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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]…

1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
2.Rush - Moving Pictures
3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Created by Introspekrieg on 03.03.2010



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The Best Shit On MS

My top 100 metal albums of all time (featured on MS).

- one album per band.
- in alphabetical order.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
2.Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
4.Agruss - Morok
5.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

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Created by Paz on 21.12.2011



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Classic Metal Albums Of Forever

*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4.Death - Symbolic
5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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Created by saw_you_drown on 18.05.2011



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Post-stonersludge Fun

the "genres" of stoner metal, sludge, and post-metal all seem to bleed/flow together at various times so playing metal bartender, i've cooked up this list of albums those interested in the…

1.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
2.Baroness - Blue Record
3.Down - Nola
4.High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
5.Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun

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Created by BitterCOld on 27.09.2011



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Neachy's Select: Sludge/Post-Sludge/Stoner Doom, Etc.

Beware of contact high and feelings of severe misanthropy.

1.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
2.Acid Witch - Stoned
3.Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
4.Baroness - Blue Record
5.Bison B.C. - Dark Ages

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Created by Neachy on 10.01.2013



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90s: The Essentials

In no particular order. Will be expanding as I listen to more albums. Only one album per band, be sure to check the rest of the discography by yourself.

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
2.System Of A Down - System Of A Down
3.Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler
4.Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
5.Death - Symbolic

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Created by Mikyz on 07.05.2010



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My Favorite Metal Songs

Here is a revamped list of my favorite metal songs!
It was hard to limit it to 50 albums, and even harder to rank them, but I believe it’s a good insight into my current taste in metal!

The old version…

1.Kypck - Черно
2.Vektor - Terminal Redux
3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
4.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
5.Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

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Created by F3ynman on 24.06.2021



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My Staff Picks

weeeee. all my past staff picks now compiled into one swell list.

1.High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
2.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
3.Greymachine - Disconnected
4.Kylesa - Static Tensions
5.Profetus - Coronation Of The Black Sun

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Created by BitterCOld on 22.09.2011



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Top 15 Post-Metal Albums

This is a list of my favorite post-metal albums (in order).

1.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
2.Cult Of Luna - Salvation
3.Isis - Panopticon
4.Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
5.Rosetta - Wake / Lift

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Created by Bad Taste on 20.10.2011



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Bursting, Smoking & Distorting Stories (A Lesson In Sludge & Stoner By Guib)

Welcome everybody to a little lesson on the history of Sludge & Stoner Metal. I'm Guib and today I have the immense pleasure to serve as your humble teacher.

Please take a seat and travel with…

1.Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
2.Soundgarden - Ultramega OK
3.Oxbow - Fuckfest
4.Melvins - Ozma
5.Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

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Created by Guib on 13.08.2023



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The Timeless

1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified…

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
3.Krallice - Diotima
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

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Created by Lastempire on 07.07.2012



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200+ Favorite Albums

Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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Created by Qualeen on 30.09.2021



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Ten Albums That Changed The Way I Interpret Music...Plus One!

In semi-particular order…

1.King Crimson - Red
2.Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Created by Nosurper on 25.11.2010



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Personal Favorite Albums

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
4.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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Created by Serpentica on 18.06.2012



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Currently Listening... (December 2023 Edition)

These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…

1.Atramentus - Stygian
2.Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility
3.Giant Squid - Metridium Fields
4.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
5.Indian - The Unquiet Sky

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Created by F3ynman on 05.12.2023