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Average rating: The classic calculation of the average but more weight is affected to the rating of collaborators and to rating with reviews.
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#	Ratings	Title Artist	Metal Subgenre (Release Type)
1	4.76 · 19 ratings QWR = 4.47	Legends Of The Shires THRESHOLD	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
2	4.47 · 201 ratings QWR = 4.45	Still Life OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
3	4.44 · 244 ratings QWR = 4.42	Images and Words DREAM THEATER	Progressive Metal Album · 1992
4	4.46 · 79 ratings QWR = 4.40	The Mountain HAKEN	Progressive Metal Album · 2013
5	4.42 · 178 ratings QWR = 4.40	Operation: Mindcrime QUEENSRŸCHE	Progressive Metal Album · 1988
6	4.59 · 23 ratings QWR = 4.39	Horizons ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2014
7	4.40 · 88 ratings QWR = 4.35	Anno Domini High Definition RIVERSIDE	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
8	4.38 · 142 ratings QWR = 4.34	Lateralus TOOL	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
9	4.36 · 158 ratings QWR = 4.33	Ghost Reveries OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 2005
10	4.46 · 30 ratings QWR = 4.32	Under The Red Cloud AMORPHIS	Progressive Metal Album · 2015
11	4.36 · 83 ratings QWR = 4.31	Remedy Lane PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 2002
12	4.42 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.31	The Detached ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
13	4.35 · 97 ratings QWR = 4.31	The Human Equation AYREON	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
14	4.32 · 197 ratings QWR = 4.30	Metropolis, Part 2: Scenes From a Memory DREAM THEATER	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
15	4.97 · 6 ratings QWR = 4.30	The Roads Leading North LASCAILLE'S SHROUD	Progressive Metal Album · 2016
16	4.70 · 10 ratings QWR = 4.30	Resolve MINDMAZE	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
17	4.33 · 105 ratings QWR = 4.30	Ziltoid The Omniscient DEVIN TOWNSEND	Progressive Metal Album · 2007
18	4.30 · 163 ratings QWR = 4.28	Blackwater Park OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
19	4.42 · 26 ratings QWR = 4.27	The Source AYREON	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
20	4.48 · 18 ratings QWR = 4.27	Veil of Imagination WILDERUN	Progressive Metal Album · 2019
21	4.80 · 7 ratings QWR = 4.26	Ultima Ratio SUPERIOR	Progressive Metal Album · 2002
22	4.54 · 13 ratings QWR = 4.26	Eden in Reverse HAIL SPIRIT NOIR	Progressive Metal Album · 2020
23	5.00 · 5 ratings QWR = 4.26	The Iron Cemetery ILLUSION SUITE	Progressive Metal Album · 2013
24	4.49 · 16 ratings QWR = 4.26	Idmen INDUKTI	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
25	4.56 · 12 ratings QWR = 4.26	Shiki SIGH	Progressive Metal Album · 2022
26	4.48 · 15 ratings QWR = 4.24	Altered Reflections DARKOLOGY	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
27	4.30 · 52 ratings QWR = 4.23	RIITIIR ENSLAVED	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
28	4.43 · 17 ratings QWR = 4.23	Art Of Life X JAPAN	Progressive Metal Album · 1993
29	4.24 · 151 ratings QWR = 4.22	Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence DREAM THEATER	Progressive Metal Album · 2002
30	4.27 · 66 ratings QWR = 4.22	Colors BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME	Progressive Metal Album · 2007
31	4.35 · 26 ratings QWR = 4.22	Theories Of Flight FATES WARNING	Progressive Metal Album · 2016
