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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



My Top 25

Each band featured once, except one.

1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time
2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
3.Burzum - Filosofem
4.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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Created by Fallen22 on 21.01.2020



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One-Hit Albums

A (most probably incomplete) list of albums on which I really enjoy only a single song (in alphabetical order, excluding one-track albums).
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with few exceptions.
The songs mentioned though are all-time favourites, which I would rate at 9 or 10.
I only listed albums on which I found exactly one such song.

1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore
2.Amorphis - Far From The Sun
3.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
4.Asphyx - The Rack
5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Created by Redel on 09.01.2020



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Top 100 (+8) Of 2005-2009

2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
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 2005 to 2009, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2005-2009.
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 +8.

C for 2005-2009 = 7.593
m = 20

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2005 - 26
2006 - 20
2007 - 23
2008 - 17
2009 - 23

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
4.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
5.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

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Created by Crys1s on 19.09.2019



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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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My Favourite Albums Of 2000s

1.Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar
2.After Forever - After Forever
3.Agalloch - The Mantle
4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Created by In Bone Factory on 01.09.2018



Favorite Katatonia Songs

Based my choices on which tracks I enjoy listening to the most

1.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
2.Katatonia - July
3.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
4.Katatonia - Sanctitude
5.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

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Created by Ivy Patterns on 24.10.2017



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Best Metal Albums Ever (IMO)

Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Faith No More - Angel Dust
3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
4.Tool - Ænima
5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Created by matthewdurham on 09.05.2017



My Top 10 Of 2006

1.Tool - 10,000 Days
2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist
3.Vader - Impressions In Blood
4.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Created by Archie 666 on 25.04.2017



My Favorite 100 Metal Albums Of All Time

AtoZ (Album)

1.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
2.Ihsahn - After
3.Anthrax - Among The Living
4.Faith No More - Angel Dust
5.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

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Created by D.C.O on 08.09.2015



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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



Darksiders

By Year.

1.Empyrium - Weiland
2.Anathema - A Natural Disaster
3.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
5.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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Created by Pimeässä on 11.03.2015



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Brimbly-Brambly Bucka-Bucka Woozle-Wuzzle It's A Doom List.

This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid, Watching From A Distance, and Черно at present holding a perfect 10. This list does have a cutoff point, stretching from those 10s through some high 9s and all the way down to middling 6s. If I rated it below a 6, it does not appear on this list, and that's because I disliked the album.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Warning - Watching From A Distance
3.Kypck - Черно
4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
5.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 24.01.2015



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My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

my 100 favorite metal albums of all times. Alphabetical order.

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
3.Ahab - The Giant
4.Alice In Chains - Dirt
5.Altar Of Plagues - Mammal

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Created by PēterisP on 10.11.2014



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Best Albums Of 2000-2010

In no order, just the my favorite of that decade.

1.Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
2.Equilibrium - Sagas
3.The Defaced - Karma In Black
4.Susperia - Vindication
5.Masterplan - Aeronautics

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Created by EnigmaLake on 08.06.2014