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Top 250 Metal Releases Of All Time
Here’s my list of what I consider to be the best metal albums (+2 compilations and like 2 demo I think) of all time.
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Sigh - In Somniphobia |
| 3. | Vektor - Terminal Redux |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl |
| + 245 more |
A Chronology Of Masterpieces
What seems the most important albums for me in chronological order.
I wish I could carry the list year after year to see how my tastes changed and new findings.
I can help but notice that old albums immediately…
I wish I could carry the list year after year to see how my tastes changed and new findings.
I can help but notice that old albums immediately…
| 1. | The Who - Tommy |
| 2. | The Who - Tommy |
| 3. | Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat |
| 4. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 5. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| + 179 more |
Best Album Of Every Year Since 1970
Here’s a list with my top 3 favorite metal and non-metal album of every year since 1970, enjoy!
I had to stretch the definition of what is and is not metal a little bit for the 70s, just assume it also…
I had to stretch the definition of what is and is not metal a little bit for the 70s, just assume it also…
| 1. | 1970 - |
| 2. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 3. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | 1971 - |
| + 219 more |
Metal Songs And Albums That Inspired The Names Of Other Bands
This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.
While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…
While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…
| 1. | Abruptum - De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet |
| 2. | Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings |
| 3. | Anathema - Alternative 4 |
| 4. | Anathema - Weather Systems |
| 5. | Arch Enemy - Black Earth |
| + 160 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 |
My personal Top 100 Most Essential Albums (in no particular order)
This is my attempt to do impossible and choose 100 favourite full length albums. Considering that since 2006 (and of course I had been listening to music even before) I have gathered on last.fm over 10,000…
| 1. | SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day |
| 2. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors |
| 3. | Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette |
| 4. | The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine |
| 5. | Necrophagist - Epitaph |
| + 95 more |
Top 25 Albums Of 1998
Favorite releases from 1998
Updated 9/4/20
Updated 9/4/20
| 1. | Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy |
| 2. | Angelcorpse - Exterminate |
| 3. | Incantation - Diabolical Conquest |
| 4. | Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh |
| 5. | Suffocation - Despise The Sun |
| + 20 more |
The Most Essential Albums Of My Life (one Per Band, Alphabetical)
Inspired by lists of my BFF AnthropOcean (https://metalstorm.net/users/lists.php?user_id=341301) I deciced to create a list of the most important and influential records/bands here as well. These are either…
| 1. | A.I.(d) - Schematic Emergency |
| 2. | A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step |
| 3. | A Storm Of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses |
| 4. | Aara - Triade III: Nyx |
| 5. | After The Burial - Rareform |
| + 213 more |
From Death to Brutal: Essential 1996–1999 Death Metal Classics
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 3. | Immolation - Here In After |
| 4. | Bolt Thrower - Mercenary |
| 5. | Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbecue |
| + 45 more |
Albums That Made Me What I Am
This is not a list over my favourite albums, although some of them on the list of course are. These are albums that formed me, had a huge impact on me and defined my musical taste. Without some of these…
| 1. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Killers |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time |
| + 33 more |
Morbid Angel - Albums Ranked
| 1. | Morbid Angel - Covenant |
| 2. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 3. | Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick |
| 4. | Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh |
| 5. | Morbid Angel - Gateways To Annihilation |
| + 4 more |