List of concept albums
Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical."[1] The following is a list with specific verification by reliable sources of being notable concept albums.
0–9
A
- Ab-Soul – Control System[4]
- A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation[5]
- Aesop Rock – Labor Days[6]
- After Forever – Invisible Circles[7]
- Against Me! – Searching for a Former Clarity[8]
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues[9]
- Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea[10]
- Ahab – The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"[11]
- Al Stewart – Past, Present, and Future[12]
- Alan Parsons – The Time Machine[13]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eve[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Gaudi[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Stereotomy[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture[14]
- Alice in Chains – Dirt[15]
- Alice Cooper – School's Out[16]
- Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare[17]
- Alice Cooper – Alice Cooper Goes to Hell[18]
- Alice Cooper – From the Inside[17]
- Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation[17]
- Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider[17]
- Alesana – The Emptiness[19]
- Alesana – Confessions[20]
- Alesana – A Place Where the Sun Is Silent[21]
- Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights[22][23]
- Alter Bridge – AB III[24]
- Amon Amarth – Jomsviking[25]
- Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown[26]
- Ancient – The Cainian Chronicle[27]
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita[28]
- Angels and Airwaves – We Don't Need To Whisper[29]
- Angels and Airwaves – I-Empire[30]
- Angels and Airwaves – Love[31][32]
- Angels and Airwaves – Love: Part Two[32]
- Angels and Airwaves – The Dream Walker[33]
- Angra – Temple of Shadows[34]
- The Antlers – Hospice[35]
- Aphrodites Child – 666[36]
- The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis[37]
- The Apples In Stereo - Travellers In Space and Time[38]
- Arcade Fire – Funeral[39]
- Arcade Fire – Neon Bible[40]
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs[41]
- Arcade Fire – Reflektor[42]
- Arcade Fire – Everything Now[43][44]
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino[45]
- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not[46]
- Armor for Sleep – What to Do When You Are Dead[47]
- As It Is – The Great Depression[48]
- Attack Attack! – This Means War[49]
- AURORA – A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)[50]
- AURORA – The Gods We Can Touch[51]
- Avantasia – The Metal Opera[52]
- Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II[52]
- Avantasia – The Scarecrow[53]
- Avantasia – The Mystery of Time[54]
- Avantasia – Ghostlights[55]
- Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage[56]
- Ayreon – The Final Experiment[52]
- Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle[52]
- Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer[52]
- Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator[52]
- Ayreon – The Human Equation[52]
- Ayreon – 01011001[52]
- Ayreon – The Theory of Everything[52]
- Ayreon – The Source[57]
- Ayreon – Transitus[58]
B
- The Band – The Band[59]
- Barbra Streisand – Wet[60]
- Bastille – Doom Days[61]
- Bat for Lashes – The Bride[62]
- Bathory – Blood on Ice[63]
- The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari[64]
- The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A.[64]
- The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl[64]
- The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe[65][64]
- The Beach Boys – Shut Down Volume 2[64]
- The Beach Boys – All Summer Long[64]
- The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today![66]
- The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds[67]
- The Beach Boys – Smile[67]
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band[41]
- Bee Gees – Odessa[68]
- Between the Buried and Me – Colors[69]
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues[70]
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence[70]
- Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic[71]
- Between the Buried and Me – Automata II[72]
- Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce[73]
- Beyoncé – Lemonade[74]
- Big K.R.I.T. – 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time[75]
- Big K.R.I.T. – Cadillactica[76]
- Big Sean – I Decided[77]
- Billy Idol – Cyberpunk[78]
- Billy Joel – An Innocent Man[79]
- Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain [80]
- Björk – Biophilia[81]
- Björk – Vulnicura[82]
- Blackfield – Blackfield V[83]
- Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants And Jacket[84]
- Blink-182 – Blink-182[85]
- Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago[41]
- Boublil & Schönberg – Les Misérables[86]
- Boys Night Out – Trainwreck[87]
- Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones[88]
- Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth[89]
- Blind Guardian – Legacy of the Dark Lands[90]
