Black Future
by Vektor

Black Future by Vektor
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-11-17
Overall rank: 13,646th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 45 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (238th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,444th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,646th)

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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 6518 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 202.

Vektor album bestography « Higher ranked (6,518th)
Terminal Redux
This album (13,646th)
Black Future
Lower ranked (31,827th) »
Outer Isolation

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Black Future rankings

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Overall rank: 13,646th | 2000s rank: 2,444th | 2009 rank: 238th
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2026saltysurpriseTop 35 Music Albums of 20095/354
2026 Graeme2Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s77/1005
2026VanillaBeanTop 31 Music Albums of 200917/312
2026 DingerbellTop 20 Music Albums of 200912/202
2025 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 20094/55 -
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2025 Graeme2Metal41/100 -
2025vruslovTop 97 Music Albums of 200916/974
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 200993/1000
2024 LowkeyTop 99 Music Albums of 200924/994
2023 MW19704UTop 70 Music Albums of 200915/704
2023pjr428Top 43 Music Albums of 20095/435
2023pjr428Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s46/10011
2023 MW19704UThe Hitchhiker's Guide To Thrash Metal80/100 -
2022 Mercurypart 2 of You must listen to the album below you:canon edition11/100 -
2022 MercuryTop 44 Music Albums of 20097/444
2022LosWochosTop 100 Music Albums of 200961/1002
2020 Tha1ChiefRockaBestever Metal Albums35/79 -
2020 Tha1ChiefRockaTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s79/1004
2020 SpyglassTop 17 Music Albums of 20095/17 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 34
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 85
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 45 votes)
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4 days ago Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,43270/100
 
70/100
 
03/31/2026 16:15 Dingerbell  Ratings distribution  4,06662/100
 
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01/28/2026 03:17 adbrack1988  Ratings distribution  1,09883/100
 
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11/27/2025 16:53 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,75664/100
 
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05/01/2024 13:53 saltysurprise  Ratings distribution  2,94483/100

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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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90/100
From 02/22/2019 19:53 | #232416
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.
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From 04/25/2016 11:02 | #164445
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.
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