Top lists
Order by:
Show:
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 |
Top 500 Albums of All Time
I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Opeth - Still Life |
| + 495 more |
The Ultimate Industrial Metal Albums
Metal albums of all things techy, futuristic, distorted, synthetic and artificial of the industrial nature.
Includes some single tracks and full albums from YouTube.
Recommendations/suggestions are welcome…
Includes some single tracks and full albums from YouTube.
Recommendations/suggestions are welcome…
| 1. | 2 Times Terror - Equals One Sudden Death |
| 2. | ...And Oceans - Allotropic/Metamorphic Genesis Of Dismorphism (A.M.G.O.D.) |
| 3. | Aborym - With No Human Intervention |
| 4. | Atrophia Red Sun - Twisted Logic |
| 5. | Black Comedy - Instigator |
| + 64 more |
Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)
Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…
| 1. | Living Colour - Vivid |
| 2. | Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking |
| 3. | Faith No More - The Real Thing |
| 4. | Godflesh - Streetcleaner |
| 5. | L7 - Smell The Magic |
| + 143 more |
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 |
Metal Rasputin's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time
Updated 14.4.2024
My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but…
My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but…
| 1. | Marillion - Marbles |
| 2. | Anathema - Weather Systems |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time |
| 4. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| + 320 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 |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
RESTRICTIONS
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
| 1. | Death - Symbolic |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 395 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
Grey, Rainy Day Play List
This is a playlist I've been building for years. It includes songs best for sleep and grey days.
| 1. | My Dying Bride - The Cry Of Mankind |
| 2. | Novembers Doom - Dreams To Follow |
| 3. | Novembers Doom - Dark Fields For Brilliance |
| 4. | Akercocke - Epode |
| 5. | Opeth - Silhouette |
| + 26 more |
Groovitational... The Metal Edition
Smooth as a babe's bottom on a well oiled judas chair.
| 1. | Pantera - Far Beyond Driven |
| 2. | Strapping Young Lad - Alien |
| 3. | Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension |
| 4. | Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse |
| 5. | Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill |
| + 31 more |
Industrial Metal Classic Albums TOP 40
| 1. | Strapping Young Lad - City |
| 2. | Godflesh - Streetcleaner |
| 3. | PERPETUA - Irrational |
| 4. | DEAD WORLD - Collusion |
| 5. | Swans - Cop |
| + 38 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (N)
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. | N.K.V.D. - Vlast |
| 2. | Naamah - Resensement |
| 3. | Nachtig - Nachtig |
| 4. | Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 |
| 5. | Nader Sadek - In The Flesh |
| + 133 more |
Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1994
A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.
1994 was pretty great year for metal black metal was in full swing with all its drama,…
1994 was pretty great year for metal black metal was in full swing with all its drama,…
| 1. | Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse |
| 2. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Awake |
| 4. | Running Wild - Black Hand Inn |
| 5. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| + 15 more |
Best Album Of Each Year
Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 3. | Deep Purple - Machine Head |
| 4. | Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend |
| 5. | Queen - Queen II |
| + 45 more |