Favorite concept albums

[BenMech]

For the record:

BLve Oyster Cvlt - Imaginos

QR - OMC

PoS = 1HbtCL

'Peth - My Arms Your Hearse and Still Life and Ghost Reveries

Savatage - Dead Winter Dead and Wake of Magellan

FW - APSoG

Cooked On Phonics and ZILTOID!!!!

Abigail/ Them/ Conspiracy/ The Eye

The Archandroid

 

[nomisofsiman]

ZILTOID!!!!

How did I forget about that one?

 

[DouglasD]

DouglasD - my bad, I was cranking them up when typing my response to the topic and it all slipped away from me!!

Ha ha -that's fine! I love those albums too!!

Should have added Avantasia pt1 to my list as well btw....

 

[JenniferLynn]

QR - Operation Mindcrime
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Vanden Plas - Christ 0
Kamelot - Epica/ Black Halo
and waaaaaaay outta left field - Extreme's Pornograffitti

 

[Fury of Polaris]

Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle/ The Human Equation

Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider/ The Dark Saga

Heavenly - ...Dust to Dust

King Diamond - Abigail/ Them/ House of God

The Shadow Theory - Beyond the Black Veil

Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (Being my favorite album by them, but I like the entire story of their discography)

Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/ Invictus, and both Atreus albums

Savatage - Wake of Magellan/ Dead Winter Dead

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Orden Ogan - Easton Hope

Dream Evil -Dragonslayer

Kalisia - Cybion

I've gotta cut myself (kinda) short there. I love me some concept albums... It's one of the things that drew me in a decade ago when I first started to listening to metal. I loved the stories that Iced Earth told.

 

[johan68]

Morphelia - Waken The Nightmare

and of course....

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Brave

 

[eppst1]

Kalisia - Cybion

Forgot about that one. Great disc.

 

[Burke]

and waaaaaaay outta left field - Extreme's Pornograffitti

:Spin:

I. Love. That. Album.

great choice

 

[RiffDaemon]

All of my favorites have been covered, except one....


... The Who - Tommy

 

[JenniferLynn]

:Spin:

I. Love. That. Album.

great choice

Why thank ya Their III Sides is pretty freakin' fantastic too but more of a 'idea' than a concept album...

 

[Bamafan]

Why thank ya Their III Sides is pretty freakin' fantastic too but more of a 'idea' than a concept album...

I freely admit that my mind was otherwise occupied from 89-97, but Pornograffitti was a concept album??? Holy crap, I missed more than I thought.

 

[FatesFan]

Why thank ya Their III Sides is pretty freakin' fantastic too but more of a 'idea' than a concept album...

III sides was a brilliant album. \m/

 

[TwizstedJesus]

Ummm Helstar "Nosferatu"

Did anybody mention this one?

Greatest vampire based story...ever!

 

[Lionheart]

Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars
Hubi Meisel - Kailash
Hubi Meisel - EmOcean
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element Part I
Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake
Royal Hunt - Paradox
Silent Force - The Empire Of Future
Angra - Temple Of Shadows
Satellite - A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset
Wolverine - Cold Light Of Monday
Missa Mercuria - Missa Mercuria
Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness

 

[Tears Fear and Pain]

You forgot MeatLoaf's "Bat out of Hell" trilogy

 

[Harris The Epic]

Is this just in the Prog/Power genre, or can it be others too?

Off the top of my head:
- My all time: Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
- Second: Kamelot - Epica/The Black Halo
- Third (and so on): Dream Theater - Scenes from A Memory
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The Who - Tommy
- Shadow Gallery - Tyranny/Room V

There's a bunch of stuff I have to get around to still.

 

[FatesFan]

Is this just in the Prog/Power genre, or can it be others too?

Off the top of my head:
- My all time: Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
- Second: Kamelot - Epica/The Black Halo
- Third (and so on): Dream Theater - Scenes from A Memory
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The Who - Tommy
- Shadow Gallery - Tyranny/Room V

There's a bunch of stuff I have to get around to still.

Any genre.

 

[Gammaween]

There are a lot of albums out there that I could've listed. I mean any of the three Amorphis albums with Tomi Joutsen could've definitely qualified. I also could've included Tobias' new Avantasia venture with 'The Wicked Trilogy'. It seems concept albums have become a much bigger thing in recent years than it had in the past. It's really hard to just pick 5 and I'm sure I could manage to pick a good list just from the 2000's. But if I had to pick just five it would have to be:
Queensrÿche- Operation: Mindcrime
Avantasia- The Metal Opera
Labyrinth- Return To Heaven Denied
Gamma Ray – No World Order
Savatage – The Wake of Magellan

Honorable Mentions:
Avantasia- The Scarecrow/The Wicked Symphony/Angel of Babylon
Ayreon- The Human Equation/01011001
Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe
Angra – Temple of Shadows
Devin Townsend- Ziltoid the Omniscient
Amorphis- Silent Waters
Keep of Kalessin – Armada

 

[engmtlhd]

After thinking some more on this topic, I came up with one more than I can't believe no one has listed......Judas Priest - Nostradamus. In my humble opinion a very underrated CD. Doesn't have the in-your-face rips like "Painkiller" or "Screaming for Vengeance", but solid none the less.

 

[RagePSV]

Warhead - Beyond Recall