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My Top 100 Albums According To Last.fm

This list is my top 100 played albums ordered by the number of "scrobbles" since 2013 according to last.fm, if you also have a last.fm account, don't hesitate to follow me.
My last.fm user: daniloescolin

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
3.W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
4.Kreator - Enemy Of God
5.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

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Created by IDieForMetal on 17.01.2023



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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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Albums I Prefer Over Their Presumed Career Highlights

This list came into being after reading RaduP's Getting Into: Negura Bunget article. I have always wondered why people are so in awe of Om and disregard Vîrstele Pămîntului. Since this is not the only band where I tend to prefer another album than what many perceive as the climax of a band. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

1.Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)
2.Agalloch - Pale Folklore
3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World
4.Bethlehem - Bethlehem
5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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Created by Dinruth on 31.12.2021



Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 2001

This is the year I basically started listening to music so I was torn between stuff I am somewhat loyal to because it was my gateway and the kind of stuff I listen to now from that year. I genuinely think this was one of the best years ever for Metal.

Congrats to Destruction who have gotten honourable mentions before but never actually made it onto the list until now.

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.System Of A Down - Toxicity
3.Sodom - M-16
4.Destruction - The Antichrist
5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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Created by blackwreath13 on 06.12.2021



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1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically will include albums I've rated 8 & above. Sorted by year since I'll need a Venn diagram to sort by genre (seriously MS please make it happen if possible). Will feature multiple releases per year (obviously) and per band (since if a band is putting out better albums it deserves more recognition). Keeping the metal faith alive from India

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5.Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

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Created by metalriff on 05.02.2021



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Top 15 Thrash Metal Albums Of The 00's

1.Kreator - Enemy Of God
2.Vektor - Black Future
3.Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
4.Sodom - M-16
5.Overkill - Ironbound

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 03.04.2020



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Top Favourite Thrash Albums

Erm... sorry Dave... >.>

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
4.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
5.Sodom - M-16

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Created by blackwreath13 on 06.03.2020



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Top 100 (+5) Of 2000-2004

2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
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 2000 to 2004, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2000-2004.
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 +5.

C for 2000-2004 = 7.599
m = 30

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2000 - 15
2001 - 27
2002 - 14
2003 - 20
2004 - 29

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Tool - Lateralus
4.Wintersun - Wintersun
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Crys1s on 26.09.2019



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My Favourite Albums Of 2000s

1.Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar
2.After Forever - After Forever
3.Agalloch - The Mantle
4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Created by In Bone Factory on 01.09.2018



Top 100 Albums Since 2000

1.Wintersun - Wintersun
2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum
4.Septicflesh - Communion
5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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Created by rasim777 on 16.12.2017



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Sodom Best To Worst IMO

Since the new album just dropped I figured since I've been listening to a lot of sodom lately I'd make a best to worst list of the albums.

1.Sodom - Agent Orange
2.Sodom - Persecution Mania
3.Sodom - M-16
4.Sodom - Decision Day
5.Sodom - Sodom

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Created by mute30rp on 08.09.2016



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Thrash Effect

Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal and other occasional outliers into this list, maybe a few not-so-thrash albums by otherwise-thrash bands, since they're close enough and I wasn't going to make a separate list.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety
4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 16.05.2016



The Objectively Factual List Of Genuinely The Best Thrash Metal Albums Ever

I'm bored, so I'm doing this. My technique involves going to the page of every thrash band I've listened to, pulling out their top three albums that I'd rate over 8.5/10 (if there are three) and placing them in the list.

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Coroner - No More Color
3.Coroner - Mental Vortex
4.Toxik - Think This
5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Created by Xylem on 15.11.2014



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My Top 50 Thrash Metal Album Of All Time

Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention, there's so much excellent band and I should have not listen to all of them ! ^^
In my opinion, the best style to see live !!

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.Vektor - Black Future
5.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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Created by moXmo on 06.07.2013



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Sodom - Best To Worst

1.Sodom - Agent Orange
2.Sodom - Persecution Mania
3.Sodom - M-16
4.Sodom - Sodom
5.Sodom - In War And Pieces

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Created by TerrorZone on 22.01.2012