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Evergrey Albums Ranked

1.Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
2.Evergrey - Recreation Day
3.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth
4.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
5.Evergrey - The Dark Discovery

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Created by majormalfunction on 27.12.2023



Evergrey Albums - Best To Worst

1.Evergrey - Recreation Day
2.Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
3.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth
4.Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
5.Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 02.11.2022



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Top 50 Of 2000-2004

1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
2.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
3.Dark Tranquillity - Haven
4.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 12.08.2022



My Top 30 Albums Of 2004

1.Enslaved - Isa
2.Finntroll - Nattfödd
3.Behemoth - Demigod
4.Wintersun - Wintersun
5.My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light

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Created by JHK on 10.06.2022



Evergrey Best To Worst

1.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
2.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken
3.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth
4.Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
5.Evergrey - Recreation Day

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 20.01.2022



Top 20 Of 2004

Must Listen: The First 11

1.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
2.In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
3.Ayreon - The Human Equation
4.Nightwish - Once
5.Wastefall - Soulrain 21

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 15.05.2021



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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



Darksiders

By Year.

1.Empyrium - Weiland
2.Anathema - A Natural Disaster
3.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
5.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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Created by Pimeässä on 11.03.2015



Vintage Metaller's - Best Year on Year Albums

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Metallica - Metallica
3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
4.Scorpions - Face The Heat
5.Stratovarius - Dreamspace

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Created by Vintage Metaller on 04.01.2015



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Progressive Spiritual Euphoria / Best prog Albums Ever .

So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give to these albums the attention and the respect they deserve and you will be fully awarded. I think i will try and limit this list to 3 cd's maximum per band to make this thing more challenging .

1.Dan Swanö - Moontower
2.Cynic - Traced In Air
3.Cynic - Focus
4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Created by Hazelnut Nero on 20.09.2014



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My Favorite Concept Albums

List of my favorite concept albums. Feel free to drop any suggestions if you think something great is missing here!

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
5.Opeth - Still Life

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Created by robpal on 28.04.2014



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Top 100 Albums (No Repeating Bands)

I do my best to feel confident about my top 10, After that 11-100 are just alphabetical.

1.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World
3.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
4.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
5.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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Created by LascaillesShroud on 23.04.2014



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My Favorite Progressive Metal Albums

My favorite progressive metal albums (derived/mixed genres included). Lot of stuff still missing here since I have a terrible memory I think everything here is at least 8,5/10.

Please, feel free to drop suggestions. I'd love to make it more or less complete one day.

I will eventually rate these albums too...

1.Dream Theater - Awake
2.Dream Theater - Images And Words
3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
5.Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day

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Created by robpal on 23.03.2014



Top 25 Albums Of 2004

1.Edguy - King Of Fools
2.Pain Of Salvation - "BE"
3.Edguy - Hellfire Club
4.Nightwish - Once
5.Ayreon - The Human Equation

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Created by andreosokin on 12.12.2013