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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 |
My Favourite Black Metal Albums
- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
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- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
…
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver |
| 3. | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| + 223 more |
Best Metal Albums Around!
These Are Albums that give metal a good name, and create metalheads who live for little else. Originality, Raw talent, Brilliant atmosphere, Brutality with a great technical aspect, and just plain ass…
| 1. | Lux Occulta - The Mother And The Enemy |
| 2. | Borknagar - The Archaic Course |
| 3. | Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends |
| 4. | Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale |
| 5. | Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage |
| + 60 more |
solar's quirky albums
An ever-growing list of albums/EPs that were just fun to listen to. They had something unique, were experimental/strange and/or had interestingly/efficiently lined up vocals and/or instruments that are…
| 1. | ...? - ...! |
| 2. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 3. | 6:33 - Deadly Scenes |
| 4. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 5. | Age Of Silence - Acceleration |
| + 77 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (T)
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. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 2. | T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca |
| 3. | Taake - ...Doedskvad |
| 4. | Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis |
| 5. | Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi |
| + 157 more |
Urs' Top 10 Of 2008 (updated)
How my tastes evolved over the last two years. For the sake of comparison, I reported the original list below the updated one.
| 1. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 2. | Virus - The Black Flux |
| 3. | TotalSelfHatred - Totalselfhatred |
| 4. | ColdWorld - Melancholie² |
| 5. | Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart |
| + 18 more |
Top 25 Of 2008
Here are my top 25 albums for 2008
| 1. | Equilibrium - Sagas |
| 2. | Protest The Hero - Fortress |
| 3. | Mirrorthrone - Gangrene |
| 4. | Opeth - Watershed |
| 5. | Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance |
| + 20 more |
SF's Top 20 For 2008
Like my own 2009 top list, it's been extremely hard to narrow down to a final twenty because of so many releases in recent years. But twenty it is and of course, I cheated again with my other two…
| 1. | Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance |
| 2. | Textures - Silhouettes |
| 3. | UnSun - The End Of Life |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 5. | Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day |
| + 15 more |
