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#	Ratings	Title Artist	Metal Subgenre (Release Type)
1	4.53 · 295 ratings QWR = 4.51	Master of Puppets METALLICA	Thrash Metal Album · 1986
2	4.52 · 235 ratings QWR = 4.50	Paranoid BLACK SABBATH	Heavy Metal Album · 1970
3	4.52 · 191 ratings QWR = 4.49	Moving Pictures RUSH	Hard Rock Album · 1981
4	4.50 · 245 ratings QWR = 4.48	Powerslave IRON MAIDEN	NWoBHM Album · 1984
5	4.50 · 164 ratings QWR = 4.47	Rising RAINBOW	Heavy Metal Album · 1976
6	4.49 · 175 ratings QWR = 4.46	Led Zeppelin IV LED ZEPPELIN	Hard Rock Album · 1971
7	4.47 · 201 ratings QWR = 4.45	Still Life OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
8	4.47 · 247 ratings QWR = 4.45	Rust in Peace MEGADETH	Thrash Metal Album · 1990
9	4.47 · 180 ratings QWR = 4.44	Symbolic DEATH	Technical Death Metal Album · 1995
10	4.46 · 164 ratings QWR = 4.44	Sad Wings Of Destiny JUDAS PRIEST	Heavy Metal Album · 1976
11	4.46 · 149 ratings QWR = 4.43	Painkiller JUDAS PRIEST	Power Metal Album · 1990
12	4.57 · 32 ratings QWR = 4.43	Argus WISHBONE ASH	Proto-Metal Album · 1972
13	4.45 · 214 ratings QWR = 4.43	Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son IRON MAIDEN	Heavy Metal Album · 1988
14	4.45 · 152 ratings QWR = 4.42	Machine Head DEEP PURPLE	Hard Rock Album · 1972
15	4.44 · 241 ratings QWR = 4.42	Ride the Lightning METALLICA	Thrash Metal Album · 1984
16	4.44 · 244 ratings QWR = 4.42	Images and Words DREAM THEATER	Progressive Metal Album · 1992
17	4.45 · 145 ratings QWR = 4.42	A Farewell to Kings RUSH	Hard Rock Album · 1977
18	4.49 · 58 ratings QWR = 4.41	At the Heart of Winter IMMORTAL	Black Metal Album · 1999
19	4.45 · 135 ratings QWR = 4.41	Deep Purple In Rock DEEP PURPLE	Hard Rock Album · 1970
20	4.44 · 134 ratings QWR = 4.41	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II HELLOWEEN	Power Metal Album · 1988
21	4.50 · 45 ratings QWR = 4.40	Are You Experienced? JIMI HENDRIX	Proto-Metal Album · 1967
22	4.46 · 79 ratings QWR = 4.40	The Mountain HAKEN	Progressive Metal Album · 2013
23	4.42 · 178 ratings QWR = 4.40	Operation: Mindcrime QUEENSRŸCHE	Progressive Metal Album · 1988
24	4.52 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.38	Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness THE SMASHING PUMPKINS	Heavy Alternative Rock Album · 1995
25	4.40 · 146 ratings QWR = 4.37	Hemispheres RUSH	Hard Rock Album · 1978
26	4.48 · 39 ratings QWR = 4.37	Who's Next THE WHO	Proto-Metal Album · 1971
27	4.48 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.37	Sola Scriptura NEAL MORSE	Metal Related Album · 2007
28	4.38 · 218 ratings QWR = 4.37	The Number Of The Beast IRON MAIDEN	NWoBHM Album · 1982
29	4.39 · 138 ratings QWR = 4.36	The Sound of Perseverance DEATH	Technical Death Metal Album · 1998
30	4.41 · 86 ratings QWR = 4.36	The Mantle AGALLOCH	Folk Metal Album · 2002
31	4.39 · 132 ratings QWR = 4.36	Dirt ALICE IN CHAINS	Alternative Metal Album · 1992
32	4.42 · 67 ratings QWR = 4.36	Queen II QUEEN	Proto-Metal Album · 1974
33	4.38 · 196 ratings QWR = 4.36	Master Of Reality BLACK SABBATH	Heavy Metal Album · 1971
34	4.40 · 88 ratings QWR = 4.35	Anno Domini High Definition RIVERSIDE	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
