These are my favorite progressive/power metal albums that I have listened to. Some of them are for musical technique and others are simply because they blew my mind with the crazy story lines or whatever!

1.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

2.Symphony X - The Odyssey

3.Masterplan - Aeronautics

4.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

5.Theocracy - As The World Bleeds

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Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.Power up everybody!!!

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

4.Riot - ThunderSteel

5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

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These are my favorite power metal albums. Not only are they liked for their musical quality, but also for their sheer genius.

1.Dragonland - Astronomy

2.Sabaton - The Art Of War

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

5.Dream Evil - Dragonslayer

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1.Moonspell - Memorial

2.Madder Mortem - Desiderata

3.Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

4.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

5.Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes

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1.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

2.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

4.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

5.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

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1.Mercenary - The Hours That Remain

2.Amorphis - Eclipse

3.Keep Of Kalessin - Armada

4.Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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1.Persuader - When Eden Burns

2.DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage

3.Summoning - Oath Bound

4.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

5.Dalriada - Jégbontó

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1.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World

4.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

5.Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear

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1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4.Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

5.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

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1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

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One per artist

1.Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Nightwish - Once

4.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

5.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.After Forever - Decipher

5.After Forever - After Forever

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Here's my 2006 list of top albums.

1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay

3.Draconian - The Burning Halo

4.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

5.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Before The Bleeding Sun

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