| 2020: 1 | Falconer - From A Dying Ember |
| 2 | Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains |
| 3 | Derek Sherinian - The Phoenix |
| 4 | Magenta - Masters Of Illusion |
| 5 | Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea |
| 6 | John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity |
| 7 | Gungfly - Alone Together |
| 8 | THEO - Figureheads |
| 9 | Timelight - Selah! |
| 10 | Wishbone Ash - Coat Of Arms |
| 11 | Carpe Nota - Not Greater Than You |
| 12 | JPL - Sapiens Chaptire 1/3: Exordium |
| 13 | Soften The Glare - Glint |
| 14 | Outside In - Karmatrain |
| 15 | Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol De Dieter Bohm |
| 16 | Zopp - Zopp |
| 17 | Sonus Umbra - A Sky Full Of Ghosts |
| 18 | Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet |
| 19 | Nick D'Virgilio - Invisible |
| 20 | Elastic Blur - Out Of The Sudden |
| 21 | AmuZeum - New Beginnings |
| 22 | Pattern-Seeking Animals - Prehensile Tales |
| 23 | Wobbler - Dwellers Of The Deep |
| 24 | The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance |
| 25 | The Rick Ray Band - Acrylic Charlie |
| 26 | Sons Of Apollo - MMXX |
| 27 | Dool - Summerland |
| 28 | French TV - Stories Without Fingerprints |
| 29 | The Flower Kings - Islands |
| 30 | Ovrfwrd - StarStuff |
| 31 | Violent Silence - Twilight Furies |
| 32 | Kaizen - Aqvila |
| 33 | Ozric Tentacles - Space For The Earth |
| 34 | The Samurai Of Prog - La Tierra |
| 35 | Karfagen - Principles And The Theory Of Spektra |
| 36 | Marko Hietala - Pyre Of the Black Heart |
| 37 | Panzerballet - Planet Z |
| 38 | Siena Root - The Secret Of Our Time |
| 39 | Shaman Elephant - Wide Awake But Still Asleep |
| 40 | Gran Torino - The Delphic Prophecy |
| 41 | Haze - Back To The Bones |
| 42 | Osiris - Take A Closer Look |
| 43 | The Samurai Of Prog - Beyond The Wardrobe |
| 44 | Haken - Virus |
| 45 | Fernando Perdomo - Out To Sea 3 |
| 46 | The Backstage - Isolation |
| 47 | KnightressM1 - Dreams And Devastation |
| 48 | Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies |
| 49 | Steve Thorne - Levelled Emotional Creatures Part 3 |
| 50 | Kansas - The Absence Of Presence |
| 51 | Nektar - The Other Side |
| 52 | Ring Van Mobius - The 3rd Majesty |
| 53 | Magnum - The Serpent Rings |
| 54 | Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking |
| 55 | Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night |
| 56 | Isobar - Isobar |
| 57 | Arabs In Aspic - Madness And Magic |
| 58 | Carl Baldassarre - Collinwood Yards |
| 59 | Anthony Kalugin - Marshmellow Moondust |
| 60 | David Minasian - The Sound Of Dreams |
| 61 | Karfagen - Birds Of Passage |
| 62 | DarWin - DarWin 2: A Frozen War |
| 63 | Days Between Stations - Giants |
| 64 | Sanguine Hum - A Trace Of Memory |
| 65 | Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid |
| 66 | La Maschera Di Cera - S.E.I. |
| 67 | Dennis DeYoung - 26 East, Vol. 1 |
| 68 | David Sancious - Eyes Wide Open |
| 69 | Polis - Weltklang |
| 70 | Six Days End - In Between Two Nothings |
| 71 | Neal Morse - Sola Gratia |
| 72 | Al Dimeola - Across The Universe |
| 73 | Manna/Mirage - Face |
| 74 | McStine & Minnemann - McStine & Minnemann |
| 75 | Pendragon - Love Over Fear |
| 76 | The Samurai Of Prog - Gulliver |
| 77 | Ayreon - Transitus |
| 78 | California Guitar Trio - Elegy |
| 79 | Ekos - Instinto |
| 80 | Habu - Distant Thunder |
| 81 | Light - The Miracle Of Life |
| 82 | Deluge Grander - Lunarians |
| 83 | Glass Hammer - Dreaming City |
| 84 | Hallas - Conundrum |
| 85 | IO Earth - Aura |
| 86 | Scarlet Hollow - A Window To October |
| 87 | Arcade Messiah - The Host |
