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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 Top Albums Of 2011
| 1. | Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning |
| 2. | Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors |
| 3. | Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance |
| 4. | Machine Head - Unto The Locust |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
| + 118 more |
Good Surprises Of 2011
List of the albums that surprised me this year (2011). Some of the albums were even more unexpected because it was my first contact with the bands. Others were confirmations.
Oh, how I like good surprises...
Oh, how I like good surprises...
| 1. | Grayceon - All We Destroy |
| 2. | Protest The Hero - Scurrilous |
| 3. | TesseracT - One |
| 4. | Appearance Of Nothing - All Gods Are Gone |
| 5. | Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling |
| + 14 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)
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. | Aara - En Ergô Einai |
| 2. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 3. | Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht |
| 4. | Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum |
| 5. | AATHMA - Avesta |
| + 430 more |
2011: Choosing Death... And Black... And Other Stuff
I am making a list for 2011. Like every one else. Originality is overrated anyway.
This is the very top of the year and still a work in progress.
This is the very top of the year and still a work in progress.
| 1. | Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage |
| 2. | Beyond Creation - The Aura |
| 3. | Benighted - Asylum Cave |
| 4. | Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony |
| 5. | Obscura - Omnivium |
| + 15 more |
2011: Favourite To Least
Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so…
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Protest The Hero - Scurrilous |
| 3. | Infestus - E x I s t |
| 4. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 5. | Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth |
| + 148 more |
A Completely Incorrect Ranking of 2011 Albums
Ordered best to worst. This is entirely my opinion.
| 1. | Insomnium - One For Sorrow |
| 2. | Graveyard - Hisingen Blues |
| 3. | Havok - Time Is Up |
| 4. | Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command |
| 5. | Deafheaven - Roads To Judah |
| + 241 more |
Top Prog-Metal Albums
This is a small list (that will grow over time) presenting all the top albums I have heard surrounding the prog-metal scene. I will try to add some lesser known bands that are incredibly good... Alphabetical…
| 1. | Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary |
| 2. | Age Of Silence - Acceleration |
| 3. | Akashic - A Brand New Day |
| 4. | Amaseffer - Exodus - Slaves for Life |
| 5. | Andromeda - II = I |
| + 20 more |