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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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Album Of The Year

best album of each year from 1970 onwards

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic
2.Grima - Frostbitten
3.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
4.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
5.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

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Created by Anghellic67 on 24.10.2017



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My Top 100 Metal Albums Of All Time

1.Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2.Slipknot - Iowa
3.Summoning - Stronghold
4.Septicflesh - Communion
5.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

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Created by Anghellic67 on 08.09.2017



Oldy's 2014 Albums Ranked

1.Behemoth - The Satanist
2.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

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Created by Oldy86 on 11.02.2024



Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2014

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

2014 and the first half of the 2010's was the time of black metal revival, a great time for the genre, along with Doom and Progressive metal the first half of the last decade was going strong for the more extreme side of metal.

1.Septicflesh - Titan
2.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
3.Schammasch - Contradiction
4.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
5.Saor - Aura

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Created by Handala on 10.12.2022



My Best Album By Year (2010-2019)

The second part of my list year by year!

1.The Foreshadowing - Oionos
2.Aquilus - Griseus
3.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension
4.Hamferð - Evst
5.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

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Created by cobrapel on 23.10.2022



Top 25 Black Metal Albums Of The 10's

1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
2.Rotting Christ - Κατά Τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού
3.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
4.Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
5.Shining - Redefining Darkness

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 05.05.2021



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Just for me. A quick reminder of that amazing albums that cought my attention. It will keep growing

1.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
2.Persefone - Core
3.The Devil´s Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore
4.Bloodbound - Nosferatu
5.Hibria - Defying The Rules

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Created by Dragon_Warrior on 10.05.2016



Top 25 Albums Of 2014

My personal favorite studio albums of 2014

1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm
2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma
3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
4.Sólstafir - Ótta
5.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

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Created by Jagsey on 01.03.2016



BEST OF THE YEAR 2014

My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 雷神創世
2.Onmyo-Za - 風神界逅
3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma
4.Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
5.Eluveitie - Origins

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Created by TheNordicGamer on 12.09.2015