1.Primal Fear - Black Sun

2.Grave Digger - Rheingold

3.Wolf - Ravenous

4.Paragon - The Dark Legacy

5.Sentenced - The Funeral Album

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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1.Helloween - 7 Sinners

2.Pretty Maids - Pandemonium

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5.Sebastien - Tears Of White Roses

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1.Overkill - Ironbound

2.Forbidden - Omega Wave

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Sodom - In War And Pieces

5.Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos

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1.Charred Walls Of The Damned - Charred Walls Of The Damned

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

4.Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition

5.Helloween - 7 Sinners

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1.Accept - Stalingrad

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Russian Roulette

4.Accept - Balls To The Wall

5.Accept - Restless And Wild

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

2010 was a great start for the decade, a lot of great release came out that year, one of the strongest in power metal, black metal had a strong showing same with Progressive, Gothic and Doom metal, even thrash and old school Havey metal had a great number of releases.

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape

5.Anthriel - The Pathway

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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Accept one of the most important German Heavy Metal bands.
From Solingen, formed in 1976 by guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and former members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) and Peter Baltes (bass).
Accept's lineup has changed over the years, which has included different singers, guitarists, bassists and drummers. Their current lineup consists of Hoffmann, vocalist Mark Tornillo, guitarists Uwe Lulis and Philip Shouse, drummer Christopher Williams and bassist Martin Motnik.
The band first 2 records sound alike AC/DC on Steroids or like a heaviest Scorpions 70’s Sound, on the Album Breaker the band found their sound and every album from there was really heavy and sound like Accept, until the departure of UDO their emblematic vocalist. The band lost their sound for a few years and comeback to their trail with Mike Tornillo on Vocals.

1.Accept - Restless And Wild

2.Accept - Breaker

3.Accept - Balls To The Wall

4.Accept - Russian Roulette

5.Accept - Metal Heart

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2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
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 2010 to 2014, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2010-2014.
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 +2.

C for 2010-2014 = 7.478
m = 20

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2010 - 24
2011 - 28
2012 - 16
2013 - 22
2014 - 12

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Aquilus - Griseus

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Comebacks are greeted with excitement and trepidation. Albums released after a band break-up can either send bands into the heavenly stratosphere or the basements of hell. I'm compiling the former. To qualify for the list a band has to have officially broken up, regrouped and released an album of new original material. Releases after a period of studio inactivity or a string of weaker albums don't count so no Death Magnetic, Worship Music, Formation of Damnation, Brave New World or Angel of Retribution. My list, my rules okay?

1.Faith No More - Sol Invictus

2.Septicflesh - Communion

3.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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1.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

2.Enforcer - Diamonds

3.Steelwing - Lord Of The Wasteland

4.Wuthering Heights - Salt

5.Poisonblack - Of Rust And Bones

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1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age

3.Sabaton - Coat Of Arms

4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

5.Orden Ogan - Easton Hope

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This is basically my list of favorite songs by artists I own albums for. I decided to restrict myself to songs on albums I own (hence no "Balls To The Wall") and only artists which are on Metal Storm (hence no Queen). If you have any recommendations for bands/songs to listen to after reading this list, feel free to mention them below (but check I don't own the album first if recommending songs).

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Aerosmith - Aerosmith's Greatest Hits

4.Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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1.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

2.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3.Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned

4.Wizards - The Black Knight

5.Coral De Espíritos - Whisper Of Dead Light

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