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God Of Shadow's Top 10 Albums Of 2013

Well, this is my first try of a list, probably not a lot will agree on my choices, but whatever. Here are the releases I thought were the best of 2013.

1.Ovid's Withering - Scryers Of The Ibis
2.Dead Silence Hides My Cries - The Symphony Of Hope
3.Abysmal Growls Of Despair - Eternal Lament
4.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
5.Erra - Augment

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Created by God of shadows on 02.02.2014



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Top 2013 Albums-azhidahak's Picks

1.Dark Tranquillity - Construct
2.Wolfheart - Winterborn
3.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods
4.Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
5.October Tide - Tunnel Of No Light

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Created by azhidahakk on 10.01.2014



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Best of 2013

Album Rating System
9-10 = A
8-9 = B
7-8 = C
6-7 = D
0-6 = F

1.Watain - The Wild Hunt
2.
3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth
5.Deafheaven - Sunbather

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Created by Tony Teh Towel on 12.06.2013



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Favorite Albums Of 2013

to be continued...

1.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
2.Vulture Industries - The Tower
3.Chthonic - Bú-Tik
4.Thousand Eyes - Bloody Empire
5.Illnath - 4 Shades Of Me

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Created by Pierre Tombale on 30.05.2013



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Vonpire's 2013 Best

1.Avatarium - Avatarium
2.Amorphis - Circle
3.Wine From Tears - Glad To Be Dead
4.Orphaned Land - All Is One
5.The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour

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Created by Vonpire on 19.04.2013



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>>2013<<

1.Witherscape - The Inheritance
2.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
3.Týr - Valkyrja
4.Thrawsunblat - Thrawsunblat II: Wanderer On The Continent Of Saplings
5.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

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Created by ICONofSIN on 15.03.2013



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My Top Albums Of 2013

My Favorite albums from 2013 so far

1.Officium Triste - Mors Viri
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
4.Avatarium - Avatarium
5.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi

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Created by The Melting Snow on 01.03.2013



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Best Of 2010s

Only the 9s or 10s / 10 are here. Roughly ordered in time.

1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
2.Kingcrow - Phlegethon
3.Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
4.Igorrr - Nostril
5.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

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Created by SS on 03.04.2023



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My Top 50 Albums Of 2013

1.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
2.Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
3.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
4.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
5.Haken - The Mountain

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Created by JHK on 23.03.2022



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Top 100 (+2) Of 2010-2014

2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
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 2010 to 2014, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2010-2014.
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 +2.

C for 2010-2014 = 7.478
m = 20

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2010 - 24
2011 - 28
2012 - 16
2013 - 22
2014 - 12

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
3.Aquilus - Griseus
4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Created by Crys1s on 11.09.2019



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Top 10 Best Of 2013

1.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods
2.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
3.Persefone - Spiritual Migration
4.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
5.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

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Created by Maglor on 27.12.2013



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Top 2013

My favorites of 2013..

Oh, and it's a WIP btw.. I have a lot of catching up to do.. Been sleeping for six months I guess.

1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration
2.Haken - The Mountain
3.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
4.Leprous - Coal
5.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

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Created by Mmmark on 08.09.2013



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MY favorite Albums Of 2013

1.Finntroll - Blodsvept
2.Lunarsea - Hundred Light Years
3.In Vain - Ænigma
4.Pessimist - Death from Above
5.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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Created by DJ Cosimoto on 02.07.2013



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Favorites Of 2013

1.The Ocean - Pelagial
2.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
3.Soilwork - The Living Infinite
4.Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure
5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

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Created by b0000mst1ck on 02.07.2013



AJ's Ranking Of 2013

My top 50 of 2013. Rated 8 and above.

The year we said hello again to Carcass and farewell to Jeff Hanneman

Album count: 150
Average rating: 6.97

1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
2.Carcass - Surgical Steel
3.Leprous - Coal
4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
5.Arx Atrata - Oblivion

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Created by AJ The Great on 28.07.2023