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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 |
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 |
| + 51 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 |
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 share of experime(n)tal music and other innovative stuff
I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated.
| 1. | Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I |
| 2. | Kalisia - Cybion |
| 3. | Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera |
| 4. | Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery |
| 5. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| + 98 more |
Top 73 albums of all time
| 1. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 2. | Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall |
| 3. | Amorphis - Queen Of Time |
| 4. | Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias |
| 5. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| + 68 more |
10 Albums That Changed My View Of Metal
These are 10 albums that really blew me away and either broke down all of my notions of what I though a metal album could sound like, or really opened my eyes to new sub-genres. You'll notice most…
| 1. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors |
| 2. | The Ocean - Precambrian |
| 3. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 4. | Mirrorthrone - Gangrene |
| 5. | Equilibrium - Sagas |
| + 5 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 |
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…
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…
| 1. | Marillion - Marbles |
| 2. | Anathema - Weather Systems |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time |
| 4. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| + 320 more |
Fragile Dreams
Best 20 albums of 00's without great Rock albums of this gods:
Camel , R.E.M , The Cure , Radiohead , Archive , Muse and ...
Camel , R.E.M , The Cure , Radiohead , Archive , Muse and ...
| 1. | Anathema - A Natural Disaster |
| 2. | Antimatter - Lights Out |
| 3. | Evergrey - The Inner Circle |
| 4. | Empyrium - Weiland |
| 5. | Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance |
| + 15 more |
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.
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 |
| + 15 more |
Best Albums Of The New Millennium
On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg
| 1. | Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years |
| 4. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 5. | The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen |
| + 611 more |
Bombest's Most Listened To Albums
Progressive Metal/Rock is my main music, but you can't ignore the beauty in other genres.
| 1. | Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| 2. | Opeth - Damnation |
| 3. | Porcupine Tree - The Incident |
| 4. | Porcupine Tree - In Absentia |
| 5. | Tool - 10,000 Days |
| + 53 more |
Making My Way Through The MS Top 200
The Metal Storm top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. Join me as I try to listen to every single album featured on it.
Each album has a symbol telling…
Each album has a symbol telling…
| 1. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 2. | Death - Symbolic |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 5. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| + 195 more |