Concept Albums - What are your favorites?

[ixrayu]

A ton of fantastic albums already listed, I would like to also add,

Vision Divine- A Perfect Machine
Gary Hughes- Once and Future King

I do love several already listed
Dream Theater- Scenes from a Memory
Evergrey- In search of Truth
Seventh WOnder- Mercy Falls
and it goes on and on......

 

[nomisofsiman]

Gamma Ray - No World Order

How did I forget about this one? This is right up there in my top 3 Gamma Ray releases.

 

[nomisofsiman]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

I'm probably one of the other few that love NIN, but is this actually a full-on concept album? I guess I never thought of it as one.

 

[RagePSV]

I like a lot of the ones already listed especially:

Ayreon - All
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Blind Guardian - NFIME
Grave Digger - Tunes of War (Not sure if it is a full blown concept album, but the theme is definitely there).
Savatage - Wake Of Magellan

One of my favorites is probably a much less known one:

Warhead - Beyond Recall

 

[zedowns]

The Antlers - Hospice

This is the most depressing album of all time.

 

[Nidstang]

Agalloch-Pale Folklore
Opeth-Your Arms, Your Hearse/Still Life
Aryeon-Into the Electric Castle
Kamelot- Epica
The Dear Hunter- Acts I-III
Thrice- Alchemy Index albums
Evergrey- The Inner Circle
Genesis-Selling England By the Pound
Hourglass- Oblivious To The Obvious
Iron Maiden-Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Rush-2112
Oh Sleeper-Children of Fire
Vanden Plas- Christ 0

 

[AeonicSlumber]

I'm probably one of the other few that love NIN, but is this actually a full-on concept album?

It sure is!

This is the most depressing album of all time.

Yeah I can only listen to it like once a year hahaha. Still, that a record can illicit that response makes it stand out over any and all music as an extremely important concept album.

 

[kingdomgone86]

Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Haken - Aquarius
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
King Diamond - Abigail
Bathory - Blood on Ice
Rhapsody - The Emerald Sword Saga
Rhapsody of Fire - The Dark Secret Saga
Winger - IV
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Wizard - Thor
Virgin Steele - Invictus

 

[Anomander Rake]

King Diamond- Abigail
King Diamond- Them/Conspiracy
King Diamond- All the others
Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
Pink Floyd- The Wall
The Beatles- Sgt Pepper's
Angel Dust- Enlighten the Darkness

 

[mattbrood]

So no love for

Love it, but aside from The Oath, and the fact that it's too short, not very metal

 

[Berek2000]

My top two have always been side one of Hemispheres by Rush and This Mortal Coil by Redemption. Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche coming in close third tied with Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden. A Pleasant Shade of Gray by Fates Warning and Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater are fourth and fifth.

Others that make my list but not in any order are:

Tommy by The Who
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Side one of 2112 by Rush
Epica and The Black Halo by Kamelot
Disc two of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater

 

[SavaVIDude]

Somehow my favorite albums are concept albums. I think the greatest ones prove their worth in changing your mood and emotions while pulling you through the storyline. With that in mind, not listing much that hasn't already been mentioned, and admitting that the order after the first 3 change according to my :

#1 - Savatage - Streets. My favorite album of all time, concept or otherwise. Runs the gambit of agression, emotional music, amazing song writing, and a decent story. Still the pinnacle of music for me.

What he said notworthy) PLUS

* Savatage - DWD, WOM, Poets and Madmen
* Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream, To Our Children's Children's Children, A Question of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Seventh Sojurn
* The Who - Tommy - the one that started it all.

Chris

 

[TheLongshot]

Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

Damn, forgot about that.

 

[dcowboys311]

Coheed and Cambria - first 3

 

[J-Man]

PROG ROCK

Inter-Galactic Touring Band - S/T
Alan Parsons Project - All his albums are good
Camel - Dust and Dreams
ELP - Tarkus
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of tthe Earth
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Jimmy Buffett - Off to see the Lizard

Metal

Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Evergrey- In search of the Truth
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver
Star One - S/T and Victims of the Modern Age
Vaden Plas - ChristO and The Seraphic Clockwork

Out of all of these my all time favorite is The Moody Blues "On the Threshold of a Dream" followed by Nightwish "Imaginaerum".

 

[TribunalRecords]

Scanner - Hypertrace

In negotiations right now for reissue.

 

[kingdomgone86]

In negotiations right now for reissue.

I'd buy that.

 

[RagePSV]

Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Haken - Aquarius
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
King Diamond - Abigail
Bathory - Blood on Ice
Rhapsody - The Emerald Sword Saga
Rhapsody of Fire - The Dark Secret Saga
Winger - IV
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Wizard - Thor
Virgin Steele - Invictus

Forgot about Virgin Steele. Damn. The House of Atreus is definitely up there for me.

 

[LunaTEKKE]

WOW, no love yet for Shadow Gallery’s Tyranny and Room V? Was listening to Room V this week for the first time in ages, and “Lamentia” can *still* turn on the waterworks after all this time. Other favorites…

Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
Ayreon – The Human Equation
Iron Maiden – 7th Son of a 7th Son

 

[LunaTEKKE]

Shadow Gallery - Tyranny

Oops, missed a page! Still surprised at no mentions for Room V...