The Iowa band's sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind, has gone straight in at the summit, knocking Ed Sheeran's collaborations LP off the top spot.
It is also the band's first chart-topping album for 18 years in the UK, after 2001's Iowa.
The last metal act to conquer the UK album chart were Iron Maiden in 2015 with The Book of Souls.
Only three other metal albums have reached number one this decade. They are:
- Hail To The King, Avenged Sevenfold - 2013
- 13, Black Sabbath - 2013
- The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden - 2010
Masked rockers Slipknot kicked Sheeran's star-filled No 6 Collaborations Project down into second place after a four-week stay at the top.
They did so by shifting 31,800 units across physical sales, downloads and equivalent streams.
Slipknot dethrone Ed Sheeran in UK album chart
The hard-rocking US band hit the top of the charts for the first time in 18 years.
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