Best Prog Albums of 2024
The Prog Report crew recap another great year and pick their favorite albums of 2024 including the Top 10 albums of the year. What were your favorites?
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Sorry, just can’t spend over an hour on this. Why do all these best of us have to go on forever got a shortened version somewhere
Can't listen to any prog after 1980. For me its time was up.
thats not true about the opeth album..theres choruses ha
Its insane to me you guys dont do avenged sevenfold in this prog report world. idk where to say this to yall as the newest album is 2023. but they are the definition of prog..WAY more prog than dream theater now n days.. if yall get into opeth, btbams really not heavier if you're doin old and new opeth, so check out between the buried and me latest release and colors parallex. But A7X is so prog they even had Mike portnoy as a drummer on an album haha. theyve been prog since self titled id say, unless you want to count city of evil, but prolly not..the newest album is literally the most progressive thing possible. So id check self titled and the newest out..especially the newest to start because it progs harder than anything i can think of. I never see Kaipa either..i love em. per nilson on guitar. Those are 3 prog bands I love, so. life is but a dream will prog yall SO hard..it makes other prog, not that prog haha. GO prog!
Quite a great set of impressions of all these albums, curiously many of them made my top metal albums of the year (Opeth, Blood Incantation, Caligula's Horse), here I share my list of my top prog albums of 2024
https://youtube.com/shorts/AXM8eaZnxFE?si=bRhZd0a3-EAT2vpa
Thnx guys!!
Vanden Plas – The Empyrean Equation of The Long Lost Things
Definitely think an album that doesn't get the recognition it deserves is mannequin by kyros. Really great mix of 80s synth, and prog. If that sounds good to you Definitely check this album out.
Best album of the year though is Geordie greep and the new sound
After listening to "True" I can say Yes is back!
God bless you guys-what a tough (but fun) task you have. Because of you, I'm now a fan of Frost, Big Big Train, Von Hertzen Brothers and so many other phenomenal bands. Kudos and Merry Christmas!
A British prog/alternative band called Beak needs to be mentioned. They released a good album that received a lot of attention here.
A mention for Herin’s, “Hiding in Plain Sight”, which is about his father who suffered from Alzheimers.
Airbag put out a sonically interesting album.
And young Brits, Azure released an album that is barking mad but has some wonderful playing on it!
You got me with Meer, bought it after listen to two songs. What great music. Nice List btw. Thanks for it.
Great episode gentlemen, love seeing these year end favorites. A couple that didn't get mentioned that I have really enjoyed this year.
Oddleaf – When Ideal and Denial Collide
Ritual – The Story of Mr. Bogd Part 1
Monkey3 – Welcome to the Machine
Whom Gods Destroy – Insanium
The Flying Norseman – The Flying Norseman
Sunburst – Manifesto
Tusmorke – Dawn of Oberon
Death Metal fan here. That Blood Incantation album keeps getting mentioned as one of the best albums of 2024, and I can only conclude that IQs have dropped sharply over the last few years.
Where is the melodic development? The purposeful transitions? These two tracks are a compositional disaster of jarring moods and schizophrenic 'anything goes' songwriting, and almost nobody is critiquing them for it.
The band believed their own hype, got high, and started throwing all of their favourite influences at the wall with no concern about how they would work together. I burst out laughing at several of the hamfisted segues on this thing. And it had such potential – they're good musicians and I like all of the individual elements – but the execution is horrible.
Reviewers – if you care about the future of Progressive Metal please stop encouraging this amateurish consequence-free style of composition. We must hold bands of this calibre and influence to a higher standard before more compositionally-insane copycats start flooding the airwaves.
Amazing Albums, I think also that Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness is an amazing Prog Album
Shame ORGONE's 'Pleroma' is missing. But then they don't care about self-promotion.
Ritual The Story Of Mr. Bogd Part 1
Dont want to be that guy but Meer is nowhere near the level of the 1st 3 Arcade Fire albums
Great list, however, has anyone listened to The Flying Norsemen self-titled? If you like Arabs in Aspic, you'll love this one.
My number one #1 OPeth outstanding music
I don’t understand why the Jon Anderson solo album “ True “ isn’t getting more love on this a Prog podcast channel as it’s exceeded many peoples ( incl mine ) expectation and it’s hands done my favourite album of 2024 .
Where is Jordan Rudess!?!? ????
Great List. A few of my favorites that didn't make your list were:
Barock Project – Time Voyager (my pick for best album of the year)
Circe Link and Christian Nesmith – Arcana (Most surprising new album, just fantastic)
Albion – Lakesongs of the Elbid (Great, deserves more love)
Izz – Collapse the Wave
Oddleaf – Where Ideal and Denial Collide
Rosalie Cunningham – To Shoot Another Day
Mile Marker Zero – Coming of Age
Emerald City Council – Motion Carries
Ritual – The Story of Mr Bogd, part 1
Kite Parade – Disparity
Steve Hackett – The Circus and the Nightwhale
Rick Miller – One of the Many
The Likes of us” Big Big Train best of the year.
Opeth is my number 5 of the year, think it would be higher if it came out a bit earlier. A true rock opera.
Meer is definitely one of the best albums this year. It almost reminds me of Moon Safari album from last year, how good it is.
Sorry if I missed this in the comments elsewhere, but how could there be no mention of Tigran Hamasyan's The Bird of A Thousand Voices? To me, this stands out as the Album of the Year. Nothing like it. Maybe I am on some other planet?!
Other honorable mentions in my mind are The Aristocrats' Duck, Vennart's Forgiveness & The Grain, Night Verses' Every Sound Has A Color in the Valley of the Night, Tony Levin's Bringing it Down to the Bass, and Cloud Cult's Alchemy Creek.
Love the inclusion of Blood Incantation. Agreed it should be included based off its uniqueness in the 2024 landscape. Thanks for all the great content this year, fellas. Merry Christmas.
My top prog albums of the year….thanks for sharing your favs!
1. Darwin – Five Steps on the Sun
2. DGM – Endless
3. Teramaze – Eli: A Wonderful Fall from Grace
4. Evergrey – Theories of Emptiness
5. Devin Townsend – Powernerd
6. Triton Project – Messenger's Quest
7. Whom Gods Destroy – Insanium
8. Wheel – Charismatic Leaders
9. Turbulence – Binary Dream
10. Neal Morse – No Hill for a Climber
Hopium by Kingcrow is a great album
A hidden gem not to be missed: Mother of millions- magna matter.
You will love it since you are watching this video
Opeth ????instant repeat.. best of the year ..z
My Top 10
I. Iotunn – Kinship
2. Borknagar -Fall
3. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
4. Ancients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
5. Vola – Friend Of A Phantom
6.Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals
7. Solstafir – Hin Helga Kvöll
8. In Vain – Solemn
9. Tribulation – Sub Rosa In Æternum
10. Wolfheart – Draconian Darkness
DGM new record is my favorite of the year so far.
Good list. I think I would put Big Big Train in the top spot. I think it's a masterpiece.
Thanks guys, really enjoyed this show❤Great number one as well. Albums I also liked this year are Ritual, Geordie Greep, Glass Beach and less proggy like St. Vincent and Idles