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My Top 150 Albums Of All Time

This list shows only my preferences in metal. These albums are not necessarily the best of the bands written by, but I return to them again and again. In my opinion, all this masterpieces confirm the variety and greatness of metal music.
Rules:
1. One album per band.
2. Ordered from highest position (top) to lowest (bottom).
3. No heavy, power, doom, gothic, sludge/stoner albums.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
3.In Flames - Clayman
4.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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Created by nikita_ducati on 16.10.2022



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2000

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2000 was a pretty solid year especially for progressive metal, Symphonic metal and power metal, also pretty good year for death metal. This also was the year I started to listen to metal music thanks to those iconic linkin park singles (RIP Chester Bennington).

1.Haggard - Awaking The Centuries
2.Koyaanisqatsy - From The Yearning To Burst The Perpetual Circle
3.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
4.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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Created by Handala on 01.09.2022



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My Top 30 Albums Of 2000

1.Saturnus - Martyre
2.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
3.Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
4.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
5.Radiohead - Kid A

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Created by JHK on 10.08.2022



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THE METAL BIBLE

Welcome to what I consider the "Metal Bible" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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Metal Blade 40 Years Tribute

The most iconic record label in the 80”s metal, created by Brian Slagel 40 years A go and released the greatest records in metal history . The Label released more than 1.000 bands from Goo Goo Dolls to Cattle Decapitation… This is a kind of ranking of their selected discography releases

1.Slayer - Show No Mercy
2.Trouble - Psalm 9
3.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation
4.Slayer - Hell Awaits
5.Fates Warning - No Exit

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Created by Blackcrowe on 10.03.2022



Ultimate Collection Of Metal

The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman
2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
3.Chimaira - Chimaira
4.Death - Symbolic
5.Testament - The New Order

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Created by nikita_ducati on 18.10.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (U-V)

This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.Uada - Djinn
2.Uaral - Sounds Of Pain
3.Ufomammut - Eve
4.Úir - Óenach Tailten
5.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

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Created by Uxküll on 04.03.2021



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Top Favourite Death Metal Albums

1.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
3.Behemoth - The Satanist
4.Obituary - Cause Of Death
5.Death - Leprosy

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Created by blackwreath13 on 14.03.2020



Top 30 Death Metal Albums Of The 90's

1.Death - Symbolic
2.Morbid Angel - Covenant
3.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
4.In Flames - The Jester Race
5.Death - Human

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 16.10.2019



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Top 100 (+5) Of 2000-2004

2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722

I sure do love this site and it's rating system, it makes finding great music so easy and, even more importantly, when an album is overlooked for a while but starts getting a buzz a few months later, boom, there it appears in the top 20.

All that being said, I still wish there was some way to get a weighted ranking that not only takes the rating of the album into account, but also the number of votes that were cast. For example, an album with a rating of 8.8 and 1000 votes would rank higher than an album with a rating of 8.9 and 20 votes. So, I scraped all the albums on the site with at least 1 vote into a database. Then, taking a leaf out of IMDb's book, I used Bayesian estimation (like the IMDb's Top 250) to calculate a weighted rating for each album based on its Metal Storm rating and the number of votes it had received.

The formula for calculating the Top 100 Albums gives a true Bayesian estimate:
Bayes rating (BR) = ( C × m + R × N ) ÷ ( m + N ) where:
C = average expected rating given...
m = minimum number of votes
R = average rating for the album = (Metal Storm rating)
N = number of votes for the album = (votes)

The way the Bayesian estimator works is that all albums in the database are given and additional m fake votes with an average rating of C, irrespective of how many true votes it already has. Then a new weighted rating is calculated...
If the album has no true votes ( N = 0 ), then BR = ( C × m + R × 0 ) ÷ ( m + 0) = C × m ÷ m = C (the average expected rating).
If the album has a number of true votes equal to the minimum ( N = m ), then BR = ( C × m + R × m ) ÷ ( m + m ) = ( C + R ) × m ÷ 2m = ( C + R ) ÷ 2 (halfway between the two ratings).
If the album has a very large number of true votes ( N >> m ), then BR = ( C × m + R × N ) ÷ ( m + N ) ≈ R × N ÷ N = R (the Metal Storm rating).
This means that the Bayes rating will never equal the Metal Storm rating but will approach it as the true votes grow arbitrarily large.

Now that the maths bit is out of the way, here was my methodology:
Only Studio and EP album types, from the years 2000 to 2004, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2000-2004.
The minimum number of votes (m) was determined by calculating the 75th percentile of the votes, rounded to the nearest 10.
I also decided that if an album's Bayes rating was within 0.005 of #100, it would be included too; hence the +5.

C for 2000-2004 = 7.599
m = 30

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2000 - 15
2001 - 27
2002 - 14
2003 - 20
2004 - 29

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Tool - Lateralus
4.Wintersun - Wintersun
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Crys1s on 26.09.2019



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The Best of Death Metal

My favorite old school death metal bands highlighted with my favorite album. All classic lineup with few exceptions of newer bands.

1.Autopsy - Mental Funeral
2.Impetigo - Horror Of The Zombies
3.Death - Leprosy
4.Obituary - Cause Of Death
5.Possessed - Seven Churches

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Created by Obnoxious on 30.11.2018



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Top 500 Albums of All Time

I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired me to pick up the guitar (and later drums) and start making music of my own.

So here are the albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the album give it an advantage over others.

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here. There are a ton of albums that I've rated 9/10 in the 'TBR' tab that may never make it to this list, be sure to check those out.)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 25 EPs (ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Genre-Specific:
Top 50 Black Metal Albums
Top 50 Melodic Death Metal Albums
Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums
Top 40 Power Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Heavy Metal Albums

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Opeth - Still Life

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



My Top 10 Of 2000

1.Cradle Of Filth - Midian
2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World
3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
4.Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
5.Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

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Created by Archie 666 on 21.12.2017



Top 100 Albums Since 2000

1.Wintersun - Wintersun
2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum
4.Septicflesh - Communion
5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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Created by rasim777 on 16.12.2017



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My Personal Favorite Death Metal Albums of All Time

My favorite death metal albums.

1.Death - Human
2.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
3.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
5.Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

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Created by EvilJakee on 07.10.2017