Your favorite artists based off the three best albums

[KevShmev]

Do this: take every artist in the world, eliminate everything they have ever done except for your three favorite albums, and then rank your favorites.  Feel free to list said three albums, too.

My top 10:

1. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here)
2. Rush (Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Counterparts)
3. Porcupine Tree (Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream and Deadwing)
4. Dream Theater (Awake, Images and Words and Scenes from a Memory)
5. Radiohead (In Rainbows, Kid A and OK Computer)
6. Transatlantic (SMPTe, Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind)
7. The Flower Kings (Flower Power, Paradox Hotel and Space Revolver)
8. Devin Townsend (Terria, Addicted and Ghost)
9. The Beatles (Abbey Road, The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's)
10. Dave Matthews Band (Before These Crowded Streets, Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming)

For the record, 8 of those 10 would be in my all-time top 11, with Transatlantic and DMB being the two exceptions.

[Heretic]

1. Avenged Sevenfold (City of Evil, Nightmare, Waking the Fallen)
2. Dream Theater (Images and Words, SDOIT, Awake)
3. Between the Buried and Me (Colors, TGM, Alaska)
4. Fair to Midland (Arrows and Anchors, Fables from a Mayfly)
5. Alter Bridge (One Day Remains, ABIII, Blackbird)
6. August Burns Red (Leveler, Constellations, Messengers)
7. Trivium (Shogun, In Waves, Ascendancy)
8. Seventh Wonder (The Great Escape, Mercy Falls, Waiting in the Wings)
9. Protest the Hero (Scurrilous, Fortress, Kezia)
10. Coheed and Cambria (NWFT, IKS, GA1)

[Zantera]

1. Oceansize (Frames, Effloresce, Everyone Into Position)
2. Sigur Rós (Agaetis Byrjun, ( ), Takk)
3. Ulver (Perdition City, Wars of the Roses, Blood Inside)
4. Radiohead (In Rainbows, Kid A, Amnesiac)
5. Pain of Salvation (The Perfect Element, Entropia, BE)
6. Agalloch (Ashes Against the Grain, The Mantle, Pale Folklore)
7. Anathema (We're Here Because We're Here, Judgement, A Natural Disaster)
8. Porcupine Tree (Signify, Fear of a Blank Planet, Up the Downstair)
9. Björk (Vespertine, Homogenic, Debut)
10. The Dear Hunter (The Color Spectrum, Act II, Act III)

Something like that.

[jsem]

This is surely difficult. What if said band doesn't have three albums released yet?  


1. Dream Theater (I&W, SFAM, SDOIT)
2. John Coltrane (A Love Supreme, Giant Steps, Blue Train)
3. Miles Davis (Kind of Blue, Milestones, Sketches of Spain)
4. Rush (A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures)
5. Queensryche (Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime, Empire)
6. Yes (The Yes Album, Fragile, Tales from Topographic Oceans)
7. Buckethead (Electric Tears, Colma, Albino Slug)
8. Symphony X (V: The New Mythology Suite, The Odyssey, The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
9. The Beatles (Abbey Road, The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's)
10. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here)

[Phoenix87x]

1. Rush (Permanent Waves, 2112, Hemispheres)
2. Dream Theater (Images and words, WDADU, Awake)
3. Radiohead (Kid A, Ok Computer, The Bends)
4. Porcupine Tree (In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet, The Sky Moves Sideways)
5. Fates Warning (Pleasant Shade of Grey, Disconnected, Perfect Symmetry)
6. Pain of Salvation (Perfect Element Pt 1, One Hour by the Concrete Lake, Remedy Lane)
7. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You were Here, Animals)
8. King Crimson (The Power to Believe, Red, Discipline)
9. Devin Townsend ( Terria, Ghost, Addicted) Very hard to narrow Townsend down to just 3.
10. Dave Matthews Band (Before these Crowded Streets, Under the Table and Dreaming, lillywhite sessions)

[BanksD]