- Blue Man Group – The Complex[91]
- Blue October – Any Man in America[92]
- Blues Traveler – Decisions of the Sky[93]
- Blue Öyster Cult – Imaginos[94]
- Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish[95][96]
- Blur – Parklife[97]
- Bobby Conn – Rise Up![98]
- Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation[99]
- Brendon Small – Brendon Small's Galaktikon[100]
- Bring Me the Horizon – Amo[101]
- Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit[102]
- Britney Spears – Britney Jean[103]
- Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears – Flight of the Knife[104]
- The Buggles – The Age of Plastic[105]
- Burzum – Dauði Baldrs[106]
- Burzum – Hliðskjálf[106]
C
- Camel – The Snow Goose[107]
- Camel – Moonmadness[108]
- Camel – Nude[109]
- Camel – Stationary Traveller[109]
- Camel – Harbour of Tears[110]
- Camper Van Beethoven – New Roman Times[111]
- Caparezza – Le dimensioni del mio caos[112]
- Caparezza – Il sogno eretico[113]
- Caparezza – Museica[114]
- Caparezza – Prisoner 709[115]
- Carach Angren – Lammendam[116]
- Carach Angren – Death Came Through a Phantom Ship[117]
- Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever[118]
- Carach Angren – This Is No Fairytale[118]
- The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World[119]
- The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time[120]
- Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy[121]
- Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time[122]
- Cat System Corp. – News at 11[123]
- Catch 22 – Permanent Revolution[124]
- Cherry Poppin' Daddies – Susquehanna[125]
- Childish Gambino – Because the Internet[126]
- Childish Gambino – Camp[127]
- Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[128]
- Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: The Omens of Death[129]
- Chumbawamba – Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records[130]
- Clairo – Sling[131]
- clipping. – Splendor & Misery[132]
- CMX – Talvikuningas[133]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures[134]
- Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind[134]
- Cold 187um – The Only Solution[135]
- Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto[136]
- Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres[137]
- Cradle of Filth – Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder[138]
- Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa[138]
- Creeper – Eternity, in Your Arms[139]
- Cursive – Domestica[140]
- Cursive – The Ugly Organ[141]
- Cursive – Happy Hollow[142]
- Cynic – Carbon-Based Anatomy[143]
D
- Daft Punk – Discovery[144]
- Daniel Liam Glyn – Changing Stations[145]
- Daniel Liam Glyn – Nocturnes[146]
- Danny! – Charm[147]
- Danny! – And I Love H.E.R.: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack[148]
- Danny! – Payback[149]
- Dave — Psychodrama
- Dave Greenslade – Cactus Choir[150]
- David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars[151]
- David Bowie – Diamond Dogs[152]
- David Bowie – Outside[153]
- Deadlock – Manifesto[154][155]
- The Dear Hunter – Act I: The Lake South, The River North[156]
- The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading[156]
- The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death[156]
- The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise[156]
- The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional[156]
- The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum[156]
- Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism[157]
- The Decemberists – The Crane Wife[158]
- The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love[159]
- Defeater – Travels[160]
- Defeater – Lost Ground[160]
- Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights[160]
- Defeater – Letters Home[160]
- Defeater – Abandoned[160]
- Deftones – White Pony[161]
- Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030[162]
- Denzel Curry - TA13OO[163]
- Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future[164]
- Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient[165]
- Dexys – One Day I'm Going to Soar[166]
- Die Ärzte – Le Frisur[167]
- Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli[168]
- Dio – Magica[169]
- Dionysos – La Mécanique du Cœur[170]
- Dominici – O3: A Trilogy[171]
- Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad[172]
- Donald Fagen – The Nightfly[173]
- Donna Summer – Four Seasons of Love[174]
- Donna Summer – Once Upon a Time...[174]
- Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst[175]
- Dragonland – Under the Grey Banner[176]
- Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory[177]
- Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence[178]
- Dream Theater – The Astonishing[179]
- Dredg – Leitmotif[180]
- Dredg – El Cielo[181]
- Drop Dead, Gorgeous – Worse Than a Fairy Tale[182]
- Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style[183]
- Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger[184]
E
- Eagles – Desperado[41]
- Eagles – Hotel California[185]
- The Early November – The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path[186]