32	4.59 · 9 ratings QWR = 4.22	Dividing Lines THRESHOLD	Progressive Metal Album · 2022
33	4.43 · 15 ratings QWR = 4.21	Exile TO-MERA	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
34	4.40 · 17 ratings QWR = 4.21	Queen Of Time AMORPHIS	Progressive Metal Album · 2018
35	4.43 · 15 ratings QWR = 4.21	Melotronical FACTORY OF DREAMS	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
36	4.28 · 42 ratings QWR = 4.21	Andromeda Unchained ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2007
37	4.28 · 43 ratings QWR = 4.21	The Fragile Art of Existence CONTROL DENIED	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
38	4.25 · 64 ratings QWR = 4.20	Temple of Shadows ANGRA	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
39	4.24 · 69 ratings QWR = 4.20	Entropia PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 1997
40	4.23 · 91 ratings QWR = 4.19	Terria DEVIN TOWNSEND	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
41	4.37 · 18 ratings QWR = 4.19	On This Perfect Day GUILT MACHINE	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
42	4.24 · 74 ratings QWR = 4.19	Perfect Symmetry FATES WARNING	Progressive Metal Album · 1989
43	4.23 · 75 ratings QWR = 4.19	01011001 AYREON	Progressive Metal Album · 2008
44	4.50 · 10 ratings QWR = 4.19	Soliloquy TEODOR TUFF	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
45	4.24 · 58 ratings QWR = 4.19	Axioma Ethica Odini ENSLAVED	Progressive Metal Album · 2010
46	4.70 · 6 ratings QWR = 4.18	The End Is Begun THREE	Progressive Metal Album · 2007
47	4.25 · 41 ratings QWR = 4.17	Underworld SYMPHONY X	Progressive Metal Album · 2015
48	4.37 · 15 ratings QWR = 4.17	Cybion KALISIA	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
49	4.59 · 7 ratings QWR = 4.17	Bloom CALIGULA'S HORSE	Progressive Metal Album · 2015
50	4.27 · 27 ratings QWR = 4.16	S.U.S.A.R. INDUKTI	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
51	4.30 · 22 ratings QWR = 4.16	E ENSLAVED	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
52	4.75 · 5 ratings QWR = 4.16	Interference ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2023
53	4.26 · 29 ratings QWR = 4.16	Affinity HAKEN	Progressive Metal Album · 2016
54	4.31 · 19 ratings QWR = 4.16	The Wake VOIVOD	Progressive Metal Album · 2018
55	4.42 · 11 ratings QWR = 4.16	Covered in Black ANUBIS GATE	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
56	4.25 · 33 ratings QWR = 4.16	Subsurface THRESHOLD	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
57	4.19 · 96 ratings QWR = 4.16	The Perfect Element, Part 1 PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 2000
58	4.48 · 9 ratings QWR = 4.16	Trouble With Machines DISTRICT 97	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
59	4.88 · 4 ratings QWR = 4.16	In Forgotten Sleep LÖR	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
60	4.19 · 79 ratings QWR = 4.15	V: The New Mythology Suite SYMPHONY X	Progressive Metal Album · 2000
61	4.50 · 8 ratings QWR = 4.15	Black Light Syndrome BOZZIO LEVIN STEVENS	Progressive Metal Album · 1997
62	4.20 · 48 ratings QWR = 4.14	Synchestra DEVIN TOWNSEND	Progressive Metal Album · 2006
63	4.24 · 28 ratings QWR = 4.14	I Am Anonymous HEADSPACE	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
64	4.60 · 6 ratings QWR = 4.14	Manikin Parade VANGOUGH	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
65	4.19 · 53 ratings QWR = 4.14	Sympathetic Resonance ARCH / MATHEOS	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