1. Dream Theater - Images & Words, Scenes From A Memory, Awake
2. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe, The Unseen Empire, Pitch Black Progress
3. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime, The Warning, Empire
4. Disarmonia Mundi - The Isolation Game, Mind Tricks, Fragments of D-Generation
5. Raunchy - Confusion Bay, A Discord Electric, Wasteland Discotheque
6. Mercenary - Metamorphosis, Architect Of Lies, The Hours That Remain
7. Before The Dawn - 4:17 Am, Deathstar Rising, Soundscape of Silence.
8. Gamma Ray - No World Order, Power Plant, To The Metal
9. Neaera - Armamentarium, Omnicide, Let The Tempest Come
10.Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets, Crash, Under The Table and Dreaming

[Marvellous G]

1. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited (best consecutive three album run of all time, imo)
2. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets, Crash, Under The Table and Dreaming
3. Tool - Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days
4. Radiohead - Kid A, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows
5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, AJFA
6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bitches' Brew
7. The National - Alligator, Boxer, High Violet
8. Opeth - Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, Watershed
9. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun, Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run, The River, Nebraska

[Samsara]

Queensryche (original lineup) - Operation: Mindcrime, Promised Land, Rage for Order
Dream Theater - Awake, Images and Words, Falling Into Infinity
Fates Warning - Parallels, X, Disconnected
Sevendust - Alpha, Animosity, Home
Alice in Chains - Dirt, Facelift, both EPs (figure that's one)
Alter Bridge - AB III, Blackbird, One Day Remains
King's X - Ear Candy, Dogman, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Living Colour - Stain, Vivid, Time's Up


I could go on for awhile...

[ZKX-2099]

1. Avenged Sevenfold (City of Evil, Nightmare, Waking the Fallen)
2. Dream Theater (Images and Words, SDOIT, Awake)
3. Between the Buried and Me (Colors, TGM, Alaska)
4. Fair to Midland (Arrows and Anchors, Fables from a Mayfly)
5. Alter Bridge (One Day Remains, ABIII, Blackbird)
6. August Burns Red (Leveler, Constellations, Messengers)
7. Trivium (Shogun, In Waves, Ascendancy)
8. Seventh Wonder (The Great Escape, Mercy Falls, Waiting in the Wings)
9. Protest the Hero (Scurrilous, Fortress, Kezia)
10. Coheed and Cambria (NWFT, IKS, GA1)

My brother.

I can't do 10 at this point...

1. Avenged Sevenfold (City Of Evil, Nightmare, Waking The Fallen)
2. Dream Theater (Scenes, 6, Train)
3. Between The Buried & Me (TGM, Colors, Alaska)
4. Devin Townsend (Deconstruction, Ziltoid, Ki)
5. Metallica (Death Magnetic, Master Of Puppets, And Justice For All)
6. Coheed & Cambria (3, 4:2, 4:1)
7. Opeth (Watershed, Ghost Reveries, Blackwater)

[PowerSlave]

Do this: take every artist in the world, eliminate everything they have ever done except for your three favorite albums, and then rank your favorites.  Feel free to list said three albums, too.

My top 10:

1. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here)
2. Rush (Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Counterparts)
3. Porcupine Tree (Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream and Deadwing)
4. Dream Theater (Awake, Images and Words and Scenes from a Memory)
5. Radiohead (In Rainbows, Kid A and OK Computer)
6. Transatlantic (SMPTe, Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind)
7. The Flower Kings (Flower Power, Paradox Hotel and Space Revolver)
8. Devin Townsend (Terria, Addicted and Ghost)
9. The Beatles (Abbey Road, The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's)
10. Dave Matthews Band (Before These Crowded Streets, Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming)

For the record, 8 of those 10 would be in my all-time top 11, with Transatlantic and DMB being the two exceptions.

So happy to see someone mention Before These Crowded Streets as their favorite DMB album.

[Marvellous G]

Do this: take every artist in the world, eliminate everything they have ever done except for your three favorite albums, and then rank your favorites.  Feel free to list said three albums, too.