- Earth Crisis – Neutralize the Threat[187]
- Earth Crisis – Salvation of Innocents[188]
- Ed Kuepper – Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog[189]
- Edge of Sanity – Crimson[190]
- Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid[191]
- Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado[192]
- Electric Light Orchestra – Time[193]
- Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection[194]
- Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy[195]
- Eluveitie – Helvetios[196]
- Elvis Costello – The Delivery Man[197]
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus[198]
- Eminem – Relapse[199]
- Enigma – MCMXC a.D.[200]
- Enigma – The Cross of Changes[201]
- Enigma – The Fall of a Rebel Angel[202]
- Epica – The Divine Conspiracy[203]
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One[204]
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two[204]
- Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter[205]
- Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn[206]
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile[207]
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude[207][208]
- Evergrey – In Search of Truth[209]
- Evermore – Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show[210]
F
- Fabrizio De André – La buona novella[211]
- Fabrizio De André – Tutti morimmo a stento[212]
- Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato[213]
- Fabrizio De André – Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo[214]
- Fairport Convention – Babbacombe Lee[215]
- Falling Up – Fangs![216]
- Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray[217]
- Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer[218]
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear[219]
- Father John Misty – Pure Comedy[220]
- Fantômas – Suspended Animation[221]
- Fear Factory – Demanufacture[222]
- Fear Factory – Obsolete[222]
- Fear Factory – The Industrialist[222]
- Fear Factory – Genexus[222]
- Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium[223]
- Fields of the Nephilim – Mourning Sun[224]
- The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
- The Fiery Furnaces – Rehearsing My Choir
- The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots[225]
- The Flaming Lips – King's Mouth[226]
- Flaming Youth – Ark 2 [227]
- FM Static – Dear Diary[228]
- Foster the People – Supermodel[229]
- Foxygen – ...And Star Power[41]
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange[230]
- Frank Ocean – Blonde[231]
- Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours[232]
- Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers[233]
- Frank Sinatra – Swing Easy[232]
- Franz Ferdinand – Tonight[234]
- Frank Zappa — Joe's Garage[235]
- Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out![236][237]
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life[238]
- Fugees – The Score[239]
- Funeral for a Friend – Tales Don't Tell Themselves[240]
G
- Gallows – Grey Britain[241]
- The Game – Jesus Piece[242]
- Gatsbys American Dream – Ribbons and Sugar[243]
- Genesis – From Genesis to Revelation[244]
- Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway[245]
- Gentle Giant – Interview[246]
- Gentle Giant – Three Friends[247]
- The Gentle Storm – The Diary[248]
- Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons[249]
- Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die[250]
- Girls Aloud – Chemistry[251]
- Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being[252]
- God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason[253]
- Gojira – From Mars to Sirius[254]
- Goldfrapp – Tales of Us[255]
- The Good Life – Album of the Year[256]
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen – The Good, the Bad & the Queen[257]
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land[258]
- Gorillaz – Demon Days [259]
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach[260]
- Gorillaz – Humanz[261]
- Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top[262]
- Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness[263]
- Green Day – American Idiot[41]
- Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown[264]
- Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three[265]
H
- Haken – Aquarius[266]
- Haken – Visions[267]
- Halsey – Badlands[268]
- Halsey – Hopeless Fountain Kingdom[269]
- Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
- Harmonium – Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison[270]
- Harmonium – L'Heptade[271]
- Hawkwind – The Machine Stops[272]
- Hawthorne Heights – Zero[273]
- The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart[274]
- Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I[275]
- Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II[275]
- The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday[276]
- Hooverphonic – Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane[277]
- Horslips – The Táin[278]
- House of Heroes – The End is Not the End[279]
- House of Heroes – Colors[280]
- Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade[281]
