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Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection (Standards, And A Few Unorthodox Choices)

A list by
Introspekrieg
Created
March 03, 2010
Entries
576
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263
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.
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
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A List Of Great Debut Albums

A list by
Erik M.
Created
November 30, 2012
Entries
365
Endorsements
70
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…
1. Aarni - Bathos
2. Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
3. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
4. Sadness - Ames De Marbre
5. Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
+ 360 more

Space Metal!

A list by
R'Vannith
Created
June 25, 2011
Entries
148
Endorsements
67
***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…
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
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So I Heard You Like Opeth...

A list by
LeKiwi
Created
April 07, 2015
Entries
50
Endorsements
42
My other lists:
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal

"Which bands sound like Opeth?" It seems that perennial question has plagued fans and non-fans of…
1. Adeia - Serenity
2. Alley - Amphibious
3. Altesia - Paragon Circus
4. Anciients - Voice Of The Void
5. Aquilus - Griseus
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Top 500 Albums of All Time

A list by
nonZero
Created
October 06, 2018
Entries
500
Endorsements
34
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
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One-album Metal Wonders

A list by
RaduP
Created
September 20, 2014
Entries
90
Endorsements
32
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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A List Of Great One-Man Band Albums

A list by
Erik M.
Created
August 26, 2013
Entries
85
Endorsements
28
Creating good music might not be an easy task, but most bands in existence consist of multiple members who contribute to the music. One-man bands however are simply musicians who create the music all by…
1. Aarni - Bathos
2. Brown Jenkins - Death Obsession
3. Cloak Of Altering - Ancient Paths Through Timeless Voids
4. De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis
5. Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
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Jay's Top Metal Albums...no Particular Order 2.0

A list by
JÄY
Created
July 28, 2010
Entries
128
Endorsements
27
I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried…
1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
2. 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
3. Absu - Tara
4. ADX - Division Blindée
5. Agalloch - The Mantle
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Most Gripping Atmospheres

A list by
R'Vannith
Created
August 13, 2011
Entries
117
Endorsements
27
Here are the most captivating atmospheres I've ever heard. Including metal and non-metal albums. Grouped according to genre and one album per band.
1. Division By Zero - Independent Harmony
2. Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall Of Fame
3. Riverside - Out Of Myself
4. Suspyre - When Time Fades...
5. Redemption - The Fullness Of Time
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Circles....

A list by
me<3mertl
Created
April 03, 2015
Entries
100
Endorsements
25
A bunch of albums with a big circle on the cover
1. Karnivool - Sound Awake
2. Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea
3. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
4. Pentagram - Pentagram
5. Russian Circles - Empros
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Prog Favourites

A list by
R'Vannith
Created
December 13, 2010
Entries
72
Endorsements
25
A list of my favourite Progressive albums on Metal Storm, ranked roughly in order of preference.
1. Ayreon - The Human Equation
2. Dol Ammad - Ocean Dynamics
3. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
4. Porcupine Tree - Signify
5. Opeth - Still Life
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My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time (Last Update: June 2022)

A list by
F3ynman
Created
June 09, 2021
Entries
100
Endorsements
18
(Last Update: 2022)

These are my top 100 favorite albums - they are the reason why I love metal!
Enjoy!
Format: Band | Album | (genre, release year, country) What I like about the album; Favorite…
1. Judas Priest - Painkiller
2. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5. Death - Spiritual Healing
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The Exploration In The Metal World

A list by
Metal Addiction
Created
August 27, 2013
Entries
98
Endorsements
16
There are the albums that have impressed me. Alphabetical orders. Hope you enjoy this list.
1. Across Tundras - Dark Songs Of The Prairie
2. Across Tundras - Dark Songs of the Prairie
3. A Forest Of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth
4. Ain Sof Aur - Atra Serpens
5. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
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Progressive Spiritual Euphoria / Best prog Albums Ever .

A list by
Hazelnut Nero
Created
September 20, 2014
Entries
210
Endorsements
15
So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give…
1. Dan Swanö - Moontower
2. Cynic - Traced In Air
3. Cynic - Focus
4. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
5. Enslaved - Ruun
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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

A list by
musclassia
Created
March 23, 2016
Entries
131
Endorsements
14
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…
1. Dream Theater - Images And Words
2. Sylosis - Monolith
3. Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
4. Agalloch - The Mantle
5. Protest The Hero - Kezia
+ 126 more