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Andy top black metal albums

My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound
2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 26.04.2021



Trophy Goats 2002

1.Rage - Unity
2.Easy Rider - Regeneration
3.Eternal Reign - Crimes Of Passion
4.Mastodon - Remission
5.Squealer - Under The Cross

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Created by floatingoatgryff on 11.03.2021



Top 30 Folk Metal Albums Of The 90's And 00's

1.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
2.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
3.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
4.Ensiferum - Ensiferum
5.Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 20.11.2020



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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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Metal Storm Stats

I'm bored very easily, and that's why I decided to do some stats about metal storm's top 20 of each year and the top 200. I don't know why I did that, but if you love stats like I do it might interest you. All of the data I collected is from November the 7th 2020.
Updated on August the 3rd 2023

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5.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

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Created by Roman Doez on 08.11.2020



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All-Time Personal Favorites

Since I discovered MS, I got introduced to a lot of great albums/EPs that hadn't been mentioned from other sources, and I'm really thankful for all the discoveries from all kinds of people in this site. So I decided to make a personal all-time best MS albums list myself! Enjoy~~

(bands are in alphabetical order)

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.Agents Of Oblivion - Agents Of Oblivion
4.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
5.Alcest - Kodama

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Created by SS on 20.10.2020



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The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)

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.Aara - En Ergô Einai
2.Aarni - Bathos
3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum
5.AATHMA - Avesta

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Created by Uxküll on 06.10.2020



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G.O.A.T.s

The greatest albums of all time aka albums that nobody needs to listen to unless they want to aka only 9/10 and 10/10 albums here aka no memes, sorry. No particular order either. Will add more albums in the future. Because I can't add new albums in the past, can I?

1.Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
2.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
3.Evoken - Quietus
4.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
5.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

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Created by Metren on 19.05.2020



Top Metal Albums, 2000s

Constantly evolving list of my favorite metal albums from the 2000s

1.Trivium - Shogun
2.Opeth - Watershed
3.Tool - Lateralus
4.Deftones - White Pony
5.Trivium - Ascendancy

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Created by Jatin on 12.04.2020



Top 30 Albums Of 2002

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
3.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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Created by al3xjpt on 01.04.2020



My 10/10 Albums Of All Time

1.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
2.Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler
3.In Flames - The Jester Race
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.In Flames - Whoracle

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Created by JFarson on 29.03.2020



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My Favorite Albums

1.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
2.Thurisaz - Scent Of A Dream
3.Opeth - Morningrise
4.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...
5.Anathema - Eternity

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Created by berkayhalfm on 26.01.2020



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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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Top 100 Albums Of All Time

Current Top 100 as of September 2019. Having listened to metal for 45 years or so - here are my favourites (favourite track). One album limit per band. Enjoy!

1.Absu - Absu
2.AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
3.Agalloch - The Mantle
4.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
5.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

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Created by dp2412@aol.com on 12.09.2019



Albums I Look Up To In 2019, ALPHABETICAL

Time has moved on and so has my taste. There is music I didn't listen to back then but also albums I still love even though I don't listen to them as much anymore.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Aquilus - Cloak Of Autumn Shroud
3.Aquilus - Griseus
4.Babymetal - Metal Resistance
5.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

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Created by Andrew_Deer on 04.07.2019