The “progressive metal” category casts such a wide net that I had to subdivide it into several subcategories. So, instead of making a top 5 for every one of them, let’s see only the best concept album, the best experimental album, the best instrumental album, the best vocal album, the best prog-power album, and the best prog-thrash album from 2021!
Best Prog-Power: Æphanemer – A Dream of Wilderness VIDEO It’s got the cheese, it’s got the shredder, it’s got the pasta.
Best Prog-Thrash: Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm VIDEO Throughout the many really cool thrash metal albums the year gave us, Cryptosis’s stood out among the rest. You get great riffs, great drumming, great solos, what more do you want?
Best Prog Metal with Vocals: Dessiderium – Aria VIDEO Wow, am I right? What a blast! I mean, Dessiderium already exploded last year with Shadow Burn , but Aria goes above and beyond! Progressive death metal that—perhaps doesn’t take the genre to new grounds, but—takes it to new heights! What a brilliant album!
Best Instrumental Prog Metal: The Wormhole Experience – The Oracle VIDEO What if I told you that Planet X, Gru, and all those other prog fusion masters are reincarnated into the Wormhole Experience, would you believe me? Well, maybe you shouldn’t, but this is the closest thing to reincarnation there is. It’s just so damn good!
Best Experimental Metal: Bisbâyé – Le Sens de la fin VIDEO Le Sens de la fin is just way up there. As with everything Montréal-based Bisbâyé are up to. Polyrhythmic, polymetric, polytempic, they really make good use of their two drummers and two guitarists. It’s a mind-blow.
Best Concept Album: Rototypical – Volume Ⅰ: The Tactician VIDEO The story is as convoluted as the music (and it’s only volume one!) on Rototypical’s debut album, and it’s as good as it gets!
Notable Releases Hover over foreign scripts for pronunciation and romanization.
Tuesday, 26 January Bisbâyé – Le Sens de la fin 42:10 progressive metal, mathcore Montréal, Québec Cuneiform
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Créosote / Creosote [04:33]
2. Le Sens De La Fin / The Sense Of An Ending [06:46]
3. Félicités Despotiques / Despotic Bliss [05:22]
4. Resister / Resist [05:38]
5. Le Bienfait Devient Fléau / Virtue Becomes Plague [05:16]
6. Soliton [07:47]
7. Caustique / Caustic [06:48]
Friday, 12 February Arcaeon – Cascadence 49:06 progressive metal Reading, UK Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Infernum Demergeris [01:09]
2. Origin of Dreams [04:04]
3. Ghost in the Machine [04:07]
4. Replicant [03:47]
5. Ezekiel’s Wheel [05:46]
6. Zenith I: The Reflection [02:40]
7. Zenith II: Arcadia [03:45]
8. Beyond the Spires / Beneath the Canopy [03:53]
9. Heretic [04:36]
10. Cascade [05:25]
11. Ode to Unknown [04:54]
12. An Endless Sky [05:00]
Friday, 5 March Ex animīs – Marionnettiste 65:53 progressive death metal France Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Prélude du songe avant le cauchemar [02:05]
2. The Wrathful Beast [05:47]
3. Throne of Thorns [08:26]
4. Stampede of the 10 000 [07:45]
5. Entracte du sommeil pendant le cauchemar [01:49]
6. Cogs, Gears & Clockworks [11:48]
7. The Slow Flow of the Spume on the Shore [08:21]
8. Cathedral [16:16]
9. Epilogue du songe après le cauchemar [03:36]
Wednesday, 10 Stefan Petanovski – Eros 52:51 progressive metal Skopje, North Macedonia Independent
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Tanaka [02:59]
