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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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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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Circles....

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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Created by me<3mertl on 03.04.2015



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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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Top 20 Favorite Albums

These are my 20 favorite albums ever. There is a lot of a prog here, which is my favorite genre.

My taste isn't exactly defined yet, but that's because I'm still young.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
3.Tool - Lateralus
4.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Created by zxlkho on 30.11.2010



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Metal Rasputin's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time

Updated 14.4.2024

My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but they're…

1.Marillion - Marbles
2.Anathema - Weather Systems
3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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Created by Metal Rasputin on 15.02.2020



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My Favorite Metal Albums Of 2010

The following are my favorite Metal releases this year, I might edit this list as/if I discover albums that are worthy of a spot. So enjoy, and check the following albums if you didn't already. It's a…

1.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
2.Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
3.Procession - Destroyers Of The Faith
4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune
5.Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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Created by Mikyz on 24.12.2010



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20 All Time Favourite Albums

1.Karnivool - Sound Awake
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Angra - Temple Of Shadows
4.Tool - Lateralus
5.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

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Created by Olives on 12.12.2014



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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 will…

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

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Created by metalriff on 05.02.2021



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Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly

To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…

1.Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction
2.Tool - Lateralus
3.The Butterfly Effect - IV
4.Tool - Ænima
5.Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix

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Created by Wildebean on 05.04.2023



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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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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (J-K)

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.Jacobs Dream - Jacobs Dream
2.Jambinai - Onda
3.James LaBrie - Static Impulse
4.Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
5.Jassa - Lights in the Howling Wilderness

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Created by Uxküll on 14.12.2020



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Top 20 Albums Of 2009

1.Kalisia - Cybion
2.Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió
3.Karnivool - Sound Awake
4.Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin
5.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

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Created by Starchild on 07.10.2010



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Some Albums With 8.50 Or More

1.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
2.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation
3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4.Batushka - Litourgiya
5.Leprous - Bilateral

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Created by JavierPaper on 28.11.2021



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Top 10 Albums That Sound Like Tool

Tool is probably my favourite band,
And because I am not very positive that they'll drop a new Album this year (or this century...) I want to share some good music with a Tool-vibe.
Please keep in mind…

1.Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet
2.Soen - Cognitive
3.Rishloo - Feathergun
4.Prisma - You Name It
5.Source (USA) - Return To Nothing

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Created by Jambi0905 on 03.05.2017