35	4.38 · 142 ratings QWR = 4.35	Lateralus TOOL	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
36	4.39 · 84 ratings QWR = 4.35	Never, Neverland ANNIHILATOR	Thrash Metal Album · 1990
37	4.38 · 119 ratings QWR = 4.34	Crimson EDGE OF SANITY	Melodic Death Metal Album · 1996
38	4.36 · 162 ratings QWR = 4.34	Heaven And Hell BLACK SABBATH	Heavy Metal Album · 1980
39	4.38 · 106 ratings QWR = 4.34	Beneath the Remains SEPULTURA	Thrash Metal Album · 1989
40	4.46 · 32 ratings QWR = 4.34	Ascendancy TRIVIUM	Melodic Metalcore Album · 2005
41	4.38 · 102 ratings QWR = 4.34	Red KING CRIMSON	Proto-Metal Album · 1974
42	4.36 · 189 ratings QWR = 4.34	Somewhere In Time IRON MAIDEN	Heavy Metal Album · 1986
43	4.40 · 57 ratings QWR = 4.34	Draconian Times PARADISE LOST	Gothic Metal Album · 1995
44	4.43 · 41 ratings QWR = 4.33	The Gallery DARK TRANQUILLITY	Melodic Death Metal Album · 1995
45	4.38 · 84 ratings QWR = 4.33	Heartwork CARCASS	Melodic Death Metal Album · 1993
46	4.36 · 143 ratings QWR = 4.33	2112 RUSH	Hard Rock Album · 1976
47	4.36 · 158 ratings QWR = 4.33	Ghost Reveries OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 2005
48	4.37 · 105 ratings QWR = 4.33	Angel Dust FAITH NO MORE	Alternative Metal Album · 1992
49	4.46 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.33	Under The Red Cloud AMORPHIS	Progressive Metal Album · 2015
50	4.36 · 109 ratings QWR = 4.33	Arise SEPULTURA	Thrash Metal Album · 1991
51	4.37 · 93 ratings QWR = 4.32	Larks' Tongues In Aspic KING CRIMSON	Proto-Metal Album · 1973
52	4.43 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.32	The Dreadful Hours MY DYING BRIDE	Death-Doom Metal Album · 2001
53	4.43 · 34 ratings QWR = 4.32	Axis: Bold As Love JIMI HENDRIX	Proto-Metal Album · 1967
54	4.36 · 101 ratings QWR = 4.32	In The Court Of The Crimson King KING CRIMSON	Proto-Metal Album · 1969
55	4.35 · 137 ratings QWR = 4.32	Holy Diver DIO	Heavy Metal Album · 1983
56	4.45 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.32	Colored Sands GORGUTS	Technical Death Metal Album · 2013
57	4.42 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.32	Imaginary Sonicscape SIGH	Avant-garde Metal Album · 2001
58	4.37 · 73 ratings QWR = 4.32	Alice in Hell ANNIHILATOR	Thrash Metal Album · 1989
59	4.35 · 129 ratings QWR = 4.32	Individual Thought Patterns DEATH	Technical Death Metal Album · 1993
60	4.42 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.32	The Detached ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
61	4.36 · 83 ratings QWR = 4.31	Remedy Lane PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 2002
62	4.39 · 49 ratings QWR = 4.31	Covenant MORBID ANGEL	Death Metal Album · 1993
63	4.35 · 97 ratings QWR = 4.31	The Human Equation AYREON	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
64	4.34 · 112 ratings QWR = 4.31	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I HELLOWEEN	Power Metal Album · 1987
65	4.35 · 93 ratings QWR = 4.31	Among The Living ANTHRAX	Thrash Metal Album · 1987
66	4.33 · 167 ratings QWR = 4.31	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath BLACK SABBATH	Heavy Metal Album · 1973
67	4.35 · 76 ratings QWR = 4.30	Deadwing PORCUPINE TREE	Metal Related Album · 2005
68	4.34 · 112 ratings QWR = 4.30	Van Halen VAN HALEN	Hard Rock Album · 1978
