Black Future
by Vektor
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Vektor bestography
Black Future is ranked 2nd best out of 3 albums by Vektor on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Vektor is Terminal Redux which is ranked number 6566 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 201.
(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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Black Future track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Black Future rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 35 Music Albums of 2009 | 5/35 | 4 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 2009 | 5/56 | - |
| 2026 |  Graeme2 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 77/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | VanillaBean | Top 31 Music Albums of 2009 | 17/31 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Dingerbell | Top 20 Music Albums of 2009 | 12/20 | 2 |
| 2025 | vruslov | Top 97 Music Albums of 2009 | 16/97 | 4 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 2009 by Metal Storm | 2/20 | - |
| 2025 | Graeme2 | Metal | 41/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 93/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 35 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 84 | |||
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Black Future ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/12/2026 12:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,716 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2026 16:15 | Dingerbell | 4,189 | 63/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2026 03:17 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.6.
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Rhyner 03/10/2024 20:58 in What album are you listening to right now?
Mercury 05/23/2021 00:11 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionBlack Future comments
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The moment I heard the opening riffage on the title track, I knew I was in for one hell of a high-octane, head-banging marathon.
The shredding throughout this album is incredible. Not just the quality of the riffs, but the technical ability demonstrated via a couple of mind-melting guitar solos, particularly on the track Hunger for Violence, is jaw-dropping.
The drumming is extremely tight and never relies on the extreme metal cliché of double bass pedals and blast beats, although a few moderated bursts of rapid-fire bass pedals are present on the track Deoxyribonucleic Acid.
I also have to give credit to Dave DiSanto for his vocal delivery on the album. While his vocal style is likely polarising, his consistent ferocity and stellar shrieking, best showcased on the track Asteroid, has me sitting comfortably on the positive side of the divide.
This album also brings some quite progressive ideas and song structures to the table, as shown via the 10+ minute epics Forest of Legend, Dark Nebula and Accelerating Universe. Indeed, Vektor describe themselves as "space-metal" and the subject matter in the lyrics definitely lives up to such a label.
This is, by quite some distance, the best metal album I've ever heard. No album makes me headbang, try to sing or try to play air guitar along to it as much as this hidden gem of an album.
87/100.
I don't like black metal, but I was pleasantly surprised by this. Loved the fast paced music and scifi concept/lyrics, which made this a very enjoyable album. (Edited)
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