Metallica
by Metallica
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Metallica bestography
Metallica is ranked 3rd best out of 30 albums by Metallica on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Metallica is Master Of Puppets which is ranked number 95 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,099.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Metallica track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Metallica rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 27 Music Albums of 1991 | 2/27 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 88 Music Albums of 1991 | 69/88 | 1 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 54 Music Albums of 1991 | 17/54 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1991 | 2/100 | - |
| 2026 |  joedec | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 40/100 | 59 |
| 2026 |  timtooky | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 42/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 29/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Greatest Albums of the 20th Century | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 50 Music Albums of 1991 | 4/50 | 5 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 4/100 | 19 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 988 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 7,047 | |||
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Metallica ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
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Showing latest 3 ratings for this album. | Show all 1,575 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 09/06/2026 08:46 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 10:50 | Tamthebam | 23,324 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 21:56 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.4/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5433): By Johnnyo BestEverAlbums 09/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5424): By fabm0Metallica comments
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Metallica transition to heavy metal here, but thankfully their thrash past makes its presence felt and the band is still pretty edgy and the playing is still great. Wonderful guitar riffs and solos, and some very good songs. They made metal and thrash accessible to a rock audience, and consequently the album sold well, even if it isn't quite as interesting as their previous albums.
Best: "Holier Than Thou" as it's a bit edgier than the rest. (Edited)
Regardless of your opinion or your ranking of this album off Metallica's albums...you can't deny how HUGE this album was for the band and metal and how it took them and the genre into a whole other stratosphere.
It just achieved the amazing feat of going 2x Diamond (20x Platinum) in America and has been on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 790 weeks. (Edited)
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Bought the vinyl recently, fantastic.
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