| 88 | Rain - Singularity |
| 89 | Ghost Toast - Shape Without Form |
| 90 | Godsticks - Inescapable |
| 91 | Pixie Ninja - Colours Out Of Space |
| 92 | Witchwood - Before the Winter |
| 93 | Spirits Burning - The Hollow Lands |
| 94 | Fish - Weltschmerz |
| 95 | Fren - Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside |
| 96 | Gosta Berlings Saga - Konkret Musik |
| 97 | Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void |
| 98 | Final Conflict - Rise Of The Artisan |
| 99 | Ajna - Rengeteg |
| 100 | Airbag - A Day The Beach |
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2019: 1 | Thieves Kitchen-Genius Loci-The Clockwork Universe grabbed #1 in 2015. Repeat! |
| 2 | Opeth-In Cauda Venenum-No growling, no less power. Best since Ghost Reveries. |
| 3 | The Worm Ouroboros-Endless Way From You-Released Dec 26, too good to wait a year. From Belarus. |
| 4 | Asturias-Trinity-If it's Asturias and it's electric, it's top 10. |
| 5 | Minimum Vital-Air Caravan'-Not as good as Pavanes, and still number 5. |
| 6 | Shob-Solide-Shob is one bad man. |
| 7 | Antoine Fafard-Borromean Odyssey-Husband, Sucherman, and Fafard. Best trio out there. |
| 8 | Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion-Parallel Life-The most solid band in prog keeps raising the bar. |
| 9 | Time Shift Accident-Chronosthesia-Was hard to rate this so "low". Fusion greatness. |
| 10 | IQ-Resistance-Road of Bones was #1 in '14, another powerful double CD. |
| 11 | Ed Wynne-Shimmer Into Nature-No dropoff as the Ozrics leader steps out. |
| 12 | Frank Wyatt & Friends-Zeitgeist-Frank put his heart into this one, with awesome guests. |
| 13 | Morglbl-The Story Of Scott Rotti-Return to form for the Frenchmen, a real corker. |
| 14 | The Claypool Lennon Delirium-South Of Reality-Sean Lennon steps out of Les' large shadow. |
| 15 | Magic Pie-Fragments Of The 5th Element-Everything they put out is high quality. Tight record. |
| 16 | Thank You Scientist-Terraformer-I've put aside my aversion to the vocals, it's too good. |
| 17 | The Aristocrats-You Know What-Rarely do three musicians so talented blend so seamlessly. |
| 18 | Izz-Don't Panic-Has Izz put out a poor record? |
| 19 | Flying Colors-Third Degree-The first one of their three I've enjoyed all the way through. |
| 20 | Marbin-Israeli Jazz-High energy, extended soloing, what's not to like. |
| 21 | Vinnie Moore-Soul Shifter-Best guitar-oriented record maker - Tasteful with a touch of flash. |
| 22 | Kinetic Element-The Face Of Life-KE's best lineup yet, the title cut is a classic. |
| 23 | Steve Unruh-Precipice-The hardest working, most versatile man returns to true solo work. |
| 24 | Stratus Luna-Stratus Luna-South American prog jazz? Auto buy! |
| 25 | Iamthemorning-The Bell-Marjana and Gleb treat us with another winner. |
| 26 | The Neal Morse Band-The Great Adventure-Such a good record. Less repetition would skyrocket it to top 10. |
| 27 | Jordan Rudess-Wired For Madness-Avoids the solo record trap by diversity on each track. |
| 28 | Franck Carducci-The Answer-A bit behind his other records, but Franck is still rock and roll. |
| 29 | Eddie Mulder-Waves-Eddie combines tasteful playing with brilliant songwriting. |
| 30 | Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso-Transiberiana-Almost all new lineup from their heyday, but still great. |
| 31 | The Tea Club - If-When - "If I Mean When" is the song of the year. |
| 32 | David Pastorius - Radio Gold - Currently plaing with Pat Travers, David is a monster. |
| 33 | Valence - Cognitive Dissidents - A rare prog metal instrumental band that always interesting. Awesome record. |
