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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 |
MOST OVERLOOKED Albums of All Time
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Heavy Load - Full Speed At High Level |
| 3. | Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour |
| 4. | Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera |
| 5. | Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon |
| + 526 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 |
Top 30 Instrumental/Guitar Heroes Albums Of All Time
Welcome to the sphere my friends. I'm talking about albums made by Guitar Heroes, with extreme creativity and skills. As you know, this is not the biggest musical genre because there are many amazing…
| 1. | Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force |
| 2. | Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony |
| 3. | Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase |
| 4. | Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien |
| 5. | Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn |
| + 29 more |
Top 200 Overlooked Albums
This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
| 1. | Solipsist - The Human Equation |
| 2. | Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind |
| 3. | Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity |
| 4. | Element (USA) - The Energy |
| 5. | Telepathy - 12 Areas |
| + 195 more |
Technical Madness
This is a list dedicated to everything crazy, eclectic and technical. I know there are many many more albums that could be added, but these are the ones I personally recommend. One album per band order…
| 1. | Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia |
| 2. | Änglagård - Hybris |
| 3. | Coroner - No More Color |
| 4. | Invocator - Excursion Demise |
| 5. | Deathspell Omega - Paracletus |
| + 24 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 |
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 |
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 |
| + 133 more |
Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums
I've always enjoyed metal that combined progressive metal with other genres such as Opeth, Edge of Sanity and Death's later work. But outside of Dream Theater, I hadn't deep-dived into "pure"…
| 1. | Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome |
| 2. | Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime |
| 3. | Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition |
| 4. | John Petrucci - Suspended Animation |
| 5. | Riverside - Second Life Syndrome |
| + 20 more |
Top 60 Albums Of The 1980s
Here are the 80s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| 4. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 5. | Slayer - Reign In Blood |
| + 55 more |