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Hall Of Fame: Top 80 Of All Time

- only studio albums
- only albums featured on MS

1.After Forever - Decipher
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
4.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Created by ~Starchild~ on 14.07.2010



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You Know It's Technically 2011-2020, Right?

To explain the title, there is no year 0, regardless of what Ghost may tell you. Thus, the first decade was years 1-10, instead of 0-9. So then it would be 11-20, and so on. But I know that would imply that Paranoid is a 60s album, which we cannot have.

So now that all the cool kids are doing it, here is my top 100 albums of the "decade", most of it might be a bit too mainsteam, most of it you'll find on others' lists, and so on. Restricted to one album per artist/band (including collabs), ordered alphabetically.

1.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
2.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
3.Akhlys - The Dreaming I
4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune
5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Created by RaduP on 31.12.2019



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2011: What I'm Listening To

A list of my favorite recent albums in 2011. I'll update this list regularly. In no particular order. I added the rating next to them for the curious ones, but you should check them all.

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
2.Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
3.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
5.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

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Created by Mikyz on 22.04.2011



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Iron's 2011 - Top 50 And More

This is a list of my favorite releases of 2011. The top 50 is in order of preference, the rest are in random order. I have ranked 150 albums in order of preference on RateYourMusic, but I cannot be bothered to do twice the work. Check my profile there for more rankings and reviews.

My reviews
Top 150 and more.

1.PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones
3.Einar Stray - Chiaroscuro
4.Eleanoora Rosenholm - Hyväile minua pimeä tähti
5.Giles Corey - Giles Corey

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Created by IronAngel on 15.10.2011



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TOP 20 RELEASES FOR 2011

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
2.Wolverine - Communication Lost
3.Thence - These Stones Cry From The Earth
4.TesseracT - One
5.Autumn - Cold Comfort

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Created by Awesomesaurus on 02.01.2012



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My Favorite Albums Of 2011

that was disappointing year.most of the old bands i like didn't make any thing special for example my dying bride,ghost brigade

1.TesseracT - One
2.Wolverine - Communication Lost
3.The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis)
4.Septicflesh - The Great Mas
5.Shining - VII - Född Förlorare

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Created by Night Sight on 13.04.2012



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Best Albums To Fall Asleep To

SPOILER ALERT: This is mostly just black metal.
****Alphabetical Order

1.Abigor - Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom)
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
4.Arckanum - Fran Marder
5.Arckanum - Antikosmos

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Created by me<3mertl on 18.03.2015



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Top Albums Of 2011

Pending listen: Vektor, Blut Aus Nord, Iron Savior, Aenaon

By the end of the year, this will be my top 50.

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
2.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
3.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
5.Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse

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Created by Panasi on 25.10.2011



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My Favorite Albums Of All Time.

Listen to metal for more than the half of my life, here is the list of my favorites albums of all time.

1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
2.Alcest - Kodama
3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age
5.Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea

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Created by Charlotbk on 16.01.2023



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Best Album From Different Genres

My favorite albums from various genres

1.Slipknot - Iowa
2.Nirvana - Nevermind
3.Summoning - Stronghold
4.Septicflesh - Communion
5.Anathema - Judgement

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Created by Anghellic67 on 02.02.2018



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Top 21 Metal Albums Of 2011

I usually do not like this kind of list because everybody has different tastes and nobody can match completely the taste of somebody else.
Anyway here comes my Top 21 Metal Albums of 2011. Why 21? because it sounds better for 2011...
I did not listen to everything in 2011, I will certainly discover some new good albums of 2011 in the next few months of 2012. But as I have started now, let s go for this Top 21 Metal Albums of 2011!

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
2.Visions Of Atlantis - Delta
3.Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance
4.Peste Noire - L'Ordure à L'état Pur
5.Red Descending - Kingdoms

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Created by yellosfr on 01.01.2012



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My Top 11 Albums From 2011

Just because I couldn't leave Sólstafir out

1.Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire
2.Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
3.Peste Noire - L'ordure à L'état Pur
4.Mastodon - The Hunter
5.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

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Created by Unhealer on 01.01.2012



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Top 100 (+2) Of 2010-2014

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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Created by Crys1s on 11.09.2019



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My 150 Favorite Albums (Plus ~10 EPs)

It's always changing.

1.Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
2.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
3.Equilibrium - Sagas
4.Týr - Ragnarok
5.Finsterforst - Rastlos

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Created by Zyk on 05.12.2017



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Favorites From Icelandic Bands

I guess this one is pretty obvious since I'm Icelandic and find many of the bands of our scene quite interesting.

1.HAM - Buffalo Virgin
2.Sororicide - Apocalypse - Sororicide / In Memoriam / Strigaskór Nr. 42 [Split]
3.HAM - Dauður hestur
4.Forgarður Helvítis - Gerningarveður
5.Sólstafir - Í Blóđi Og Anda

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Created by Aebsi on 10.06.2012