Ancient Dreams (studio album) by Candlemass

Ancient Dreams by Candlemass
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 55,163rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 12 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (657th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (6,395th)
Award Best albums of all time (55,163rd)
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Candlemass bestography

Ancient Dreams is ranked 7th best out of 15 albums by Candlemass on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Candlemass is Epicus Doomicus Metallicus which is ranked number 3954 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 366.

Candlemass album bestography « Higher ranked (36,515th) This album (55,163rd) Lower ranked (67,796th) »
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 12 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.7.

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