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AJ's Ranking Of 2011

Here is my top 50 of 2011. Albums rated 8+

In 2011, I started my second MS account after losing the first to the discontinuation of my Uni email address.

"But your account says you joined in 2020" I hear you say. Yes I also lost access to my second account you see. Be welcomed on my third you smartass

Album count: 248
Average rating: 6.69 (so close but still nice)

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
2.Mastodon - The Hunter
3.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
4.Leprous - Bilateral
5.Helheim - Heiðindómr Ok Mótgang

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Created by AJ The Great on 25.08.2023



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



My Top 150 Albums Of All Time

This list shows only my preferences in metal. These albums are not necessarily the best of the bands written by, but I return to them again and again. In my opinion, all this masterpieces confirm the variety and greatness of metal music.
Rules:
1. One album per band.
2. Ordered from highest position (top) to lowest (bottom).
3. No heavy, power, doom, gothic, sludge/stoner albums.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
3.In Flames - Clayman
4.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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Created by nikita_ducati on 16.10.2022



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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 2011

So far I stand by my position on this decade, it's awful and so is anyone who lived through it.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse (Gothic/Doom)
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion (Black/Grindcore)
Taake - Noregs Vaapen (Black)

1.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
2.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
3.Ava Inferi - Onyx
4.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder
5.Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance

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Created by blackwreath13 on 03.09.2022



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



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400+ Favorite Songs

Last updated on 27 March 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
3.Wintersun - Wintersun
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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Created by Qualeen on 10.10.2021



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Top Favourite Death Metal Albums

1.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
3.Behemoth - The Satanist
4.Obituary - Cause Of Death
5.Death - Leprosy

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Created by blackwreath13 on 14.03.2020



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Top 100 Albums Of 2010-2019

Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!

1.Møl - Jord
2.The Haunted - Unseen
3.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light
4.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
5.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

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Created by Kuroboshi on 05.01.2020



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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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Albums Of My Life

No particular order

1.Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty
2.Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice
3.Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
4.Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst
5.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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Created by bundasmanu on 05.08.2019



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My Favourite Drummers And The Songs That Made Me Love Them

A list of my favourite drummers in rough order (not precise) along with the songs that made me love them. I added the albums too

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
4.Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 23.11.2018



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Best Album From Each Year

Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.

My taste is very much centred around the power of the riff. That means most of the albums on this list are thrash, death, heavy, black, or some offshoot of those genres.

1.After The Burial - Dig Deep
2.Behemoth - The Satanist
3.Carcass - Surgical Steel
4.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

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Created by Zombie94 on 16.04.2018



Dietrich's Top 10 From 2011

1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
2.Desolate Shrine - Tenebrous Towers
3.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
4.Lvcifyre - The Calling Depths
5.Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

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Created by Dietrich on 21.01.2017



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A List Of My Favorite Albums, In Any Genre

Favorite means Favorite!

1.Wintersun - Time I
2.Wintersun - Wintersun
3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
5.Týr - The Lay Of Thrym

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Created by HMTurambar on 31.01.2015



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My Favorite Albums

1.Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
2.Vektor - Black Future
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Created by gurthang on 31.01.2015