Metal Thread 3: Subjectivity isn't Metal

[Galborea]

No subgenre for me to be a total expert in WHY OH WHY didn't you ask for prog or black recs?

[Novikia]

Hey can I ask for some recommendations for some genres?
Folk
Drone
Stoner
Power
Thrash

Since we're all grabbing one genre of expertise, I'll take Power. Here's a diverse little sampling:

Best PM concept album (and arguably overall)
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Best classic 80s PM
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pts. I & II

Most inspirational PM
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Best Folk-PM
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto

Evilest PM
Helstar - Nosferatu
or Persuader - When Eden Burns

Best Sci-Fi PM
Keldian - Journey of Souls
or Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

Are these all albums?
(I'm currently still going through Nazarene's list)

[Novikia]

No subgenre for me to be a total expert in WHY OH WHY didn't you ask for prog or black recs?

Well I'm not a fan of black all that much. Prog I'm...a stranger to those tides.
All the same if you're willing to offer I'll give them a listen.

[Galborea]

No subgenre for me to be a total expert in WHY OH WHY didn't you ask for prog or black recs?

Well I'm not a fan of black all that much. Prog I'm...a stranger to those tides.
All the same if you're willing to offer I'll give them a listen.

YO I GOT THIS.

Just give me a sec to do something in the real world.

[Novikia]

Well I'm not a fan of black all that much. Prog I'm...a stranger to those tides.
All the same if you're willing to offer I'll give them a listen.

YO I GOT THIS.

Just give me a sec to do something in the real world.

I feel like you'd be fun to go to a concert with

[Impaled Nazarene]

Albums
Violent Restitution- Razor
Speak English or Die- Stormtroopers of Death
Handle With Care- Nuclear Assault
Seven Churches- Possessed
Metal Church- Metal Church
Endless Pain- Kreator
Rust in Peace- Megadeth
Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return- Celtic Frost

Songs

Anthrax- A.I.R
Anthrax- Evil Twin
Atominated- Contagion
Axecutor- Circle of Destruction
Bonehunter- Evil Triumphs Again
Destruction- Thrash Till Death
Evile- Enter the Grave
Evile- Thrasher
Evile- Five Serpents Teeth
Exodus- The Toxic Waltz
Exodus- Bonded by Blood
Havok- Prepare for Attack
Havok- No Amnesty
Kreator- Phantom Antichrist
Kreator- Civilization Collapse
Machine Head- Clenching the Fists of Dissent
Machine Head- Halo
Megadeth- Sweating Bullets
Megadeth- Last Rites/Loved to Deth
Megadeth- Holy Wars the Punishment Due
Megadeth- Take No Prisoners
Megadeth- Poison Was the Cure
Metal Church- Merciless Onslaught
Metallica- Metal Militia
Metallica- Fight Fire With Fire
Metallica- Creeping Death
Metallica- Battery
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Nuclear Assault- New Song
Overkill- Electric Rattlesnake
Razor- The Marshall Arts
Razor- Hypertension
Slayer- War Ensemble
Slayer- Expendable Youth
Slayer- Angel of Death
Slayer- Raining Blood
Sodom- Agent Orange
Sodom- Nuclear Winter
Stormtroopers of Death- Sargent D and the S.O.D.
Stormtroopers of Death- Bigger Than the Devil
Stormtroopers of Death- Charlie Don’t Cheat
Tankard- Need Money for Beer
Testament- Rise Up
Toxic Holocaust- Wild Dogs

Boy you responded WAY to quick with that list. Does your brain just run on metal?

I have a word doc just for this occasion. Cosumar has the most comprehensive best of black metal playlist as well.

[Galborea]

YO I GOT THIS.

Just give me a sec to do something in the real world.

I feel like you'd be fun to go to a concert with

Thanks.

[Impaled Nazarene]

YO I GOT THIS.

Just give me a sec to do something in the real world.

I feel like you'd be fun to go to a concert with

Unless it's a thrash show in which case he would bitch the whole time

[Yakzistan]

Some kickin' old school speed metal by Death Mask.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUp8zZn8tg

[Galborea]

I feel like you'd be fun to go to a concert with

Unless it's a thrash show in which case he would bitch the whole time

I wouldn't be there to begin with.

Note: The only thrash band I've seen is Revocation.

[Novikia]

Unless it's a thrash show in which case he would bitch the whole time

I wouldn't be there to begin with.

Note: The only thrash band I've seen is Revocation.

You must despise the Doom Soundtrack

[Galborea]

Note: I didn't add Meshuggah or Cynic because they're a bit too hard to classify and I kind of wanted to leave some music to the imagination.

