The Nightcomers
by Holocaust

Overall rank: 14,605th | 1980s rank: 1,959th | 1981 rank: 203rd
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Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	dihansse	Top 56 Music Albums of 1981	21/56	3
2026	Repo	Micro-genres: NWOBHM	6/62	-
2026	Repo	Top 100 Music Albums of 1981	67/100	2
2026	Repo	1981: Metal	5/44	-
2026	Steppenwolf666	1981 2ND 100	2/100	-
2026	jeremy9	Top 41 Music Albums of 1981	31/41	1
2025	Johnnyo	Albums of the year 1981 by Metal Storm	19/20	-
2025	Repo	Top 100 Greatest Music Albums	47/100	48
2025	Graeme2	Metal	95/100	-
2025	MasterOfPuppets	Top 21 Music Albums of 1981	13/21	2
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		21
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		79

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75/100 (from 17 votes)

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65/100 !	12/11/2025 09:47	Exist-en-ciel	15,606	70/100
70/100 !	03/19/2025 13:57	jeremy9	3,791	70/100
80/100 !	06/15/2024 17:29	MasterOfPuppets	845	83/100

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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.8.

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BestEverAlbums 08/11/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5401): By Repo

“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by by by (1963) 4. by (1981) 5. by (1970) 6. by (1969) 7. by (1971) 8. by (1983) 9. (1986) 10. by (1965) 11. by (1984) 12. by by (1963) 14. by (1978) 15. by (2009) 16. by by (1969) 18. by (1941) 19. by (1977) 20. by (1951) 21. by (1956)…”

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Mercury 08/28/2022 19:09 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!

“I've been away awhile... got distracted a little. Now, back at it. THE NEXT SET OF PUNK AND/OR METAL RELEASES THAT HELPED SET THE GROUNDWORK FOR THRASH METAL But first, I will start by backtracking a little and covering some albums I missed from 1980 and 1981 when going through those years…”

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Mercury 08/10/2022 02:27 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!

“And tell me what metal releases honest to goodness influenced Thrash metal that were released in 1980 or 1981 or 1982 or 1983 before Kill Em All. Are there other Proto-extreme metal albums I have missed? (I will cover Accept’s 1982 album and the title track thereof of course… but there may be…”

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