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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.
[In suggested order of immersion and exposure]
+Prog Related; No musical genre exists in a vacuum.
[In suggested order of immersion and exposure]
+Prog Related; No musical genre exists in a vacuum.
| 1. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 5. | The Doors - The Doors |
| + 571 more |
2020 Album Ranking
Seems like there's a limit on how many albums this site accepts on one list. Gonna have to cut out the last ones while adding new albums for the rest of the year.
| 1. | Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota |
| 2. | Orbit Culture - Nija |
| 3. | Wolfheart - Wolves Of Karelia |
| 4. | Stormruler - Under The Burning Eclipse |
| 5. | Frozen Dreams - The Eclipse Of Eternity |
| + 894 more |
2020 - Stare Into Social Distancing And Be Still
The best of 2020 - reduced down to 25, which was no easy feat. This is still somewhat a work in progress, but far closer to a finished product.
| 1. | Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still |
| 2. | Enslaved - Utgard |
| 3. | Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration |
| 4. | Vassafor - To The Death |
| 5. | 〇 - Entity |
| + 20 more |
2020: Jan-Jun
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm not broke yet.
Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries.
I also gave…
Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries.
I also gave…
| 1. | Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man |
| 2. | Elder - Omens |
| 3. | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension |
| 4. | Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea |
| 5. | Barishi - Old Smoke |
| + 304 more |
F3ynman's Checklist
Here are albums (ordered by subgenre) that I want to listen to, but haven't yet.
For some albums, I've heard one or two songs, but not the entire album. Therefore, these albums still await…
For some albums, I've heard one or two songs, but not the entire album. Therefore, these albums still await…
| 1. | Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer |
| 2. | Below The Sun - Envoy |
| 3. | God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| 4. | Fórn - The Departure Of Consciousness |
| 5. | Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| + 305 more |
Tantric Trance Tales: A Yogi's Journey Through 2020
Ask and you shall receive. Let's see if I manage to keep up with it this time.
This list follows in the vein of the previous ones I did for 2015, 16, and 18. Here I'm chronicling my discoveries…
This list follows in the vein of the previous ones I did for 2015, 16, and 18. Here I'm chronicling my discoveries…
| 1. | Tortuga - Deities |
| 2. | Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II |
| 3. | Lotus Thief - Oresteia |
| 4. | Staurophagia - Sidereal Sacraments |
| 5. | Garganjua - Toward The Sun |
| + 40 more |
2020: Please Don't Walk On The Mass Graves
2020 is the year of positivity!!!! Or so I thought, when the year started. "This year I'm gonna stay positive and get shit done!" - and then personal crisis after personal crisis, with horrible…
| 1. | Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh |
| 2. | The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic |
| 3. | M.S.W. - Obliviosus |
| 4. | Drown - Subaqueous |
| 5. | Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi |
| + 20 more |
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…
| 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 |
| + 607 more |
2020
Bury me six feet deep
Cover me in concrete
Turn me into a street
Cover me in concrete
Turn me into a street
| 1. | Fluisteraars - Bloem |
| 2. | Neptunian Maximalism - Éons |
| 3. | Iress - Flaw |
| 4. | Drown - Subaqueous |
| 5. | Hail Spirit Noir - Eden In Reverse |
| + 123 more |
MSA 2020 All Write-ins
All write-in votes from Metal Storm Awards 2020
| 1. | Amaranthe - Manifest |
| 2. | Avatar - Hunter Gatherer |
| 3. | Amaranthe - Manifest |
| 4. | Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods |
| 5. | Monsterworks - Malignment |
| + 1248 more |
Top 30 Of 2020: A Non-exhaustive Summary Of Some Of The Highlights Of The Lowlight Year
I don't think these are necessarily the best 30 albums of this year, but they're the ones that have I guess endured in my psyche and inspiried revisits more than most others. I was tempted to…
| 1. | Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man |
| 2. | Elder - Omens |
| 3. | Enslaved - Utgard |
| 4. | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension |
| 5. | Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea |
| + 25 more |
Daddy Rambo's Baadasssss Carnage Through 2020
Brutally honest take on new albums I have listened and rated/commented in 2020 from best to worst.
My ratings:
✮✮✮✮✮ = "Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!"
✮✮✮✮½ = "If it bleeds, we can…
My ratings:
✮✮✮✮✮ = "Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!"
✮✮✮✮½ = "If it bleeds, we can…
| 1. | Neptunian Maximalism - Éons |
| 2. | Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II |
| 3. | Beherit - Bardo Exist |
| 4. | Mors Principium Est - Seven |
| 5. | Conception - State Of Deception |
| + 66 more |
My Album Of The Year, 1970-present
Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't on Metal Storm, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson, but Pink Floyd would've…
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't on Metal Storm, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson, but Pink Floyd would've…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 5. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| + 114 more |
2020 Keepers Via Spotify
Surely not everything I've listened to, not even close. Every year I use Spotify to make some megalist and start plowing through. Most albums are listened to and discarded, but those that pique my…
| 1. | 10,000 Years - 10,000 Years |
| 2. | Acid Mammoth - Under Acid Hoof |
| 3. | ...And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother |
| 4. | Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers |
| 5. | Baardvader - Baardvader |
| + 58 more |
My Top 100 Metal Albums of 2020 + 10 Honorable Mentions
1) Last year, I didn't quite finish with a strong list but I am hoping this year it will be. This time around I'm not sure if I want to do either a Top 50 or 100. It will depend on how much time…
| 1. | Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, The Seas Above |
| 2. | Circle Of Ouroborus - Viimeinen Juoksu |
| 3. | Imha Tarikat - Sternenberster |
| 4. | Drown - Subaqueous |
| 5. | Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum |
| + 106 more |