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My Essential 250 Metal Albums My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.
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Created by Ryanm123
on 23.12.2023
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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2015 A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.
2015 was a great one, I honestly forgot how good that year was for metal, black metal had a strong showing and Symphonic was not that far behind, Progressive and gothic had great releases and the great return of Iron Maiden.
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Created by Handala
on 18.12.2022
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Top 50 Of 2015-2020
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Created by Alex Avagianos
on 21.07.2022
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Symphony X Best To Worst
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Created by Alex Avagianos
on 15.06.2022
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My Top 50 Albums Of 2015
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Created by JHK
on 06.03.2022
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Top 20 Of 2015 Must Listen: The First 2
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Created by Alex Avagianos
on 26.07.2021
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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
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Created by Crys1s
on 24.06.2021
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Fruits Of 2015
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Created by embracing
on 16.10.2019
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Symphony X albums ranked (including Michael Romeo solo albums) Ranking Symphony X albums from best to worst. Also featuring my three top cuts from each albums. To be perfectly clear, the three bottom albums aren't bad albums however they don't offer the same interesting experience as the others.
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Created by majormalfunction
on 25.11.2018
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MY TOP 20 ALBUMS 2015
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Created by buber
on 16.04.2016
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Another Generic "What I Liked In 2015" List I doubt that anybody cares but, this is everything I listened to from 2015 in order of my enjoyment. Any and all hate is welcome!
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Created by TheJahrhead
on 26.02.2016
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My Favorite Albums Of 2015 /ongoing
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Created by DJ Cosimoto
on 27.01.2016
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Best Albums Of 2015. Not finished, of course. Never shall be.
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Created by DeathMetalKnight
on 18.01.2016
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Best Of 2015 My favourite albums of the past year, the list + some words about the albums can also be found on my blog
https://forsakenatthegates.blogspot.com
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Created by sharkruisher
on 01.01.2016
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Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2015
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Created by fenchik
on 27.12.2015
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