I
- Iced Earth – Night of the Stormrider[282]
- Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden[282]
- Iced Earth – The Dark Saga[283]
- Insomnium – Winter's Gate[284]
- IQ – Subterranea[285]
- Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son[286]
J
- Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit[287]
- Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope[288]
- Janet Jackson – Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814[289]
- Janelle Monáe – Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)[290]
- Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid[290]
- Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady[290]
- Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer[290]
- Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales – Room 29[291]
- Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales[292]
- Jay-Z – American Gangster[41]
- J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive[293]
- J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only[294]
- Jeff Wayne – Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds[295]
- Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick[296]
- Jethro Tull – A Passion Play[297]
- Jethro Tull – Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die[298]
- Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood[299]
- Jhene Aiko – Trip[300]
- Joe Jackson – Blaze of Glory[301]
- Johnny Cash – Ride This Train[302]
- Johnny Cash – Songs of Our Soil[303]
- Johnny Cash – All Aboard the Blue Train[304]
- Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears[305]
- Johnny Cash – From Sea to Shining Sea[306]
- Johnny Cash – America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song[307]
- Johnny Cash – The Rambler[308]
- Jon Anderson – Olias of Sunhillow[309]
- Jonathan Coulton – Solid State[310]
- Joyner Lucas – ADHD[311]
- Judas Priest – Nostradamus[312]
- Judy Garland – The Letter[313]
K
- Kamelot - Epica [314]
- Kamelot – The Black Halo[315]
- Kamelot – Silverthorn[316]
- Kamelot – The Shadow Theory[317]
- Kansas – Leftoverture[318]
- Kanye West — The College Dropout[319]
- Kanye West – Graduation[320]
- Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak[321]
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy[322]
- Kanye West – Yeezus[323]
- Kanye West – The Life of Pablo[324]
- Kanye West – ye[325]
- Kate Bush – Hounds of Love[326]
- Kate Bush – Aerial[327]
- Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow[328]
- Kayo Dot – Coyote[329]
- Kekal – The Habit of Fire[330]
- Kenny Rogers – Gideon[331]
- Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - The Ballad of Calico[1]
- Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.[332]
- Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City[41]
- Kendrick Lamar – Section.80[333]
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly[334]
- Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day[335]
- Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager[336]
- Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen[337]
- Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places[338]
- King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King[339][340]
- King Diamond – Abigail[341]
- King Diamond – "Them"[341]
- King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader[342]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Eyes Like the Sky[343]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – I'm in Your Mind Fuzz[344]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Quarters![344]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon[344][345]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity[346]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana[346][347]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Murder of the Universe[348]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies [349]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rat's Nest [350]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - K.G. [351]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L.W. [352]
- King's X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska[353]
- The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)[354]
- The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One[355]
- The Kinks – Face to Face[356]
- The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society[41]
- Kiss – Music from "The Elder"[357]
- Kraftwerk – Autobahn[358]
- Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity[359]
- Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express[360]
- Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine[361]
- Klaatu – Hope[362]
L
- Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle[363]
- Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill[239]
- Leaves' Eyes – Vinland Saga[364]
- Les Friction – Dark Matter[365]
- Les Friction – Les Friction[365]
- Lil Yachty – Lil Boat[366]
- Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns[367]
- Little Brother – The Minstrel Show[368]
- Local H – As Good as Dead[369]
- Local H – Pack Up the Cats[369]
