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Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent update) - some of them multiple times - so I feel I can give my honest opinion.

The purpose of this is to list and order the albums that I simply don't "get" and to try re-listening to them in the hope of understanding why they've received so many 9 and 10 votes.

Ordered by my rating then MS rating then number of votes.

Updated: 03-Jan-24

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Created by: nonZero | 19.02.2021


1. Anathema - Judgement
7/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1056 votes)
2. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
7/10 · MS:8.9/10 (963 votes)
3. Anathema - Alternative 4
7/10 · MS:8.8/10 (1011 votes)
4. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
7/10 · MS:8.8/10 (842 votes)
5. Motörhead - Overkill
7/10 · MS:8.8/10 (675 votes)
6. Riverside - Out Of Myself
7/10 · MS:8.8/10 (512 votes)
7. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
7/10 · MS:8.7/10 (864 votes)
8. Suffocation - Despise The Sun
7/10 · MS:8.7/10 (137 votes)
9. Dream Theater - Awake
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (1370 votes)
10. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (855 votes)
11. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (715 votes)
12. Manowar - Kings Of Metal
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (712 votes)
13. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (467 votes)
14. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (450 votes)
15. Angra - Holy Land
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (435 votes)
16. Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (397 votes)
17. Kyuss - Kyuss
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (392 votes)
18. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (383 votes)
19. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (381 votes)
20. The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (220 votes)
21. The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (182 votes)
22. Skyclad - Prince Of The Poverty Line
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (148 votes)
23. Suffocation - Human Waste
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (128 votes)
24. Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (119 votes)
25. Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (115 votes)
26. OSI - Office Of Strategic Influence
7/10 · MS:8.6/10 (102 votes)
27. Dream Theater - Images And Words
8/10 · MS:9/10 (1943 votes)
28. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
8/10 · MS:9/10 (1362 votes)
29. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
8/10 · MS:9/10 (1209 votes)
30. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
8/10 · MS:9/10 (1095 votes)
31. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1333 votes)
32. Kamelot - The Black Halo
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1237 votes)
33. Tool - Ænima
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1192 votes)
34. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1174 votes)
35. Septicflesh - Communion
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (1048 votes)
36. Ayreon - The Human Equation
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (945 votes)
37. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (880 votes)
38. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (868 votes)
39. Mgła - Exercises In Futility
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (595 votes)
40. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (534 votes)
41. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
8/10 · MS:8.9/10 (518 votes)
42. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (2268 votes)
43. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (1531 votes)
44. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (1347 votes)
45. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (1219 votes)
46. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (1060 votes)
47. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (959 votes)
48. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (953 votes)
49. Moonspell - Wolfheart
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (879 votes)
50. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (765 votes)
51. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (745 votes)
52. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (729 votes)
53. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (625 votes)
54. The Gathering - Mandylion
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (625 votes)
55. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (579 votes)
56. Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (559 votes)
57. Savatage - Gutter Ballet
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (485 votes)
58. Running Wild - Death Or Glory
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (394 votes)
59. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
8/10 · MS:8.8/10 (326 votes)
60. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1773 votes)
61. Septicflesh - The Great Mass
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1132 votes)
62. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1109 votes)
63. Mastodon - Leviathan
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1009 votes)
64. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1005 votes)
65. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (1002 votes)
66. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (995 votes)
67. Kamelot - Epica
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (932 votes)
68. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (890 votes)
69. Amorphis - Queen Of Time
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (888 votes)
70. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (857 votes)
71. Ayreon - 01011001
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (796 votes)
72. Paradise Lost - Icon
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (754 votes)
73. Therion - Vovin
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (724 votes)
74. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (706 votes)
75. Rotting Christ - Theogonia
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (683 votes)
76. Deep Purple - In Rock
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (661 votes)
77. Overkill - The Years Of Decay
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (659 votes)
78. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (607 votes)
79. Haggard - Eppur Si Muove
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (573 votes)
80. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (573 votes)
81. Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (493 votes)
82. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (474 votes)
83. Rush - Permanent Waves
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (473 votes)
84. Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (430 votes)
85. Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (410 votes)
86. Whitesnake - Whitesnake
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (373 votes)
87. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (333 votes)
88. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (329 votes)
89. Fates Warning - Parallels
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (273 votes)
90. Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (272 votes)
91. Riot - ThunderSteel
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (225 votes)
92. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (171 votes)
93. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness: Anti-Utopian MMXIII Edition
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (135 votes)
94. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (134 votes)
95. Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (130 votes)
96. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
8/10 · MS:8.7/10 (123 votes)
97. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (2776 votes)
98. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (1951 votes)
99. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (1907 votes)
100. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (1311 votes)
101. Death - Leprosy
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (1249 votes)
102. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (884 votes)
103. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (878 votes)
104. Judas Priest - Stained Class
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (863 votes)
105. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (862 votes)
106. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (800 votes)
107. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (753 votes)
108. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (751 votes)
109. Kamelot - Karma
