2000's albums by 70's&80's Artist you Should Own..

The first that come to my mind are the VDGG post 2000 albums...

Present (2005)
Trisector (2008)
A Grounding in Numbers (2011)
Do Not Disturb (2016)

King Crimson - The Construcktion of Light

For me the first that comes to mind is "Out There" by Rick Wakeman. This year's "Return to Ommadawn" by Mike Oldfield is also really beautiful. For me, Pink Floyd's "The Endless River" was also a very beautiful and enjoyable piece of music. IQ's "The Road of Bones" has been mentioned already, and I do love it (even if it's actually the only album I know from the band). And even though I didn't really love every single song from the album, Iron Maiden's "The Book of Souls" is really great... for what I have heard from the band (which is not a lot, but I might venture to make a guess), this one could just as well end up being my favourite album form them, and I could easily make a choice of songs from it to make a really great single disc album. Now, one last thought... given that 80's bands are included in this thread, Dream Theater could just as well make the cut of choices, since they started in the 80's...

Camel: The Snow Goose (2013).
Solaris: The Martian Chronicles II.

omphaloskepsis wrote: Much to my surprise several 70's & 80's progressive rock bands have made outstanding 2000's albums.  From my perspective IQ "Road of Bones", David Bowie "Blackstar", Black Sabbath 13, and more than one 2000 era Magma album have dazzled me.     Anyway, I wanted to comb thru older artists from the 70's & 80's who have made comeback albums in the 2000's,  albums that compare with their halcyon days of yesteryear.   In your opinion, what albums from the 2000's would qualify.   Please include any prog sub genres, proto prog, or prog related album that comes to mind.

Hackett has aged very well; I feel To Watch The Storms and Wild Orchids probably outclass any of his classic solo albums. Just marginally predating your stated time period is Hammill's 1999 version of The Fall of the House of Usher, which is enormously high quality.

Cristi wrote: Sebastian Hardie - Blueprint

Seconded - after recording only two albums before splitting up in the 1970's, Seb Hardie released their third (and for now last) album thirty-plus years later in 2012 and it's a nice piece of work, well worth checking out, though with no side-long "epic" (unlike the two '70's albums and the one-off Windchase LP which featured Mario and Toivo).

Gong's I See You is as good as the classic trilogy in my books
Mike Oldfield's Return to Ommadawn is in my opinion also as good as any other Oldfield album
Peter Hammill's Singularity (+ Thin Air, From the Trees etc. if you enjoy his music)
VdGG's Do Not Disturb (and other albums)
Magma's albums
King Crimson's Power to Believe