| 34 | Tool - Fear Inoculum - The music takes few chances, but it's Tool so it's ranked high. |
| 35 | United Progressive Fraternity - Planetary Overload Part 1 - Fine collaboration with good people saying important things. |
| 36 | Farmhouse Odyssey - Fertile Ground - They had to cancel Progday but I am looking forward to seeing them live sometime. |
| 37 | Steve Hackett - At The Edge Of Light - Another year, another record from the Godfather. |
| 38 | Barock Project - Seven Seas - The band has it all, outstanding effort. |
| 39 | Gin Lady - Tall Sun Crooked Moon - More down home and mellow than their others, but still pleasing to the ear. |
| 40 | Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean - One of the best live bands out today, very demanding music that rewards the listener. |
| 41 | Goblin - The Devil Is Back - Claudio Simonetti keeps on ticking! |
| 42 | Introitus - Shadows - Everything Introitus does is high class and high quality. |
| 43 | Fernando Perdomo - Out To Sea 2 - Lots of short, fun tracks that make for great listening. |
| 44 | Quantum Fantay - Yemaya Orisha - Always solid, high energy space rock. |
| 45 | Dream Theater - Distance Over Time - I haven't gotten into them much in a long time, but there's more cohesiveness here. |
| 46 | Steve Katsikas - Hidden Village - Steve makes a great album from many varying parts. |
| 47 | Lonely Robot - Under Stars - John Mitchell out with another solid record. |
| 48 | Red Bazar - Things As They Appear - Another fine record, with help from the amazing Peter Jones. |
| 49 | Slug Comparison - When You Were Living Here - Ex-Fen leader Doug Harrison puts together a gripping record. |
| 50 | Consider The Source - You Are Literally A Metaphor - Monstrous live band. |
| 51 | Persephone's Dream Anomalous Propagation |
| 52 | The Flower Kings Waiting For Miracles |
| 53 | The Rick Ray Band Dark Matter Halo |
| 54 | Karfagen Echoes From Within Dragon Island |
| 55 | Kadavar For The Dead Travel Fast |
| 56 | Light Damage Numbers |
| 57 | The Gift Antenna |
| 58 | King Of Agogik After The Last Stroke |
| 59 | The Samurai Of Prog Toki No Kaze |
| 60 | Yuval Ron Somewhere In This Universe, Somebody Hits A Drum |
| 61 | Moron Police A Boat On The Sea |
| 62 | Felix Martin Caracas |
| 63 | Magma Zess (Le Jour De Neant) |
| 64 | Bryan Beller Scenes From The Flood |
| 65 | Gong The Universe Also Collapses |
| 66 | Leah Ancient Winter |
| 67 | PENNA Soulmagnet |
| 68 | Big Big Train Grand Tour |
| 69 | KXM Circle Of Dolls |
| 70 | Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow |
| 71 | Bjorn Riis A Storm Is Coming |
| 72 | The Far Meadow Foreign Land |
| 73 | Moon Letters Until They Feel The Sun |
| 74 | Johnny Bob Fjodor & The Watergiant |
| 75 | Virgil Donati Ruination |
| 76 | Tom Slatter Demon |
| 77 | District 97 Screens |
| 78 | The Cyberiam The Butterfly Effect |
| 79 | Djam Karet A Sky Full Of Stars For A Roof |
| 80 | Tanith In Another Time |
| 81 | Jon Anderson 1000 Hands- Chapter One |
| 82 | Avandra Descender |
| 83 | The Mercury Tree Spidermilk |
| 84 | Arch-Matheos Winter Ethereal |
| 85 | Anthony Phillips Strings Of Light |
| 86 | Eris Pluvia Tales From Another Time |
| 87 | Finisterre Finisterre XXV |
| 88 | Thirteen Of Everything Our Own Sad Fate |
| 89 | Kit Watkins Field Of View |
| 90 | Soen Lotus |
| 91 | Soniq Theater Brandenburg |
| 92 | The Kentish Spires Sprezzatura |
| 93 | Angel Witch Angel Of Light |
| 94 | Keaggy Levin Marotta The Bucket List |
| 95 | T Solipsystemology |
| 96 | Courtney Swain Between Blood And Ocean |
| 97 | A.C.T Rebirth |
| 98 | Antarticus Antarticus |
| 99 | Tillian Lotus Graveyard |
| 100 | Voyag3r War Mask |
