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My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

1.Æther Realm - Tarot
2.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
3.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
5.Amorphis - Silent Waters

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Created by Ryanm123 on 23.12.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2013

My top 50 of 2013. Rated 8 and above.

The year we said hello again to Carcass and farewell to Jeff Hanneman

Album count: 150
Average rating: 6.97

1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
2.Carcass - Surgical Steel
3.Leprous - Coal
4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
5.Arx Atrata - Oblivion

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Created by AJ The Great on 28.07.2023



Favorite Albums Of All Time (In No Order)

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
5.Strapping Young Lad - City

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Created by SlapTap on 19.10.2022



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Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)

This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Death - Symbolic
3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



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My Top 50 Albums Of 2013

1.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
2.Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
3.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
4.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
5.Haken - The Mountain

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Created by JHK on 23.03.2022



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Personal Favorite Albums From 1970-2020 (metalstorm Bands Only)

1.Paradise Lost - Obsidian
2.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
3.Judas Priest - Firepower
4.Pallbearer - Heartless
5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

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Created by Alce on 17.11.2020



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MS Meta(l) List Of The 2010's - Top 200

Input:
10 years
20 decade lists
749 bands
973 albums

Output:
200 top albums from 2010-2019

FAQ

How are the points calculated?
Simple math.

Ranked top lists:
1st place = 150 pts.
2nd place = 149 pts.
...
100th place = 51 pts.
...
150th place = 1 pt.

Alphabetically sorted lists:
Each place = 100 pts.

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
3.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
4.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
5.Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death

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Created by Starvynth on 24.05.2020



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Top 10 Albums Of The 10's

1.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
2.Gojira - Magma
3.Ghost - Meliora
4.Behemoth - The Satanist
5.Judas Priest - Firepower

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Created by AgentOrange94 on 29.02.2020



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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



2013

1.Deafheaven - Sunbather
2.Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
3.Gorguts - Colored Sands
4.Ghost - Infestissumam
5.The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

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Created by Marc-Antoine on 03.09.2019



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I Like Big Hits And I Can Not Lie (Part II: 21st Century)

Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity
2.Diablerie - Seraphyde
3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise
5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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Created by Starvynth on 19.05.2019



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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



Top 10 Metal Albums Of 2013

1.Carcass - Surgical Steel
2.ReinXeed - A New World
3.Running Wild - Resilient
4.Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
5.Muro - El Cuarto Jinete

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Created by Vikcen on 23.12.2017



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



My Top Of 2013

1.Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
2.Carcass - Surgical Steel
3.Watain - The Wild Hunt
4.Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
5.Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

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Created by Archie 666 on 23.01.2017