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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 |
The Best "(Melodic) Death Doom" Albums
Here's a list that contains only Death Doom and Melodic Death Doom Metal albums, so Gothic (check out my other list for that), Funeral or Sludge Doom etc. are NOT included here (but elements from…
| 1. | Katatonia - Brave Murder Day |
| 2. | My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans |
| 3. | Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You |
| 4. | Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul... |
| 5. | Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral |
| + 54 more |
My Top 75 Albums Of All Time
My top 75 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list, and after that top 50). Only 1 album per band. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album…
| 1. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| 4. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 5. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| + 70 more |
*The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes)*
This is a list of the top songs over 10 minutes long in my humble opinion. I had to resist the urge not to put every single Symphony X, Opeth and Agalloch song over 10 minutes long on the list so some…
| 1. | Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| 2. | Gorod - Transcendence |
| 3. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| 4. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 5. | Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite |
| + 29 more |
Best Of Doom Metal
More doom on the way: as of 14th June I'm slowly adding a few albums, hopefully to reach the 50 mark.
| 1. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 2. | DoomSword - Let Battle Commence |
| 3. | Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus |
| 4. | Skepticism - Lead And Aether |
| 5. | Shape Of Despair - Angels Of Distress |
| + 31 more |
Pain, Grief & Sorrow: Highlights of Doom Metal
| 1. | 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room |
| 2. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 3. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 5. | Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| + 42 more |
Jay's Top Metal Albums...no Particular Order 2.0
I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried…
| 1. | !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest) |
| 2. | 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom |
| 3. | Absu - Tara |
| 4. | ADX - Division Blindée |
| 5. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| + 123 more |
Rod's Favorite Use Of Samples!
Sometimes, samples can improve the atmosphere of a song just as much as the instruments (or even more). This is a compilationn of some of my favorite samples in metal. I'm trying to keep it one album…
| 1. | Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done |
| 2. | Abruptum - Potestates Apocalypsis |
| 3. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 4. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 5. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| + 35 more |
Top 50 Doom/Gothic Metal Albums
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Katatonia - Discouraged Ones |
| 4. | My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| + 65 more |
Slow Tempo…
Slow/Depress/Funeral/Love/Gloom/Beauty/Sorrow/Obscure/Cold/Atmospheric/
| 1. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 2. | Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane |
| 3. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 4. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 5. | Corrupted - El Mundo Frio |
| + 44 more |
Top Doom Metal Records
This list includes many records from many doom sub genres, some of these albums could fall under black or death metal, but the complete emotion expressed within these records, in my opinion, place them…
| 1. | Evoken - Antithesis Of Light |
| 2. | The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer) |
| 3. | Ataraxie - L'Être Et La Nausée |
| 4. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 5. | Urna - Sepulcrum |
| + 40 more |
Brimbly-Brambly Bucka-Bucka Woozle-Wuzzle It's A Doom List.
This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.
The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid…
The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 3. | Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| 4. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 627 more |
InnerDoom
The wide spectrum of sounds expressed through the sub-genre of Doom Metal often gets overshadowed by the somehow inaccessible slowness that is in its nature and so DM doesn't get the recognition it…
| 1. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 2. | Saturnus - Martyre |
| 3. | Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum |
| 4. | My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans |
| 5. | Process Of Guilt - Erosion |
| + 37 more |
My Favourite Melancholic Albums
| 1. | Katatonia - Brave Murder Day |
| 2. | Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came |
| 3. | Insomnium - Above The Weeping World |
| 4. | Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion |
| 5. | Be'lakor - Stone's Reach |
| + 17 more |