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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 |
My Favorite Progressive Metal Albums
| 1. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 2. | Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy |
| 3. | Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite |
| 4. | Circus Maximus - Isolate |
| 5. | Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate |
| + 15 more |
1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die
An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically…
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 2. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 5. | Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself |
| + 350 more |
Prog Amazing Favourites
Without following any specific order. Some albums are more power/symphonic/thrash than prog but for some reasons i thought they deserved a place in this list.
| 1. | Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane |
| 2. | Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day |
| 3. | Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter |
| 4. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 5. | Sun Caged - The Lotus Effect |
| + 69 more |
My Top 20 Favorite Albuns
Top metal albuns based on the influence they have in my personality and by the way they changed some ideas and theories I had.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| 3. | Therion - Secret Of The Runes |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 5. | Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame |
| + 15 more |
My Favorite Progressive Metal Albums
My favorite progressive metal albums (derived/mixed genres included). Lot of stuff still missing here since I have a terrible memory 
I think everything here is at least 8,5/10.
Please, feel free to…
I think everything here is at least 8,5/10.Please, feel free to…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Awake |
| 2. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Train Of Thought |
| 5. | Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day |
| + 77 more |
Prog from Around the World
In alphabetical order by country.
| 1. | Voyager - I Am The ReVolution |
| 2. | Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree |
| 3. | Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| 4. | Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River |
| 5. | Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous |
| + 10 more |
Rock & Metal Ballads Collection
Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.
| 1. | Accept - Balls To The Wall |
| 2. | Accept - Blood Of The Nations |
| 3. | Accept - Eat The Heat |
| 4. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 5. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| + 420 more |
Best Albums Of 2000-2010
In no order, just the my favorite of that decade.
| 1. | Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came |
| 2. | Equilibrium - Sagas |
| 3. | The Defaced - Karma In Black |
| 4. | Susperia - Vindication |
| 5. | Masterplan - Aeronautics |
| + 63 more |
The Ultimate Metal Albums
My personal favorites. These albums are as perfect as an album can get, they always bring up the adrenaline and have in many ways changed the way I perceive music, expanding the horizons of metal in various…
| 1. | Angra - Temple Of Shadows |
| 2. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| 3. | Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy |
| 4. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith |
| + 34 more |
Top 200 Overrated Albums
**Trigger warning**
Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.
I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…
Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.
I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…
| 1. | Anathema - Judgement |
| 2. | Paradise Lost - Draconian Times |
| 3. | Anathema - Alternative 4 |
| 4. | Motörhead - Ace Of Spades |
| 5. | Motörhead - Overkill |
| + 193 more |
Brilliance Of Decadence: Top 10 Metal Albums Of 2007
My personal annual choice for top 10 metal albums for each year. 2007 selection, fantastic year with at least 50 quality albums.
| 1. | Epica - The Divine Conspiracy |
| 2. | Dark Tranquillity - Fiction |
| 3. | Turisas - The Varangian Way |
| 4. | Therion - Gothic Kabbalah |
| 5. | Sirenia - Nine Destinies And A Downfall |
| + 22 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (C)
This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…
| 1. | Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony |
| 2. | Cadaveria - In Your Blood |
| 3. | Caïna - Mourner |
| 4. | Caïnan Dawn - F.O.H.A.T. |
| 5. | Cain's Offering - Stormcrow |
| + 185 more |
Top 100 (+8) Of 2005-2009
2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722
I…
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722
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| 1. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 2. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 3. | Be'lakor - Stone's Reach |
| 4. | Gojira - From Mars To Sirius |
| 5. | Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die |
| + 103 more |
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