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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 |
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
My other lists:
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)
While there is little introduction required for…
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
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 |
| + 130 more |
2012 Musical Perusals
My list of favourites and interests for this year ordered roughly in descending order. My new years resolution is to branch out a bit and listen to new and unfamiliar genres, metal and non-metal.
Edit:…
Edit:…
| 1. | Enslaved - RIITIIR |
| 2. | Pharaoh - Bury The Light |
| 3. | Anglagard - Viljans Öga |
| 4. | Overkill - The Electric Age |
| 5. | The Foreshadowing - Second World |
| + 194 more |
Diverge's Alternative/Prog/Jazz/Avant-Garde Favs
LATEST EDIT: December 12/2016- Added a whole bunch of progressive rock albums; processing earlier suggestions on the list.
Assembled below are some choice selections in alternative metal, prog rock, prog…
Assembled below are some choice selections in alternative metal, prog rock, prog…
| 1. | Soundgarden - Down On The Upside |
| 2. | Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth |
| 3. | Karnivool - Asymmetry |
| 4. | Blindead - Absence |
| 5. | Blindead - Absence |
| + 120 more |
2012 Dreamy Albums Milena Considers A 7.5+ (update 26.12)
Other good lists with some melodic metal in them:
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's
Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list...
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's
Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list...
| 1. | Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails |
| 2. | Dissona - Dissona |
| 3. | Big Big Train - English Electric 1 |
| 4. | Headspace - I Am Anonymous |
| 5. | Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit |
| + 41 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 |
Favorite Albums By My Favorite Bands
I picked one album by each of my favorite bands for this list. Keep in mind that after the first few albums I put on the list, it became increasingly difficult to figure out where to place artists in my…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape |
| 3. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| 4. | Circus Maximus - Nine |
| 5. | Haken - Visions |
| + 25 more |
2012: Favourite To Least
One of likely hundreds of these, more for self-enjoyment (or something) above anything, but if it helps someone find a good album/albums they wouldn't've otherwise heard I'll be happy.
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| 4. | Abigail Williams - Becoming |
| 5. | Enslaved - RIITIIR |
| + 102 more |
My Favorite Progressive Metal Albums
My favorite progressive metal albums (derived/mixed genres included). Lot of stuff still missing here since I have a terrible memory 
I think everything here is at least 8,5/10.
Please, feel free to…
I think everything here is at least 8,5/10.Please, feel free to…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Awake |
| 2. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Train Of Thought |
| 5. | Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day |
| + 77 more |
My Most Favorited Albums 2012 [So Far]
Been listening to tons of new albums, and these are so far the best. Funny thing is, they're completely different from the comfortable spots that I often listen to.
Hope the list expands, though.
Hope the list expands, though.
| 1. | Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | Headspace - I Am Anonymous |
| 4. | In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| 5. | Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones |
| + 5 more |
2012: Favourite To Least (Continued)
Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| 4. | Abigail Williams - Becoming |
| 5. | Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52 |
| + 177 more |
Great singers in less-known projects
Well, it happens. Frontmen of popular bands often have something going on the side. Sometimes just one record, sometimes completely different band.
Full albums only.
Full albums only.
| 1. | Headspace - I Am Anonymous |
| 2. | Yargos - To Be Or Not To Be |
| 3. | Birds Of Tokyo - Ian Kenny (Karnivool) |
| 4. | Head Control System - Murder Nature |
| 5. | Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion |
| + 1 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (H)
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. | Haar - The Wayward Ceremony |
| 2. | Hacride - Lazarus |
| 3. | Hades - The Dawn Of The Dying Sun |
| 4. | Hænesy - Garabontzia |
| 5. | Hæthen - Shaped By Aeolian Winds |
| + 125 more |
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