Metal Storm logo
Top lists


Order by:  Date | Popularity | Show all



Thumbs up: +4
Top 200 Metal Releases Of All Time

I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could have qualified.
The list mostly contains albums, but some EPs, demos, splits, and compilations are also featured every now and then. I also tried to avoid including demos or EPs that were too short but there’s still a few of them.
Enjoy!

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien
5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

      View entire list ››
Created by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024



Thumbs up: +4
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

      View entire list ››
Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



Thumbs up: +3
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (B)

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.Ba'al - Ellipsism
2.Back To R'lyeh - The Awakening / Last Fight Of The Primordial
3.Bad Salad - Uncivilized
4.Bakos Attila - Aranyhajnal
5.Balance Of Power - Book Of Secrets

      View entire list ››
Created by Uxküll on 13.10.2020



Thumbs up: +15
Best Of 2010-2020 By Mz

The best of 2010-2019. At the end it tuned out to be less diverse than what I thought it would be in terms of musical genres, with mostly black and death metal record filling the spots.
Recommendations more than welcomed.

1.Sutcliffe Jugend - Blue Rabbit
2.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
3.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
4.Schammasch - Contradiction
5.Lorn - Subconscious Metamorphosis

      View entire list ››
Created by mz on 31.12.2019



Thumbs up: +1
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

      View entire list ››
Created by Crys1s on 11.09.2019



Thumbs up: +2
A List Of Albums I Need To Stop Procrastinating For And Finally Give Them A Decent Listen

"I'll listen to this after I come back home"
I'm so sick of doing this.There are many,many albums that I KNOW will enjoy if I finally make time to listen too. This is more of a personal list,so I can keep track of what I need to hear.

1.Leaves' Eyes - Njord
2.Exodus - Pleasures Of The Flesh
3.Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons
4.Kreator - Coma Of Souls
5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

      View entire list ››
Created by me<3mertl on 19.08.2015



Thumbs up: +18
Top 50: My Favourite EPs

1.Ulver - A Quick Fix Of Melancholy
2.Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
3.Cradle Of Filth - Vempire
4.Vader - The Art Of War
5.Darkestrah - Khagan

      View entire list ››
Created by Hex_Omega on 18.09.2014



Thumbs up: +2
Top Albums 2013 By Neiluria

1.Haken - The Mountain
2.The Ocean - Pelagial
3.New Keepers Of The Water Towers - The Cosmic Child
4.Persefone - Spiritual Migration
5.Leprous - Coal

      View entire list ››
Created by neiluria on 29.01.2014



Thumbs up: +1
Top 20 Albums Of 2013

Just the best albums of 2013.

1.Graveyard (ESP) - The Sea Grave
2.Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death
3.Verminous - The Unholy Communion
4.Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
5.Krypts - Unending Degradation

      View entire list ››
Created by Koen Smits on 28.12.2013



Thumbs up: +10
2013: Prze-zaje-kurwa-dobry-rok

Here are my top 20 metal albums of this year (without any order).

* The list's title in eng means: "decent year".
** To create the thumbnail I used Sky Ferreira's cover art for Night Time, My Time, shot by Gaspar Noé.

1.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...
2.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
3.SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
4.Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death
5.Funeralium - Deceived Idealism

      View entire list ››
Created by Paz on 22.12.2013



Thumbs up: +1
Blackvelvet's BEST OF 2013

Y'all know it's just my opinion. Right?
NOT NECESSARILY IN ORDER (but kinda)

1.Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
2.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
3.HIM - Tears On Tape
4.Anneke Van Giersbergen - Drive
5.Carcass - Surgical Steel

      View entire list ››
Created by blackvelvet on 29.11.2013



Thumbs up: +10
Top 35 of 2013

My favorites from 2013.

1.Ulcerate - Vermis
2.Lychgate - Lychgate
3.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
4.Bølzer - Aura
5.Kylesa - Ultraviolet

      View entire list ››
Created by InnerSelf on 01.11.2013



Thumbs up: +18
२०१३ - Ex Mea Sententia

All Studio releases including Full lengths, EPs, Collaborations and Splits.

Support the artist.

Lascaille's Shroud | Youtube

TOP ALBUM ARTWORKS OF 2013


1.Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
2.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...
3.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
4.Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
5.Dream Death - Somnium Excessum

      View entire list ››
Created by 3rdWorld on 08.09.2013



Thumbs up: +15
2013 Hunting Mountain Creatures with Korah

1.Haken - The Mountain
2.The Ocean - Pelagial
3.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
4.Deafheaven - Sunbather
5.Leprous - Coal

      View entire list ››
Created by Korah on 01.08.2013



Thumbs up: +3
2013 List (continued)

Because I can't stop listening to music, but neither can I sacrifice my lovely descriptions, so same fare as before, but deleted descriptions for those covered in the first list.

1.Protest The Hero - Volition
2.Persefone - Spiritual Migration
3.Amorphis - Circle
4.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
5.Monolithe - Monolithe IV

      View entire list ››
Created by musclassia on 09.06.2013