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My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

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.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
5.Amorphis - Silent Waters

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Created by Ryanm123 on 23.12.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2017

My glorious ranking of the year of our Lord 2017

Top 50 rated 8 and above

Album count: 132
Average rating: 7.1


1.Enslaved - E
2.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
3.Pallbearer - Heartless
4.Myrkur - Mareridt
5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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Created by AJ The Great on 27.03.2023



Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2017

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

2017 was an interesting year, overall a solid year but the most notable thing about it the nostalgia sound, many new and old bands reuniting to old sounds but in a new way, Thrash metal had a pretty solid year same with death metal and doom, black metal was in its peak with the ambient mix sound and Progressive metal had a solid showing along with power metal.

My favorite non metal albums of 2017

1. No Shape
By Perfume Genius (Art pop)


2. Brutalism
By Idles (Post-Punk, Post-Hardcore)


3. Melodrama
By Lorde (Synthpop, Art Pop)


4. Ctrl
By SZA (R&B, Neo-Soul)


5. Relatives in Descent
By Protomartyr (Post-Punk, Noise Rock)


My favorite movie from 2017


1.Kreator - Gods Of Violence
2.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
3.Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
4.La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl
5.Dvne - Asheran

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Created by Handala on 01.01.2023



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Most Interesting Interludes/Intros/Outros

(This list is a work in progress)

In this list I intend to compile all of my favorite interludes, intros, outros, short acoustic tracks, instrumentals, non-metal or otherwise atypical songs from the metal multiverse. Of course the definitions for each of the above are quite fluid, so you may personally disagree with my decision to consider one of these tracks as such.

Last updated on 23 June 2023.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3.Melechesh - Emissaries
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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Created by Qualeen on 05.04.2022



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ALL KREATOR ALBUMS: From Best To Worst (distributive Adjustment)

Adjusted KREATOR albums ratings with Negative Binomal Distribution (using Metalstorm data itself).

1.Kreator - Coma Of Souls
2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
3.Kreator - Extreme Aggression
4.Kreator - Enemy Of God
5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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Created by Saintyx on 01.12.2021



Top 20 Of 2017

1.Iced Earth - Incorruptible
2.Soen - Lykaia
3.Firewind - Immortals
4.Moonspell - 1755
5.Beast In Black - Berserker

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 09.08.2021



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Top 100 (+2) Of 2015-2019

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
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828

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 grows 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 2015 to 2019, with at least 1 vote, were included.
The average expected rating (C) was determined by averaging all the Metal Storm ratings from 2015-2019.
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 2015-2019 = 7.422
m = 20

Number of albums from each year in the list:
2015 - 31
2016 - 24
2017 - 18
2018 - 12
2019 - 17

Ratings are accurate as of 30/10/2023

1.Mgła - Exercises In Futility
2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate
3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
4.Vektor - Terminal Redux
5.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

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Created by Crys1s on 24.06.2021



Best 2017

1.Adagio - Life
2.Anathema - The Optimist
3.Annihilator - For The Demented
4.Anubis Gate - Covered In Black
5.Accept - The Rise Of Chaos

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Created by Depth land on 03.05.2021



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Top 35 Metal Albums of 2017

1.Immolation - Atonement
2.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
3.Necrot - Blood Offerings
4.Belphegor - Totenritual
5.Cytotoxin - Gammageddon

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Created by vstojanovski on 01.01.2021



Top 25 Thrash Metal Albums Of The 10's

1.Overkill - The Electric Age
2.Vektor - Outer Isolation
3.Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
4.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 30.12.2020



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Old Nick's Top-101 Of The '10s

One band, one album in alphabetical order. No EPs, demos, etc.
Favourite album: Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
Favourite song: Schammasch - "Above The Stars Of God"

1.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind
2.Abbath - Abbath
3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations
4.Aenaon - Hypnosophy
5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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Created by nikarg on 09.01.2020



My Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2017

1.Kreator - Gods Of Violence
2.Benighted - Necrobreed
3.Cytotoxin - Gammageddon
4.Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
5.Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi

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Created by ANDY V. on 25.12.2017



TOP 10 ALBUMS 2017

1.Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay
2.Ayreon - The Source
3.Sepultura - Machine Messiah
4.Myrkur - Mareridt
5.Communic - Where Echoes Gather

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Created by rivendel on 22.12.2017



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Old Nick's Top-20 Of 2017

This is my Top-20 list of the albums I listened to obsessively this year. Apart from #1 the rest are in no particular order. Feel free to comment.

Other albums that I enjoyed a lot, but didn't make the list: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper, Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep, The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension, Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him, Loss (USA) - Horizonless, Iced Earth - Incorruptible, Havok - Conformicide, Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy, River Of Souls - The Well Of Urd, Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness, Below - Upon A Pale Horse, Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy, Immolation - Atonement, Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie, Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King, Converge - The Dusk In Us, Ophis - The Dismal Circle, Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus, Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death, Persefone - Aathma, Necrot - Blood Offerings.

1.Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth
2.Venenum - Trance Of Death
3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements
4.Paradise Lost - Medusa
5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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Created by nikarg on 22.12.2017



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Top 20 Albums Of 2017

Tough year. Some amazing stuff but I feel that a couple of previous years have been a lot stronger.

1.Grift - Arvet
2.Major Parkinson - Blackbox
3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence
4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons
5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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Created by Warman on 18.12.2017