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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 |
The Metal Art Of Thrashing (Ordered By Years)
**WARNING: Mega-list ahead**
So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering…
So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering…
| 1. | Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| 2. | Metallica - Kill 'Em All |
| 3. | Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies |
| 4. | Slayer - Show No Mercy |
| 5. | Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus |
| + 515 more |
MOST OVERLOOKED Albums of All Time
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Heavy Load - Full Speed At High Level |
| 3. | Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour |
| 4. | Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera |
| 5. | Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon |
| + 526 more |
Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time
RANKING CRITERIA :
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
| 1. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind |
| + 195 more |
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 |
| + 495 more |
Top 200 Overlooked Albums
This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
| 1. | Solipsist - The Human Equation |
| 2. | Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind |
| 3. | Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity |
| 4. | Element (USA) - The Energy |
| 5. | Telepathy - 12 Areas |
| + 195 more |
All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums
An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
| 1. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 2. | Opeth - Morningrise |
| 3. | Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum |
| 4. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 5. | Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss |
| + 310 more |
Thrashing Fury
I'm not a big fan of Thrash, these are perhaps the only albums I enjoy listening to, and even then only rarely. So enjoy if you can.
| 1. | Prong - Beg To Differ |
| 2. | Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death |
| 3. | Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare |
| 4. | Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence |
| 5. | Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican |
| + 45 more |
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 |
| + 1242 more |
Top 47 Thrash Metal Albums
Thrash was one of the first metal genres I got into around 2005. I discovered Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc through Kerrang! magazine and their albums quickly became my favourites at the time. Now,…
| 1. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 4. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 5. | Slayer - Reign In Blood |
| + 42 more |
Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1989
A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.
1989 was another great year for metal, I tried to add more obscure and overlooked albums…
1989 was another great year for metal, I tried to add more obscure and overlooked albums…
| 1. | Running Wild - Death Or Glory |
| 2. | Coroner - No More Color |
| 3. | Faith No More - The Real Thing |
| 4. | Alice Cooper - Trash |
| 5. | Titan Force - Titan Force |
| + 15 more |
Favorite Albums From 1988
| 1. | Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare |
| 2. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 3. | Slayer - South Of Heaven |
| 4. | Razor - Violent Restitution |
| 5. | Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death |
| + 42 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (D)
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. | D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper |
| 2. | Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism |
| 3. | Damim - The Difference Engine |
| 4. | Dämmerfarben - Im Abendrot |
| 5. | Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations |
| + 253 more |
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