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (749 votes)
110. Moonspell - Irreligious
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (707 votes)
111. Alcest - Écailles De Lune
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (681 votes)
112. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (651 votes)
113. Overkill - Ironbound
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (642 votes)
114. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (627 votes)
115. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (625 votes)
116. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (624 votes)
117. Annihilator - Never, Neverland
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (586 votes)
118. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (575 votes)
119. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (573 votes)
120. Necrophagist - Epitaph
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (537 votes)
121. My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (519 votes)
122. Enslaved - Below The Lights
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (494 votes)
123. Mgła - Age Of Excuse
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (493 votes)
124. Motörhead - Inferno
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (465 votes)
125. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (463 votes)
126. Theatre Of Tragedy - Aégis
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (455 votes)
127. Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (452 votes)
128. Scorpions - Blackout
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (429 votes)
129. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (429 votes)
130. Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (422 votes)
131. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (408 votes)
132. Evergrey - Recreation Day
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (405 votes)
133. Haggard - Awaking The Centuries
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (401 votes)
134. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (398 votes)
135. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (397 votes)
136. Down - Nola
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (395 votes)
137. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (390 votes)
138. Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (377 votes)
139. Metal Church - Metal Church
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (370 votes)
140. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (354 votes)
141. Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (354 votes)
142. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (353 votes)
143. Soundgarden - Superunknown
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (352 votes)
144. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (337 votes)
145. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (334 votes)
146. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (321 votes)
147. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (314 votes)
148. Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (310 votes)
149. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (309 votes)
150. Immolation - Close To A World Below
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (307 votes)
151. Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (304 votes)
152. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (298 votes)
153. Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (295 votes)
154. Falconer - Falconer
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (294 votes)
155. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (283 votes)
156. Melechesh - Emissaries
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (279 votes)
157. Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (278 votes)
158. Shape Of Despair - Angels Of Distress
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (274 votes)
159. Circus Maximus - Isolate
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (269 votes)
160. Lacrimosa - Elodia
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (268 votes)
161. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (264 votes)
162. Helloween - Helloween EP
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (258 votes)
163. Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (257 votes)
164. Voivod - Nothingface
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (252 votes)
165. Cult Of Luna - Salvation
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (248 votes)
166. Warning - Watching From A Distance
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (240 votes)
167. Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (237 votes)
168. Virgin Steele - Invictus
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (234 votes)
169. Sólstafir - Köld
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (233 votes)
170. Persefone - Core
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (232 votes)
171. Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (230 votes)
172. Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (228 votes)
173. Taake - ...Doedskvad
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (224 votes)
174. Uaral - Sounds Of Pain
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (219 votes)
175. Antimatter - Leaving Eden
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (218 votes)
176. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (212 votes)
177. Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (200 votes)
178. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (198 votes)
179. Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (196 votes)
180. Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (196 votes)
181. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (190 votes)
182. Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (186 votes)
183. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (179 votes)
184. Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (176 votes)
185. Threshold - Subsurface
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (174 votes)
186. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (172 votes)
187. Taake - Nattestid...
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (171 votes)
188. Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (170 votes)
189. Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (162 votes)
190. Mägo De Oz - Finisterra
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (146 votes)
191. Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (143 votes)
192. Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (141 votes)
193. Evoken - Quietus
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (133 votes)
194. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (128 votes)
195. Razor - Violent Restitution
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (127 votes)
196. Conception - In Your Multitude
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (124 votes)
197. Weakling - Dead As Dreams
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (122 votes)
198. Paradox - Heresy
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (120 votes)
199. Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (113 votes)
200. Echo Of Dalriada - Jégbontó
8/10 · MS:8.6/10 (102 votes)


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28.02.2024 - 00:03
Guib
Thrash Talker
Written by nonZero on 27.02.2024 at 23:41

Written by Guib on 27.02.2024 at 05:01

...You just wanna make us mad putting off classics, don't ya?

Always happy to supply a trigger

Most classics did make it to my favourites list though!


Yeah already thumbed that one up. Thats a good list
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14.03.2024 - 11:51
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
I discovered your list now.

Folks have already shown disapproval of many important contenders that I felt do not qualify for your list, say Gojira - From Mars To Sirius.

Still, I appreciated your efforts to conceptualize a list where I felt you ought to have invested more time into it.
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14.03.2024 - 12:28
nonZero

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 14.03.2024 at 11:51

Folks have already shown disapproval of many important contenders that I felt do not qualify for your list, say Gojira - From Mars To Sirius.

I'll be sure to give that another listen soon - I remember 'The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe and 'Flying Whales' being particularly good.
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24.03.2024 - 14:12
Hooman

God I can't undersatnd your list! Some of them are my all time favorites. Buuuuut I'm sure as fuck that you should at least give two of them more listems:
Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
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