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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 |
A List Of Great Debut Albums
A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions…
| 1. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 2. | Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| 3. | Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom |
| 4. | Sadness - Ames De Marbre |
| 5. | Solefald - The Linear Scaffold |
| + 360 more |
A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)
So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials…
| 1. | Atheist - Piece Of Time |
| 2. | Nocturnus - The Key |
| 3. | Atrocity - Hallucinations |
| 4. | Death - Human |
| 5. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| + 270 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 |
Quite Unusual Choices : Death Metal
Varied avantgarde/progressive/technical stuff. In no particular order.
Tell me how many do you know of them
Quality may vary.
Also try the QUC: Black Metal list.
TO CHECK: Cosmic Atropy, Impetuous…
Tell me how many do you know of them
Quality may vary.
Also try the QUC: Black Metal list.
TO CHECK: Cosmic Atropy, Impetuous…
| 1. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II |
| 2. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 3. | Lykathé - Elvenefris |
| 4. | Element (USA) - The Energy |
| 5. | Unmoored - Indefinite Soul-Extension |
| + 56 more |
2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100
Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI |
| 4. | Aquilus - Griseus |
| 5. | Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World |
| + 95 more |
Technical Madness
This is a list dedicated to everything crazy, eclectic and technical. I know there are many many more albums that could be added, but these are the ones I personally recommend. One album per band order…
| 1. | Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia |
| 2. | Änglagård - Hybris |
| 3. | Coroner - No More Color |
| 4. | Invocator - Excursion Demise |
| 5. | Deathspell Omega - Paracletus |
| + 24 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 |
Top Technical Death Metal Albums Of All Time- Order In Chaos !
Definitive Top Technical Death Metal.
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock,…
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock,…
| 1. | Death - Human |
| 2. | Decapitated - Winds Of Creation |
| 3. | Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| 4. | Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction |
| 5. | Martyr - Warp Zone |
| + 25 more |
Matt's Favs Of 2011
My favorite 25 albums of the year
| 1. | Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason |
| 2. | Obscura - Omnivium |
| 3. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 4. | Deafheaven - Roads To Judah |
| 5. | We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach |
| + 20 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 |
O' Canada! (Ordered By Years)
Good day folks! T'day, I just wanted to share the best of what Canada has to offer when it comes to Metal, eh. It seems a lot of people don't yet know that Canada's a force to be reckoned…
| 1. | Moxy - Moxy |
| 2. | Triumph - Just A Game |
| 3. | Rush - Moving Pictures |
| 4. | April Wine - The Nature Of The Beast |
| 5. | D.O.A. - Hardcore '81 |
| + 176 more |
The Timeless
1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified…
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk |
| 3. | Krallice - Diotima |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Deathspell Omega - Kénôse |
| + 166 more |