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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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Great Songs Covered By Metal Bands
^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
| 1. | Voivod - The Outer Limits |
| 2. | Pantera - Far Beyond Driven |
| 3. | Motörhead - Motörhead |
| 4. | Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Sin After Sin |
| + 328 more |
Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums
This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly
To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…
To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…
| 1. | Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction |
| 2. | Tool - Lateralus |
| 3. | The Butterfly Effect - IV |
| 4. | Tool - Aenima |
| 5. | Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix |
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Top 1000 Artworks On Metal Storm
As chosen by me, of course. This is highly subjective.
In progress and in tandem with:
Favorite Album Art, 1960s-1990s
Favorite Album Art, 2000s
Favorite Album Art, 2010s
Favorite Album Art, 2020s
Favorite…
In progress and in tandem with:
Favorite Album Art, 1960s-1990s
Favorite Album Art, 2000s
Favorite Album Art, 2010s
Favorite Album Art, 2020s
Favorite…
| 1. | ...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary |
| 2. | 16 - Curves That Kick |
| 3. | 16 - Blaze Of Incompetence |
| 4. | 16 - Bridges To Burn |
| 5. | 16 - Dream Squasher |
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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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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 |
| + 136 more |
albums of the year, *every* year
except for the ones I haven't bothered doing
| 1. | Messa - The Spin |
| 2. | Wintersun - Time II |
| 3. | Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden |
| 4. | Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North |
| 5. | Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers |
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Favorite Album Art, Photographic
Still in Progress, in tandem with Favorite Album Art
| 1. | The Armed - The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed |
| 2. | Deftones - Private Music |
| 3. | Demonic Death Judge - Absolutely Launched |
| 4. | Mawiza - Ül |
| 5. | Aara - Eiger |
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Nu-metal Albums Worth Your Time
| 1. | Korn - Korn |
| 2. | Deftones - White Pony |
| 3. | System Of A Down - Toxicity |
| 4. | Korn - Untouchables |
| 5. | Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist |
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Top 10 Albums Of The 10's
| 1. | Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand |
| 2. | Gojira - Magma |
| 3. | Ghost - Meliora |
| 4. | Behemoth - The Satanist |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Firepower |
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2010 (An Exploration)
| 1. | Kvelertak - Kvelertak |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time |
| 3. | Accept - Blood Of The Nations |
| 4. | Alter Bridge - AB III |
| 5. | Fear Factory - Mechanize |
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Blackvelvet's 2010 Favourites
| 1. | Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit |
| 2. | Amberian Dawn - End Of Eden |
| 3. | Autopsy - The Tomb Within |
| 4. | The Secret - Solve Et Coagula |
| 5. | Magrudergrind - Crusher |
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Metal Albums Of 2010
| 1. | Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns |
| 2. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 3. | Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit |
| 4. | Alcest - Écailles De Lune |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier |
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My Favorite Albums 2010
Well, that’s the last decade! This was the year I started seriously getting into music, especially metal, and checking things outside of mainstream artists. This is likely the last individual year list…
| 1. | Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here |
| 2. | Gorillaz - Plastic Beach |
| 3. | Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife |
| 4. | Gazpacho - Missa Atropos |
| 5. | Kidneythieves - Trypt0fanatic |
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