Warp Riders
by The Sword
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Warp Riders is ranked as the best album by The Sword.
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Warp Riders track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Warp Riders rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 55/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | SchakFU81 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 30/40 | 27 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Pastepunk Best Of 2010 | 22/25 | - |
| 2025 | adbrack1988 | Top Hard Rock & Metal Albums | 82/100 | - |
| 2025 | adbrack1988 | Top 15 Music Albums of 2010 | 3/15 | 4 |
| 2025 | AlienCinema | Top 100 Music Albums of 2010 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2021 | Highhopes | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 36/100 | 13 |
| 2020 | Highhopes | Top 17 Music Albums of 2010 | 8/17 | 3 |
| 2019 | sonicdiscourse | Top 64 Music Albums of 2010 | 56/64 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 82 | |||
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Warp Riders ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/14/2026 20:10 | jnmayles | 2,404 | 73/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2025 19:21 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/02/2021 18:14 | LosWochos | 47,547 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.5.
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Cymro2011 04/22/2013 13:00 in What ***VINYL*** album are you listening to right now?Warp Riders comments
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Applerill TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/31/2011 14:09 | #17968
Okay, so the lyrics are a LITTLE cheesy, but that hardly takes away from the enormity of this album.
zdwyatt TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/24/2013 19:49 | #89114
The Sword got labeled "doom metal" early on, but I'd be more generous and just call them "retro metal." The Sabbath influence is apparent; in fact, the vocal delivery is very Ozzy (which is to say competent, befitting of the style, but not especially mind-blowing). But Warp Riders is everything I want in a metal record: heavy guitars and a sci-fi/fantasy concept (in this case, it's about a planet suffering through a tidal locking, which has created perpetual day for one half of the planet and, for the other, perpetual night). Oh yes.
A little change in direction, a good thing for a band that in my opinion could have become a little boring. Maybe their best effort to date, It certainly contains one of my favourites, Night City
Love this album! It's really grown on me over the last few years and the CD is on regular rotation in the car for long journeys.
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