69	4.32 · 197 ratings QWR = 4.30	Metropolis, Part 2: Scenes From a Memory DREAM THEATER	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
70	4.36 · 68 ratings QWR = 4.30	Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk EMPEROR	Symphonic Black Metal Album · 1997
71	4.36 · 68 ratings QWR = 4.30	Abigail KING DIAMOND	Heavy Metal Album · 1987
72	4.35 · 73 ratings QWR = 4.30	In the Nightside Eclipse EMPEROR	Symphonic Black Metal Album · 1994
73	4.34 · 91 ratings QWR = 4.30	In Absentia PORCUPINE TREE	Metal Related Album · 2002
74	4.38 · 46 ratings QWR = 4.30	Doomsday for the Deceiver FLOTSAM AND JETSAM	Thrash Metal Album · 1986
75	4.33 · 105 ratings QWR = 4.30	Ziltoid The Omniscient DEVIN TOWNSEND	Progressive Metal Album · 2007
76	4.35 · 63 ratings QWR = 4.30	Altars of Madness MORBID ANGEL	Death Metal Album · 1989
77	4.33 · 102 ratings QWR = 4.29	Appetite For Destruction GUNS N' ROSES	Hard Rock Album · 1987
78	4.38 · 44 ratings QWR = 4.29	No More Color CORONER	Technical Thrash Metal Album · 1989
79	4.31 · 230 ratings QWR = 4.29	...And Justice for All METALLICA	Thrash Metal Album · 1988
80	4.40 · 32 ratings QWR = 4.29	Last Fair Deal Gone Down KATATONIA	Metal Related Album · 2001
81	4.38 · 40 ratings QWR = 4.29	Billion Dollar Babies ALICE COOPER	Hard Rock Album · 1973
82	4.34 · 64 ratings QWR = 4.29	Panopticon ISIS	Atmospheric Sludge Metal Album · 2004
83	4.39 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.29	Times Of Grace NEUROSIS	Atmospheric Sludge Metal Album · 1999
84	4.34 · 65 ratings QWR = 4.28	Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious CARCASS	Death Metal Album · 1991
85	4.36 · 47 ratings QWR = 4.28	Bergtatt: Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler ULVER	Atmospheric Black Metal Album · 1995
86	4.35 · 55 ratings QWR = 4.28	Salisbury URIAH HEEP	Hard Rock Album · 1971
87	4.39 · 35 ratings QWR = 4.28	Alien STRAPPING YOUNG LAD	Industrial Metal Album · 2005
88	4.30 · 163 ratings QWR = 4.28	Blackwater Park OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
89	4.40 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.28	Darkness Descends DARK ANGEL	Thrash Metal Album · 1986
90	4.32 · 95 ratings QWR = 4.28	Second Life Syndrome RIVERSIDE	Metal Related Album · 2005
91	4.34 · 55 ratings QWR = 4.28	Fabulous Disaster EXODUS	Thrash Metal Album · 1988
92	4.31 · 106 ratings QWR = 4.28	Crack The Skye MASTODON	Sludge Metal Album · 2009
93	4.32 · 81 ratings QWR = 4.28	Unquestionable Presence ATHEIST	Technical Death Metal Album · 1991
94	4.39 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.27	Out Of The Cellar RATT	Glam Metal Album · 1984
95	4.33 · 63 ratings QWR = 4.27	Don't Break the Oath MERCYFUL FATE	Heavy Metal Album · 1984
96	4.31 · 91 ratings QWR = 4.27	Imaginations From the Other Side BLIND GUARDIAN	Power Metal Album · 1995
97	4.34 · 52 ratings QWR = 4.27	Dimension Hatröss VOIVOD	Technical Thrash Metal Album · 1988
98	4.35 · 45 ratings QWR = 4.27	Angel Witch ANGEL WITCH	NWoBHM Album · 1980
99	4.35 · 43 ratings QWR = 4.27	Secret Treaties BLUE ÖYSTER CULT	Hard Rock Album · 1974
100	4.29 · 130 ratings QWR = 4.26	Back In Black AC/DC	Hard Rock Album · 1980

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