Favorite album(s) NOT Symphony X

[Metropolis Part 2]

What are you favorite album(s) not Symphony X?


Mine are obviously the 1992, 1994, 1999 releases by Dream Theater, The Perfect Element Part I by Pain of Salvation and The Human Equation by Ayreon.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Riverside - Out Of Myself

 

[MorphineChild205]

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 & 2
Nightwish - Century Child
Rush - Grace Under Pressue & Hold Your Fire

 

[Yngvai X]

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle earth
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Rage - The Missing Link, Black in Mind, Unity
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space
Grave Digger - The Grave Digger

 

[dargormudshark]

Rainbow-Rising
DT-I&W, SFAM, WD&DU wow that was an abbreviation attack
Adagio-Underworld
Nightwish-Wishmaster,Century Child
Evergrey-Recreation Day, In Search of Truth
PoS-The Perfect Element, Remedy Lane
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Kamelot-Karma
Kansas-Masque
King Crimson-In The Court of the Crimson King, Red
Yes-Going for the One
Genesis-Wind & Wuthering
Queensryche-Operation:Mindcrime


just a few

 

[TotenMitMacht]

"V" by Symphony X is pretty good.

 

[wayne the goblin/robot]

What are you favorite album(s) not Symphony X?


Mine are obviously the 1992, 1994, 1999 releases by Dream Theater, The Perfect Element Part I by Pain of Salvation and The Human Equation by Ayreon.

you didnt like falling into infinity?

I think Lines in the Sand was one of thier best songs ever.

 

[Ayreon Guardian X]

I like Shadow Gallery - Basically all of their albums; Ayreon - The Human Equation; Dream Theater - When Day and Dream (Re)Unite, Images and Words, Awake, Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought; Rhapsody - All; Kamelot - Epica and The Black Halo; Sonata Arctica - Silence; Metalium - all 5; Megadeth - all....

 

[weenur]

DT - I&W, FII, SFAM
Angra - Rebirth, Temple of Shadows
Malmsteen - Marching Out
Dio - Holy Diver
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Kansas - The Point of Know Return
Boston - Boston
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Doors - The Doors, & L.A. Woman
KISS - Alive I & II
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Badlands - Badlands & Voodoo Highway
John Williams Star Wars IV-V Soundtracks
Basil Poledouris Conan The Barbarian Soundtrack
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
Radiohead - Kid A & Amnesiac
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger & UltraMega OK
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying
Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity & Maximum Security
Van Halen - II & Women & Children First
Vinnie Moore - Time Odyssey
Wynton Marsalis - @ The Village Vanguard
Asia - Asia
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy
The Beatles - Revolver and Abbey Road
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Chick Corea's Elektric Band - Beneath the Mask
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Gah! Many more...

 

[Progbass]

There's too many albums to mention, but some of the bands are: DT, Nightwish, Rhapsody, YES, Kansas, ELP, Megadeth, COB, Angra, The Beatles.

 

[Hawk]

I'll just mention one:

Sieges Even - A Sense of Change

A must for all serious prog lovers!

 

[ErikSchierboom]

Everything from Pain of Salvation, but most notably The Perfect Element, pt.1
Furthermore:
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Opeth - Blackwater park
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine

 

[Imaginarium]

Tool - Lateralus
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Division Bell
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Ayreon - The Human Equation (this gets better every single listen. it is immense)
Eternity X - The Edge
Lamb of God - New American Gospel
Dimmu Borgir - Storm Blast
Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Alan Parsons Project - Most of their work
Dream Theater - SFAM, SDOIT, TOT
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death, Brave New World

 

[mask_x]

I also just name bands:

All of LedZep, esp. In through the out door
All of Marillion, but not Marbles
Uriah Heep, esp. Deamons and Wizards
Robert Plant, esp. Fate of Nations

 

[kazahana]

I have many favourites, however my 3 all time best albums are:

Ark - Burn The Sun
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Symphony X - V

 

[Liquid Tension]

Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element pt1
Opeth - Still Life
Taal - Skymind
7 for 4 - Contact
Karcius - Sphere
Riverside - Out of Myself
Yes - Close to the Edge
Led Zepplin - I
Michael Harris - Sketches from the Thought Chamber
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor

 

[Neva Kee]

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (still don't know what everyone finds in TPE Pt.1 - It is my least favorite of all their albums)
Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone
Journey - Arrival
Extreme - Three Sides to Every Story (contains a really brilliant 21 minute masterpiece - quite proggy)
Giant - Time to Burn

 

[The Ruler]

There are so much but here it goes

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery, The Mind's I, Character, actually all their stuff.

In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle
Dimmu Borgir - PEM, Death Cult Armageddon, Stormblast,EDT

Old Man's Child - In defiance of existens, Pagan Prosperity,Revelation 666

Immortal - Sons of Northern Darknes, At the Heart of Winter

Testament - The Gathering

At The Gates -Slaughter Of The Soul, Terminal Spirit Decease

Demonoid - Riders Of The Apocalypse

Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity, & The Unborn

And there's alot more but I don't have time for that

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Man, not too many rockers around here.

Led Zeppelin - II and Houses of the Holy

Deep Purple - Machine Head and Burn

CoB - Follow the Reaper

Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands (The first one. Christopher Lee sucks.)

Yngwie - Concerto Suite, Rising Force, Trilogy, Odyssey

Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled and Evil Empire

Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

DT - Images and Words

 

[Beelzebub]

Wow, there are so many to choose from.

Ayreon - Human Equation
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

I can't list too many or else I'll be here forever.