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Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)

A list by
Guib
Created
August 20, 2023
Entries
148
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13
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

A list by
Blackcrowe
Created
October 09, 2024
Entries
333
Endorsements
5
^^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…
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
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Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

A list by
Wildebean
Created
April 05, 2023
Entries
200
Endorsements
5
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…
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

A list by
purplejesus
Created
January 04, 2026
Entries
1031
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4
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…
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

A list by
Ganondox
Created
October 17, 2019
Entries
50
Endorsements
2
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)

A list by
matthewdurham
Created
May 09, 2017
Entries
141
Endorsements
2
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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albums of the year, *every* year

A list by
illusivecamel🐪
Created
December 10, 2025
Entries
26
Endorsements
1
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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Best Of 2010

A list by
RDHIII
Created
June 25, 2012
Entries
44
Endorsements
1
1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2. Coheed And Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
3. Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition
4. The Absence - Enemy Unbound
5. Wretched - Beyond The Gate
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Favorite Album Art, Photographic

A list by
purplejesus
Created
March 13, 2025
Entries
133
Endorsements
1
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

A list by
Kimdracula
Created
March 22, 2020
Entries
13
Endorsements
1
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

A list by
AgentOrange94
Created
February 29, 2020
Entries
10
Endorsements
1
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)

A list by
Artorix Carlsson
Created
October 21, 2023
Entries
19
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0
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

A list by
blackvelvet
Created
February 03, 2015
Entries
16
Endorsements
0
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

A list by
icehockeyhair00
Created
February 23, 2011
Entries
16
Endorsements
0
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

A list by
Vellichor
Created
November 22, 2024
Entries
70
Endorsements
0
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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