Death Magnetic
by Metallica
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Metallica bestography
Death Magnetic is ranked 6th 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 12,027.
(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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Death Magnetic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Death Magnetic 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 | fabm0 | 1 My Chart All Time 3 | 9/100 | - |
| 2026 | stareaterogni0n | Top 34 Music Albums of the 2000s | 30/34 | 3 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 12 Music Albums of 2008 | 4/12 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 2000s Pt 2 | 72/100 | - |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 20 Music Albums of 2008 | 1/20 | 5 |
| 2026 | munson | Top 62 Music Albums of the 2000s | 62/62 | 0 |
| 2026 | timosbuecherei | Top 15 Music Albums of the 2000s | 4/15 | 16 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 81 Music Albums of 2008 | 17/81 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2008 | 14/95 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 203 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 714 | |||
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Death Magnetic ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/07/2026 22:55 | Devilwoac | 1,529 | 97/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 19:13 |  DommeDamian | 7,794 | 49/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 11:56 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.3/100, a mean average of 67.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Death Magnetic forum mentions
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The CD version of this album is bricked to the max and sounds terrible. If you have heard the Guitar Hero 3 version, it is awesome. The loudness wars are ruining music.
This record is good, but the songs are just to damn long. In my opinion, if they had cut the majority of them down to under 5 and a half minutes, then I think it would be a 90. Also, the clipping throughout is really unfortunate. (Edited)
Anti TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/28/2014 05:09 | #130243 | TOP COMMENT
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Like it or hate it, it was a still a MAJOR improvement from St. Anger. And I sincerely appreciate the return to their old sound, regardless of how it was executed. Give the 50 year olds a break.
mayonaise93 12/25/2009 02:05 | #7860 | TOP COMMENT
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This is definitely Metallica's best work since the black album, but James Hetfield's vocals really do fall apart and brings a lot of shine off the record. Still, I'm not complaining.
way better than st anger , i enjoyed this record , seen them live not long after this came out and they were great
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