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My 20 Favorit Albums Of All Time

1.Judas Priest - British Steel
2.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
3.Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose
4.Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
5.Opeth - Damnation

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Created by babak-sdn on 31.05.2010



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Top 25 Albums Of The Last Decade

The best of the best from 2000 to 2009

1.Subway To Sally - Herzblut
2.Rammstein - Mutter
3.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

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Created by Diabolos on 02.03.2010



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The Top Albums Of Ch'ti

This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then

1.Slipknot - Iowa
2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Slipknot - Slipknot

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Created by Ch'ti on 06.02.2024



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Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and my death metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6298
prior to updating this one

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
2.King Diamond - Abigail
3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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Created by sgtrobo on 14.07.2022



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400+ Favorite Songs

Last updated on 11 April 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
3.Wintersun - Wintersun
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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Created by Qualeen on 10.10.2021



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LSD

Listen to these on LSD, they're good.

1.Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
2.Ulver - Teachings In Silence
3.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
4.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
5.Tool - Lateralus

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Created by Arcesse Eum on 16.03.2014



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Top Metal Albums Of All Time

I started listening to metal music when I was a teenager, somewhere around the end of the 90's. After all these years, I thought it was high time to compose my personal top list of metal albums. What you see here is the absolute best of the best ... according to my taste.

To compile this list I have put all albums that I have given a 10/10 here on MS. Then I have put all these albums in a Ranking Engine (https://www.pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine) where they were put head to head and I had to choose which I liked more. The list below is what came out of this exercise.

1.Opeth - Deliverance
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
4.Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
5.Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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Created by Miohn on 18.09.2022



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Some Albums With 8.50 Or More

1.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
2.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation
3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4.Batushka - Litourgiya
5.Leprous - Bilateral

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Created by JavierPaper on 28.11.2021



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The Biggest Albums In My Life

Influences, avantgarde, progressive, thrash & others.

1.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
3.Toxik - Think This
4.Coroner - No More Color
5.Danny Elfman - Batman

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Created by Kubina91 on 21.03.2012



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Best Releases Of 2001-2010

As we go into 2011, I decided to look back on the last decade, and try and put together a list of what I believe are the highest quality, and favorite releases of the previous decade.

I believe "best" is something of a misnomer, since people's opinions of quality are biased to their tastes. So a more proper title would be "Best Releases that I Enjoyed from 2001-2010".

1.Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... For An Iron Age
2.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
3.Celtic Frost - Monotheist
4.Cobalt - Gin
5.Behemoth - Demigod

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Created by BrutalN00dle on 25.12.2010



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My Top 50 Albums

1.Opeth - Still Life
2.Paradise Lost - Gothic
3.Testament - The Gathering
4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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Created by Johnny Metal on 08.03.2010



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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 2006

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI (Black/Death)
Moonspell - Memorial (Gothic)
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death (NWOBHM)
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea (Doom)
Panzerchrist - Battalion Beast (Black/Death)
Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead (Death)

1.Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2.Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
3.Cannibal Corpse - Kill
4.Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
5.Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption

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Created by blackwreath13 on 28.06.2022



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Winter/Christmas 2021 Playlist

I like to create playlists for fun when I'm not busy. Usually, though, I abandon them soon after. I want this playlist to be a bit different - perhaps not infinitely useful, but I associate all these songs with the season of winter and the winter holidays, and I'll be listening to all these a lot at least for a while. I thought I'd share the songs I included in my digital playlist, maybe you'll find something you like. Many of these are purposely blasphemous - I live surrounded by fundamentalist Christians and they're gonna spend the holidays singing about the birth of Christ - I need me some counterbalance.

1.Dream Theater - Awake
2.Immolation - Close To A World Below
3.Vader - Impressions In Blood
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Created by Qualeen on 14.12.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (C)

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.Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
2.Cadaveria - In Your Blood
3.Caïna - Mourner
4.Caïnan Dawn - F.O.H.A.T.
5.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

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Created by Uxküll on 21.10.2020



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Top 100 (+8) Of 2005-2009

2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
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 2005 to 2009, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2005-2009.
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 +8.

C for 2005-2009 = 7.593
m = 20

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2005 - 26
2006 - 20
2007 - 23
2008 - 17
2009 - 23

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
4.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
5.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

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Created by Crys1s on 19.09.2019