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Personal Favorite Albums From 1970-2020 (metalstorm Bands Only)
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Created by Alce
on 17.11.2020
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kvtie-pie's favorite albums These albums are in no particular order, and I will be gradually adding more over time.
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Created by kvtie-pie
on 04.09.2013
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Top 20 Albums Of 2005
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Created by Starchild
on 22.09.2010
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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 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.
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Created by Handala
on 07.10.2022
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Top 25 Prog Metal Albums Ever In My Not So Humble Opinion These are the best prog metal albums.
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Created by Carridin
on 13.08.2022
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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
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Created by Crys1s
on 19.09.2019
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My Favourite Albums Of 2000s
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Created by In Bone Factory
on 01.09.2018
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Top Epics List of my top epics - long songs (all in one or split into parts) with multiple parts and recurring themes, with an overall concept.
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Created by embracing
on 18.08.2013
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Best Albums Of Ever Some easy stuff, some different. Mostly prog.
Things after 10 aren't really in any order
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Created by BigNaughtyV
on 06.05.2013
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Album Of The Year (1993-2013) By Vez The best album of each year (and one close 2nd) from the past 20 years. Some years were much harder than others to choose the best 2 albums.
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Created by vez
on 29.03.2013
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Top Albums I've been a metal fan since 2000, I'm 20 years old, thats fair enough!! I'm more into progressive metal but still, love many albums from thrash and heavy, lets roll...
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Created by patomtz
on 10.03.2010
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InstruMEnTAL Metal Songs This is an alphabetical list dedicated for the celebration of great instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups like Apocalyptica, songs that have a significant part with spoken words / human voices or instrumental versions of vocal songs or other bonus material.
Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite songs for this list !
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Created by Plattner
on 28.01.2023
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My Top 50 Albums Of 2000-2009
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Created by JHK
on 01.10.2022
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My Top 30 Albums Of 2005
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Created by JHK
on 03.06.2022
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