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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 |
My Favorite Albums: 2000s
I updated the list, so there are now 100 entries, and I consider 100 to be to little. These are albums I listen to regularly, and some I listened to frantically for a while.
| 1. | Rapture - Songs For The Withering |
| 2. | System Of A Down - Toxicity |
| 3. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II |
| 5. | Converge - Jane Doe |
| + 97 more |
Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection
Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
| 1. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 2. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 3. | Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| 4. | Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy |
| 5. | Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls |
| + 54 more |
Top 50 Metal Albums Of The 2000'S
Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.
| 1. | Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness |
| 2. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 3. | Negură Bunget - OM |
| 4. | Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| 5. | Katatonia - Viva Emptiness |
| + 56 more |
Top Symphonic/Atmospheric Albums
My Top Symphonic/Atmospheric/Female Fronted(whatever you wanna call it...) Albums of all time with its subgenres: gothic, power, folk, prog...
Still, The order may change from time to time....!!
Still, The order may change from time to time....!!
| 1. | Within Temptation - The Silent Force |
| 2. | Nightwish - Century Child |
| 3. | Epica - Consign To Oblivion |
| 4. | Therion - Vovin |
| 5. | Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything |
| + 45 more |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
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…
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 |
| + 395 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
| + 1242 more |
Top 100 (+5) Of 2000-2004
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…
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 |
| + 100 more |
Top 30 Albums Of 2001
In my oppinion these are the best of 2001, and one important fact is that many great bands made their debut in this year (Ensiferum, Moonsorrow, Arthemesia, Falconer, Saurom Lamderth, Pagan Reign, Runic...)
| 1. | Ensiferum - Ensiferum |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
| 3. | Moonsorrow - Suden Uni |
| 4. | Saurom Lamderth - El Guardian de las Melodias Perdidas |
| 5. | Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind And Pillor |
| + 25 more |
My Top 20 Favorite Albuns
Top metal albuns based on the influence they have in my personality and by the way they changed some ideas and theories I had.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| 3. | Therion - Secret Of The Runes |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 5. | Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame |
| + 15 more |
Magical Albums
Good musical pieces are those that initiate an emotional reaction or a subconscious shift of your subjective perception. The best music are those that elicit the most positive or dramatic of changes to…
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 4. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| 5. | Atoma - Skylight |
| + 45 more |
My 50 Favorite Album All The Time
| 1. | Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| 2. | Cradle Of Filth - Midian |
| 3. | Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion |
| 4. | Tristania - Beyond The Veil |
| 5. | Darzamat - In The Opium Of Black Veil |
| + 48 more |
Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2001
A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.
2001 was pretty great year... for metal that is, one of the best in my opinion, this…
2001 was pretty great year... for metal that is, one of the best in my opinion, this…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | System Of A Down - Toxicity |
| 3. | Rammstein - Mutter |
| 4. | Ensiferum - Ensiferum |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
| + 15 more |
The Most Essential Albums Of My Life (one Per Band, Alphabetical)
Inspired by lists of my BFF AnthropOcean (https://metalstorm.net/users/lists.php?user_id=341301) I deciced to create a list of the most important and influential records/bands here as well. These are either…
| 1. | A.I.(d) - Schematic Emergency |
| 2. | A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step |
| 3. | A Storm Of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses |
| 4. | Aara - Triade III: Nyx |
| 5. | After The Burial - Rareform |
| + 213 more |
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