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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 |
Marcel's Pedantic Top 50 Of The Naughties
This is the top 50 of my favourite 100 albums of 2000-2009.
| 1. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 2. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 3. | Primordial - To The Nameless Dead |
| 4. | Process Of Guilt - Erosion |
| 5. | Negură Bunget - OM |
| + 45 more |
My Top 75 Albums Of All Time
My top 75 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list, and after that top 50). Only 1 album per band. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album…
| 1. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| 4. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 5. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| + 70 more |
The Best Shit On MS
My top 100 metal albums of all time (featured on MS).
- one album per band.
- in alphabetical order.
- one album per band.
- in alphabetical order.
| 1. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 2. | Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis |
| 3. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 4. | Agruss - Morok |
| 5. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| + 95 more |
Choice Albums Of Atmospheric Metal
My choices of albums with strong forms of atmospheric sound in metal. Recommendations are welcome, though I won't add all as this will be towards personal taste.
| 1. | A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 4. | Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane |
| 5. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| + 65 more |
My Favourite Black Metal Albums
- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
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- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
…
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver |
| 3. | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| + 223 more |
Neachy's Select: Black Metal
| 1. | Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark |
| 2. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| 3. | Master's Hammer - Ritual |
| 4. | Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky |
| 5. | Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| + 145 more |
Most Gripping Atmospheres
Here are the most captivating atmospheres I've ever heard. Including metal and non-metal albums. Grouped according to genre and one album per band.
| 1. | Division By Zero - Independent Harmony |
| 2. | Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall Of Fame |
| 3. | Riverside - Out Of Myself |
| 4. | Suspyre - When Time Fades... |
| 5. | Redemption - The Fullness Of Time |
| + 112 more |
Epic Album Closers
Some albums are really good. Many of these are good all the way around. And, in many cases, there is a single song that stands out, sometimes it's the last song on the album. This is a list of those…
| 1. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 2. | Abigail Williams - Becoming |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 4. | Amon Amarth - Versus The World |
| 5. | Anekdoten - Vemod |
| + 117 more |
My Top Dissonant Metal Picks
Are you addicted to the eerie sound of Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate and Portal? Then this list is for you.
| 1. | Above Aurora - Path To Ruin |
| 2. | Above Aurora - Myriad Woes |
| 3. | Abyssal - Antikatastaseis |
| 4. | Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est |
| 5. | Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| + 96 more |
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 |
| + 97 more |
My Favourites And Why I Like Them
I always admired people who do really cool lists. But since I don't know anything, I can't really make a good one. So here's the babby-boy of lists, just to get my juices flowing.
Will…
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| 1. | Neurosis - Souls At Zero |
| 2. | A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes |
| 3. | Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture |
| 4. | Amigo The Devil - Everything Is Fine |
| 5. | Neurosis - Times Of Grace |
| + 52 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 |
Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection
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…
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 |
| + 54 more |
Omega_Switch's Listism: Top Black Metal Albums
| 1. | Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk |
| 2. | Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky |
| 3. | Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| 4. | Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| 5. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| + 45 more |