LATEST EDIT: December 12/2016- Added a whole bunch of progressive rock albums; processing earlier suggestions on the list.

Assembled below are some choice selections in alternative metal, prog rock, prog metal, jazz and avant-garde metal. I don't necessarily consider these styles to be my favourite (I do have a penchant for post-metal and cavernous death metal these days), but they have been the foundations of my taste for the last seven or eight years.

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2.Soundgarden - Down On The Upside

3.Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth

4.Karnivool - Asymmetry

5.Blindead - Absence

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

2.Jethro Tull - Aqualung

3.Arena - Immortal?

4.Faith No More - Angel Dust

5.King Crimson - Red

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1.Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

2.The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

3.Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

4.The Beatles - Revolver

5.Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give to these albums the attention and the respect they deserve and you will be fully awarded. I think i will try and limit this list to 3 cd's maximum per band to make this thing more challenging .

1.Dan Swanö - Moontower

2.Cynic - Traced In Air

3.Cynic - Focus

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Progressive rock / metal - what I love the most in my collection. Would love suggestions to add to it.

1.Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

2.Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

3.Ayreon - The Human Equation

4.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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

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Recently, instead of scouring too much the albums of the year I'm in, I decided to take a deeper journey and appreciate progressive music (prog metal/rock). While I'm still in the early beginnings of my journey, I decided to make a list to the albums I fully listen to so that I can keep charting my voyage in these vast seas. Some albums are not yet added because I need to listen them well and grab my favorites out, and some bands are on queue. I'm also eager to hear some recommendations, so thanks in advance for them!

1.Ayreon - The Human Equation

2.Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

3.Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia

4.Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence

5.Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons [EP]

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My favourite prog rock/metal albums. In no order.

1.Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

2.Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

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

4.Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

5.Yes - Close To The Edge

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It Is Only Sound That Remains... (Forough Farrokhzad The Legendary Poet)

1.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

2.Anathema - Weather Systems

3.Anathema - Distant Satellites

4.Anathema - The Optimist

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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Some albums are really good. Many of these are good all the way around. And, in many cases, there is a single song that stands out, sometimes it's the last song on the album. This is a list of those songs.

For a more in depth look at this, I've codified each into a given category:
Type 1 - 'The long song at the end.' Often the title track. These have a tendency to be most well written and dynamic pieces on the album.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.Abigail Williams - Becoming

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anekdoten - Vemod

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Some easy stuff, some different. Mostly prog.
Things after 10 aren't really in any order

1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2.Orphaned Land - Mabool

3.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4.Opeth - Still Life

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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those are the albums i love the most. I had to force myself to limit the list anyway and to show just one record for every band

1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

3.The Who - Who's Next

4.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5.Kingcrow - Phlegethon

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albums i give the full pot. pure classics. this list will not only contain metal, but all genres i listening to.
will be updated..

1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2.Dreamscape - 5th Season

3.King Crimson - Red

4.Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day

5.Gong - You

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In semi-particular order

1.King Crimson - Red

2.Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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