66	4.18 · 70 ratings QWR = 4.14	Visions HAKEN	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
67	4.33 · 14 ratings QWR = 4.14	Five Deadly Venoms SHAOLIN DEATH SQUAD	Progressive Metal Album · 2010
68	4.25 · 25 ratings QWR = 4.14	Delusions TO-MERA	Progressive Metal Album · 2008
69	4.17 · 84 ratings QWR = 4.13	Iconoclast SYMPHONY X	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
70	4.81 · 4 ratings QWR = 4.13	Liquid Tension Experiment 3 LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT	Progressive Metal Album · 2021
71	4.36 · 12 ratings QWR = 4.13	In Contact CALIGULA'S HORSE	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
72	4.20 · 41 ratings QWR = 4.13	Nothing MESHUGGAH	Progressive Metal Album · 2002
73	4.67 · 5 ratings QWR = 4.13	Planet X DEREK SHERINIAN	Progressive Metal Album · 1999
74	4.20 · 39 ratings QWR = 4.13	The Outer Limits VOIVOD	Progressive Metal Album · 1993
75	4.37 · 11 ratings QWR = 4.13	Winter Ethereal ARCH / MATHEOS	Progressive Metal Album · 2019
76	4.20 · 37 ratings QWR = 4.13	Weightless ANIMALS AS LEADERS	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
77	4.17 · 65 ratings QWR = 4.13	One Hour by the Concrete Lake PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 1998
78	4.27 · 18 ratings QWR = 4.13	In The Passing Light Of Day PAIN OF SALVATION	Progressive Metal Album · 2017
79	4.22 · 26 ratings QWR = 4.12	Poets And Madmen SAVATAGE	Progressive Metal Album · 2001
80	4.17 · 55 ratings QWR = 4.12	Deconstruction DEVIN TOWNSEND	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
81	4.44 · 8 ratings QWR = 4.12	The Grand Design DAY SIX	Progressive Metal Album · 2010
82	4.96 · 3 ratings QWR = 4.11	Playing the Universe SONIC PULSAR	Progressive Metal Album · 2003
83	4.47 · 7 ratings QWR = 4.11	Revel In Time STAR ONE	Progressive Metal Album · 2022
84	4.14 · 105 ratings QWR = 4.11	The Divine Wings Of Tragedy SYMPHONY X	Progressive Metal Album · 1996
85	4.19 · 31 ratings QWR = 4.11	March Of Progress THRESHOLD	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
86	4.61 · 5 ratings QWR = 4.11	Sublimation CANVAS SOLARIS	Progressive Metal Album · 2004
87	4.15 · 60 ratings QWR = 4.11	No Exit FATES WARNING	Progressive Metal Album · 1988
88	4.14 · 82 ratings QWR = 4.11	Parallels FATES WARNING	Progressive Metal Album · 1991
89	4.18 · 36 ratings QWR = 4.11	In Cauda Venenum OPETH	Progressive Metal Album · 2019
90	4.17 · 40 ratings QWR = 4.11	Victims of the Modern Age STAR ONE	Progressive Metal Album · 2010
91	4.31 · 12 ratings QWR = 4.11	The Tide, The Thief & River’s End CALIGULA'S HORSE	Progressive Metal Album · 2013
92	4.52 · 6 ratings QWR = 4.11	Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God SCULPTURED	Progressive Metal Album · 2008
93	4.24 · 18 ratings QWR = 4.10	Gordian Knot GORDIAN KNOT	Progressive Metal Album · 1998
94	4.17 · 38 ratings QWR = 4.10	Tales Of The Sands MYRATH	Progressive Metal Album · 2011
95	4.19 · 27 ratings QWR = 4.10	Coma Ecliptic BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME	Progressive Metal Album · 2015
96	4.15 · 47 ratings QWR = 4.10	Elegy AMORPHIS	Progressive Metal Album · 1996
97	4.22 · 19 ratings QWR = 4.10	Psykerion THOUGHT CHAMBER	Progressive Metal Album · 2013
98	4.19 · 27 ratings QWR = 4.10	Utopia DISTORTED HARMONY	Progressive Metal Album · 2012
99	4.18 · 28 ratings QWR = 4.10	Digital Ghosts SHADOW GALLERY	Progressive Metal Album · 2009
100	4.57 · 5 ratings QWR = 4.09	Elements SPEAKING TO STONES	Progressive Metal Album · 2012

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