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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 |
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 |
My favourite Power Metal Albums
Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.Power up everybody!!!
| 1. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 3. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I |
| 4. | Riot - ThunderSteel |
| 5. | Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free |
| + 845 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 |
Empowering Albums For Powerless Losers
This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on…
| 1. | Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 3. | Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond |
| 4. | Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne |
| 5. | X Japan - Art Of Life |
| + 667 more |
My Top 50 Power Metal Albums 2012
| 1. | Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation |
| 2. | Galderia - Universality |
| 3. | Pathfinder - Fifth Element |
| 4. | Balflare - Downpour |
| 5. | Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity |
| + 45 more |
Essential Music For Phone
Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘
| 1. | 200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel |
| 2. | A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms |
| 3. | Abbath - Abbath |
| 4. | Acid Witch - Rot Among Us |
| 5. | Æther Realm - Tarot |
| + 156 more |
Some Albums With 8.50 Or More
| 1. | Shylmagoghnar - Emergence |
| 2. | Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation |
| 3. | Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI |
| 4. | Batushka - Litourgiya |
| 5. | Leprous - Bilateral |
| + 195 more |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (G)
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. | Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers |
| 2. | Galadriel - World Under World |
| 3. | Galaktik Cancer Squad - Celestia |
| 4. | Galar - De Gjenlevende |
| 5. | Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon |
| + 104 more |
Top 300 Albums
In progress top 300 albums in alphabetical order
| 1. | A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms |
| 2. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 3. | Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations |
| 4. | Acid Witch - Stoned |
| 5. | Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers |
| + 277 more |
Top 46 Power Metal Albums
Power Metal is a genre I've gotten into quite a bit over the past few years. I'd only really listened to Symphony X before, but discovered Blind Guardian, Wuthering Heights, Gamma Ray and others…
| 1. | Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 3. | Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd |
| 4. | Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free |
| 5. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| + 41 more |
2012 : BEST OF THE YEAR
This list contains my 16 favourite albums of the year 🤘
FUN FACT:
This was the year I really started listening to the Steve Hogarth era of Marillion, before this Seasons End was the only record I'd…
FUN FACT:
This was the year I really started listening to the Steve Hogarth era of Marillion, before this Seasons End was the only record I'd…
| 1. | Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real |
| 2. | Eluveitie - Helvetios |
| 3. | Kamelot - Silverthorn |
| 4. | Wintersun - Time I |
| 5. | Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity |
| + 11 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2012
My top 50 of the year. Rated 8 & Above
Alcest, Gojira, Les discrets and Blut Aus Nord make the french connection . Allez les bleus!
Black Sabbath announced their reunion, Wintersun reappeared…
Alcest, Gojira, Les discrets and Blut Aus Nord make the french connection . Allez les bleus!
Black Sabbath announced their reunion, Wintersun reappeared…
| 1. | Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage |
| 2. | Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme |
| 3. | Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension |
| 4. | Cult Of Fire - Triumvirát |
| 5. | Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées... |
| + 45 more |
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