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Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection (Standards, And A Few Unorthodox Choices)

A list by
Introspekrieg
Created
March 03, 2010
Entries
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263
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.
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
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Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)

A list by
Guib
Created
August 20, 2023
Entries
148
Endorsements
13
Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…
1. Living Colour - Vivid
2. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
3. Faith No More - The Real Thing
4. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
5. L7 - Smell The Magic
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My personal Top 100 Most Essential Albums (in no particular order)

A list by
AnthropOcean
Created
June 17, 2025
Entries
100
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5
This is my attempt to do impossible and choose 100 favourite full length albums. Considering that since 2006 (and of course I had been listening to music even before) I have gathered on last.fm over 10,000…
1. SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
2. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
3. Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
5. Necrophagist - Epitaph
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Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

A list by
Wildebean
Created
April 05, 2023
Entries
200
Endorsements
5
This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly

To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…
1. Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction
2. Tool - Lateralus
3. The Butterfly Effect - IV
4. Tool - Aenima
5. Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix
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The Most Essential Albums Of My Life (one Per Band, Alphabetical)

A list by
Angelskingarden
Created
July 05, 2025
Entries
218
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3
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
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Top 100 Albums Of 2010-2019

A list by
Kuroboshi
Created
January 05, 2020
Entries
100
Endorsements
2
Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!
1. Møl - Jord
2. The Haunted - Unseen
3. The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light
4. Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
5. Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
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2015

A list by
Marc-Antoine
Created
May 24, 2019
Entries
86
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1
1. Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated [Collaboration]
2. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
3. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
4. Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
5. Ghost - Meliora
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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came...

A list by
Roland de Gilead
Created
February 08, 2015
Entries
59
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1
...And since that day, he was never the same.

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
1. Across The Sun - Before The Night Takes Us
2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3. Agent Fresco - Destrier
4. Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
5. Angel Vivaldi - Universal Language
+ 54 more

Fruits Of 2015

A list by
embracing
Created
October 16, 2019
Entries
16
Endorsements
0
1. TesseracT - Polaris
2. Caligula's Horse - Bloom
3. Arcturus - Arcturian
4. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
5. Leprous - The Congregation
+ 11 more