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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

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Created by nonZero on 11.09.2024



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Secret Tracks: Songs And Audio Pieces That Were Left Off The Track List

Secret tracks, sometimes also called ghost tracks, unlisted tracks or hidden tracks, are songs or audio pieces that were left off the track list of an album.

The easiest way to hide a secret track is…

1.Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
2.Anathema - Pentecost III
3.Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
4.Anthrax - We've Come For You All
5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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Created by Plattner on 19.05.2024



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My Top Metal 2000-2009

My top metal album's from 2000-2009…

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Shining - V - Halmstad
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
5.Rotting Christ - Theogonia

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Created by Amo del Merol on 29.03.2024



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Greatest Metal Drumming Plus's The Most Influential

My Favorites songs on drums…
A tribute to those great drummers…A Huge investigation about the name of those drummers and their best moments and songs…

1.Rush - 2112
2.Van Halen - 1984
3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
5.Dio - The Last In Line

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Created by Blackcrowe on 02.12.2023



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My All-Time Favorite Albums

1.Burst - Lazarus Bird
2.Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven
3.Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine
4.Taal - Skymind
5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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Created by FilipeHCCSantos on 09.11.2023



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Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)

Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…

1.Living Colour - Vivid
2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
3.Faith No More - The Real Thing
4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner
5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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Created by Guib on 20.08.2023



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Great Bass Songs

Great Songs on the 4 Strings, Classic songs… Remember from the rehearsal of your band, when the guy on the bass start to move the fingers on that song? Well this is a tribute to that moment and a tribute…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2.Tool - Lateralus
3.Rush - Moving Pictures
4.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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Created by Blackcrowe on 15.06.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about…

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



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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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Great Album Covers 👍👍👍

A list of my favorite album covers…

1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.Motörhead - Motörhead
5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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Created by Blackcrowe on 31.03.2023



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Top Metal Albums Of All Time

I started listening to metal music when I was a teenager, somewhere around the end of the 90's. After all these years, I thought it was high time to compose my personal top list of metal albums. What…

1.Opeth - Deliverance
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
4.Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
5.Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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Created by Miohn on 18.09.2022



2001 (An Exploration)

Yet another one of my lists for no reason other than I feel like it…

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
3.Iced Earth - Horror Show
4.Opeth - Blackwater Park
5.Amorphis - Am Universum

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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 06.08.2022



My Top 30 Albums Of 2001

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
3.Windir - 1184
4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
5.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

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Created by JHK on 08.07.2022



Through Time And Space. My Favorite Progressive And Post Metal Albums

Progressive metal and post metal might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for us highly intellectual listeners, it can really tickle our twigs and berries……

1.Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
3.Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.Tool - Lateralus
5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Created by ThenLividity96 on 04.07.2022



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Most Interesting Interludes/Intros/Outros

(This list is a work in progress)

In this list I intend to compile all of my favorite interludes, intros, outros, short acoustic tracks, instrumentals, non-metal or otherwise atypical songs from the…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3.Melechesh - Emissaries
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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Created by Qualeen on 05.04.2022