My top 10:

1. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here)
2. Rush (Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Counterparts)
3. Porcupine Tree (Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream and Deadwing)
4. Dream Theater (Awake, Images and Words and Scenes from a Memory)
5. Radiohead (In Rainbows, Kid A and OK Computer)
6. Transatlantic (SMPTe, Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind)
7. The Flower Kings (Flower Power, Paradox Hotel and Space Revolver)
8. Devin Townsend (Terria, Addicted and Ghost)
9. The Beatles (Abbey Road, The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's)
10. Dave Matthews Band (Before These Crowded Streets, Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming)

For the record, 8 of those 10 would be in my all-time top 11, with Transatlantic and DMB being the two exceptions.

So happy to see someone mention Before These Crowded Streets as their favorite DMB album.

I thought that was everybody's favourite DMB album? Hell, it's the only one that some DMB-haters even love.

[DarkEternalNight]

Opeth - (Watershed, Blackwater Park, Damnation)
Rush - (Snakes and Arrows, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves)
Dream Theater - (Images and Words, Black Clouds and Silver Linings, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence)
Rammstein - (Reise, Reise..., Mutter, Liebe ist fuer alle da)
Porcupine Tree - (In Absentia, Fear Of A Blank Planet, Stupid Dream)
Judas Priest - (Hell Bent For Leather, British Steel, Defenders Of The Faith)
Symphony X - (The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Divine Wings Of Tragedy)
Black Sabbath - (Paranoid, Master Of Reality, The Mob Rules)
Frank Zappa - (Sheik Yerbouti, Over-Nite Sensation, Bongo Fury)
Jethro Tull - (Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Minstrel In The Gallery)

[PowerSlave]

Do this: take every artist in the world, eliminate everything they have ever done except for your three favorite albums, and then rank your favorites.  Feel free to list said three albums, too.

My top 10:

1. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here)
2. Rush (Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Counterparts)
3. Porcupine Tree (Lightbulb Sun, Stupid Dream and Deadwing)
4. Dream Theater (Awake, Images and Words and Scenes from a Memory)
5. Radiohead (In Rainbows, Kid A and OK Computer)
6. Transatlantic (SMPTe, Bridge Across Forever and The Whirlwind)
7. The Flower Kings (Flower Power, Paradox Hotel and Space Revolver)
8. Devin Townsend (Terria, Addicted and Ghost)
9. The Beatles (Abbey Road, The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's)
10. Dave Matthews Band (Before These Crowded Streets, Crash and Under the Table and Dreaming)

For the record, 8 of those 10 would be in my all-time top 11, with Transatlantic and DMB being the two exceptions.

So happy to see someone mention Before These Crowded Streets as their favorite DMB album.

I thought that was everybody's favourite DMB album? Hell, it's the only one that some DMB-haters even love.

The albums I've always heard people talk about is Crash or Under the Table and Dreaming.

[Gorille85]

Probably Ulver or Thrice.

[jsem]

I've always heard Crash being one of the worst DMB albums... 

[ScioPath]

Pink Floyd - (Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Division Bell)
Coheed and Cambria - (Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1, From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness)
Porcupine Tree - (Stupid Dream, Deadwing, Signify)
The Dear Hunter - (Act 1, Act 2, Act 3)
Radiohead - (Kid A, OK Computer, In Rainbows)
King Crimson - (In The Court Of The Crimson King, Islands, In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Yes - (Fragile, Close To The Edge, The Yes Album)

[JediKnight1969]

The Beatles: Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Magical mystery tour
Deep Purple: Machine Head, Perfect Strangers, Slaves & Masters
Pink Floyd: Animals, Wish you were here. The dark side of the Moon
Dream Theater: Scenes from a Memory. Images & Words, Awake
Rainbow: Rising, Down to Earth. Stranger in us all
Portishead: Dummy, Portishead, Roseland NYC
Kansas: Leftoverture, Point of know return, Masque
Yes: Close to the edge, Fragile, Keystudio
Living Colour: Vivid, Time's up, Stain
Tony Macalpine: Madness, Freedom to fly, Edge of insanity

[Marvellous G]

I've always heard Crash being one of the worst DMB albums... 

I've never heard that (it might actually be my favourite studio album) but I've always heard of BTCS being considered the unequivocal peak of their career. Oh well, guess it's not quite so set in stone.

