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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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A List Of Great Debut Albums

A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions…

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2.Aarni - Bathos
3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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Created by Erik M. on 30.11.2012



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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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My Favourite Albums Of All Time

1.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
2.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
3.Wintersun - Wintersun
4.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
5.Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

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Created by Starchild on 25.08.2010



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My share of experime(n)tal music and other innovative stuff

I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated.

1.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I
2.Kalisia - Cybion
3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera
4.Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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Created by In5anity on 13.08.2011



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The best of 'One Song Only' albums.

From A to Z.

1.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
2.Alkerdeel - Dyodyo Asema [Collaboration]
3.Bongripper - The Great Barrier Reefer
4.Boris - Flood
5.Boris - Boris At Last - Feedbacker

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Created by Hex_Omega on 10.01.2015



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A List Of Symphonic Death Metal Albums

Edited from 'top 5' to an collection of metal albums in the symphonic death sub-genre. Recommendations are welcome.

1.Aeternam - Disciples Of The Unseen
2.Arch Of Hell - One Day
3.Atrocity - Atlantis
4.Brymir - Breathe Fire To The Sun
5.Dark Lunacy - Devoid

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Created by CyberSymphony on 16.03.2010



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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I…

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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Created by musclassia on 23.03.2016



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Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal

Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done"…

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
4.Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
5.Thorns - Thorns

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Created by sgtrobo on 25.08.2021



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WWS' Top 25 Of 2009

In no particular order.

1.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
2.Kalisia - Cybion
3.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
4.Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin
5.Deströyer 666 - Defiance

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Created by White Winter Sun on 03.03.2010



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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 2000's (On Going)

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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Created by Red_Travis on 03.02.2012



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Top Albums Of My Life

1.Symphony X - Paradise Lost
2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
3.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
4.Dream Theater - Octavarium
5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Created by Quinaitor on 15.03.2010



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Ellrohir's Top 15 Of 2009

This is how I saw the past year. Of course I haven't heard everything, but out of albums I encountered, these are the winners. Created at 4 January 2010, no further changes adjusted.

1.Kalisia - Cybion
2.Ensiferum - From Afar
3.Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel
4.Umbrtka - Úplná Demontá? Lidstva
5.Wardruna - Runaljod-Gap Var Ginnunga

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Created by Ellrohir on 02.03.2010



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THE BEST DEATH METAL ALBUM

1.Death - Symbolic
2.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
3.Desultory - Bitterness
4.Morgoth - Cursed
5.Death - Human

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Created by buber on 13.07.2011



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The Top Albums Of Ch'ti

This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then…

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3.Slipknot - Iowa
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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Created by Ch'ti on 06.02.2024