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Most Talented Vocalists In Metal

A list by
LeKiwi
Created
May 03, 2013
Entries
135
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So I Heard You Like Opeth...

A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)

While there is little introduction required for…
1. Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra
2. Adagio - Underworld
3. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
4. Amorphis - Silent Waters
5. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
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My Favourite Albums Of All Time

A list by
Starchild
Created
August 25, 2010
Entries
67
Endorsements
31
1. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
2. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
3. Wintersun - Wintersun
4. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
5. Mors Principium Est - The Unborn
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Circles....

A list by
me<3mertl
Created
April 03, 2015
Entries
100
Endorsements
25
A bunch of albums with a big circle on the cover
1. Karnivool - Sound Awake
2. Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea
3. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
4. Pentagram - Pentagram
5. Russian Circles - Empros
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KB's Favorite Albums Of All Time (Only Metal)

A list by
Kuroboshi
Created
February 06, 2013
Entries
77
Endorsements
11
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.
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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Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)

A list by
gckator
Created
July 12, 2025
Entries
400
Endorsements
9
RESTRICTIONS
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
1. Death - Symbolic
2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4. Judas Priest - Painkiller
5. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 2000's (On Going)

A list by
Red_Travis
Created
February 03, 2012
Entries
126
Endorsements
6
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
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Top 100 (+5) Of 2000-2004

A list by
Crys1s
Created
September 26, 2019
Entries
105
Endorsements
6
2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722

I…
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Agalloch - The Mantle
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. Wintersun - Wintersun
5. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
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Progressive Metal Bands For People Who Hate Prog

A list by
Ganondox
Created
October 16, 2015
Entries
25
Endorsements
5
Progressive metal has some of the most creative musicians in metal, but the tendency for progressive bands to make extremely long, technical songs with no sense of structure can be turnoff to some people,…
1. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
2. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
3. Toehider - What Kind Of Creature Am I?
4. Coheed and Cambria - Volume 4
5. Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
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My Favourite Albums

A list by
24emd
Created
June 30, 2022
Entries
86
Endorsements
3
The goats. The near perfect albums that never get old. Some are full of catchy bangers I'm always humming, and some are so full to the brim of details that I still haven't even uncovered them…
1. Devin Townsend - Empath
2. Memories Of Old - The Zeramin Game
3. Wintersun - Time I
4. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
5. Aquilus - Bellum I
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Top 10 Current Essential Albums

A list by
kpu27
Created
July 26, 2011
Entries
10
Endorsements
3
List of Albums i Appreciate
1. Faith No More - The Real Thing
2. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
3. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
4. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
5. Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship
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Best Album Of Each Year

A list by
Ganondox
Created
October 17, 2019
Entries
50
Endorsements
2
Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
3. Deep Purple - Machine Head
4. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
5. Queen - Queen II
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Top 200 Overrated Albums

A list by
nonZero
Created
February 19, 2021
Entries
198
Endorsements
2
**Trigger warning**

Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…
1. Anathema - Judgement
2. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
3. Anathema - Alternative 4
4. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
5. Motörhead - Overkill
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Top 30 Progressive Metal Albums Of The 00's

A list by
Mrtvozornik
Created
September 20, 2020
Entries
30
Endorsements
2
1. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
2. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
3. Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter
4. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
5. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
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Devin Townsend Albums Ranked

A list by
em6568
Created
August 20, 2025
Entries
31
Endorsements
1
My personal album ranking of Heavy Devy himself
1. Devin Townsend - Synchestra
2. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
3. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
4. Strapping Young Lad - City
5. Devin Townsend - Transcendence
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Favorite Albums

A list by
tmclane
Created
March 30, 2011
Entries
6
Endorsements
1
One per artist
1. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
2. Agalloch - The Mantle
3. Nightwish - Once
4. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
5. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
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