Satanic Rites
by Hellhammer
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Satanic Rites is ranked as the best album by Hellhammer.
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Satanic Rites track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Satanic Rites rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 4 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LosWochos | Top 99 Music Albums of 1983 | 85/99 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Micro-Genres: Black Metal | 2/6 | - |
| 2025 | Repo | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 50/100 | 46 |
| 2025 | Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1983 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2025 | vruslov | Top 97 Music Albums of 1983 | 44/97 | 3 |
| 2024 |  Mercury | Top 85 Music Albums of 1983 | 51/85 | 2 |
| 2024 |  MW19704U | Top 99 Music Albums of 1983 | 44/99 | 3 |
| 2024 | Repo | 1983: Metal | 8/58 | - |
| 2020 | Repo | Extreme Metal & Punk | 3/3 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 59 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/11/2025 09:58 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,253 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2024 02:29 |  Anti | 4,628 | 78/100 |
| ! | 02/12/2023 15:04 | MW19704U | 6,988 | 59/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2023 16:36 | TonySayers61 | 25,053 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/25/2022 12:51 | jonny5244 | 8,460 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.6/100, a mean average of 66.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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Repo 03/18/2020 12:19 | #248828
PUNK METAL
To think it was a demo. A mere cassette tape. But once it was put to tape there was no stopping it. MORE punk than Motorhead ( which is saying something right there! Motorhead were punk as fuck!) and MORE extreme than Venom. An odd mutant cross between Black Metal-era Venom and The Side 2s of the mighty [b]Black Flag. I'm of course talking about the epochal second sides of both Damaged and My War (which hadn't even come out yet!) They were sludgy and doomy. Blackened and primitive. I picture Tom G Warrior as some kind of metal blacksmith. Hammering & welding in some primitive castle basement with sparks flying all over the place. Back bent. Arms flailing over the anvil. Hammering and hammering some rare earth into this twisted, gnarled nugget . This is extreme metal incarnate. And despite its massive influence, it remains deeply underground for some reason that surpasses me. For this is primitive, raw, hardcore music at its best.
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