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RATED BY THE COMMUNITY

Top-rated heavy metal bands

Find your next favourite through the community’s ratings.

How these rankings work

Weighted scores balance an item’s average with the community average and its number of ratings. Album and track scores are calculated separately. Their weighting uses at least 10 prior ratings, or the average number of ratings per rated item if that is higher. Artist charts keep the existing artist weighting. Unrated items do not enter the charts.

Formula: (votes × average + weight × community average) / (votes + weight). Choose “Average rating” for the unweighted score, or increase the minimum ratings to focus on established results.

Only registered members can submit ratings. Each account and IP address may rate an item once.

28 matching entries

  1. 1

    Iron Maiden

    8.15/10578 ratings8.37 averageRate →
  2. 2

    Beast in Black

    7.90/10247 ratings8.26 averageRate →
  3. 3

    Powerwolf

    7.82/10115 ratings8.50 averageRate →
  4. 4

    Unleash the Archers

    7.71/1071 ratings8.54 averageRate →
  5. 5

    Judas Priest

    7.69/10118 ratings8.17 averageRate →
  6. 6

    Edge of Paradise

    7.50/1055 ratings7.98 averageRate →
  7. 7

    Hammerfall

    7.45/1045 ratings7.91 averageRate →
  8. 8

    Megadeth

    7.42/1053 ratings7.70 averageRate →
  9. 9

    Apocalyptica

    7.40/1033 ratings7.76 averageRate →
  10. 10

    Halestorm

    7.35/1044 ratings7.45 averageRate →
  11. 11

    Kamelot

    7.32/1085 ratings7.32 averageRate →
  12. 12

    Gamma Ray

    7.29/1016 ratings7.00 averageRate →
  13. 13

    Parkway Drive

    7.28/1013 ratings6.85 averageRate →
  14. 14

    Avenged Sevenfold

    7.28/1031 ratings7.10 averageRate →
  15. 15

    Frozen Crown

    7.28/1025 ratings7.04 averageRate →
  16. 16

    Band-Maid

    7.27/10547 ratings7.26 averageRate →
  17. 17

    Metallica

    7.26/1047 ratings7.06 averageRate →
  18. 18

    Trivium

    7.25/1016 ratings6.63 averageRate →
  19. 19

    Anthrax

    7.24/1021 ratings6.67 averageRate →
  20. 20

    Godsmack

    7.19/1021 ratings6.29 averageRate →
  21. 21

    Dominum

    7.16/1017 ratings5.76 averageRate →
  22. 22

    Bullet for My Valentine

    7.16/1025 ratings6.20 averageRate →
  23. 23

    Ghost

    7.14/1057 ratings6.65 averageRate →
  24. 24

    Disturbed

    7.13/1027 ratings6.04 averageRate →
  25. 25

    Asking Alexandria

    7.12/1018 ratings5.44 averageRate →