Maximum - Metallica (Максимум)

Among the 471 stations in Russia with pages, Maximum - Metallica (Максимум) is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The open count against Maximum - Metallica (Максимум) is four, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Among 471 stations in Russia here, this is the only one that puts metal first. The metal rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

On the same tag worldwide it is 8 of 33, which is inside the top quarter of every metal station the directory carries.

Maximum - Metallica (Максимум) streams at 96 kbps, under Russia's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from metallica.hostingradio.ru, which no other entry in Russia uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.