[Elite]

1. Dream Theater - Images & Words, Awake, Falling into Infinity
2. Shadow Gallery - Legacy, Carved in Stone, Digital Ghosts
3. Devin Townsend - Terria, Ocean Machine, Deconstruction
4. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here
5. Haken - Aquarius
6. Opeth - Blackwater Park, My Arms, Your Hearse, Watershed/Still Life (can't choose)
7. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Deadwing, The Sky Moves Sideways
8. Pain of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake, Remedy Lane, "BE"
9. Symphony X - Paradise Lost, The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Iconoclast
10 Ayreon - The Human Equation, Universal Migrator Pt. I & II, 01011001

This was seriously difficult..

[ZBomber]

Bands not in order at all, but albums are

1. Rush (A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves)
2. Fleetwood Mac (Rumours, Tusk, Fleetwood Mac)
3. Elton John (Captain Fantastic, Madman Across the Water, Blue Moves)
4. Porcupine Tree (Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet, Lightbulb Sun)
5. Queen (Queen II, A Night at the Opera, Jazz)
6. The Mars Volta (De-Loused, Frances, Amputecture)
7. The Dear Hunter (Act I, The Color Spectrum, Act II)
8. Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy, LZ II, Physical Graffiti)
9. Pink Floyd (Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle)
10. Yes (Tales, Close to the Edge, Going for the One)

[KevShmev]

I've always heard Crash being one of the worst DMB albums... 

You must be talking to some really goofy people, because Stand Up and Everyday are pretty much universally acknowledged as their two worst albums. 

So happy to see someone mention Before These Crowded Streets as their favorite DMB album.

It's incredible.  And a top 20 all-time album in my book.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

1. Van der Graaf Generator - (Still Life, Godbluff, Pawn Hearts)
2. Can (Future Days, Ege Bamyasi, Tago Mago)
3. Magma (K.A., Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, Kohntarkosz)
4. Unexpect (Fables of the Sleepless Empire, In a Flesh Aquarium, wE_ Invaders)
5. Pink Floyd (Animals, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon)
6. Dream Theater (Scenes from a Memory, Awake, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)
7. Porcupine Tree (The Sky Moves Sideways, Up the Downstair, Stupid Dream)
8. The Mars Volta (Amputechture, Frances the Mute, De-Loused in the Comatorium)
9. Gentle Giant (Free Hand, In a Glass House, Three Friends)
10. King Crimson (In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Discipline)



And a very, very honourable mention:
Camel (Moonmadness, Mirage, The Snow Goose)
 

[Jamesman42]

Not in order necessarily:

1. DT (SDOIT, TOT, 8VM)
2. Neal Morse (One, ?, T2)
3. Rush (Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Snakes and Arrows)
4. Thrice (The Alchemy Index, Beggars, The Artist in the Ambulance)
5. The Dear Hunter (Act I, Act II, TCS)
6. Casting Crowns (Casting Crowns, Lifesong, Until the Whole World Hears)
7. David Crowder Band - (Church Music, A Collision, Illuminate)
8. LeCrae - (After the Music Stops, Rebel, Rehab)
9. System of a Down (Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Mesmerize/Hypnotize)
10. Cloudkicker (Beacons, The Discovery, something else)

[Heretic]

1. Avenged Sevenfold (City of Evil, Nightmare, Waking the Fallen)
2. Dream Theater (Images and Words, SDOIT, Awake)
3. Between the Buried and Me (Colors, TGM, Alaska)
4. Fair to Midland (Arrows and Anchors, Fables from a Mayfly)
5. Alter Bridge (One Day Remains, ABIII, Blackbird)
6. August Burns Red (Leveler, Constellations, Messengers)
7. Trivium (Shogun, In Waves, Ascendancy)
8. Seventh Wonder (The Great Escape, Mercy Falls, Waiting in the Wings)
9. Protest the Hero (Scurrilous, Fortress, Kezia)
10. Coheed and Cambria (NWFT, IKS, GA1)

My brother.

I can't do 10 at this point...

