The overall average rating has been going down over the last few years, although there has been several albums I thought would of been in the green by the end of the year.
It's not about any given person thinking an album deserves that rating, more about generating a consensus of many people thinking so for the same given album.
Given how statistically difficult it is to acquire such a rating, I can't say it's all that surprising. Takes a lot of concentrated appeal for an album to get a green rating.
Just noticed 2021 is the first year ever not to have a single album with green rating (over 8.5) .. I'm surprised, I felt 2021 was an amazing year for metal.