"Classic" Prog Metal
Dream Theater - Images and Words NOTE: This album has some moments of arena rock influence that some may find cheesy, if you do not like this at all skip to either of the two following Dream Theater albums
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey
Haken - Visions
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Queensryche - Empire
Redemption - Snowfall on Judgement Day
Tool - Lateralus

ProgPower
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
Epica - Design Your Universe
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian (early Fates Warning is very power metal)
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Voyager - UniVers

Prog Death Metal
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Insomnium - Across the Dark
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
The Faceless - Autotheism

Prog Black Metal
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Blut aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification
Borknagar - Quntessence
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise
Enslaved - Monumension
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Ihsahn - Eremita
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Instrumental Prog Metal (for guitar nerds)
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Behold... the Arctopus - Skullgrid
Cloudkicker - Beacons
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Intervals - The Shape of Colour
Plini - Handmade Cities
Scale the Summit - The Migration

Prog Metalcore (much better than normal metalcore)
After the Burial - Rareform
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Monuments - The Amanuensis
Periphery - This Time It's Personal
Periphery - Select Difficulty
Shokran - Exodus
TesseracT - Concealing Fate
The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade

Non-Wankery Prog Metal
Amorphis - Skyforger
Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder of Crows
Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Dream Theater - Train of Thought (their most straight-forward album)
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic

[Novikia]

Note: I didn't add Meshuggah or Cynic because they're a bit too hard to classify and I kind of wanted to leave some music to the imagination.

"Classic" Prog Metal
Dream Theater - Images and Words NOTE: This album has some moments of arena rock influence that some may find cheesy, if you do not like this at all skip to either of the two following Dream Theater albums
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey
Haken - Visions
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Queensryche - Empire
Redemption - Snowfall on Judgement Day
Tool - Lateralus

ProgPower
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
Epica - Design Your Universe
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian (early Fates Warning is very power metal)
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Voyager - UniVers

Prog Death Metal
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Insomnium - Across the Dark
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
The Faceless - Autotheism

Prog Black Metal
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Blut aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification
Borknagar - Quntessence
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise
Enslaved - Monumension
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Ihsahn - Eremita
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Instrumental Prog Metal (for guitar nerds)
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Behold... the Arctopus - Skullgrid
Cloudkicker - Beacons
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Intervals - The Shape of Colour
Plini - Handmade Cities
Scale the Summit - The Migration

Prog Metalcore (much better than normal metalcore)
After the Burial - Rareform
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Monuments - The Amanuensis
Periphery - This Time It's Personal
Periphery - Select Difficulty
Shokran - Exodus
TesseracT - Concealing Fate
The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade

Non-Wankery Prog Metal
Amorphis - Skyforger
Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder of Crows
Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Dream Theater - Train of Thought (their most straight-forward album)
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic

Well this was a pleasant surprise, I didn't initially ask but I see some stuff I've heard of (in the case of Progpower some stuff I've actually heard), gonna work down the list.

[Galborea]

And all on top of that, allow me to recommend a surprisingly good deathcore album, the only one from this rather new band AngelMaker. For the most part I've stopped listening to deathcore but this is pretty damn good.

[The Alexanderians]

I completely forgot which nation I was posting with -_-
Either way thanks for the recs

[Cosumar]

Since we're all grabbing one genre of expertise, I'll take Power. Here's a diverse little sampling:

Best PM concept album (and arguably overall)
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Best classic 80s PM
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pts. I & II

Most inspirational PM
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Best Folk-PM
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto

Evilest PM
Helstar - Nosferatu
or Persuader - When Eden Burns

Best Sci-Fi PM
Keldian - Journey of Souls
or Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

Are these all albums?
(I'm currently still going through Nazarene's list)

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

[Galborea]

Are these all albums?
(I'm currently still going through Nazarene's list)

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

I try.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

I try.

Inferior to my incomplete list of course.

[The Alexanderians]

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

I try.

No.
Do or do not.
There is no try.
That being said you are firmly in the "do".

[Galborea]

I try.

No.
Do or do not.
There is no try.
That being said you are firmly in the "do".

I'm in the process of creating a "Deathcore That's Actually Good" rec sheet. Most of the stuff has very little metalcore so don't fret. More along the lines of death metal with breakdowns.

[The Alexanderians]

Are these all albums?
(I'm currently still going through Nazarene's list)

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

Yeah sure might make easing into the albums go faster.

[Galborea]

Yeah but I can point out the best song or two for each instead if you probably aren't gonna listen to a whole album.

Also, that's a damn solid list Gal.

Yeah sure might make easing into the albums go faster.

I can't really do that since most prog metal albums are meant to be listened from beginning to end.

[The Alexanderians]

Yeah sure might make easing into the albums go faster.

I can't really do that since most prog metal albums are meant to be listened from beginning to end.

I'm 99% certain Cosumar meant his list

[Cosumar]

Hey can I ask for some recommendations for some genres?
Folk
Drone
Stoner
Power
Thrash

Since we're all grabbing one genre of expertise, I'll take Power. Here's a diverse little sampling:

Best PM concept album (and arguably overall)
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Mirror Mirror, Nightfall, Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)

Best classic 80s PM
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pts. I & II
Halloween, I Want Out

Most inspirational PM
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
Pure, Lost In The Depths of Me, Highlander

Best Folk-PM
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
King of the Elves, Elvenlegions, Towards the Shores

Evilest PM
Helstar - Nosferatu
To Sleep Perchance to Scream, The Curse Has Passrd Away
or Persuader - When Eden Burns
Judas Immortal, Twisted Eyes

Best Sci-Fi PM
Keldian - Journey of Souls
Lords of Polaris, The Ghost of Icarus,
or Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Title Track, Beyond the Black Hole, Valley of the Kings

Added good introductory songs from each album in bold

[Galborea]

I can't really do that since most prog metal albums are meant to be listened from beginning to end.

I'm 99% certain Cosumar meant his list

Exactly. I was just explaining why I didn't recommend songs.