2. New Moon [07:15]
3. Eros [05:10]
4. Restless Mind [04:17]
5. Ocean Wave [04:03]
6. Heartsease [04:28]
7. Cafuné [02:45]
8. Shemomedjamo [06:49]
9. The Path: Life’s Light and Suffering [12:13]
10. Waning Crescent [02:52]
Friday, 12 Acrylazea – A Cavalcade of Cosmic Calamity 45:35 progressive power metal, death metal Rochester, New York Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A 10:30 Appointment [01:00]
2. The Terrible Tale of Dr. Heinzlmensch [05:33]
3. Complex Delirium [06:07]
4. Beneath the Sands of the Cosmic Beach [01:38]
5. We, Visitors [03:54]
6. Ship of Fools [05:59]
7. Ichorrr [01:49]
8. Antithesis Syndrome [04:56]
9. Turquoise Mollusk Assembly [02:18]
10. Dead Charades and Masquerades [04:28]
11. The Crucible [01:29]
12. Ad Aeternus [06:24]
Friday, 19 Dune – Etemen Ænka 67:14 progressive metal UK Metal Blade
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Enûma Eliš [04:38]
2. Towers [09:05]
3. Court of the Matriarch [07:13]
4. Weighing of the Heart [03:05]
5. Omega Severer [09:42]
6. Adræden [03:13]
7. Sì-XIV [06:22]
8. Mleccha [08:09]
9. Asphodel [04:41]
10. Satuya [11:06]
Thursday, 25 Galactikraken & Jonathan Young – Starship Velociraptor 44:53 progressive power metal San Diego, California Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Glory or Gold [03:30]
2. Best Band in the Universe (feat. Ninja Brian) [04:32]
3. Settle it With a Swordfight [03:50]
4. Hyperspeed [04:35]
5. Army of Tigers [04:06]
6. Storm the Castle [03:26]
7. Starship Velociraptor [03:50]
8. Man the Cannons [03:54]
9. Jetpack Race [03:40]
10. 10,000 Light-Years [03:42]
11. Final Frontier [05:48]
Friday, 26 Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm 37:06 progressive thrash metal Netherlands Century Media
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Overture 2149 [0:01:06]
2. Decypher [0:03:54]
3. Death Technology [0:03:07]
4. Prospect of Immortality [0:06:21]
5. Transcendence [0:04:02]
6. Perpetual Motion [0:00:53]
7. Conjuring the Egoist [0:04:10]
8. Game of Souls [0:04:30]
9. Mindscape [0:05:30]
10. Flux Divergence [0:03:37]
Grorr – Ddulden’s Last Flight 49:51 progressive metal Pau, France Vicī solum
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Ddulden Dreams Beyond the Peak [02:30]
2. Sky High [04:54]
3. Hit the Ground [03:43]
4. Sirens Call [05:08]
5. Ddulden Flies to His Fate [01:15]
6. Blackened Rain [06:06]
7. Newborn Whirlwind [05:19]
8. Last Flight [07:08]
9. Orang Lao (Bonus Track) [06:41]
10. The Painter (Bonus Track) [07:07]
Wheel – Resident Human 50:01 progressive metal Helsinki, Finland Inside Out
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Dissipating [0:11:51]
2. Movement [0:04:24]
3. Ascend [0:04:23]
4. Hyperion [0:12:08]
5. Fugue [0:04:31]
6. Resident Human [0:10:29]
7. Old Earth [0:02:17]
Monday, 29 March The Beast of Nod – Multiversal 50:19 progressive death metal Boston, Massachusetts Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Flight of the Quetzalcoatlus [05:29]
2. Contemporary Calamity [05:09]
3. Intergalactic War! [05:25]
4. Call of the Squirrel (featuring Joe Satriani) [05:19]
5. Unleashing Chaos (featuring Nick Padovani) [06:04]
6. The Plan for Multiversal Creation [05:44]
7. Guardians of the Multiverse (featuring John Matos) [05:01]
8. The Latent Threat [04:57]
9. ShRedding OF the Cosmos (featuring Sanjay Kumar, Matias Quiroz, Michael Angelo Batio) [07:24]
