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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (J-K) 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/
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Created by Uxküll
on 14.12.2020
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Top 20 Albums Of 2009
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Created by Starchild
on 07.10.2010
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Top 10 Albums These are my top ten albums of all time. I realize that A Diamond for Disease is an EP, but I don't care, it's going on the list.
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Created by bloodwrage
on 07.03.2010
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Some Albums With 8.50 Or More
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Created by JavierPaper
on 28.11.2021
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Usual Crap - Momo's 2009 List Only a "20 best" list for this quite good year - or well, 'quite good year' for prog at least.
The first four are arranged in preference order, then th sixteen order are in alphabetical order. Beware: this is a consolidated - but not definitive - version, it might see some changes in the newt few months.
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Created by Darkside Momo
on 05.01.2012
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Favourite Album's Of The 00's My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.
You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.
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Created by Moose
on 21.10.2011
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Top 25 Of 2009 Here are my top 25 of 2009, going to try to get more years done as I get more free time.
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Created by MeloDeathViking
on 12.08.2010
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Albums I Believe To Be The First Of Many Great Ones This is a list of debut albums from 2007-2009 that I believe are the first from bands that will leave a legacy of great albums in their wake. It's a short list, and I chose 2007 because I wanted to pick bands that have had at most only 1 album since the debut.
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Created by MeloDeathViking
on 03.03.2010
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The Top Prog Albums Of Ch'ti My top prog albums. The list will be regularly updated.
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Created by Ch'ti
on 02.03.2024
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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
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Created by Crys1s
on 19.09.2019
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Glorious Concept Albums Alphabetically sorted list of concept albums I know and love them so much to feature them here. Just one album per band in case they have more.
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Created by Ellrohir
on 13.02.2013
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TOP 2009 working on the final review
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Created by giok99
on 11.07.2011
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My Top 10 Albums Of 2009
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Created by Interrobang
on 06.10.2010
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Favorite Albums Of All Time
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Created by hadriel
on 01.03.2014
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Current Mood - Progressive & Doom Albums A mix of progressive, doom and the darker side of metal.
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Created by Carrion Misery
on 06.07.2012
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