Lists by nonZero
Top 200 Overrated Albums
**Trigger warning**
Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.
I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…
Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.
I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…
| 1. | Anathema - Judgement |
| 2. | Paradise Lost - Draconian Times |
| 3. | Anathema - Alternative 4 |
| 4. | Motörhead - Ace Of Spades |
| 5. | Motörhead - Overkill |
| + 193 more |
Top 23 Albums Of The 1970s
Here are the 70s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 18 more |
Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums
I've always enjoyed metal that combined progressive metal with other genres such as Opeth, Edge of Sanity and Death's later work. But outside of Dream Theater, I hadn't deep-dived into "pure"…
| 1. | Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome |
| 2. | Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime |
| 3. | Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition |
| 4. | John Petrucci - Suspended Animation |
| 5. | Riverside - Second Life Syndrome |
| + 20 more |
Top 46 Power Metal Albums
Power Metal is a genre I've gotten into quite a bit over the past few years. I'd only really listened to Symphony X before, but discovered Blind Guardian, Wuthering Heights, Gamma Ray and others…
| 1. | Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 3. | Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd |
| 4. | Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free |
| 5. | Symphony X - The Odyssey |
| + 41 more |
Dark Tranquillity: Best To Worst
I first listened to Dark Tranquillity when I started listening to In Flames and heard about this incredible year of Gothernberg Metal in 1995/96 which included In Flames' The Jester Race, At The Gates'…
| 1. | Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery |
| 2. | Dark Tranquillity - Fiction |
| 3. | Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done |
| 4. | Dark Tranquillity - Character |
| 5. | Dark Tranquillity - Atoma |
| + 8 more |
Insomnium: Best To Worst
I first listened to Insomnium in 2014 when I was reading through the MS top 200 albums list and saw Above The Weeping World was one of the highest-rated melodic death metal albums. I hadn't listened…
| 1. | Insomnium - Winter's Gate |
| 2. | Insomnium - Above The Weeping World |
| 3. | Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun |
| 4. | Insomnium - One For Sorrow |
| 5. | Insomnium - Across The Dark |
| + 4 more |
Machine Head: Best To Worst
I first listened to Machine Head around 2006/07 time when I bought a copy of Burn My Eyes which was featured in Kerrang!'s top rock albums special feature. I hadn't listened to anything quite…
| 1. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 2. | Machine Head - Burn My Eyes |
| 3. | Machine Head - Unto The Locust |
| 4. | Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| 5. | Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds |
| + 5 more |
Top 18 Progressive Rock Albums
I remember first listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' back in 2007/08 time and was blown away by the journey the album took me on. Since then, I've been discovering…
| 1. | Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever |
| 2. | Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever |
| 3. | Rush - Moving Pictures |
| 4. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 5. | Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura |
| + 13 more |
Top 24 Hard Rock Albums
Part of my journey in discovering my passion for metal also involved discovering a lot of hard rock bands. My friends at school listened to a lot of Guns N' Roses (which I originally couldn't…
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 2. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| 3. | Rainbow - Rising |
| 4. | Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti |
| 5. | Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction |
| + 19 more |
Amon Amarth: Best To Worst
I first listened to Amon Amarth when I downloaded a copy of Fate of Norns back around 2010 time. I loved the combination of aggression and melody combined with the viking themes. The drummer in my band…
| 1. | Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising |
| 2. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 3. | Amon Amarth - Versus The World |
| 4. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| 5. | Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods |
| + 7 more |
Death: Best To Worst
I first listened to Death when I came across Human on AllMusic.com (which I was using a lot at the time) and read about how it was a classic progressive death metal album. I loved the combination of technical…
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Death - Human |
| 3. | Death - Symbolic |
| 4. | Death - Leprosy |
| 5. | Death - Individual Thought Patterns |
| + 2 more |
Metallica: Best To Worst
I first listened to Metallica when I was getting into metal around 2005/06. Kerrang! featured a cover album of Master of Puppets which I thought sounded pretty cool, so I bought an album from the band…
| 1. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Metallica - Metallica |
| 4. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 5. | Metallica - Kill 'Em All |
| + 8 more |
Opeth: Best To Worst
I first got into Opeth when my friend bought Ghost Reveries from HMV in London when we went to see Iron Maiden at Twickenham stadium in 2008. I borrowed the album to find out what the music was like and…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 3. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 4. | Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse |
| 5. | Opeth - Deliverance |
| + 9 more |
Scar Symmetry: Best To Worst
I first listened to Scar Symmetry when I saw Pitch Black Progress ranked highly on the MS top 200 albums around 2008/09 time (before. I loved the contrast between the brutal death metal and melodic vocals,…
| 1. | Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress |
| 2. | Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe |
| 3. | Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) |
| 4. | Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire |
| 5. | Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions |
| + 2 more |