Gutter Ballet
by Savatage

Gutter Ballet by Savatage
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 6,698th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 48 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (90th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (971st)
Award Best albums of all time (6,698th)

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Savatage bestography

Gutter Ballet is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by Savatage on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Savatage is Hall Of The Mountain King which is ranked number 4215 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 339.

Savatage album bestography « Higher ranked (4,215th)
Hall Of The Mountain King
This album (6,698th)
Gutter Ballet
Lower ranked (11,254th) »
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(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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Gutter Ballet rankings

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Overall rank: 6,698th | 1980s rank: 971st | 1989 rank: 90th

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02/19/2026 20:43 saltysurprise  Ratings distribution  2,94283/100
 
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01/21/2026 22:01 DJStuart79  Ratings distribution  5,90858/100
 
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09/15/2024 14:20 Strangel  Ratings distribution  99274/100
 
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04/11/2024 18:48 LosWochos  Ratings distribution  46,88575/100
 
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11/10/2023 17:26 FreakWolfenstein  Ratings distribution  3,97571/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.

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95/100
From 10/25/2022 16:13 | #290792
What a record, looking at Streams in Spotify or Apple Music ... maybe one of the most underrated metal albums of all time.
Not one bad or repetitive song. Vocals, Mix, Production, Guitars, ... everything on point.
Gutter Ballet is maybe the best song they ever wrote. Of Rage and War, When the Crowds are gone, Hounds, Unholy, Shes in Love, Mentally Yours all are equally great but differ enough from each other.
The Rest with Temptation Revelation, Silk and Steel, Summers Rain, Thorazine Shuffle are a little bit worse but only compared to the exceptional rest, on a "normal" metal record it would still be more than great songs.

In my opinion even better than the Hall of the Mountain King...
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75/100
From 05/17/2012 05:38 | #42543
After the Hall of the Mountain King, there were great expectations with this release. Overall it isn't as strong as HOTMK. It is considerably more "theatrical" and Jon Oliva's vocals become a bit grating.
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