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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 |
Space Metal!
***Currently working through suggestions and adding some spacey non-metal things when they cross my mind***
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
| 1. | Atoma - Skylight |
| 2. | Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer |
| 3. | Dol Ammad - Star Tales |
| 4. | Star One - Space Metal |
| 5. | Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic : Calling |
| + 143 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 |
Top 200 Overlooked Albums
This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
| 1. | Solipsist - The Human Equation |
| 2. | Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind |
| 3. | Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity |
| 4. | Element (USA) - The Energy |
| 5. | Telepathy - 12 Areas |
| + 195 more |
Black Metal Miscellanea
Personally I find Black Metal to be a very difficult genre to get into, hence the meager length of my list which contains all the albums I've really enjoyed to date, in no order. Recommendations are…
| 1. | Potentiam - Bálsýn |
| 2. | Grabnebelfürsten - Dynastie Oder Wie Man Herrschaft Definert |
| 3. | Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice |
| 4. | Sigh - Hangman's Hymn- Musikalische Exequien |
| 5. | Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape |
| + 44 more |
Top 50 Metal Albums Of The 2000'S
Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.
| 1. | Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness |
| 2. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 3. | Negură Bunget - OM |
| 4. | Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| 5. | Katatonia - Viva Emptiness |
| + 56 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
Top 56 Black Metal Albums
I've been listened to Black Metal since the late 2000s starting with Emperor and Dimmu Borgir. Since then, I've discover dozens of amazing bands thanks to MS and it has become one of my favourite…
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle |
| 3. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 4. | Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk |
| 5. | Windir - 1184 |
| + 51 more |
Yet Another Useless Folking List
This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…
| 1. | Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire |
| 2. | Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom |
| 3. | Forefather - Steadfast |
| 4. | Forefather - Last Of The Line |
| 5. | Dalriada - Áldás |
| + 409 more |
Magical Albums
Good musical pieces are those that initiate an emotional reaction or a subconscious shift of your subjective perception. The best music are those that elicit the most positive or dramatic of changes to…
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 4. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| 5. | Atoma - Skylight |
| + 45 more |
Top 20 albums of 2000
Certainly a good year. Northern Europe really killed it this time. The top 5 is without a doubt some of the best albums of all time.
| 1. | Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper |
| 2. | Nightwish - Wishmaster |
| 3. | Cradle Of Filth - Midian |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Brave New World |
| 5. | In Flames - Clayman |
| + 15 more |
All Time Favourite Albums
List of my favourite, 10/10 rated albums. One album per band.
Will be updated.
Will be updated.
| 1. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 4. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Brave New World |
| + 40 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (U-V)
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. | Uada - Djinn |
| 2. | Uaral - Sounds Of Pain |
| 3. | Ufomammut - Eve |
| 4. | Úir - Óenach Tailten |
| 5. | Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All |
| + 160 more |
Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s
Here are the 00s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Trivium - Shogun |
| 3. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 4. | Trivium - Ascendancy |
| 5. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| + 195 more |
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