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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]…

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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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

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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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…

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

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Created by CyberSymphony on 13.07.2014



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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

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Created by Guib on 20.08.2023



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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…

1.Marillion - Marbles
2.Anathema - Weather Systems
3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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Created by Metal Diogenes on 15.02.2020



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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

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Created by Carrion Misery on 08.09.2011



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Top 200 Metal Releases Of All Time

I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could…

1.Sigh - In Somniphobia
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien

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Created by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024



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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

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Created by 3rdWorld on 04.03.2012



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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,…

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

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Created by Handala on 19.07.2022



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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

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Created by Uxküll on 17.01.2021



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Industrial Metal Classic Albums TOP 40

1.Strapping Young Lad - City
2.Godflesh - Streetcleaner
3.PERPETUA - Irrational
4.DEAD WORLD - Collusion
5.Swans - Cop

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Created by Alexbridger on 19.10.2014



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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

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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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

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Created by Ganondox on 17.10.2019



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Best Metal Albums Ever (IMO)

Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Faith No More - Angel Dust
3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
4.Tool - Ænima
5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Created by matthewdurham on 09.05.2017



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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 1990's (On Going)

1.Death - Human
2.Opeth - Still Life
3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
4.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Created by Red_Travis on 11.02.2012