swap_horiz Opeth - Heritage Alternatives

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Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Steven Wilson’s *Hand. Cannot. Erase.* is a complex progressive metal album built around the unsettling true story of Jo...

Concept Album Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.9 Great

2

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Ghost Reveries is Opeth’s 2005 album, marking their transition to Roadrunner Records. It showcases a significant shift i...

Melodic 00S Prog Metal Death Doom

8.8 Great

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Opeth - Damnation

Opeth's 2003 seventh studio album Damnation, produced by Steven Wilson, is the acoustic and clean-vocal companion to Del...

Acoustic Mellow Prog Rock 00S

8.6 Great

4

Leprous - The Congregation

Leprous' 2015 fourth studio album, produced by David Castillo, which brought the Norwegian band significant internationa...

Heavy Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.6 Great

5

Spock's Beard - V

V is Spock's Beard's fifth studio album from 2000, a California neo-progressive rock record continuing their style heavi...

Complex Melodic Prog Rock 00S

8.6 Great

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Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse

Opeth's 1998 third studio album My Arms Your Hearse was the Swedish band's first concept album, narrating a ghost story...

Melodic 90S Prog Metal Death Doom

8.5 Great

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Persefone - Aathma

Aathma (2017) is the fifth studio album by Andorran progressive metal band Persefone, exploring themes of consciousness...

Melodic Spiritual 10S Prog Metal

8.5 Great

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Obscura - Omnivium

Third studio album (2011) by German technical death metal band Obscura, distinguished by fretless bassist Jeroen Paul Th...

Melodic 10S Prog Metal Technical Death

8.5 Great

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Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic

Between the Buried and Me's 2015 concept album following a comatose protagonist through alternate lives, marking a notab...

Concept Album Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

10

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

A 2017 concept album by Mastodon themed around a desert-condemned traveler facing mortality, partly informed by band mem...

Concept Album Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

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TesseracT - Altered State

Altered State (2013) is TesseracT's second album, featuring replacement vocalist Ashe O'Hara and pursuing a more atmosph...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

8.4 Great

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Caligula's Horse - In Contact

In Contact (2017) is Caligula's Horse's fourth album and widely considered their artistic breakthrough, weaving progress...

Technical Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

13

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Clockwork Angels is Rush's 2012 nineteenth and final studio album, a steampunk-themed concept record accompanied by a ti...

Concept Album Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

14

Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

Urn (2017) is the third studio album by Australian progressive metal band Ne Obliviscaris, the first following their pio...

Melodic Black Metal 10S Prog Metal

8.3 Great

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Baroness - Purple

Fifth studio album (2015) by Baroness, their first release following a 2012 tour bus crash in Bath, England that critica...

Melodic Hard Rock 10S Prog Metal

8.3 Great

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Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha

Juggernaut: Alpha (2015) is the first half of Periphery's double concept album, presenting a science fiction narrative a...

Concept Album Melodic Djent 10S

8.2 Great

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Leprous - Pitfalls

Leprous' 2019 sixth studio album, primarily conceived by vocalist Einar Solberg around personal experiences with mental...

Emotional Melodic 10S Prog Metal

8.2 Great

18

TesseracT - One

One (2011) is the debut album by British progressive metal band TesseracT, an influential early entry in the djent movem...

Atmospheric Melodic Djent 10S

8.2 Great

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Opeth - Pale Communion

Opeth's 2014 eleventh studio album Pale Communion continued their progressive rock direction and features orchestral str...

Retro Melodic Prog Rock 10S

7.7 Good

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Opeth - Sorceress

Opeth's 2016 twelfth studio album Sorceress was their first release on Nuclear Blast Records, blending progressive rock,...

Heavy Melodic Prog Rock 10S

7.2 Good