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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 |
A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)
So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials…
| 1. | Atheist - Piece Of Time |
| 2. | Nocturnus - The Key |
| 3. | Atrocity - Hallucinations |
| 4. | Death - Human |
| 5. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| + 270 more |
Apothecary's Awesome Album Art Anthology
I know I probably speak for a lot of people when I say that, very often, the artwork that a band chooses for a particular album can be the icing on the cake, essential to giving a visual depiction that…
| 1. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 2. | Absu - The Sun Of Tiphareth |
| 3. | Atheist - Unquestionable Presence |
| 4. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| 5. | Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin |
| + 26 more |
Awesome Space Atmospheres
Music with a spacey touch...
Recommendations are welcome (only one album per band)
Recommendations are welcome (only one album per band)
| 1. | Aeons Confer - Symphonies Of Saturnus |
| 2. | Alrakis - Alpha Eri |
| 3. | Amestigon - Sun Of All Suns |
| 4. | Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies |
| 5. | Astral Silence - Astral Journey |
| + 32 more |
Top 50 Album Covers (Updated)
My personal top 50 list.
(In no particular order)
(In no particular order)
| 1. | Decrepit Birth - Polarity |
| 2. | Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse |
| 3. | Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult |
| 4. | Joe Satriani - Time Machine |
| 5. | Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull |
| + 45 more |
Top Technical Death Metal Albums Of All Time- Order In Chaos !
Definitive Top Technical Death Metal.
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock,…
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock,…
| 1. | Death - Human |
| 2. | Decapitated - Winds Of Creation |
| 3. | Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| 4. | Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction |
| 5. | Martyr - Warp Zone |
| + 25 more |
Bombest's Most Listened To Albums
Progressive Metal/Rock is my main music, but you can't ignore the beauty in other genres.
| 1. | Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| 2. | Opeth - Damnation |
| 3. | Porcupine Tree - The Incident |
| 4. | Porcupine Tree - In Absentia |
| 5. | Tool - 10,000 Days |
| + 53 more |
My Top 100 Albums
My top 100 Albums, sorted in descending order of favorites. Pretty rough list, I may update if I become un-lazy sometime. One album per band only. Some explanation and description provided for those who…
| 1. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 3. | Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor |
| 4. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 5. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| + 95 more |
1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die
An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically…
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 2. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 5. | Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself |
| + 350 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 10 Of 2008
| 1. | In Mourning - Shrouded Divine |
| 2. | Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe |
| 3. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 4. | Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh |
| 5. | Psycroptic - Ob(Servant) |
| + 5 more |
Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)
This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Death - Symbolic |
| 3. | At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness |
| 4. | At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul |
| 5. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| + 575 more |
My personal Top 100 Most Essential Albums (in no particular order)
This is my attempt to do impossible and choose 100 favourite full length albums. Considering that since 2006 (and of course I had been listening to music even before) I have gathered on last.fm over 10,000…
| 1. | SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day |
| 2. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors |
| 3. | Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette |
| 4. | The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine |
| 5. | Necrophagist - Epitaph |
| + 95 more |
My Favorite Album Covers
Mind map:
Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox…
Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox…
| 1. | Emperor - Reverence |
| 2. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 3. | The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure |
| 4. | Dissection - Live Legacy |
| 5. | Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman |
| + 122 more |