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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 |
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 |
The Current Decade: 2010-2019: My Opinion: The Truth: Reality
*The title is a joke, of course
The Current Decade (2010-2019) in order of preference. This is separate from my year-lists, which strive to include as many albums from the year as possible regardless…
The Current Decade (2010-2019) in order of preference. This is separate from my year-lists, which strive to include as many albums from the year as possible regardless…
| 1. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 2. | Septicflesh - The Great Mass |
| 3. | 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room |
| 4. | Antichrist - Forbidden World |
| 5. | Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit |
| + 25 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (E)
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. | Ea - Ea Taesse |
| 2. | Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull |
| 3. | Earth And Pillars - Earth I |
| 4. | Earth Crisis - Destroy The Machines |
| 5. | Earth Rot - Black Tides Of Obscurity |
| + 167 more |
Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums
I've always enjoyed metal that combined progressive metal with other genres such as Opeth, Edge of Sanity and Death's later work. But outside of Dream Theater, I hadn't deep-dived into "pure"…
| 1. | Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome |
| 2. | Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime |
| 3. | Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition |
| 4. | John Petrucci - Suspended Animation |
| 5. | Riverside - Second Life Syndrome |
| + 20 more |
2011 Favorites (in Order)
These are my picks of "must haves" of 2011 for those who enjoy progressive, technical, djent, and/or experimental metal and hybrids thereof. Derived from over 50 2011 metal releases I purchased…
| 1. | Leprous - Bilateral |
| 2. | TesseracT - One |
| 3. | Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire |
| 4. | Cynthesis - DeEvolution |
| 5. | Blotted Science - The Animation Of Entomology |
| + 10 more |
Top 2011
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
| 1. | Insomnium - One For Sorrow |
| 2. | Gernotshagen - Weltenbrand - ...Den Banner Hoch Der Nacht Entgegen |
| 3. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 4. | Sólstafir - Svartir Sandar |
| 5. | Septicflesh - The Great Mass |
| + 128 more |
Top 86 Albums Of The 2010s
Here are the 10s 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. | Wintersun - Time I |
| 2. | Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle |
| 3. | Insomnium - Winter's Gate |
| 4. | Vektor - Terminal Redux |
| 5. | Solipsist - Extinction Protocol |
| + 81 more |