Tuesday, 6 April MRW – 死 51:30 progressive metal Sosnowiec, Poland Independent
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. 天然痘 [00:51]
2. 明日をお探しですか? あなたは生き残りますか? [00:47]
3. 夏には言葉が咲きません [00:27]
4. 最後から2番目の散歩 [00:24]
5. 枯れた悲劇 [01:01]
6. 水の寒さ [00:35]
7. 暖かい冬の夜、星も感覚もない [00:34]
8. タンゴを踊る墓掘り人の笑顔 [00:50]
9. 壊れた糸 [00:54]
10. あなたが私が死んだと言ったのは真実ではありません [01:42]
11. 熱い血なので目を拭く [02:25]
12. カニはあと何匹 [01:02]
13. トラは再び動物園から脱出しました [01:03]
14. 火を消しますか? [00:55]
15. 二度と空を見ないでください。 私はそこにいません [01:09]
16. 私は行きます。 もう戻ってこない [00:34]
17. 安堵をもたらす風 [00:51]
18. この斧に気をつけろ。 あなたはあなたの頭を切り落とすつもりです [00:51]
19. 私は眠ってしまった。 起こさないで下さい。 決して [00:25]
20. ゴミ箱が怖いです。 私の顔の残骸はそこにあります [00:27]
21. あなたは歯を失いました。 もう耳を噛まないでください [01:08]
22. バスルームの死体 [01:03]
23. 氷でさえあなたの体より暖かい [00:27]
24. エレベーターの故障 [00:55]
25. 自殺の固定観念を避ける [01:08]
26. 私はまだ呼吸しています [01:25]
27. フレデリックショパンの墓 [00:59]
28. ひびの入ったカップ。 呪文が壊れている [03:43]
29. 風と共に去りぬ [01:32]
30. もう一つの無意味な詩。 私は知っている、私は書くことができない [01:14]
31. また近いうちにお会いしましょう [00:52]
32. 嘘は真実と同義です [00:53]
33. 解剖室での愛 [00:42]
34. 下り階段、上り階段、横階段 [00:38]
35. 最後の散歩 [00:34]
36. 落下する飛行機のように [03:32]
37. 同じ言葉、異なる意味 [01:41]
38. 7回目に死ぬ [01:48]
39. 私は宗教の先生に決して感謝しません [03:29]
40. 一枚の紙のような死 [06:00]
Wednesday, 7 Astral Oceans – Vacant Systems 19:56 progressive metal Williamsburg, Virginia Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Iron Dunes [05:27]
2. Chlorate Dust [04:14]
3. Frozen Volatiles [03:56]
4. Ceres [06:19]
Friday, 9 One Hundred Thousand – Zodiac 72:03 progressive metal New Jersey Inside Out
Tracklist (click to display) 1. ARIES [06:44]
2. TAURUS [04:00]
3. GEMINI [04:59]
4. CANCER [06:33]
5. LEO [05:50]
6. VIRGO [04:47]
7. LIBRA [05:28]
8. SCORPIO [06:02]
9. SAGITTARIUS [05:51]
10. CAPRICORN [09:50]
11. AQUARIUS [05:11]
12. PISCES [06:51]
Monday, 19 Obsolete – Animate/Isolate 35:05 progressive thrash metal Minneapolis, Minnesota Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Still [04:17]
2. The Atrophy of Will [02:59]
3. The Slough [03:22]
4. Old Horizon [03:05]
5. Silent Freeway [03:18]
6. Stumbling and Listless [03:40]
7. The Fog [04:28]
8. Callousness of Soul [04:18]
9. Intercostal [05:38]
Wednesday, 21 Stasidion – Cascadia 16:08 progressive metal England, UK Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. I [03:34]
2. II [03:55]
3. III [02:50]
4. IV [02:40]
5. V [03:09]
Friday, 23 Benthos – Ⅱ 32:00 progressive metal Milan, Italy Eclipse
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Cartesio [0:03:55]
2. Back and Forth [0:04:24]
3. Talk to Me, Dragonfly! [0:04:47]
4. Facing the Deep [0:02:19]
5. Debris // Essence [0:04:11]
6. II [0:05:40]
7. Dissolving Flowers [0:06:45]
Wednesday, 28 April Atum – Famine, Putrid, and Fucking Endless 55:57 progressive thrash metal London, UK Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Sanguinary Floating Orb [08:10]
2. Ⲁⲛⲋ-ⲟⲩ Ⲙⲁⲧⲟⲩ [07:35]
3. They Crawl [05:46]
4. वाघनख [Vagh Nakh] [07:47]
5. Squeal In Torment [08:09]
6. Picture Of Decay [09:11]
7. Slud [09:19]
Friday, 7 May Terminalist – The Great Acceleration 34:13 blackened thrash metal Copenhagen, Denmark Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Relentless Alteration [03:47]
2. Terminal Dispatch [05:20]
3. Invention of the Shipwreck [10:57]
4. Estranged Reflection [05:06]
5. Dromocracy [09:13]
The Dark Atom – 0-Point 76:59 progressive metal Dijon, France Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. IDDAD [07:32]
2. The Before [08:38]
3. Samples [08:35]
4. 0-Point [06:24]
5. Fragments [12:03]
6. The After [08:48]
7. