Cristi wrote: Iron Maiden should not be in this list. There, I said it.

And you are SOOOOO right for saying it. In a year that has some extremely innovative prog ranging from Black Midi in avant to Ad Nauseum in tech/extreme and other outstanding releases such as Shamblemaths and many, many more, this list should be called the best crossover prog list.

Granted it's getting harder and harder for anyone to keep up with it all though!

I rated the album  generously a 7/10 on a metal site.

Also I don't think it's a progressive metal album. 

I made a list else where, 102 albums so far, Wilson and Maiden did not make the list. 

progaardvark wrote: It's kind of an embarrassing list for a magazine that calls itself Prog. The Wilson album wouldn't make any list I would make even if I extended it out to 300 albums.

Or top 10,000. It's art pop not prog. It does signify that this list bites

the problem is not that it's art-pop, I just did not find it that interesting. 

No, it IS a problem. It's supposed to be a prog list. Just because ole Stevie was in Porcupine Tree doesn't make everything he vomits a candidate for best prog list.

 That was brutal. 

They surely liked The future Bites, though! (I like it too, but it wouldn't be that high on my list)

It's an insult that this crap Steven Wilson album is at number two. Comparing this album to "Ok Computer" is complete nonsense.

The only list he deserves to be on is the most disappointing albums of 2021

Do people still buy magazines?

I see them in stores and it feels like relics from the dinosaur days.

Yes.

Some of us, strangely, prefer to read stuff on paper rather than wasting our time goggling at inanities on a screen.

Oh, wait……………

Frost* - Day and Age is my favourite album of the year. Also a fan of BBT and Steve Hackett and both will feature high up in my list as well.

Steven Wilson. I guess this is included for 'political' reasons. They probably don't want to get on his wrong side and so for self survival reasons are buttering him up a bit. That's my guess. It's a 3 star album and honestly I do like some of the tracks on it but NO2 for the year is very perplexing.

BTW I don't have any problem with Iron Maiden being included in a prog list whatsoever! (but I've not heard the album)

so many better releases than the new Maiden. Also they are not progressive metal, or even progressive I dare say,  with a lot of their songs being repetitive and being a bit too long, predictably starting with a long intro-verse-chorus- long solos - verse-chorus -outro. And this happened on all long songs on the new album. It gets tiring at some point. 

I can't argue specifically about the latest album , and yes I agree they have not progressed that much Historically I believe the albums they made in the eighties are important and progressive musically speaking ,whether you label them 'progressive metal' or not. (I would).

their long(er) songs after Brave New World (some songs there are repetitive, but it not annoying, at least not then, but starting with the next album) are like that. Predictably there is a pattern and it gets old. 

I still buy Big Bang Magazine (France) and Prog-résiste (Belgium). There are more "progressive" discoveries in these magazines than on Internet for me. And for metal music, I read Rock Hard.

https://cosmosmusic.fr/" rel="nofollow - Cosmos Music - La VPC du rock progressif en France

https://www.progresiste.com/joomla/index.php" rel="nofollow - Accueil (progresiste.com)

Most of the list is pretty pedestrian and very borderline progressive by my standards.

I'll get busy this yearend. 

I think our list will be better, especially since they omitted black midi.

The Black Midi and Ad Nauseam records are simply amazing! 

I swear I need a couple of months after New Year's to digest all of a year's music! And even then I'm always discovering things I missed--sometimes years later!

I guess they have heard everything that will be released this year, as presumably journalists get access to advance copies?  And it's their job to listen to them, whereas we don't have the time!!

The one thing that is really scary for me, is that PA seems to be out of touch with the listing ... of the whole thing, I only see posts on 3 of those in the list (regularly), and too many on "nothing", except top 69th album!

I have heard at least 5 more of those and enjoy them, but the listing is really weak and not capable of "expanding" at all. A couple of looks at Space Pirate Radio listings, would show real quick ... where is the new stuff? ... instead of half the listing being the same old chit!

moshkito wrote: PA seems to be out of touch

Leprous and Frost were interesting but I don't see myself having repeated listens on those.

Having SW on the list period but to even put him in the top 5 is only playing to those who are just getting into this music, as stated very very prog lite, it's almost click bait. For me its an enjoyable album but not to be mentioned on a prog album list. SW should be pissed that it is even there, he knows it's not prog and as much as he hates genre labels should detest Prog Mag even mentioning his last album.....That was not his target audience with the album.

The rest of the albums I have no interest in delving into based on what I have heard in the past. 

Me, I still don't know what my top albums of 1973 are. Keeps changing.

Not to mention the not inconsiderable sums these small labels have to pay to get one of their stable to feature on the cover CD... 

Hi,

I don't mean that in a bad way ... however, that listing is sad and not very progressive when so many of the folks listed are has beens that we have heard before, and really ... are no longer enthused by! I doubt that bands like DT, Transatlantic and Iron Maiden can get past their illusions of grandeur, in their music, which is more of a repetition of what they have done before than otherwise. And we're talking at least 8 of those listed here, which suggests that the folks that created this listing did not hear a whole lot of anything else! 

I almost think, and hope, that if we did this here today on PA the list would be quite different and not so admired and kissed by the better known bands. I find it sad ... Kairon;IRSE ... Agusa ... Patrick Gautier ... Gert Emmens ... and many others, have put out stuff that is very superior to that which is listed here, but it won't get a chance, because of the commerciality of the bands listed on that magazine, which makes you wonder who their owners and sponsors are, don't you think? And there should be at least one if not two, Japanese listings in there of some very well done stuff. It is crazy to think that we allow our tastes to be "dictated" by someone that "owns" the magazine, and publishes stuff like that. A total indictment of the abuse of power and then saying it is the public's vote! And worse ... we go and listen to those albums giving that list a bigger credibility than it deserves!

It's like saying we're empty and can not find great music on our own!   We have to have someone dictate to us what "good" (or evil on Sundays!) is all about!

Given their dreadful selections, they probably don't realize that the year ISN'T over yet!

Irony often gets lost, but not this time