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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 |
Space Metal!
***Currently working through suggestions and adding some spacey non-metal things when they cross my mind***
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
| 1. | Atoma - Skylight |
| 2. | Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer |
| 3. | Dol Ammad - Star Tales |
| 4. | Star One - Space Metal |
| 5. | Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic : Calling |
| + 143 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 |
Progressive Spiritual Euphoria / Best prog Albums Ever .
So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give…
| 1. | Dan Swanö - Moontower |
| 2. | Cynic - Traced In Air |
| 3. | Cynic - Focus |
| 4. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 5. | Enslaved - Ruun |
| + 205 more |
The Deadliest Of Harmonies (A Journey Into Melodic Death Metal)
Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!
I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…
I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…
| 1. | Entombed - Left Hand Path |
| 2. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 3. | Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| 4. | At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours |
| 5. | Carcass - Heartwork |
| + 203 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 |
The Top Albums Of Ch'ti
This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then.
Keep in mind that I've only been seriously listening to metal for a few years, and that it's…
Keep in mind that I've only been seriously listening to metal for a few years, and that it's…
| 1. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 4. | Sepultura - Beneath The Remains |
| 5. | Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal |
| + 371 more |
BEYOND THE DARK SUN - Melodeath For The Win!
A beginner's guide to genuine blasting. Call it Gothenburg, call it extreme power - whatever, it's always enjoyable.
Now ranked for even more win.
Now ranked for even more win.
| 1. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 2. | Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll |
| 3. | Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony |
| 4. | Kalmah - 12 Gauge |
| 5. | Blood Stain Child - Idolator |
| + 29 more |
Top 10 Of 2008
| 1. | In Mourning - Shrouded Divine |
| 2. | Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe |
| 3. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 4. | Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh |
| 5. | Psycroptic - Ob(Servant) |
| + 5 more |
Melodic Escapism
My personal picks for albums that makes my mind wander. Also a good list for anyone getting into metal.
| 1. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Stone's Reach |
| 3. | Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend |
| 4. | Children Of Bodom - Something Wild |
| 5. | Dark Tranquillity - Character |
| + 21 more |
My Top Albums Of The Decade: 2000's (On Going)
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| 4. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 5. | Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet |
| + 121 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (S)
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. | S.V.E.S.T. - Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum: Le Diable Est Ma Raison |
| 2. | Sabachthani - Miserable Endings |
| 3. | Sabaoth - Les Illuminations |
| 4. | Sabaton - Carolus Rex |
| 5. | Sabbat - Dreamweaver |
| + 361 more |
Top 46 Death/Melodeath Albums
| 1. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 2. | Death - Scream Bloody Gore |
| 3. | Obituary - Slowly We Rot |
| 4. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 5. | Deicide - Legion |
| + 41 more |