Fantasy Empire
by Lightning Bolt

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Fantasy Empire by Lightning Bolt
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-03-24
Overall rank: 26,820th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 48 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (597th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (6,088th)
Award Best albums of all time (26,820th)

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Lightning Bolt bestography

Fantasy Empire is ranked 5th best out of 7 albums by Lightning Bolt on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lightning Bolt is Wonderful Rainbow which is ranked number 4347 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 333.

Lightning Bolt album bestography « Higher ranked (16,245th)
Sonic Citadel This album (26,820th)
Fantasy Empire Lower ranked (26,820th) »
Fantasy Empire

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Fantasy Empire rankings

Fantasy Empire rankings summary
Overall rank: 26,820th | 2010s rank: 6,088th | 2015 rank: 597th  Overall chart history
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Fantasy Empire ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 48 votes)
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 !		07/13/2026 07:47 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,24170/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.


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Fantasy Empire forum mentions

This album has been referenced 7 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From Repo 07/27/2022 19:42 in My discoveries per year
“These are the two albums of 2015 I listened to: An album I already own/know: This is a wild album. The guitar bursts sound like electronic but they're definitely guitar, the drums are fast and lound and the screaming is utterly sick. But sometimes the songs lack a bit of flesh so I downgraded some…”
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From Tap 12/15/2015 04:23 in Taplog
“12/14 33. by Lightning Bolt 34. by Aphex Twin 35. by Broadcast 36. John Abercrombie 38. by Jymptom (First Listen) 39. by Nochexxx 40. by Battles _____________________ by Battles (2015) I remember back on the peer to peer platform Soulseek, there was this long convoluted history to the software that…”
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From NickVolos 04/07/2015 16:45 in What album are you listening to right now?
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From 03/23/2015 21:02 | #137608
What to say about this record? It rocks, it's fucking nasty, the vocals are indecipherable, it's metal 100%...like PRIMAL... err, what else do you want?
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From 10/22/2015 21:09 | #151876
Without doubt the best release of the year. Uncompromising and spiritual simultaneously
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