A Natural Disaster
by Anathema

A Natural Disaster by Anathema
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 7,834th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (150th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,355th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,834th)

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Anathema bestography

A Natural Disaster is ranked 5th best out of 21 albums by Anathema on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Anathema is Weather Systems which is ranked number 3092 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 493.

Anathema album bestography « Higher ranked (7,810th)
Distant Satellites
This album (7,834th)
A Natural Disaster
Lower ranked (7,834th) »
A Natural Disaster

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A Natural Disaster rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,834th | 2000s rank: 1,355th | 2003 rank: 150th
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2026mrmcrookTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s78/1005
2026 dihansseTop 71 Music Albums of 200323/713
2026MasterOfPuppetsTop 500 Albums: 101-20062/100 -
2026mrmcrookTop 42 Music Albums of 20038/424
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 200346/1003
2026stevengnzTop 100 Music Albums of 200372/1001
2026 Robert Anton WilsonTop 17 Music Albums of 20033/174
2025ThuramThugoodTop 56 Music Albums of 200340/562
2025cronadigallinaTop 100 Music Albums of 200340/1003
2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 200392/1000
2025MasterOfPuppetsTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s36/10013
2025MasterOfPuppetsTop 17 Music Albums of 20036/174
2024FieryGunHandTop 40 Music Albums of 200320/403
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 200380/1001
2023Steppenwolf666Top 100 Music Albums of 200345/1003
2023 MW19704UTop 50 Music Albums of 200331/502
2023Steppenwolf666Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s39/10012
2023thekrauterTop 92 Music Albums of the 2000s55/928
2022 djrodoTop 25 Music Albums of 20035/254
2021 djrodoTop 59 Music Albums of the 2000s41/596
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 41
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 162
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A Natural Disaster ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 62 votes)
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70/100
 
06/03/2026 01:39 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,41670/100
 
90/100
 
04/25/2026 23:24 Robert Anton Wil  Ratings distribution  1,14184/100
 
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02/06/2026 03:29 mrmcrook  Ratings distribution  1,09277/100
 
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01/20/2025 12:42 doombringer  Ratings distribution  2,27975/100
 
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11/07/2024 03:11 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,49565/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.

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80/100
From 11/28/2020 22:36 | #261603
A hard album to put into words. Beautiful ?? Atmospheric ?? Hypnotic ?? The sense of underlying darkness ??
Whatever it may be this is a brilliant album. Just keeps growing on me and gets better every time. Prog rock on a heavier scale.
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From 02/19/2016 02:01 | #160175
Closer and Flying are two of my favorite songs <3
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