (Reissue) (Rise Above)
950 sold
This is a reissue of the band’s 2010 debut album.
Mychildren Mybride, Vicious World (eOne/Good Fight)
450 sold
The band’s fourth album is their first in five years.
Samael, Hegemony (Napalm)
600 sold
The band’s ninth album is their first in six years.
A Threat to the Enemy, A Threat to the Enemy (Self-Released)
200 sold
This is the band’s debut album.
Power Quest, Sixth Dimension (Inner Wound)
150 sold
This is the band’s sixth studio ablum.
Notable Sales:
Marilyn Manson, Heaven Upside Down (Loma Vista)
6,500 sold
Almost 40k sold.
Foo Fighters, Concrete and Gold (RCA/Roswell)
6,000 sold
Nearly 165,000 sold.
Nine Inch Nails, 
Linkin Park, Here’s the new song the surviving members of Linkin Park debuted at the tribute show.
August Burns Red, Phantom Anthem (Fearless)
2,500 sold
20k sold.
Queens Of The Stone Age, Villains (Matador Records)
2,300 sold
Over 105,000 sold.
Primus, The Desaturating Seven (ATO)
2,100 sold
Over 21k sold.
Greta Van Fleet, Black Smoke Rising EP (Republic)
2,000 sold
The boosts continue with nearly 30,000 sold.
The Black Dahlia Murder, Nightbringers (Metal Blade)
1,600 sold
There still time for some tour boosts.
Skillet, Unleashed (Atlantic)
1,400 sold
This made its way back up the charts.
Motörhead, Under Cöver (Motörhead Music)
Prophets of Rage,
Nothing More, The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Better Noise/Eleven Seven)
1,100 sold
This could see some touring boosts.
Nickelback, Feed the Machine (BMG)
Mastodon, Cold Dark Place (Reprise)
1,000 sold
Mastodon’s second release of 2017 is still doing pretty well for an EP.
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
1,000 sold
Sales are still trickling in after nearly a year.
The Contortionist, Clairvoyant (eOne)
950 sold
This got some boost action.
Black Country Communion, BCCIV (J&R)
800 sold
Over 11,000 sold.
In This Moment, Ritual (Atlantic/Roadrunner Records)Over 40,000 sold
Stone Sour, 
Chelsea Wolfe,
The Darkness, Pinewood Smile (Cooking Vinyl)
650 sold
Dunno whose teeth those are, but they don’t look half bad.
I Prevail, Lifelines (Fearless)
600 sold
Closing in on the 100,000 mark.
Circa Survive, The Amulet (Hopeless Records)
500 sold
Almost 20,000 sold.
Propagandhi, 
Cradle of Filth, Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay (Nuclear Blast)
400 sold
A little ways under 6,500 sold.
Wolves in the Throne Room, Thrice Woven (Artemesia Records)
300 sold
Sold the same as last week.
Myrkur, Mareridt (Relapse)
250 sold
She’ll be tour buddies with Wolves in the Throne room and Enslaved next year.
Thousand Below, The Love You Let Get Too Close (Rise)
200 sold
Around 2,300 sold in total.
Autograph, Get Off Your Ass (EMP)
200 sold
Guess people didn’t get off their ass to buy this.
Satyricon, Deep Calleth Upon Deep (Napalm Records)
200 sold
Been selling at 200 the past few weeks.
The Bronx, V (ATO)
200 sold
Another 200 this week.
Primitive Man, Caustic (Relapse)
200 sold
1,100 sold so far.
Metz, Strange Peace (Sub Pop)
200 sold
3,000 sold.
Belphegor, Totenritual (Nuclear Blast)
200 sold
Another 200 sold.
36 Crazyfists, Lanterns (Spinefarm)
200 sold
3,150 sold.
Sons Of Texas, Forged By Fortitude (Razor & Tie)
200 sold
2,600 sold.
Act Of Defiance, Old Scars, New Wounds (Metal Blade)
150 sold
1,500 sold.
Otherwise, Sleeping Lions (Century Media)
150 sold
2,600 sold.
Kadavar, 
