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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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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.

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

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Created by RaduP on 20.09.2014



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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

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Created by Enissa on 19.08.2011



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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

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Created by CyberSymphony on 19.03.2013



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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…

1.Ajdath - Triangle Of Death
2.Tyrant Throne - Abominations
3.Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones
4.Scarab - Blinding The Masses
5.Litham - Dhal Ennar

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Created by RakHiasat on 09.07.2012



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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

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Created by Plattner on 28.10.2023



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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

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Created by ZeroTheHero on 12.03.2010



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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

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Created by Uxküll on 06.10.2020



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20 All Time Favourite Albums

1.Karnivool - Sound Awake
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Angra - Temple Of Shadows
4.Tool - Lateralus
5.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

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Created by Olives on 12.12.2014



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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

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Created by Njord on 08.03.2010



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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

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 17.05.2016



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Folkothèque

1.Ensiferum - Iron
2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum
3.Turisas - The Varangian Way
4.Eluveitie - Slania
5.Equilibrium - Sagas

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Created by Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk on 31.08.2011



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Biggest Surprise/Letdown Albums

A list of albums that impressed me in some way... good or bad.
(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

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Created by Dark Blood on 07.03.2010



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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

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Created by RhaegarTargaryen on 02.01.2012



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

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Created by MetalMac on 08.08.2015