1. Avenged Sevenfold (City Of Evil, Nightmare, Waking The Fallen)
2. Dream Theater (Scenes, 6, Train)
3. Between The Buried & Me (TGM, Colors, Alaska)
4. Devin Townsend (Deconstruction, Ziltoid, Ki)
5. Metallica (Death Magnetic, Master Of Puppets, And Justice For All)
6. Coheed & Cambria (3, 4:2, 4:1)
7. Opeth (Watershed, Ghost Reveries, Blackwater)

Even some of our other choices are nearly the same, and I'd put some of the ones you have that I don't in my top 20. Bros for life.

[kartmaze2]

This was HARD!

1) Dream Theater (SDOIT, I&W, SFAM)
2) Symphony X (V: The New Mythology Suite, The Oddyssey, The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
3) Transatlantic (SMPT:e, Bridge Across Forever, The Whirlwind)
4) Shadow Gallery (Digital Ghost, Room V, Legacy)
5) Pain of Salvation (The Perfect Element, Remedy Lane, Be)
6) Ayreon (01011001, The Universal Migrator pt 2, Into the Electric Castle)
7) Opeth (Ghost Reveries, Deliverance, Watershed)
8) Tool (10,000 Days, Lateralus, Ænima)
9) Protest The Hero (Fortress, Scurrilous, Kezia)
10) Riverside (Second Life Syndrome, Out of Myself, Rapid Eye Movement)

[CrimsonSunrise]

1. Led Zeppelin - I , IV,  PG
2. Dream Theater - I&W, Awake, 6DOIT
3. Pink Floyd - DSOTM, WYWH, Animals
4. Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures, Exit Stage Left
5. Queensryche - Warning, OM, Empire
6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, AJFA
7. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Heaven and Hell
8. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Fear of the Dark
9. Rainbow - Long live Rock and Roll, On Stage, Rising
10. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Louder Than Love

[PuffyPat]

1. A Great Big Pile of Leaves (Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex, The Fiery Works, The Fiery Works II)
2. The Mars Volta (The Bedlam in Goliath, Frances the Mute, De-Loused in the Comatorium)
3. Brand New (Deja Entendu, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, Your Favorite Weapon)
4. John Coltrane (A Love Supreme, Giant Steps, Blue Train)
5. Karate (In Place of Real Insight, Karate, The Bed is in the Ocean)
6. Gogol Bordello (Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Trans-Continental Hustle, Super Taranta)
7. Dream Theater (Scenes From a Memory, Train of Thought, Octavarium)
8. The Strokes (Is This It, First Impressions of Earth, Angles)
9. Avenged Sevenfold (Waking the Fallen, City of Evil, Diamonds in the Rough)
10. Weezer (Blue, Pinkerton, Green)

[TempusVox]

Rush- Moving Pictures, Signals, Presto
Led Zeppelin- LZII, LZIII, LZIV
Black Sabbath- Paranoid, Master of Reality, Heaven and Hell
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon,  Wish You Were Here, The Wall

[lonestar]

DT- SDoIT, Images and Words, SFaM
Yes- Tales from Topographic Oceans, The Yes Album, Yessongs
The Who- Quadrophenia, Who's Next, Tommy
Marillion- Clutching at Straws, Script for a Jester's Tear, Brave
I.Q.- Subterranea, Ever, The Wake
Rush- Signals, Moving Pictures, 2112
The Kinks- One for the Road, Give the People What they Want, Word of Mouth
Styx- Paradise Theater, Pieces of Eight, Grand Illusion

[black_biff_stadler]

1) Metallica                   ...And Justice For All>Master of Puppets>Ride the Lightning
2) Death                       Symbolic>Individual Thought Patterns>The Sound of Perseverance
3) Opeth                       Still Life>Blackwater Park>Orchid
4) Dream Theater           Images and Words>When Dream and Day Unite=Awake
5) Symphony X               The Divine Wings of Tragedy>The Damnation Game>Twilight in Olympus
6) Rush                         Hemispheres>Permanent Waves=Moving Pictures
7) Pearl Jam                   Vitalogy>Ten>Vs.
8) Nevermore                 Enemies of Reality=Dead Heart in a Dead World=This Godless Endeavor
9) Arch Enemy                Burning Bridges>Wages of Sin>Doomsday Machine
10) Byzantine                 The Fundamental Component=...And They Shall Take Up Serpents>Oblivion Beckons

