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My share of experime(n)tal music and other innovative stuff

I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated. So finally, there are Unexpect and Pain Of Salvation next to Bands like Kamelot and Savatage. Also, some Non-Metal Bands got involved like Jeff Buckley and Oingo Boingo. But could you imagine how PoS would sound without Jeffs influence? Or what would have become of Mr. Bungle if it weren't for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo?!

1.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
2.Kalisia - Cybion
3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
4.Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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Created by In5anity on 13.08.2011



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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums

An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2.Opeth - Morningrise
3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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Created by Redel on 01.03.2014



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Top 20 Concept Albums

TOP 20 METAL CONCEPT ALBUMS

I was always fascinated by the good concept albums, which manage to tell the story in a extraordinary fashion. So I decided to make a list of best concetual metal albums up to date. I decided to concentrate on truly conceptual albums, since loosening the criteria too much would leave me with having bunch of fantastic albums, which would simply be too much to put on the list. Yes, it would probably be a lot easier to make a huge list, but I wanted to concentrate on a truly top concept-related albums. So since they do not strictly tell about some event, or follow the same story, I decided to drop out loose conceptuals. Unfortunately the likes of "Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens", "Sabaton - The Art of War" or "Nightwish - Century Child", "Bloodbound - Nosferatu" most of the Therion's albums, Amorphis and so on, went out of the list. I raised the criteria for the 'conceptual' since also there is really a lot of top-quality albums that are connected with a loose story, but they are simply not tight enough to label them as truly concept albums?Otherwise I might as well write a list of 100 albums. Also I tried to avoid multiple occurances of the same band, hence only one album from Ayreon, Symphony X, Evergrey, etc, otherwise they would probably fill up half of the bloody list.

1.Sabaton - Carolus Rex
2.Kamelot - Epica
3.Kamelot - The Black Halo
4.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
5.Turisas - The Varangian Way

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Created by RhaegarTargaryen on 27.02.2012



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Top 25 Heavy Albuns

I'm not a methodic person, so i put my 25 favorite of my collection (are missing some albuns, so my top can chance) from heavy metal (not death, not black, not doom, not folk... only heavy... or anything this could mean)

1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet
2.Virgin Steele - Invictus
3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Rage - XIII
5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Created by Thunderhead on 17.02.2011



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1995

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1995 was amazing, great Black metal albums, Iconic power metal releases, Death second best album and one of the best years for gothic metal. I had to make some rough cuts, so as honorable mentions: Stormcrowfleet by Skepticism, De Profundis by Vader, Destroy Erase Improve by Meshuggah, Ночь Короче Дня by Aria and Orchid by Opeth, 95 was a great year for metal🤘🤘


My favorite non metal albums of 1995

1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
By The Smashing Pumpkins (Alternative Rock, Dream Pop, Grunge)



2. Post
By Björk (Art Pop, Electronic)



3. Brown Sugar
By D'Angelo (Neo Soul, Contemporary R&B)



4. Wowee Zowee
By Pavement (Indie Rock, Noise Rock)



5. Liquid Swords
By Genius/GZA (East coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop)




My favorite movie from 1995


1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
2.Death - Symbolic
3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
4.The Gathering - Mandylion
5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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Created by Handala on 27.07.2022



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Savatage Albums Ranked From Best To Worst

1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
2.Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan
3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
4.Savatage - Poets And Madmen
5.Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling

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Created by majormalfunction on 05.04.2020



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My Most Popular Albums

From last.fm (27.07.12)

1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
2.Machine Head - Unto The Locust
3.Machine Head - The Blackening
4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
5.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

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Created by IlCains on 27.07.2012



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WorpeX's All-Time Favorite Albums

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
2.Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
3.Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens
4.Amorphis - Silent Waters
5.Evergrey - The Inner Circle

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Created by WorpeX on 20.03.2011



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Top 10 Metal Albums Of 1995

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
2.Death - Symbolic
3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
4.Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
5.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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Created by themonarch on 13.03.2011



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Top 50 Of 1995-1999

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Sentenced - Amok
3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
4.Anathema - Alternative 4
5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 19.08.2022



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M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites

Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Ayreon - 01011001
4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Created by M0rkeleb on 16.10.2015



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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 1990's (On Going)

1.Death - Human
2.Opeth - Still Life
3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
4.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Created by Red_Travis on 11.02.2012



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Savatage Best To Worst

1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet
2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
4.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
5.Savatage - Dead Winter Dead

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 26.10.2021



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1995 (An Exploration)

My personal exploration of the year I was born, I'll keep updating this list as I find albums I enjoy

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
2.Death - Symbolic
3.Virgin Steele - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Part II
4.Motörhead - Sacrifice
5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 25.08.2021



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Top 15 Heavy Metal Albums Of 1995

1.Aria - Ночь Короче Дня
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
4.Paragon - World Of Sin
5.Grave Digger - Heart Of Darkness

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 04.05.2014