Altar (studio album)
by Sunn O))) & Boris

Altar by Sunn O))) & Boris
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-10-23
Overall rank: 9,670th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 31 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 2006 (160th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,699th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,670th)

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   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (6 out of 7 tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 9,670th | 2000s rank: 1,699th | 2006 rank: 160th

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74/100 (from 31 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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From 03/22/2014 16:04 | #107163
I dig this Drone-doom ambient noise-thing album. It reminds me of the wind in Bela Tarr's film "Sátántangó". Really intense in all its anti-climactic glory. It's a bit overlong at times, but definitely some beautiful ambient pieces in there, but I dug the few songs with vocal a tad more.
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