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Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums

I've always enjoyed metal that combined progressive metal with other genres such as Opeth, Edge of Sanity and Death's later work. But outside of Dream Theater, I hadn't deep-dived into "pure"…

1.Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
2.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
3.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
4.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation
5.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

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Created by nonZero on 11.09.2024



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Arjen Anthony Lucassen Projects Ranked

1.Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
2.Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age
3.Ayreon - The Human Equation
4.Ayreon - The Final Experiment
5.Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer

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Created by majormalfunction on 05.03.2024



Favorite Album In Each Genre

1.Three Days Grace - One-X
2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist
3.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
5.Suicide Silence - The Cleansing

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Created by me<3mertl on 05.05.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about…

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



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TheJahrhead's Totally Biased Personal Favorites

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Disforia - The Age Of Ether
3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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Created by TheJahrhead on 03.09.2022



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Top 50 Of 1995-1999

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Sentenced - Amok
3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
4.Anathema - Alternative 4
5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 19.08.2022



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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



M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites - 9s

I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
2.Metallica - Re-Load
3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel
4.Inferi - The End Of An Era
5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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Created by M0rkeleb on 24.04.2022



Ayreon Best To Worst

1.Ayreon - The Human Equation
2.Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
3.Ayreon - 01011001
4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
5.Ayreon - The Source

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 18.03.2022



Top 20 Of 1998

Must Have: The First 14…

1.Anathema - Alternative 4
2.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
3.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
4.Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 19.03.2021



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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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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 Best Prog Out There

My absolute favorite prog rock/metal albums. None of these are less than a 9/10 to my ears. No particular order.

1.Spock's Beard - Snow
2.Devin Townsend Project - Terria
3.IQ - Dark Matter
4.Dream Theater - Awake
5.Marillion - Clutching At Straws

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Created by Metren on 06.03.2018



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Albums From My Youth

The list shows 50 albums that have had a huge impact on me over my teens. Albums released before 2000 only.
In alphabetical order.

1.Aerosmith - Get A Grip
2.Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
3.Amorphis - Elegy
4.Anathema - Alternative 4
5.Apes, Pigs & Spacemen - Transfusion

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Created by Polaria on 11.11.2017



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Essential Masterpieces Top 50

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
4.Dream Theater - Images And Words
5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Created by lte1 on 22.04.2016