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2011 - Best Of
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 3. | Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
| 4. | Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification |
| 5. | Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors |
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My share of experime(n)tal music and other innovative stuff
I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated.
| 1. | Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I |
| 2. | Kalisia - Cybion |
| 3. | Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera |
| 4. | Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery |
| 5. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
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2011 Suggestions For The Eclectic Metalhead
If you're like me and can't sit still with just one or two genres, perhaps you'll find some ideas in this list. I kept the variety with genres, but also by including all worthy bands from…
| 1. | Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Návaz |
| 2. | Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors |
| 3. | Autumn - Cold Comfort |
| 4. | Shadowside - Inner Monster Out |
| 5. | 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room |
| + 45 more |
Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)
Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…
| 1. | Living Colour - Vivid |
| 2. | Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking |
| 3. | Faith No More - The Real Thing |
| 4. | Godflesh - Streetcleaner |
| 5. | L7 - Smell The Magic |
| + 143 more |
KB's Favorite Albums Of All Time (Only Metal)
Here is my provisional favorite-metal-albums-of-all-time-list! Enjoy!
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly.
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly.
| 1. | Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway |
| 2. | Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor |
| 3. | Grand Alchemist - Intervening Coma-Celebration |
| 4. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 5. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
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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 |
My Top 11 Most Anticipated Of 2011
2011 Looks to be a very promising year for Metal fans with some of the biggest names in the business preparing to release their new records, and so I decided to compile a list of my own most anticipated…
| 1. | Opeth - Heritage |
| 2. | Circus Maximus - TBA |
| 3. | Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events |
| 4. | Symphony X - Iconoclast |
| 5. | Rush - Clockwork Angels |
| + 6 more |
Until Yet A Few More Deaths Do Us Part, here's my 2011 list...
Quite a polarizing year, this one. On one hand, some releases redefined crap itself. On the other hand, we've got quite a few great and awesome albums. All in all, it was a bit disappointing for me,…
| 1. | Lazuli - (4603 Battements) |
| 2. | Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg |
| 3. | Devin Townsend - Deconstruction |
| 4. | Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels |
| 5. | Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire |
| + 23 more |
Best Metal Albums Of 2011
This list will expand later and the positions here will probably change a bit as well. An interesting feature is an album in top 10 from a band that's not featured on Metal Storm yet.
| 1. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 2. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 3. | MyGrain - MyGrain |
| 4. | Constantine - Divine Design |
| 5. | Chaos Divine - The Human Connection |
| + 22 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 |
My personal Top 100 Most Essential Albums (in no particular order)
This is my attempt to do impossible and choose 100 favourite full length albums. Considering that since 2006 (and of course I had been listening to music even before) I have gathered on last.fm over 10,000…
| 1. | SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day |
| 2. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors |
| 3. | Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette |
| 4. | The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine |
| 5. | Necrophagist - Epitaph |
| + 95 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (F)
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. | Faal - The Clouds Are Burning |
| 2. | Façade - The Eternal Dance |
| 3. | Facínora - Hell Is Here |
| 4. | The Faceless - Autotheism |
| 5. | Faceless Burial - Speciation |
| + 112 more |