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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 |
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…
| 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!
***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 |
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
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…
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 |
| + 45 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 |
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.
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 |
| + 85 more |
A List Of Great One-Man Band Albums
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 |
| + 80 more |
Jay's Top Metal Albums...no Particular Order 2.0
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 |
| + 123 more |
Most Gripping Atmospheres
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 |
| + 112 more |
Prog Favourites
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 |
| + 67 more |
My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time (Last Update: June 2022)
(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…
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 |
| + 95 more |
The Exploration In The Metal World
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 |
| + 93 more |
Progressive Spiritual Euphoria / Best prog Albums Ever .
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 |
| + 205 more |
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…
| 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 |