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Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection (Standards, And A Few Unorthodox Choices)

A list by
Introspekrieg
Created
March 03, 2010
Entries
576
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263
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.
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
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BitterCOld's Top 50 Of The Zeroes

A list by
BitterCOld
Created
March 01, 2010
Entries
50
Endorsements
43
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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The Most Majestic Releases Of All Time

A list by
Roxana.M
Created
June 10, 2015
Entries
170
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39
This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…
1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
3. Deinonychus - The Silence Of December
4. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age
5. Burzum - Filosofem
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Drone Metal: The Slow Darkside

A list by
Tiago Rocha
Created
September 24, 2010
Entries
65
Endorsements
33
It's always the same riff? the same bass? for some reason you can't stop listening to it? it's appealing. The whole sound summons you into a spiral, a void? It's always the same thing,…
1. Melvins - Lysol
2. Earth - Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version
3. Earth - Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions
4. Boris - Absolutego
5. Thrones - Alraune
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My Favorite Albums: 2000s

A list by
Mikyz
Created
April 11, 2010
Entries
102
Endorsements
21
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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Drone And Ambient: A Road Map For The Uninitiated

A list by
Auntie Sahar
Created
January 31, 2017
Entries
48
Endorsements
20
So you're looking to be inducted into the temple, but you have no idea where to start, eh? Let this list be your guide. The aim here is to walk newcomers to the realms of drone and ambient music through…
1. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
2. Jesu - Jesu
3. Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
4. Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
5. Midnight Odyssey - Shards Of Silver Fade
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Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection

A list by
IronAngel
Created
September 11, 2012
Entries
59
Endorsements
14
Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
1. Warning - Watching From A Distance
2. Candlemass - Nightfall
3. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
4. Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy
5. Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
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Metal Band Names Inspired By Other Bands

A list by
Plattner
Created
August 07, 2024
Entries
195
Endorsements
8
This is an alphabetical list of metal/hard rock band names that were inspired by the work of other music artists (album or song titles, lyrics, group names, instruments, etc). The list shows the first…
1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
2. Accept - Accept
3. Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy
4. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
5. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
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Albums That Quake My Existence

A list by
Nosurper
Created
April 10, 2012
Entries
10
Endorsements
7
These albums perform twisted rituals upon my inner self
1. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
3. Mr. Bungle - California
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ [1995-1997]
5. Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death
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Essential Hipster Metal

A list by
Gjulch
Created
April 20, 2014
Entries
20
Endorsements
3
20 Essential Hipster Metal Albums/Bands. One Album Per Band,
1. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
3. Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
4. Krallice - Krallice
5. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
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Industrial Metal Classic Albums TOP 40

A list by
Alexbridger
Created
October 19, 2014
Entries
43
Endorsements
3
1. Strapping Young Lad - City
2. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
3. PERPETUA - Irrational
4. DEAD WORLD - Collusion
5. Swans - Cop
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Nice Ones

A list by
BrokenWrench5834
Created
March 29, 2023
Entries
35
Endorsements
0
Feels like a nice cold drink when listening to these ones
1. Fear Factory - Archetype
2. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
3. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
4. AC/DC - Ballbreaker
5. AC/DC - Powerage
+ 30 more