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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]…

1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
2.Rush - Moving Pictures
3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Created by Introspekrieg on 03.03.2010



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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)

So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials…

1.Atheist - Piece Of Time
2.Nocturnus - The Key
3.Atrocity - Hallucinations
4.Death - Human
5.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

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Created by Guib on 17.10.2011



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2015 Album Recommendations

Due to new developments and time constraints, I have streamlined this back into one list. I have taken off anything that I did not care for, so just consider it a list of recommended listens. You can find…

1.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
2.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
3.Death Karma - The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
4.A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
5.Leviathan - Scar Sighted

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Created by flightoficarus on 26.02.2015



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2015 So Far...

All the albums I've listened to in 2015, from favorite to least favorite, and a small summary.

1.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
2.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III
3.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
4.Leviathan - Scar Sighted
5.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

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Created by FullyOttoMatic on 07.03.2015



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2015 Back to the Front with Tauros and Korah

----Updated every weeks----

I'm looking for all genres without exceptions, with currently little preferencies for Progressive, Death and Black metal! Listenning to every albums 2 or 3 times at less before…

1.Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things
2.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
3.Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega
4.Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
5.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

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Created by Korah on 14.01.2015



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Top Album 2015 By Pelagial

Hi here is my list from this year hope you like and comment it.
❤ : Awesome Album
+ : Need to be listen
- : Don't like it
O : Coming Soon (Not listen yet =))
$ : Current listening

Notable Song (Try to…

1.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
2.Enslaved - In Times
3.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
4.Leprous - The Congregation
5.Elder - Lore

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Created by Pelagial on 25.02.2015



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2015, Now With A Chicken Shawarma!

I haven't listened to a lot of new music this year, but here are some of the highpoints for me. This year, my selections will be posted in no particular order aside from "The Best" and "The Rest". By "The…

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2.Voices From The Fuselage - Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds
3.Earthside - A Dream In Static
4.Marriages - Salome
5.Third Ion - 13/8 Bit

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Created by Diverge on 15.11.2015



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2015 : An Official Guide To Honesty And Beyond.

1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
2.Arcturus - Arcturian
3.Symphony X - Underworld
4.Leprous - The Congregation
5.Soilwork - The Ride Majestic

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Created by Hazelnut Nero on 20.03.2015



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2015 - My Best To Worst

Here's another list based on the albums i've enjoyed listening to most in 2015. Consider it a best to worst based on all the albums i've checked out. This list does not reflect the views of others on MS,…

1.Galneryus - Under The Force Of Courage
2.Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth
3.Orden Ogan - Ravenhead
4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
5.Sunless Rise - Unrevealed

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Created by Sword_Chant on 08.02.2015



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2015: One O' Dem Best Of Lists (Jan-Jun)

Cos by this point it's almost mandatory. I've made a pretty slow start to the year but hopefully I'll start catching up soon enough.

1.A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
2.Maladie - ...Still...
3.Dekadent - Veritas
4.Sylosis - Dormant Heart
5.Marriages - Salome

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Created by musclassia on 02.02.2015



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My Top 50 Albums

My top list by far......
last update : 23/01/2019…

1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
2.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
4.Amorphis - Silent Waters
5.Death - Symbolic

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Created by MetalAce on 09.12.2013



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F3ynman's Checklist

Here are albums (ordered by subgenre) that I want to listen to, but haven't yet.
For some albums, I've heard one or two songs, but not the entire album. Therefore, these albums still await my judgement!…

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2.In Vain - Solemn
3.Vástígr - The Path Of Perdition
4.Dagoba - Different Breed
5.Thanatotherion - Alienation Manifesto

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Created by F3ynman on 20.10.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)

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.Aara - En Ergô Einai
2.Aarni - Bathos
3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum
5.AATHMA - Avesta

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Created by Uxküll on 06.10.2020



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Me(tal) In The 2010s

Descriptions will probably be added/edited a few times as I always write this stuff pretty quickly and sometimes can't find the right words to describe somehting so abstract as music. A lot of my taste…

1.Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
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3.Murmuüre - Murmuüre
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5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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Created by Desha on 10.02.2020



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2015 List Of Albums That I Listened To And Quite Liked, In Rank Order Of Awesomeness

It's starting to seem like and endless circle...

1.Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
3.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4.The Aristocrats - Tres Caballeros
5.Enslaved - In Times

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Created by Xylem on 26.01.2015