- Logic – Everybody[370]
- Logic – The Incredible True Story[371]
- Loïc Nottet – Selfocracy[372][373][better source needed]
- Lord Huron – Strange Trails[374]
- Lord Huron – Vide Noir[375]
- Lorde – Melodrama[376]
- Lou Reed – Berlin[377]
- Lou Reed – New York[378]
- Lou Reed – Magic and Loss[379]
- Lou Reed – The Raven[380]
- A Lot Like Birds – No Place[381]
- Ludo – Broken Bride[382]
- Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool[383]
- Lupe Fiasco – DROGAS Wave[384]
M
- Macabre – Dahmer[385]
- Madonna – American Life[386]
- Madonna – Erotica[387]
- The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir[388]
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs[388]
- Mägo de Oz – Finisterra[389]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia[389]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia II: La Voz Dormida[389]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia III: Atlantia[389]
- Mägo de Oz – Ira Dei[389]
- Mai Kuraki – Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō[390]
- Manowar – Gods of War[391]
- Mariah Carey – Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse[392]
- Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre[393]
- Marianas Trench – Ever After[394]
- Marianas Trench – Astoria[395]
- Marianas Trench – Phantoms[396]
- Marillion – Brave[397]
- Marillion – Clutching at Straws[398]
- Marillion – Misplaced Childhood[397]
- Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood[399]
- Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals[399]
- Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar[399]
- Marilyn Manson – Born Villain[400]
- Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos[401]
- Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart[402]
- The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium[403]
- The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute[404]
- The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath[405]
- Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear[406]
- Marvin Gaye – What's Going On[407]
- Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs[408]
- Masta Ace – Disposable Arts[409]
- Masta Ace – A Long Hot Summer[410]
- Mastodon – Emperor of Sand[411]
- Mastodon – Crack the Skye[412]
- Mastodon – Blood Mountain[413]
- Mastodon – Leviathan[414]
- Matthew Good – Vancouver[415]
- Maxwell – Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite[416]
- Mayhem – A Grand Declaration of War[417]
- Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby[418]
- Melanie Martinez – K-12[419]
- Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World
- Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree[420]
- MF Doom – Mm..Food[421]
- MF Grimm – The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man[422]
- Michael Franti and Spearhead – Stay Human[423]
- Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells[424]
- Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth[425]
- Miracle Musical – Hawaii: Part II[426]
- The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed[427]
- The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord[428]
- Mother Mother – The Sticks[429]
- The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
- Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me[430]
- The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee[431]
- The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ[432]
- The Mountain Goats – Goths[432]
- Mr. Lif – Emergency Rations[433]
- Mr. Lif – I Phantom[434]
- Murder by Death – Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?[435]
- Muse – Black Holes & Revelations[436]
- Muse – The Resistance[437]
- Muse – Drones[438]
- My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge[439]
- My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade[41]
- My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys[440]
N
- Nat King Cole – Wild Is Love[441]
- Natalia Kills – Perfectionist[442]
- Neal Morse – Testimony[443]
- Neal Morse – Testimony 2[444]
- Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura[445]
- Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye[446]
- Neil Young – Greendale[447]
- Neil Young – Fork in the Road[448]
- Neon Neon – Stainless Style[449]
- Nero – Welcome Reality[450]
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea[436]
- Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black[451]
- N.F. - Mansion (album)[452]
- The Nice – Five Bridges[453]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads[454]
- Nightwish – Imaginaerum[455]
- Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful[456]
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral[457]
- Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile[458]
- Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero[459]
- Nirvana (UK) – The Story of Simon Simopath[460]
- Nocturnus – The Key[461]
O
- The Ocean – Anthropocentric[462]
- The Ocean – Heliocentric[462]
- The Ocean – Pelagial[463]
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic[464]
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic[464]
