Scroll down to see what your favourite reviewers have selected (in alphabetical order), and to see how many of your top albums have made our lists!
Showing the strength-in-depth of the current progressive genre, no less than 132 different albums were selected. Only two albums made it to the top of more than one list.
Our main feature, listing the overall Top 10 Progressive Rock Albums of 2021 can be read here!
ANDY READ
1. MOLYBARON - The Mutiny (read our review here)
2. WHEEL - Resident Human
3. ACOLYTE - Entropy
4. TROPE - Eleutheromania
5. BASTIAN PER - Way Back Home
6. SÔEN - Imperial
7. KING BUFFALO - The Burden of Restlessness
8. A DYING PLANET - When The Skies Are Grey
9. SHUMAUN - Memories & Intuition
10. THE CYBERIAM - Connected
BRYAN MOREY
1. BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground (read our review here)
2. STEVE HACKETT - Surrender Of Silence / Under A Mediterranean Sky
3. SOEN - Imperial
4. TESSERACT - Portals
5. THE NEAL MORSE BAND - Innocence & Danger
6. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Devolution Series #2 - Galactic Quarantine
7. BANTAMWEIGHT - Sounds + Haptics
8. ATRAVAN - The Grey Line
9. RHAPSODY OF FIRE - Glory For Salvation
10. ROBBY STEINHARDT - Not In Kansas Anymore
CHRIS RAFFERTY
1. MARILLION – With Friends at St Davids (read our review here)
2. MOLYBARON – The Mutiny
3. DECIMALS – Symmetry
4. SHUMAUN – Memories & Intuition
5. DEVIN TOWNSEND – Galatic Quarantine
6. THE CYBERIAM - Connected
7. AZURE – Of Brine and Angel’s Beaks
8. FROST* – Day and Age
9. ACOLYTE – Entropy
10. LTE – Liquid Tension Experiment
CRAIG GOLDSMITH
1. MEER - Playing House (read our review here)
2. EVERSHIP - The Uncrowned King
3. TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe
4. SOEN - Imperial
5. GOOSE - Shenanigans Nite Club
6. BRUIT - The Machine is Burning...
7. JOHN COLTRANE - Live in Seattle
8. OUTRUN THE SUNLIGHT - A Vast Field of Silence
9. FROST* - Day and Age
10. ECHO TAIL - A Brief Escape from Life
EDWIN ROOSJEN
1. BIG BIG TRAIN – Common Ground
2. RESISTOR – The 5th Season
4. TRANSATLANTIC – The Absolute Universe
5. KAYAK – Out Of This World
6. DREAM THEATER – A View From The Top
7. AZMARI - Samā'ī
8. HASSE FRÖBERG & MUSICAL COMPANION – We Are The Truth
9. MOSTLY AUTUMN – Graveyard Star
10. MCSTINE & MINNEMAN – II
GERALD WANDIO
1. DEAFHEAVEN - Infinite Granite
2. RADIOHEAD – Kid A Mnesia
3. MORCHEEBA – Blackest Blue
4. ARLO PARKS – Collapsed in Sunbeams
5. ALAN PARSONS - The Never-ending Show: Live in the Netherlands
6. THE HOLD STEADY - Open Door Policy
7. YES – The Quest
9. SUFJAN STEVENS & ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE – A Beginner’s Mind
10. FIRST FRAGMENT – Gloire Éternelle
GREG CUMMINS
1. Robert Reed – The Ringmaster Part 1
2. Mostly Autumn – Graveyard Star
3. Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger (read our review here)
4. DBA – Halcyon Hymns
5. Antony Kalugin – Chameleon Shapeshifter
6. Cast - Vigeseimus
7. Liquid Tension Experiment - 3
8. Samurai of Prog – The Lady & The Lion
9. Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe
10. Nine Skies – 5.20
HECTOR GOMEZ
1. FROST* - Day and Age (read our review here)
2. TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe (Forevermore)
3. GENGHIS TRON - Dream Weapon
4. ZOMBI - Liquid Crystal
5. IRON MAIDEN - Senjutsu
6. DREAM THEATER - A View from the Top of the World
7. STEVEN WILSON - The Future Bites
8. MARIUSZ DUDA - Claustrophobic Universe
9. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - Nothing But the Truth
10. JOHN CARPENTER - Lost Themes III: Alive after Death
IGNACIO BERNAOLA
1. AMAROK - Hero
2. SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE - Mountain Fever
3. MEER - Playing House (read our review here)
4. PERFECT STORM - No Air
5. THE PARADOX TWIN - Silence From Signals
6. MORPHEUS PROJECT - Mozaick
7. EXODUS TO INFINTY - Archetype Asylum
8. THE DARK MONARCHY - All Roads Lead To Rome
9. MICHAL LAPAJ - Are You There
10. SMALLTAPE - The Hungry Heart
1 CAST - Vigesimus (read our review here)
2 PERFECT STORM - No Air
3 MYSTERY - Caught In The Whirlwind Of Time
4 THE CYBERIAM - Connected
5 JPL - Sapiens, Chapter 2/3: Deus Ex Machina
6 TAMARISK - Suspended Animation
7 LAST SON OF EVE - Gathering stones
8 CONFUSION FIELD - Disconnection Complete
