Top 10 Prog Metal Albums + Honorable Mentions

Per ‪@TheProgCorner‬ Sunday Prog Stream all about Prog Metal albums, I decided to update/give a list of my own.
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note: I forgot to mention/show a few albums in the collage. But here's the list. I'll be talking about all these albums soon/again anyway.
edit: maudlin of the Well's Song titles are not 17-words long, however they are very ABSTRACT. I'm
thinking of Lehto & Wright and few others.
Top 10 Prog Metal + HM's
1. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
2. Dream Theater - Awake
3. Angra - Holy Land
4. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
5. maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map
6. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
7. Soundscape - Discovery
8. Galactic Cowboys - Space In Your Face
9. Burst - Lazarus Bird
10. Savatage - Handful of Rain
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Cynic - Focus
Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
Orphaned Land - Mabool
In Vain - The Latter Rain
Sculptured - Embodiment
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Superior - Younique
Queensryche - Promised Land
Martyr - Feeding the Abscess
East of the Wall - The Apologist
Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery
The Faceless - Akeldama
System of a Down - Mezmerize
SikTh - Death of a Dead Day
OSI - Office of Strategic Influence
UneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Vektor - Black Future
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Toehider - I Have Little To No Memory of These Memories
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
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[@andydio1964]

Great episode and great list, I was wondering why you weren’t on that episode.

[@beerandvinyl]

Awesome list, Kyle. I need to pick most of these up. You sold me on Handful of Rain and a bunch of others. Oh boy this hobby is a finally nightmare 😂

[@FranticDav]

Here's a list of 10 glaring omissions I could find:
- Devin Townsend - Terria
- Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
- Ayreon - The Human Equation
- Threshold - Dead Reckoning
- Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura (this is his heaviest and indeed prog metal)
- Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal (original mix because damn)
- Haken - The Mountain
- Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
- Tool - Aenima
- Strapping Young Lad - Alien

[@deathbyunicorn]

Great list!
Here's my top 10:
1. Protest the Hero - Kezia
2. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
4. Haken - Aquarius
5. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
6. Tesseract - Altered State
7. Native Construct - Quiet World
8. Today I Caught the Plague - Lore
9. Caligula’s Horse - Moments from Ephemeral City
10. Art by Numbers - Reticence: The Musical

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

thanks. I've never heard Today I Caught tghe Plague or Art By Numbers..progressive Metal Core?

[@deathbyunicorn]

@@AllMediaReviewsPodcast Maybe you heard what Today I Caught the Plague became after they changed their name? They became The Kindred. I wouldn't say Lore is progressive metalcore cause there's no harsh vocals but their first EP Ms. Mary Mallon is progressive metalcore so Lore still has a bit of that influence to it. Lore is a very unique sounding album though.
Art By Numbers isn't progressive metalcore either. They are most like the band Artificial Language if you've heard them. Art by Numbers is this neoclassical guitar-centric prog metal with clean vocals where the guitar leads are very busy and non-stop shred.