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Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection (Standards, And A Few Unorthodox Choices)

Limited to only those albums featured on Metal Storm.


1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
2.Rush - Moving Pictures
3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Created by Introspekrieg on 03.03.2010



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The Best Shit On MS

My top 100 metal albums of all time (featured on MS).

- one album per band.
- in alphabetical order.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
2.Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
4.Agruss - Morok
5.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

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Created by Paz on 21.12.2011



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BitterCOld's Top 50 Of The Zeroes

The "better half" of my top 100 of the Zeroes. In list format, now with album covers!

1.Warning - Watching From A Distance
2.Negură Bunget - OM
3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
4.Neurosis - Given To The Rising
5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Created by BitterCOld on 01.03.2010



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Favourites Of The '00s

My favourites of the 00's. Bitch and moan girls, or check some of these out.

1.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2.Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
3.The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
4.Hjarnidaudi - Pain:Noise:March
5.Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

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Created by Lucas on 02.03.2010



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The Most Majestic Releases Of All Time

This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical in general .

Albums are ranked by the year,I think this way is more useful.

I will keep expanding my list as i can.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2.Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
3.Deinonychus - The Silence Of December
4.Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age
5.Burzum - Filosofem

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Created by Roxana.M on 10.06.2015



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Mz's favorite black metal albums

My favorite BM records. Recommendation are more than welcomed.

1.777Babalon - Eschatological Beast Of The Revelation
2.Advent Sorrow - As All Light Leaves Her
3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
4.Agruss - Morok
5.Aion - Verses Of Perdition

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Created by mz on 04.09.2013



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Neachy's Select: Black Metal

1.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3.Master's Hammer - Ritual
4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
5.Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

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Created by Neachy on 03.06.2014



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One-album Metal Wonders

A list of bands who have released just one album. Feel free to recommend!

Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.

1.ABACABB - Survivalist
2.Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra
3.Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary
4.Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament
5.Age Of Silence - Acceleration

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Created by RaduP on 20.09.2014



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mz's Favs

These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this list short.

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3.Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
4.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
5.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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Created by mz on 09.05.2013



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My Favorite Albums: 2000s

I updated the list, so there are now 100 entries, and I consider 100 to be to little. These are albums I listen to regularly, and some I listened to frantically for a while.

1.Rapture - Songs For The Withering
2.System Of A Down - Toxicity
3.Warning - Watching From A Distance
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
5.Converge - Jane Doe

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Created by Mikyz on 11.04.2010



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Andy top black metal albums

My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound
2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 26.04.2021



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Omega_Switch's Listism: Top Black Metal Albums

1.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
2.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
3.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Created by omega_switch on 19.03.2011



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That Cold Black Magic, By Glenn Killer And His Thorchestra

As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

On the off-chance that you've found this and actually care about what I think (you shouldn't), be advised that my favorites come first. Some are favorites in the general sense; some are favorites within black metal. The first few of those are in some order and not so much after that.

Because this is for my own purposes and not intended to be a definitive list of pure black metal, there are some black metal-adjacent bands, or albums by black metal bands that may not themselves be black metal. That's why you'll find so much Sigh clogging up the top of the list. I prefer to keep whole discographies together on one list. I used to include Primordial, Forefather, and other such bands, but a while back I created a list for folk and I decided that those artists would fit better there.

I update these lists very infrequently. This was last updated December 7, 2022.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
2.Sigh - Graveward
3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4.Sigh - Heir To Despair
5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 31.03.2015



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The Timeless

1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified on 12 February 2022)
4.The genre is primary one.
Last modified on 1 April 2017

...NOTICE: I'm reselecting albums & EPs for "The Timeless Ver2". This will be a bit more stringently selected than "ver1".

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
3.Krallice - Diotima
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

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Created by Lastempire on 07.07.2012



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Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal

Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done" metal band/album that isn't on my list, feel free to recommend

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
4.Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
5.Thorns - Thorns

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Created by sgtrobo on 25.08.2021