9 THE SAMURAI OF PROG - The Lady And The Lion And Other Grimm Tales I
10 ROBIN MCAULEY - Standing On The Edge
JERRY VAN KOOTEN
1. TAMARISK - Suspended Animation (read our review here)
2. TRETTIOARIGA KRIGET - Till horisonten
3. SOLUM - Encountering Murk
4. OUTRUN THE SUNLIGHT - A Vast Field Of Silence
5. NEPHILA - Nephila
6. NEPAL DEATH - Nepal Death
7. TDW - Fountains
8. KATRE - Behind The Resilience
9. ALBERT BOUCHARD - Imaginos II
10. LYLE WORKMAN - Uncommon Measures
MARK HUGHES
1. MEER - Playing House
2. JONI MITCHELL - Archives Vol 2
3. KING CRIMSON - Music Is Our Friend
4. RESISTOR - The 5th Season (read our review here)
5. DEL AMITRI - Fatal Mistakes
6. DAVID CROSBY - For Free
7. THE ANCHORESS - The Art Of Losing
8. CARAVAN - It's None Of Your Business
9. MONO - Pilgrimage Of The Soul
10. UMPHREY'S MCGEE - You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull
MARTIN BURNS
1RICHARD BARBIERI - Under A Spell (read our review here)
2BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground
3LAURA MEADE - The Most Dangerous Woman In America
4COSMOGRAF - Rattrapante
5STEPHAN THELEN — Fractal Guitar 2
6JONAS LINDBERG & THE OTHER SIDE - Miles From Nowhere
7MOTORPSYCHO - Kingdom of Oblivion
8CHRISTINE OTT - Time To Die
9CICCADA - Harvest
10GRAHAM COSTELLO'S STRATA — Second Lives
MATT NEVENS
1. LANTLOS - Wildhund
2. KONOM - Konom (read our review here)
3. THE VICIOUS HEAD SOCIETY - Extiction Level Event
4. BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground
5. DREAM THEATER - A View From The Top Of The World
6. EVERGREY - Escape Of The Phoenix
7. FROST* - Day And Age
8. TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe
9. SYLVAN - One To Zero
10. VOLA - Witness
OWEN DAVIES
1. AGUSA - En annan värld (read our review here)
2. DEWA BUDJANA - Naurora
3. ELEPHANT 9 - Arrival of the New Elders
4. AZMARI - Samā'ī
5. KROKOFANT w/Storløkken & Håker Flaten - Fifth
6. ALCO FRISBASS - Le Mystere du Gue Pucelle
7. HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO - Ding Dong Your Dead
8. CONSIDER THE SOURCE - Hybrid Vol. 1 : Such As A Mule
9. ASAF SIRKIS – Solar Flash
10. ECHOES OF ZOO - Breakout
PATRICK McAFEE
1. BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground
2. DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION - Halcyon Hymns (read our review here)
3. THE NEAL MORSE BAND - Innocence and Danger
4. FROST* - Day and Age
5. SYLVAN - One to Zero
6. LIFESIGNS - Altitude
7. TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe
8. STEVE HACKETT - Surrender of Silence
9. AMANDA LEHMAN- Innocence and Illusion
10. LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT- LT3
SERGEY NIKULICHEV
1. WHITE MOTH BLACK BUTTERFLY — The Cost of Dreaming (read our review here)
2. SOEN — Imperial
3. TRETTIOARIGA KRIGET — Till Horisonten
4. GALAAD — Paradis posthumes
5. ALESSANDRO CORVAGLIA — Out of the Gate
6. OMNIUM GATHERUM — Origin
7. EXODUS TO INFINITY — Archetype Asylum
8. STEVEN WILSON — The Future Bites
9. LABYRINTH — Welcome to the Absurd Circus
10. LAKE OF TEARS — Ominous
STEFFAN HENNIG
1. THE CYBERIAM – Connected (read our review here)
2. DRIFTING SUN – Forsaken Innocence
3. CLIVE NOLAN – Song Of The Wildlands
4. BIG BIG TRAIN – Common Ground
5. FROST* - Day And Age
6. DARK HORSE WHITE HORSE – Dark Horse White Horse
7. THE VICIOUS HEAD SOCIETY – Extinction Level Event
8. AZURE – Of Brine And Angel’s Beaks
9. KONOM – Konom
10. DREAM THEATER – A View From The Top Of The World
THEO VERSTRAEL
1. MARILLION - With Friends At St. Davids
2. MOSTLY AUTUMN - Graveyard Star
3. JOHN HOLDEN - Circles In Time (read our review here)
4. TIGER MOTH TALES - The Whispering Of The World
5. CYAN - For King And Country (2021 edition)
6. CHAIN REAKTOR - Homesick
7. TRANSATLANTIC - The Absolute Universe (expanded edition)
8. BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground
9. AMANDA LEHMANN - Innocence And Illusion
10. STEVE HACKETT - Under A Mediterranean Sky
THOMAS OTTEN
1. BIG BIG TRAIN - Common Ground
2. DREAM THEATER - A View From The Top Of The World (read our review here)
3. CRONOFONIA - Cronofonia
4. NINE SKIES - 5.20
5. LUCA ZABBINI - One
6. LIFESIGNS - Altitude
7. ACOLYTE - Entropy
8. SYLVAN - One To Zero
9. CICCADA - Harvest
10. DRIFTING SUN - Forsaken Innocence
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