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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 |
One-album Metal Wonders
A list of bands who have released just one album. Feel free to recommend!
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
| 1. | ABACABB - Survivalist |
| 2. | Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra |
| 3. | Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary |
| 4. | Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament |
| 5. | Age Of Silence - Acceleration |
| + 85 more |
Metal Of The Oriental
A collection of metal albums that use Arabian, middle-east and far east folk elements. Recommendations are welcome. Image is the cover artwork of Shangren's Warriors of Devastation.
| 1. | Acyl - Algebra |
| 2. | Aeternam - Disciples Of The Unseen |
| 3. | Akvan اكوان - شکوه فراموش شده / Forgotten Glory |
| 4. | Al-Namrood - Estorat Taghoot |
| 5. | Al-Namrood - Kitab Al-Awthan |
| + 68 more |
Top Folkish/Neofolk/Folkrock Albums
Best Folkish albums I've heard so far...!! Please feel free to post your Suggestions!!
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Ensiferum - Iron |
| 3. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 4. | Blackmore's Night - Under A Violet Moon |
| 5. | Blackmore's Night - Shadow Of The Moon |
| + 85 more |
Best Middle Eastern Albums For All Time
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE INTO MIDDLE EASTERN METAL
P.S :
1. there are other albums but the bands themselves are not featured on MS
2. thanks for the inspiration from JD's list ( http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=554…
P.S :
1. there are other albums but the bands themselves are not featured on MS
2. thanks for the inspiration from JD's list ( http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=554…
| 1. | Ajdath - Triangle Of Death |
| 2. | Tyrant Throne - Abominations |
| 3. | Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones |
| 4. | Scarab - Blinding The Masses |
| 5. | Litham - Dhal Ennar |
| + 44 more |
Metal Band Names Inspired By Books
This alphabetical list presents bands that took the inspiration for their name from literature (novels, poems, plays, comics). The list shows the debut album cover along with the information of the corresponding…
| 1. | A Dream Of Poe - The Mirror Of Deliverance |
| 2. | Abhoth - Abhoth |
| 3. | Abigail Williams - In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns |
| 4. | Abramelin - Abramelin |
| 5. | Acrostichon - Engraved In Black |
| + 289 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)
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. | Aara - En Ergô Einai |
| 2. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 3. | Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht |
| 4. | Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum |
| 5. | AATHMA - Avesta |
| + 430 more |
Top (70) ish - All Time
No Real Order, just Great Albums!
| 1. | Dio - Holy Diver |
| 2. | Metallica - Kill 'Em All |
| 3. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 4. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| + 63 more |
My Top 20 Favorite Albuns
Top metal albuns based on the influence they have in my personality and by the way they changed some ideas and theories I had.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| 3. | Therion - Secret Of The Runes |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 5. | Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame |
| + 15 more |
Yet Another Useless Folking List
This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…
| 1. | Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire |
| 2. | Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom |
| 3. | Forefather - Steadfast |
| 4. | Forefather - Last Of The Line |
| 5. | Dalriada - Áldás |
| + 409 more |
Folkothèque
| 1. | Ensiferum - Iron |
| 2. | Ensiferum - Ensiferum |
| 3. | Turisas - The Varangian Way |
| 4. | Eluveitie - Slania |
| 5. | Equilibrium - Sagas |
| + 16 more |
Biggest Surprise/Letdown Albums
A list of albums that impressed me in some way... good or bad.
(this list is in no particular order)
(this list is in no particular order)
| 1. | Amaseffer - Slaves For Life |
| 2. | Communic - Conspiracy In Mind |
| 3. | Death Angel - The Art Of Dying |
| 4. | Eluveitie - Spirit |
| 5. | Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse |
| + 5 more |
Unnatural Selection: Top 10 Metal Albums Of 2008
Another yearly top 10 list.
| 1. | Ayreon - 01011001 |
| 2. | Sabaton - The Art Of War |
| 3. | Eluveitie - Slania |
| 4. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 5. | Draconian - Turning Season Within |
| + 23 more |
MetalMac's Top 10 Overlooked Albums
I'm a sucker for great hooks and catchy choruses. Some bands from this list will show that. Furthermore, I love technical, percise performances. I love the rise and fall of a song where the mood changes…
| 1. | Anthriel - The Pathway |
| 2. | Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura |
| 3. | DGM - Different Shapes |
| 4. | It Bites - The Tall Ships |
| 5. | It Bites - Map Of The Past |
| + 5 more |