Kings Of Metal
by Manowar
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Kings Of Metal is ranked as the best album by Manowar.
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Kings Of Metal track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Kings Of Metal 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 | svk4ever | Top 50 Music Albums of 1988 | 44/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | 1988: Metal | 29/42 | - |
| 2026 | munson | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 49/100 | 49 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Atlantic | 51/100 | - |
| 2026 | Repo | Top 87 Music Albums of 1988 | 44/87 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Strangel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 22/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 5 Music Albums of 1988 | 5/5 | 1 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 75/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 91 Music Albums of 1988 | 30/91 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1988 by Metal Storm | 13/20 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 32 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 191 | |||
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Kings Of Metal ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 13:40 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,858 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 12:11 | Adhura | 1,732 | 77/100 |
| ! | 03/04/2026 13:48 | steve397 | 513 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.6/100, a mean average of 70.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.2.
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Kings Of Metal forum mentions
Repo 09/23/2019 18:05 in What album are you listening to right now?Kings Of Metal comments
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My vote goes to the vinyl edition w/o "Pleasure Slave"! Hilarious album!! Just epic. ;))) (Edited)
Strangel TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/04/2021 01:49 | #269336 | TOP COMMENT
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For all their cartoonish, easily mocked, chest-beating, mythology-enhanced buffoonery they are actually an extremely talented band with one of best singers in the history of rock... and this is the peak of their art... minus Pleasure Slave, which is just plain cringe... (Edited)
doombringer 04/09/2026 12:09 | #313824 | TOP COMMENT
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Following the two predecessors who commented on this album I gave the Vinyl-Version a five star rating .
CD-Version gets a four-star rating due to that awful track `Pleasure Slave` . The most skip-worthy track in metal-history . (Edited)
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