- Of Montreal – The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower[465]
- Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse[461]
- Opeth – Still Life[190]
- Orphaned Land – Mabool[466]
- Orphaned Land – The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR[467]
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Dazzle Ships[468]
- Osmonds – The Plan[469]
- Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines[470]
- Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below[471]
- Owen Pallett – Heartland[472]
P
- Pain of Salvation – In the Passing Light of Day[473]
- Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane[474]
- Pallas – The Sentinel[475]
- Pandora's Box – Original Sin[476]
- Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor[477]
- Paradox – Heresy[478]
- Parliament – Chocolate City[479]
- Parliament – Mothership Connection[480]
- Parliament – The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein[481]
- Parliament – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome[482]
- Parliament – Motor Booty Affair[482]
- Parliament – Gloryhallastoopid[482]
- Parliament – Trombipulation[482]
- Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship – Blows Against The Empire[483]
- Paul McCartney – Egypt Station[484]
- Pedro the Lion – Control[485]
- Pedro the Lion – Winners Never Quit[486]
- Pepe Deluxé – Queen of the Wave[487]
- A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step[488]
- A Perfect Circle – Emotive[489]
- Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha[490]
- Periphery – Juggernaut: Omega[490]
- Pescado Rabioso – Artaud[491]
- Pharoahe Monch – PTSD[492]
- Phish – Rift[493]
- Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon[494]
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here[495]
- Pink Floyd – Animals[495]
- Pink Floyd – The Wall[151]
- Pink Floyd – The Final Cut[495]
- Pink Floyd – The Division Bell[496][497][498]
- Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks[499]
- Planet P Project – Pink World[500]
- P.O.D. – The Awakening[501]
- Poe – Haunted[502]
- Pond – The Weather[503]
- Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34[504]
- Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet[505]
- Porcupine Tree – The Incident[506]
- The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow[507]
- Primus – Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble[508]
- Primus – The Desaturating Seven[509]
- Prince – Love Symbol Album[510]
- Prince – Art Official Age[511]
- Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves[512]
- The Prize Fighter Inferno – My Brother's Blood Machine[513]
- Protest the Hero – Kezia[514]
- The Protomen – Act I: The Protomen[515]
- The Protomen – Act II: The Father of Death[515]
- Prototype – Catalyst[516]
- Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space[517]
- Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley[517]
- Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues[518]
- Pyramaze – Legend of the Bone Carver[519]
Q
- Queen – Queen II[520]
- Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime[521]
- Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime II[522]
- Queensrÿche – American Soldier[523]
- Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf[41]
R
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...[524]
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II[525]
- Raffi – Raffi Radio[526][527]
- Randy Newman – Good Old Boys[528]
- Randy Newman – Randy Newman's Faust[529]
- Rasputina – Oh Perilous World![530]
- Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road[531]
- The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi[532]
- Renaissance – Scheherazade and Other Stories[533]
- Return To Forever – Romantic Warrior[534]
- Rhapsody – Legendary Tales[535]
- Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands[535]
- Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory[535]
- Rhapsody – Rain of a Thousand Flames[535]
- Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame[535]
- Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret[535]
- Rhapsody of Fire – Triumph or Agony[535]
- Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels[535]
- Rhapsody of Fire – From Chaos to Eternity[536]
- Rich Mullins – A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band[537]
- Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII[538]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Bitter End[539]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Eventually Home[539]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Church of the Good Thief[539]
- Rising Appalachia – The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know[540]
- Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine[541]
- Roger Waters – The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking[542]
- Roger Waters – Radio K.A.O.S.[543]
- Roger Waters – Amused to Death[544]
- Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?[545]
- The Roots – ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin[546]
- The Roots – Undun[547]