[The Dark Master]

1) Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera, Dead Winter Dead, Edge of Thorns (my top 3 Sava albums are kind of arbitrary because they just have so many amazing records)

2&3) Dream Theater - Images and Words, Awake, Scenes from a Memory

2&3) Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Twilight in Olympus, V - The New Mythology Suite

4) Queensryche - Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime, Empire (due to the drastic decline in the quality of QR albums over the years,  they would not even appear in my normal top 10 bands list)

5) Balance of Power - Book of Secrets, Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion, Perfect Balance

6) Kamelot - Epica, The Black Halo, Ghost Opera

7) Epica - Consign to Oblivion, The Divine Conspiracy, Design Your Universe

8) Nightwish - Oceanborn, Century Child, Once

9) Within Temptation - Enter, Silent Force, The Heart of Everything (haven't heard Unforgiving yet)

10) Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer, Flight of The Migrator, 01011001

[zxlkho]

Porcupine Tree - (In Abesntia, Fear of a Blank Planet, Deadwing)
Coheed and Cambria - (In Keeping Secretsof Silent Earth: 3, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness)
The Dear Hunter - (all of them)
dredg - (El Cielo, Catch Without Arms, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion)
Opeth - (Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries)
Sigur Rós - (( ), Ágætis Byrjun, Takk..., Með Suð)
Tool - (Lateralus, 10,000 Days, Ænima)
Mew - (Frengers, No More Stories..., And the Glass Handed Kites)
Oceansize - (Frames, Effloresce, Everyone Into Position)

I couldn't decide on a 10th.

Also this pretty much ended up being a top 10 bands list overall.

[Dark Castle]

1.  Kvelertak- Self Titled
2. Dark Castle- Surrender To All Life Beyond Form, Spirit Migration
3. Death- Human, Sound of Perseverance, Symbolic
4. Exodus- Shovelheaded Killing Machine, Exhibit B, Exhibit A
5. Mastodon- Blood Mountain, Crack the Skye, Remission
6. Baroness- The Red Album=Blue Record
7. Lady Gaga- Born This Way, The Fame, Fame Monster
8. Obscura- Omnivium, Cosmogenesis, Retribution
9. Skeletonwitch- Breathing the Fire, Beyond the Permafrost
10. Nachtmystium- Addicts pt.2, Addicts pt.1, Instinct: Decay

Pretty tough, and it probably changes but there's how it came out.

[energythief]

Wow, this is difficult! Very cool thread idea btw.

Ok, here goes - bands in order, and the three albums in order (left-to-right):

1. Queensryche (Operation:Mindcrime; Rage for Order; Promised Land)
2. Dream Theater (Scenes from a Memory; Images & Words; Awake)
3. Electric Light Orchestra (Time; Out of the Blue; A New World Record)
4. Faith No More (The Real Thing; Angel Dust; King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime)
5. The Dear Hunter (Act III; Act II; The Color Spectrum)
6. They Might Be Giants (Factory Showroom; Apollo 18; The Spine)
7. Queen (A Kind of Magic; A Night at the Opera; Innuendo)
8. Heart (Desire Walks On; Heart; Bad Animals)
9. Pink Floyd (The Wall; Dark Side of the Moon; A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
10. Def Leppard (Hysteria; Pyromania; High and Dry)

It was interesting to see how some favorite bands don't make it and the order changing on others. I feel like Porcupine Tree probably belongs here, but I only really know In Absentia and Fear of a Blank Planet so far.

[The King in Crimson]

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals
2. Opeth - Still Life, Ghost Reveries, Watershed
3. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, Signify, Lightbulb Sun
4. Rush - Moving Pictures, 2112, Permanent Waves
5. Dream Theater - Awake, Images and Words, Six Degrees
6. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy, IV, Physical Graffiti
7. Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, A Matter of Life and Death
8. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime, Empire, Promised Land
9. King Crimson - Red, Discipline, In the Wake of Poseidon
10. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane, Road Salt One, The Perfect Element

Almost Made The Cut:
Muse - Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations