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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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Most Talented Vocalists In Metal

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Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
So I Heard You Like Opeth...

A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)

While there is little introduction required for…

1.Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra
2.Adagio - Underworld
3.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
4.Amorphis - Silent Waters
5.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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Created by LeKiwi on 03.05.2013



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My Favourite Progressive Metal/rock Albums Of The Decade

This is the list of my favourite progressive metal/rock albums of the decade. I decided to do this list because a new decade is starting, so it's a good time to look back. Beware, this is not a "best…

1.Riverside - Out Of Myself
2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
3.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
4.Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Created by BloodTears on 13.03.2010



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BitterCOld's Top 50 Of The Zeroes

The "better half" of my top 100 of the Zeroes. In list format, now with album covers!…

1.Warning - Watching From A Distance
2.Negură Bunget - OM
3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
4.Neurosis - Given To The Rising
5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Created by BitterCOld on 01.03.2010



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*The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes)*

This is a list of the top songs over 10 minutes long in my humble opinion. I had to resist the urge not to put every single Symphony X, Opeth and Agalloch song over 10 minutes long on the list so some…

1.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
2.Gorod - Transcendence
3.Symphony X - The Odyssey
4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
5.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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Created by Pyramid God on 25.06.2011



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Promo's Picks Of The Passing Decade

Actually I wanted to write a blog as several of my colleagues, but now that we have this nifty new feature there's no reason to bother with formatting all the pics and stuff

So this was it. The…

1.Negură Bunget - OM
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin
4.Dark Tranquillity - Character
5.Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

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Created by Promonex on 01.03.2010



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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

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100

Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4.Aquilus - Griseus
5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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Created by Moose on 13.09.2015



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mz's Favs

These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this…

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3.Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
4.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
5.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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Created by mz on 09.05.2013



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Scapeplan's Top 50 Albums Of All Time

Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions…

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
4.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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Created by ?apleee on 28.11.2012



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My Favorite Albums: 2000s

I updated the list, so there are now 100 entries, and I consider 100 to be to little. These are albums I listen to regularly, and some I listened to frantically for a while.

1.Rapture - Songs For The Withering
2.System Of A Down - Toxicity
3.Warning - Watching From A Distance
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
5.Converge - Jane Doe

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Created by Mikyz on 11.04.2010



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Life Changing Albums

These are the bands, which because of their sheer beauty and creativity have a special place in my collection.

1.Kayo Dot - Bath
2.Negură Bunget - OM
3.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
4.Cynic - Focus
5.Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium

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Created by whatsacow on 19.08.2010



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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

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Created by Hazelnut Nero on 20.09.2014



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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…

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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mz's Most Favorite Progressive Metal Albums

Progressive metal is one of my most favorite musical genres. The most interesting thing about this genre is the musical flexibility and the fact that progressive metal can come into different forms and…

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Opeth - Still Life
3.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
4.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
5.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

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Created by mz on 21.07.2013