They are one of the few “mainstream” rock bands that are widely accepted by many metal heads. They have yet to release an album I dislike. Here is my “personal” ranking of all of QOTSA’s studio albums. They’ve been one of my favorite band for over 15 years now. Maybe this will also help some new fans discover more of their discography. Feel free to discuss. I know many will disagree.

1.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

2.Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

4.Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze

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Progressive metal and post metal might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for us highly intellectual listeners, it can really tickle our twigs and berries…

1.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

2.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Tool - Lateralus

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Hardcore, Metalcore, Deathcore, Grindcore, Earthscore, Applecore...these are my top "core" albums

1.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works

2.Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies

3.Every Time I Die - Low Teens

4.Poison The Well - Versions

5.Between The Buried And Me - Alaska

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Fuzz me up buttercup

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Clutch - Clutch

3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

4.Mastodon - Leviathan

5.Melvins - Lysol

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My personal favorite alternative/hard rock/non extreme albums. As with all my list this only includes bands on metalstorm...also certain albums that didn't make this list will make my top stoner, doom, sludge list or my progressive/post list

1.Clutch - Blast Tyrant

2.Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze

3.Tool - Ænima

4.Primus - Pork Soda

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

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Gotta respect your roots! This is a list of my favorite pre 1980s heavy metal (or heavy metal influence) albums. And yes, of course the first two will be Sabbath and Zeppelin...(Pink Floyd is my favorite band, but they’re excluded because they’re not on metal storm)

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

4.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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Here is a list of MY favorite black(ish) metal albums (sometimes I like a little creamer...but no sugar). And yes I am aware that bands like Kreator and Amebix and not "Technically" black metal, but I don't care because they had a huge influence and their sound is very "blackened" on certain albums.

1.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler

4.Burzum - Filosofem

5.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

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My personal favorite death metal albums of all time. A lot of the list is from the 2000's because that's when I was the most into the genre, I still enjoy those albums to this day and they are definitely nostalgic to me

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

3.Gorguts - Considered Dead

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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