- Rosalía – Los ángeles [548]
- Rosalía – El mal querer[549]
- Rosanne Cash – The River & the Thread[550]
- Royal Hunt – The Mission[551]
- Rush – Clockwork Angels[552]
- RZA – Bobby Digital in Stereo[553]
S
- Sabaton – The Art of War[554]
- Sabaton – Carolus Rex[555][556]
- Sabaton – Heroes[557]
- Sabaton – The Last Stand[558]
- Sabaton – The Great War[559]
- Sabaton – The War to End All Wars[560]
- Sabbat (UK) – Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays)[561]
- Saga (band) – The Chapters Live [562]
- Sarah Brightman – Dive[563]
- Savatage – Streets: A Rock Opera[564]
- Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre[565]
- Scorpions – Humanity: Hour I[566]
- Sepultura – Roots[567]
- Sepultura – Dante XXI[568]
- Sepultura – A-Lex[569]
- Sepultura – Kairos[570]
- Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson[571]
- Serge Gainsbourg – Rock Around the Bunker[572]
- Serge Gainsbourg – L'Homme à tête de chou[573]
- Senses Fail – Still Searching[574]
- Seventh Wonder – Mercy Falls[575]
- Shadow Gallery – Tyranny[576]
- Shadow Gallery – Room V[577]
- Shinedown – Attention Attention[578]
- Showbread – Anorexia[579]
- Showbread – Nervosa[579]
- Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand[580]
- Silverstein – I Am Alive in Everything I Touch[581]
- Silverstein – This Is How the Wind Shifts[582]
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends[583]
- Sixx:A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack[584]
- Skillet – Rise[585]
- Sticky Fingaz – Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones[586]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God[587]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music[588]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness[589]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden by Kaleidyscope/Oceania[590]
- Solefald – Pills against the Ageless Ills[591]
- Solefald – An Icelandic Odyssey[592]
- Spock's Beard – Snow[593]
- Starset – Transmissions[594]
- Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)[595][596]
- Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase.[597]
- Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 1[598]
- Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 2[598]
- Stratovarius – Visions[599]
- The Streets – A Grand Don't Come For Free[600]
- Styx – The Grand Illusion[601]
- Styx – Kilroy Was Here[602]
- Styx – Paradise Theatre[603]
- Suede – Night Thoughts[604]
- Sufjan Stevens – Illinois[605]
- Sufjan Stevens – Michigan[605]
- Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus![606]
- Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite[461]
- Symphony X – Paradise Lost[607]
- Symphony X – Iconoclast[608]
- SZA – Ctrl[609]
T
- Talking Heads – Fear of Music[610]
- Talking Heads – Naked[611]
- Tally Hall – Good & Evil[612]
- Tandy & Morgan – Earthrise[613]
- Taproot – The Episodes[614]
- Taylor Swift – Reputation[615]
- Taylor Swift – Midnights[616]
- Thrice – The Alchemy Index[617]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – 30 Seconds to Mars[618]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – This Is War[619]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams[620]
- T.I. – T.I. vs. T.I.P.[621]
- Tori Amos – American Doll Posse[622]
- Tori Amos – Scarlet's Walk[623]
- Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls[624]
- Tori Amos – Night of Hunters[625]
- Trazendo a Arca – Salmos e Cânticos Espirituais[626]
- The Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle[627]
- Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface[628]
- Twenty One Pilots – Trench[629]
- Tyler, the Creator – Bastard[630]
- Tyler, the Creator – Goblin[630]
- Tyler, the Creator – IGOR[631]
U
- Ulver – Nattens madrigal[632]
- Unleash the Archers – Apex and its sequel Abyss [633]
- Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon[634]
- Utopia – Deface the Music[635]
V
- The Vaccines - Back in Love City[636]
- Vektor – Terminal Redux[637]
- Venom – At War with Satan[638]
- Vendetta Red – Sisters of the Red Death[639]
- Voivod – The Wake[640]
- Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies[641]
W
- W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol[504]
- The Weeknd – After Hours[642][643]
- The Weeknd – Dawn FM[644]
- Ween – The Mollusk[645]
- Weezer – Pinkerton[646]
- Weezer – Weezer (White Album)[647]
- Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger[648]
- Willie Nelson – Shotgun Willie[649]
- Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages[649]
- Willie Nelson – Yesterday's Wine[650]
- Will Wood - The Normal Album[651]
- Within Temptation – The Unforgiving[652]
- Whitechapel – The Somatic Defilement[653]
- Whitechapel – The Valley[654]
- Whitechapel – Kin[655]
- The Who – The Who Sell Out[656]
- The Who – Tommy[151]
- The Who – Lifehouse
- The Who – Quadrophenia[41]
- The Wonder Years – No Closer to Heaven[657]
- Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads[67]
- Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival[658]
X
Y
Z
See also
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