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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 |
Worst Albums in the History of Music
Consider this an encyclopedia of music's worst entries.
| 1. | Metallica - Lulu |
| 2. | Metallica - Lulu |
| 3. | Metallica - Lulu |
| 4. | Metallica - Lulu |
| 5. | Metallica - Lulu |
| + 95 more |
The Metal Art Of Thrashing (Ordered By Years)
**WARNING: Mega-list ahead**
So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering…
So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering…
| 1. | Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| 2. | Metallica - Kill 'Em All |
| 3. | Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies |
| 4. | Slayer - Show No Mercy |
| 5. | Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus |
| + 515 more |
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
My other lists:
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
The intent of this list is to expose some lesser known bands and ultimately see them added to MS. Thanks to everyone who…
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
The intent of this list is to expose some lesser known bands and ultimately see them added to MS. Thanks to everyone who…
| 1. | Gigafauna - Eye To Windward |
| 2. | Angerer - Multiple Tonality Disorder |
| 3. | Jun Mitsui - Evacuation |
| 4. | Bear Ghost - Blasterpiece |
| 5. | Blake Hobson - The Spectaculator |
| + 171 more |
The Encyclopaedia of Beautiful Metal Ballads
If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me 
| 1. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 2. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 5. | After Forever - After Forever |
| + 373 more |
Marcel's Pedantic Top 50 Of The Naughties
This is the top 50 of my favourite 100 albums of 2000-2009.
| 1. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 2. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 3. | Primordial - To The Nameless Dead |
| 4. | Process Of Guilt - Erosion |
| 5. | Negură Bunget - OM |
| + 45 more |
Booooobs
Just Boobies!
| 1. | Abaddon Incarnate - The Last Supper |
| 2. | Abrasive - Awakening Of Lust |
| 3. | Abrasive - The Birth... Born In Sodom |
| 4. | Abrasive - Book Of Sin |
| 5. | Abysmal Gates - Divine Deception |
| + 277 more |
Underrated and Overlooked Albums
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. Alphabetic order
3. Only albums with less than 30 votes + albums not available on MS
Links to albums which are not featured on MS:
Antagonist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gKRrqbWG8
Aphotic…
1. One album per band
2. Alphabetic order
3. Only albums with less than 30 votes + albums not available on MS
Links to albums which are not featured on MS:
Antagonist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gKRrqbWG8
Aphotic…
| 1. | (EchO) - Devoid Of Illusions |
| 2. | 5ive - Hesperus |
| 3. | 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution |
| 4. | A Sorrowful Dream - Toward Nothingness |
| 5. | Aarni - Bathos |
| + 645 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 |
Dark, Harrowing, And Ravaging Albums To Ruin Your Day
These obviously won't ruin your day. Chances are if you are into these styles you'll love this selection. No stylistic borders, but I'm limiting myself to one album per band. These aren't…
| 1. | Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis |
| 2. | Abruptum - Potestates Apocalypsis |
| 3. | Absolutus - Pugnare In Iis Quae Obtinere Non Possis |
| 4. | Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius |
| 5. | Aderlating - Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Pt. 1 |
| + 95 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 |
A List Of Great Debut Albums
A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions…
| 1. | Aarni - Bathos |
| 2. | Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| 3. | Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom |
| 4. | Sadness - Ames De Marbre |
| 5. | Solefald - The Linear Scaffold |
| + 360 more |
MOST OVERLOOKED Albums of All Time
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Heavy Load - Full Speed At High Level |
| 3. | Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour |
| 4. | Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera |
| 5. | Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon |
| + 526 more |
Space Metal!
***Currently working through suggestions and adding some spacey non-metal things when they cross my mind***
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it…
| 1. | Atoma - Skylight |
| 2. | Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer |
| 3. | Dol Ammad - Star Tales |
| 4. | Star One - Space Metal |
| 5. | Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic : Calling |
| + 143 more |
The Best Of Unorthodox Black Metal
Within the past decade, black metal has seen bands from all over the world incorporating new sounds to the genre and changing its delivery like never before. As great as the classic bands are, BM bands…
| 1. | Necromantia - Crossing The Fiery Path |
| 2. | Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters |
| 3. | Woods Of Belial - Deimos XIII |
| 4. | Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| 5. | Blut Aus Nord - MoRT |
| + 47 more |