Digital Dream Door's Top 100 Progressive Metal Albums

Another list, Bwa ha ha! By the way, I DIDN'T MAKE THE LIST (SAME WITH THE TOP 100 METAL VOCALISTS LIST)!

1. Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche (1988)
2. Images & Words - Dream Theater (1992)
3. Aenima - Tool (1996)
4. Out Of The Silent Planet - King's X (1988)
5. No Exit - Fates Warning (1988)
6. Energetic Disassembly - Watchtower (1996)
7. Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater (1999)
8. Still Life - Opeth (1991)
9. Empire - Queensryche (1990)
10. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden (1988)
11. Transcendence - Crimson Glory (1988)
12. Abigail - King Diamond (1987)
13. Nothingface - Voivod (1989)
14. ...And Justice For All - Metallica (1988)
15. The Divine Wings Of Tragedy - Symphony X (1997)
16. A Social Grace - Psychotic Waltz (1989)
17. The Warning - Queensryche (1984)
18. Unquestionable Presence - Atheist (1991)
19. Gretchen Goes To Nebraska - King's X (1989)
20. Awaken The Guardian - Fates Warning (1986)
21. Awake - Dream Theater (1994)
22. Destroy Erase Improve - Meshuggah (1995)
23. Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory (1986)
24. Undertow - Tool (1993)
25. Them - King Diamond (1988)
26. Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (1998)
27. A Change Of Seasons - Dream Theater (1994)
28. Deliverence - Opeth (1999)
29. Fifth Angel - Fifth Angel (1986)
30. Paradox - Royal Hunt (1997)
31. Faith Hope Love - King's X (1992)
32. Perfect Symmetry - Fates Warning (1989)
33. Dimension Hatross - Voivod (1988)
34. Universe - Planet X (2000)
35. Into The Electric Castle - Ayreon (1998)
36. Conspiracy - King Diamond (1989)
37. When Pus Comes To Shove - Platypus (1998)
38. Falling Into Infinity - Dream Theater (1997)
39. Holyland - Angra (1995)
40. Queensryche - Queensryche (1983)
41. Mods Carve The Pig - Thought Industry (1993)
42. Lateralus - Tool (2001)
43. King's X - King's X (1992)
44. Night On Brocken - Fates Warning (1984)
45. The Galactic Cowboys - The Galactic Cowboys (1991)
46. Bleeding - Psychotic Waltz (1996)
47. Universe Migrator, Part I: The Dream Sequencer - Ayreon (2000)
48. Wounded Land - Threshold (1996)
49. Twilight In Olympus - Symphony X (1998)
50. Opeth - Opeth (1995)
51. Promised Land - Queensryche (1993)
52. A Burnt Offering For The Bone Idol - Skyclad (1992)
53. Focus - Cynic (1993)
54. Train Of Thought - Dream Theater (2003)
55. Control And Resistance - Watchtower (1989)
56. Songs From The Lion's Cage - Arena (1995)
57. Elements - Atheist (1991)
58. Dogman - King's X (1994)
59. Astronomica - Crimson Glory (1999)
60. Liquid Tension Experiment II - Liquid Tension Experiment (1999)
61. Nothing - Meshuggah (2002)
62. The Spectre Within - Fates Warning (1985)
63. Hear In The New Frontier - Queensryche (1997)
64. Recreation Day - Queensryche (1997)
65. Age Of Impact - Explorers Club (1998)
66. Conflict & Dreams - Cairo (1998)
67. Remedy Love - Pain Of Salvation (2002)
68. Moon Babies - Planet X (2002)
69. My Arms, Your Hearse - Opeth (1998)
70. Symphony X - Symphony X (1994)
71. Parallel - Fates Warning (1991)
72. Critical Mass - threshold (2002)
73. Tribe - Queensryche (2003)
74. A blueprint Of The World - Enchant (1995)
75. Legacy - Shadow Gallery (2001)
76. V:The New Methology Suite - Symphony X (2000)
77. Angel Rat - Voivod (1991)
78. Sanity Obscure - Believer (1991)
79. Liberation - Ice Age (2001)
80. Fatal Portrait - King Diamond (1986)
81. Leatherwolf - LeatherWolf (1986)
82. Spiritech - Alchemist (1997)
83. Tapehead - King's X (1998)
84. For Madman Only - Atomic Opera (1998)
85. Disconnected - Fates Warning (2000)
86. The Jelly Jam - The Jelly Jam (2001)
87. The Odessey - Symphony X (2002)
88. Blackwater Park - Opeth (2001)
89. Clown In The Mirror - Royal Hunt (1995)
90. Immortal - Arena (2000)
91. Strange & Beautiful - Crimson Glory (1991)
92. Black Umbrella - Thought Industry (1997)
93. Manic Moonlight - King's X (2001)
94. Machine Fish - The Galactic Cowboys (1996)
95. Sense Of Change - Sieges Even (1999)
96. Inside Out - Fates Warning (1994)
97. Chaosphere - Meshuggah (1998)
98. Morning Rise - Opeth (1996)
99. Abigial II: The Revenge - King Diamond (2002)
100. Rage For Order - Queensryche (1986)

