GMD Top 250 (based on RYM ratings)

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the new RYM update means you can create charts based on specific users so i thought i'd do a UM one.

currently including: @CiG @Vesupria @Vegard Pompey @no country for old wainds @Master_Yoda77 @HamburgerBoy @TechnicalBarbarity @challenge_everything @Bloopy @The Ozzman @Dazed and Brutal @Slayed Necros @EspaDa @morguelord @Terasophe @zerostatic @spikes77 @crimsonfloyd

if anyone else has a RYM account please let me know the handle in the next few days, then i'll do the countdown. anyone who wants to rate more stuff had better get on with that as well, looking at you bloopy! won't be anything too fancy but at least it's something to post on this dead ass board.

let me know if you'd prefer it to be metal only or not. it'll be dominated by metal either way but i thought it'd be fun to mix it up a bit. i'm also planning to include EPs/demos, but i could also post a separate EP/demos one anyway as that'd be pretty interesting.
 
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I say allow non-metal albums, it'd be fun to see which non-metal albums are popular enough with GMD regulars to make it into the list.

Also couldn't you create custom charts based on specific users before this update? I recall creating custom charts based on every user who rated Irae Melanox 5/5 in the past :p
 
I say allow non-metal albums, it'd be fun to see which non-metal albums are popular enough with GMD regulars to make it into the list.

Also couldn't you create custom charts based on specific users before this update? I recall creating custom charts based on every user who rated Irae Melanox 5/5 in the past :p

as far as i know all you could do was that weird user charts thing where you type the usernames into the URL, but it only went up to 100 and wasn't customisable or anything. there was also no link to that feature anywhere on the website so hardly anyone knew about it.

What would go into making a RYM list, would I have to manually rank 250 albums? haven't looked into it

basically you'd just need to have rated a buncha albums on RYM (and tell me your username), you don't need to actually rank anything. the way the charts work is they automatically rank every album on the website based on the average rating from the users i include. so if 6 users ranked a metallica album 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 5, that'd be a 4.0 average from 6 and it'd be ranked accordingly. they're also weighted for volume of ratings (so that an album with 5.0 from 1 rating wouldn't be ranked higher than one with 4.5 from 10 ratings for example).
 
Guess it would be cool. I should probably rate some of my newer purchases and boost all the Obsessed and Saint Vitus records to 5 stars and give Ex Mortuus 0 starts to piss of the usual suspects here
 
=249) Darkthrone - Panzerfaust | 3.60 from 10 ratings
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=249) Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract | 3.60 from 10 ratings
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Eucharist - A Velvet Creation | 3.60 from 10 ratings
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Black Sabbath - Sabotage | 3.60 from 10 ratings
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=243) System of a Down - Toxicity | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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=243) Scald - Will of Gods is a Great Power | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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=243) Entombed - Clandestine | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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=243) Obituary - Slowly We Rot | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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=243) Testament - The Legacy | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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=243) Black Sabbath - Mob Rules | 3.67 from 9 ratings
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lmao at that formatting, k let me try to fix that

edit: i'll just do ten at a time otherwise it seems to go batshit

anyway, some heavy hitters to start us off!
 
242) Darkthrone - Soulside Journey | 3.46 from 14 ratings
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=237) Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi | 3.75 from 8 ratings
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=237) Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence | 3.75 from 8 ratings
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=237) Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp | 3.75 from 8 ratings
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=237) Scorpions - In Trance | 3.75 from 8 ratings
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=237) Can - Tago Mago | 3.75 from 8 ratings
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236) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 3.50 from 13 ratings
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=234) Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade | 3.46 from 14 ratings
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=234) Judas Priest - Painkiller | 3.46 from 14 ratings
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=226) Immolation - Majesty and Decay | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Pentagram - First Daze Here | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Vader - Litany | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Depeche Mode - Violator | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Repulsion - Horrified | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Wipers - Youth of America | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=226) Jethro Tull - Aqualung | 3.86 from 7 ratings
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=221) Opeth Still Life | 3.59 from 11 ratings
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=221) Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction | 3.59 from 11 ratings
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=221) Omen - Battle Cry | 3.59 from 11 ratings
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=221) Venom - Black Metal | 3.59 from 11 ratings
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=221) Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance | 3.59 from 11 ratings

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=216) Dark Age - Dark Age EP | 4.00 for 5 ratings
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=216) Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet | 4.00 for 5 ratings
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=216) Anacrusis - Suffering Hour | 4.00 for 5 ratings
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=216) Saint Vitus - Born Too Late | 4.00 for 5 ratings

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=216) Rush - Permanent Waves | 4.00 for 5 ratings
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=213) Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal | 3.65 from 10 ratings
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=213) Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith | 3.65 from 10 ratings
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=208) Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm | 3.72 from 9 ratings
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=208) My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans | 3.72 from 9 ratings
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=208) Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus | 3.72 from 9 ratings
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=208) Riot - Thundersteel | 3.72 from 9 ratings

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=208) Manowar - Sign of the Hammer | 3.72 from 9 ratings

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=201) Voivod - Post Society | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) Queensryche - Queensryche | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun... | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) Wire - Pink Flag | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) Television - Marquee Moon | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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=201) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme | 4.20 from 5 ratings

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that's it for now! i did try to spoiler tag these so the thread wasn't so cluttered but it kept fucking up like all my other formatting so i'll just leave it lol

biggest surprise here? i think for me it's majesty and decay, not an immolation album i was expecting to pop up in an all-time top 250
 
=197) Celtic Frost - to Mega Therion | 3.58 from 12 ratings
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=197) Manilla Road - Open the Gates | 3.58 from 12 ratings
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=197) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.58 from 12 ratings
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=197) The Doors - The Doors | 3.58 from 12 ratings
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=187) Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqviris, Circvmspice | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Radiohead - Kid A | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Summoning - Dol Guldur | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Deicide - Legion | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Artillery - By Inheritance | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Brocas Helm - Black Death | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of the Dying Sun | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=187) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures | 3.81 from 8 ratings
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=185) Death - Symbolic | 3.64 from 11 ratings
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=185) The Cure - Disintegration | 3.64 from 11 ratings
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184) Funeral - Tragedies | 4.50 from 4 ratings
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