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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.
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Created by Introspekrieg
on 03.03.2010
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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 are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.
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Created by Erik M.
on 30.11.2012
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Top 30 Instrumental/Guitar Heroes Albums Of All Time Welcome to the sphere my friends. I'm talking about albums made by Guitar Heroes, with extreme creativity and skills. As you know, this is not the biggest musical genre because there are many amazing guitar players, but not that much amazing Guitar Heroes albums which deserves a true attention in their wholeness. For the little story of my life, I used to begin listening to metal with Yngwie, Joe and Steve Vai in 2005 or something like that. And when I bought my first electric guitar in 2005, I first started to try Vai's songs while you all know EVERY beginer starts playing with Nirvana or Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy my playlist. These albums are great to me, and it's always a pleasure to listen to them so many years after. I admit that GH albums are not my first preocupation today (if you take a look to my other lists, you will see), but this is the source of my passion, and each time I discover a good piece of them I bring it here, when I think about it. Enjoy
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Created by Korah
on 18.09.2011
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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100 Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped to 8.26. An almost linear decrease is observable for the 10 years in between.
I was curious to see what a Top 100 for 2000-2014 would look like if I factored the votes to account for the 'rating decline'. I hope you find it interesting.
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Created by Moose
on 13.09.2015
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Metal Band Names Inspired By Books This alphabetical list presents bands that took the inspiration for their name from literature (novels, poems, plays, comics). The list shows the debut album cover along with the information of the corresponding source of inspiration.
Please feel free to suggest more examples of metal/hard rock band names that are inspired by literature. AUTHORS 1st Place (52 bands): J.R.R.Tolkien 2nd Place (21 bands): H.P.Lovecraft 3rd Place (10 bands): W.Shakespeare 4th Place (7 bands): E.A.Poe 5th Place (3 bands): F.Herbert, R.E.Howard, C.A.Smith 6th Place (2 bands): A.Huxley, J.W.v.Goethe, B.Kane, S.King, C.S.Lewis, H.Melville, K.Miura, M.Moorcock, J.K.Rowling, H.Van Alkmer, O.Wilde 7th Place (1 band): R.Adams, J.P.Ahonen, D.Alighieri, L.F.Baum, E.C.Bertin, R.Bloch, E.Bronte, L.Carroll, L.Carter, L.Chase, C.Dickens, A.Diggle, M.Ende, S.Erikson, W.Faulkner, J.&W.Grimm, Homer, A.Jodorowsky, Kakifly, U.KLeGuin, H.W.Longfellow, G.R.R.Martin, A.Miller, P.Mills, J.Milton, D.Quinn, S.Rohmer, P.Rothfuss, Y.Sadamato, M.Sandemo, W.Scott, H.Sienkiewicz, D.Simmons, W.Smith, J.Steinbeck, B.Stoker, Suetonius, L.Uris, L.Weisberger, H.G.Wells, Q.Yuan CATEGORY 1.) Novels (93 bands) 2.) Short Stories/Novellas (34 bands) 3.) Drama (11 bands), Poems (11 bands), Comics/Mangas (11 bands) 4.) Religious Texts (4 bands) 5.) Author Names (3 bands) 6.) Magazines (2 bands) 7.) Biographies (1 band), Essays (1 band), Reports (1 band),
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Created by Plattner
on 28.10.2023
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Djent In order of release date, a list of what are in my opinion, the best Djent related albums. (I say 'djent related', because in many cases it is not their primary genre).
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Created by Moose
on 31.08.2014
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Instrumental Metal: 25 Favourites A list of my current top 25 instrumental metal albums
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Created by R'Vannith
on 14.09.2010
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DIAMOND ALBUMS - Top 50: The Best Of Progressive Rock/Metal My favourite prog rock/metal albums. In no order.
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Created by Hex_Omega
on 15.08.2013
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Metal Rasputin's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time Updated 14.4.2024
My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but they're all great and awesome records no matter what. If there are some great records missing, that doesn't necessarily mean I consider them bad, maybe I just forgot about them or just haven't listened to them enough to consider them personal favourites. Limited to metal and rock albums found on Metal Storm. Most of them (at least 90%) are anyway, so doesn't matter. The absent ones are mostly more pop and synth oriented stuff and some really obscure jazz and fusion albums.
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Created by Metal Rasputin
on 15.02.2020
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*My Favorite Musicians* I'll start with the disclaimer that I am not, nor ever have been, a musician. This list is of my own favorite performers, not the actual technical best musicians as I am a layman and can only go by what my stupid ears tell me. You'll notice the list is vocalist heavy which is a byproduct of my lack of musical talent. The list contains the artist, their instrument and the release where I feel they are at their best. **Last Update 08/16/11**
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Created by Pyramid God
on 07.08.2011
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A Chronology Of Masterpieces What seems the most important albums for me in chronological order.
I wish I could carry the list year after year to see how my tastes changed and new findings. I can help but notice that old albums immediately strike me, while in recent times most albums are good but nothing is groundbreaking. We have a tide of releases in the last decades, and standing above the other requires an impossible lot of talent. Or is it my listen habbits that changed ? I felts I listened to the old albums albums for a lifetime while I'm only surface checking the new ones. Too little time, too little time to truly live... Also the mixing technology, the sound is too flat nowadays and lack impact and personnality
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Created by Ansercanagicus
on 16.02.2022
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Prog Amazing Favourites Without following any specific order. Some albums are more power/symphonic/thrash than prog but for some reasons i thought they deserved a place in this list.
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Created by Donnie Darko
on 07.12.2013
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1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically will include albums I've rated 8 & above. Sorted by year since I'll need a Venn diagram to sort by genre (seriously MS please make it happen if possible). Will feature multiple releases per year (obviously) and per band (since if a band is putting out better albums it deserves more recognition). Keeping the metal faith alive from India
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Created by metalriff
on 05.02.2021
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A Progressive Journey: My Selections / Favourites Progressive rock / metal - what I love the most in my collection. Would love suggestions to add to it.
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Created by Progfiggit
on 22.02.2014
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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 2000's (On Going)
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Created by Red_Travis
on 03.02.2012
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