*GASP

Where's the Elder???

#1 and #100 should be flopped.

Were does Alternative start and Progressive end.

King's X, god love em. Probably should have occupied the whole top 10.

A lot of those albums aren't really that progressive. For example, I think "The Warning" is a great disc but only slightly progressive at best.

"No Exit" before "Awaken the Guardian"? I don't think so.

Amazingly, since you'd think randomness would be involved a little, but I don't currently own anything on that list.

I've owned/tried about 8-9 of those, but none are with me anymore.

These are the ones I own from that list:

1. Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche (1988)
5. No Exit - Fates Warning (1988)
10. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden (1988)
11. Transcendence - Crimson Glory (1988)
12. Abigail - King Diamond (1987)
13. Nothingface - Voivod (1989)
14. ...And Justice For All - Metallica (1988)
17. The Warning - Queensryche (1984)
20. Awaken The Guardian - Fates Warning (1986)
23. Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory (1986)
25. Them - King Diamond (1988)
32. Perfect Symmetry - Fates Warning (1989)
36. Conspiracy - King Diamond (1989)
40. Queensryche - Queensryche (1983)
62. The Spectre Within - Fates Warning (1985)
77. Angel Rat - Voivod (1991)
78. Sanity Obscure - Believer (1991)
80. Fatal Portrait - King Diamond (1986)
81. Leatherwolf - LeatherWolf (1986)
100. Rage For Order - Queensryche (1986)


There may be 2 or 3 in that list I would even consider calling "progressive".

Hmm... no savage circus, pharaoh, threshold, povertys no crime... I dont see many of those are that prog oriented...

Alex

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3. Aenima - Tool (1996)

Tool, to me, is almost exactly like Porcupine Tree. They both write long, progressive-like songs, but they are more of an alternative band than anything else.

xyz wrote:

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3. Aenima - Tool (1996)

Tool, to me, is almost exactly like Porcupine Tree. They both write long, progressive-like songs, but they are more of an alternative band than anything else.

I disagree. I don't hear any similarities in Tool and Porcupine Tree. Two completely different styles of music. Porcupine Tree owns Tool any day, any time.

I really need to start listening to more progressive music, I didnt know almost half the list. With the miniscuel knowledge I do have of prog metal and of the bands on the list that I knew. I would say a lot of those titles dont deserve to be on the list considering they arent progressive.

Legacy is the only Shadow Gallery album on there . I like Legacy, but Room V and Tyranny are the best SG albums and even Carved In Stone is better than Legacy. This list makes me sad in some places (although it is a better list than something from Hit Parader or Rolling Stone).

I find these lists confusing anymore. Metallica may have some progressive tendencies but they are a thrash band. I don't find King's X to be that progressive either. It's nice to see Atomic Opera make it though. But what about Zero Hour or Redemption?

Exact- Threshold is 72nd and 48th.

emptytomb1 wrote:

I don't find King's X to be that progressive either. It's nice to see Atomic Opera make it though.

Really, King's X are as progressive as it comes. They fashioned out their own little unique style/genre of music themselves. Which even Atomic Opera occasionally delve into.

If that ain't progressive then i don't know what is.

ultmetal wrote:

#1 and #100 should be flopped.

wow, I was thinking the exact same thing and then I scrolled down and saw your post. erie......

Wow, since when have Metallica been a progressive band. I can understand ...And Justice For All havings some slight progressive leanings but it is not a progressive metal album.

I suppose this comes with having so many musical sub genres, the lines can become blurred at times.