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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.


1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
2.Rush - Moving Pictures
3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Created by Introspekrieg on 03.03.2010



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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)

So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials list when it comes to that style. There are some unorthodox choices as well in the mix that aren't just full-on tech death, some bands also incorporate grind, progressive or even jazz. Hope you'll all find something that suits your taste! The list is ordered by years. Feel free to comment and give recommendations!

Personal absolute favorites of mine have a ★ beside the year of release.

🇨🇦 = From Canada, My Country! We're quite good at Technical and Brutal Death Metal... Trust me. I mean, you'll see for yourself.

Edit: I will now add my picks for best album of each year using the mention (best of xxxx) in the chosen album's description.

-Guib-

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Guib's Best Tech/Brutal/Prog Death Metal Album Picks

Best Of 2022:
An Abstract Illusion - Woe

Best Of 2023:
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Best of 2024 So Far:
tbd...

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Last Updated: March 29th, 2024

1.Atheist - Piece Of Time
2.Nocturnus - The Key
3.Death - Human
4.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
5.Gorguts - Considered Dead

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Created by Guib on 17.10.2011



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Quite Unusual Choices : Death Metal

Varied avantgarde/progressive/technical stuff. In no particular order.
Tell me how many do you know of them

Quality may vary.

Also try the QUC: Black Metal list.

TO CHECK: Cosmic Atropy, Impetuous Ritual, Diocletian, Pyrrhon, Portal, Scrambled Defuncts, Separatist, Martriden, Luciferion, Emeth, Axamenta, Silent Kingdom

1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
2.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
3.Lykathé - Elvenefris
4.Element (USA) - The Energy
5.Unmoored - Indefinite Soul-Extension

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Created by qlacs on 06.11.2011



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11 Favorite Technical Death Metal Albums

Here are 11 of my favorite Technical Death Metal album.. ordered according to my preference.

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2.Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant
3.Obscura - Cosmogenesis
4.Anata - The Conductor's Departure
5.Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients

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Created by Maxx666 on 01.12.2010



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Top Technical Death Metal Albums Of All Time- Order In Chaos !

Definitive Top Technical Death Metal.
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock, Avant-Garde influences but sticking to Technical Death in its core. This is MY OWN list. You could always make your own if you beg to disagree of the order.
Comments to include stuff welcome !
ORDER IN CHAOS - Technical Death Metal.

1.Death - Human
2.Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
4.Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
5.Martyr - Warp Zone

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Created by metaniac on 04.09.2011



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O' Canada! (Ordered By Years)

Good day folks! T'day, I just wanted to share the best of what Canada has to offer when it comes to Metal, eh. It seems a lot of people don't yet know that Canada's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the heavy stuff and I'll show you just how much!

The main goal here is to help people discover the history of Canadian Metal through time and amazing releases. To do so, I'll be listing a single album per band and order the list by year of release from oldest to newest then I'll identify the genre for each of them. Note that the albums chosen aren't necessarily the best of each band but my personal favorites and in my humble opinion, good points of entry into a band's discography. I will try to fill each gaps in years over time. (So this list is permanently under construction).

Also, as always in my lists, releases with a ''★'' are the ones I believe you shouldn't miss because of their impact, uniqueness or just because they are my favourites.

There is a lot of different styles, I did my best to diversify so there should be something interesting for everyone!

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To my fellow Canadians, if you have recommendations or wanna point out obvious albums I might have missed, please feel free to let me know. To everyone else, I hope you'll like this virtual musical trip to the great white north! Enjoy. Oh and you're really all welcome to suggest albums.

- Guib -

Last Update: March 9th, 2024

1.Moxy - Moxy
2.Triumph - Just A Game
3.Rush - Moving Pictures
4.April Wine - The Nature Of The Beast
5.D.O.A. - Hardcore '81

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Created by Guib on 24.07.2023



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Best Albums of the New Millennium

On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg

1.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine
4.Mastodon - Remission
5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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Created by Vasil de Shumen on 08.01.2012



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Pinnacle Of Technical Death Metal

Here are the albums I consider to be the best technical death metal that there is to offer. Please note that I don't base this list on how technically proficient the album is but more the quality of music.

1.Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
2.Anata - The Conductor's Departure
3.Sickening Horror - When Landscapes Bled Backwards
4.Martyr - Feeding The Abscess
5.Augury - Fragmentary Evidence

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Created by Visioneerie on 04.03.2010



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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

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5.Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

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Created by metalriff on 05.02.2021



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Faff

Well I'm sitting here bored at work and I figured I would make a list too.
These are pretty much my favourite metal releases over the years(in no particular order)
It's pretty much dominated by sludge/stoner releases.

1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
2.Mastodon - Leviathan
3.Baroness - Red Album
4.High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defense
5.Sleep - Dopesmoker

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Created by Spirit Molecule on 03.05.2012



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The Death Metal Essentials

The only one. No order particularly, except the order I thought of them in.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Vader - Litany
3.Monstrosity - Millennium
4.Malevolent Creation - Retribution
5.Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory

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Created by king_matt on 08.11.2011



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Groovitational... The Metal Edition

Smooth as a babe's bottom on a well oiled judas chair.

1.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
2.Strapping Young Lad - Alien
3.Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension
4.Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse
5.Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

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Created by 3rdWorld on 04.03.2012



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Sakurabas' Top Death Metal Albums (Top 3 Albums each Year)

1.Death - Scream Bloody Gore
2.Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
3.Death - Leprosy
4.Autopsy - Severed Survival
5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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Created by Sakuraba on 11.09.2020



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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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My Favorite Albums

Metal / Rock / Instrumental / Etc...

1.Fanisk - Noontide
2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
3.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
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5.Anathema - A Moment In Time

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Created by piratebay on 25.12.2011