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Top 20 Albums Of 2005

1.Mors Principium Est - The Unborn
2.Masterplan - Aeronautics
3.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
4.Timeless Miracle - Into The Enchanted Chamber
5.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

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Created by Starchild on 22.09.2010



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My Essential 250 Metal Albums

My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

1.Æther Realm - Tarot
2.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
3.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
4.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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Created by Ryanm123 on 23.12.2023



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 2005

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2005 was a fantastic year, especially for Progressive metal one of the best in my opinion, a lot of classics came out that year and power metal also had an amazing year the 2000's was the golden age of power metal.

1.Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3.Kamelot - The Black Halo
4.System Of A Down - Mezmerize
5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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Created by Handala on 07.10.2022



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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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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



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My 150 Favorite Albums (Plus ~10 EPs)

It's always changing.

1.Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
2.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
3.Equilibrium - Sagas
4.Týr - Ragnarok
5.Finsterforst - Rastlos

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Created by Zyk on 05.12.2017



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My Top 10 Of 2005

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2.Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
3.Evoken - Antithesis Of Light
4.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
5.Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

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Created by Archie 666 on 05.05.2017



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Top 3 Albums By Year

My top 3 albums per year starting in 1999.

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2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
3.Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
4.Shaman (FIN) - Idja
5.

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Created by Zyk on 18.06.2015



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



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



25 Best 2005

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
3.Noumena - Absence
4.Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade
5.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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Created by enumaelis on 23.01.2012



Top 20 albums of 2005

A decent year. Some incredible releases but not too much to be a year I'll remember.

1.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
3.Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
4.Dream Theater - Octavarium
5.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

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Created by Warman on 09.04.2010