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Myrath Album Ranked

1.Myrath - Tales Of The Sands
2.Myrath - Desert Call
3.Myrath - Hope
4.Myrath - Karma
5.Myrath - Shehili

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Created by majormalfunction on 12.03.2024



Artwork: Progressive Metal Albums

This is a list of progressive metal albums (in alphabetical order) based on their artwork. It includes iconic cover art from classic albums as well as fascinating work from more recent releases.
There is a saying that "you should not judge a book by its cover", which is of course also true in the case of music albums. However, the artwork can complement the production and give a visual introduction to the musical theme and atmosphere. More than for any other kind of music, this may be true for metal.

(Updated 30.01.2023)

1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
2.Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree
3.Death - Symbolic
4.Disillusion - Ayam
5.Dordeduh - Har

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Created by Plattner on 27.12.2022



Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2011

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

2011 was a solid year for metal, one of the best for black metal in years, a revival of 70s stone and doom metal sound, and a strong showing of power metal.

My favorite non metal albums of 2011

1.Aquilus - Griseus
2.Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
3.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
4.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
5.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

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Created by Handala on 19.11.2022



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TheJahrhead's Totally Biased Personal Favorites

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Disforia - The Age Of Ether
3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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Created by TheJahrhead on 03.09.2022



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Top 50 Of 2010-2014

1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon
2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken
5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 28.07.2022



My Top 50 Albums Of 2011

1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
2.Leprous - Bilateral
3.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two
4.Aquilus - Griseus
5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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Created by JHK on 06.04.2022



Ultimate Collection Of Metal

The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman
2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
3.Chimaira - Chimaira
4.Death - Symbolic
5.Testament - The New Order

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Created by nikita_ducati on 18.10.2021



Top 20 Folk Metal Albums Of The 10's

1.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II
2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
3.Myrath - Tales Of The Sands
4.Finsterforst - Zerfall
5.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 25.08.2021



Top 20 Of 2011

Must Listen: The First 4

1.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2.Nightwish - Imaginaerum
3.Trivium - In Waves
4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
5.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 27.06.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (M)

This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.Macabre - Murder Metal
2.Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War
3.Macbeth - Romantic Tragedy's Crescendo
4.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Created by Uxküll on 09.01.2021



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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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Yet Another Useless Folking List

This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement about the genre; for that reason, there are some entries that don't entirely fit the description, including some neofolk albums and bands that don't exactly play "folk metal" but are close enough.

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire
2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom
3.Forefather - Steadfast
4.Forefather - Last Of The Line
5.Dalriada - Áldás

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 17.05.2016



Top 25 Albums Of 2011

My personal favorite studio albums of 2011

1.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
2.Haken - Visions
3.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
4.Machine Head - Unto The Locust
5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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Created by Jagsey on 23.03.2016



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A Progressive Metal Journey

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill
4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly
5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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Created by Floflo79 on 04.06.2015



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The Ultimate Metal Albums

My personal favorites. These albums are as perfect as an album can get, they always bring up the adrenaline and have in many ways changed the way I perceive music, expanding the horizons of metal in various ways. Most important of all they never get old or boring and therefore should be given a chance.

1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows
2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
3.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
4.Adagio - Underworld
5.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

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Created by Mountain King on 06.05.2015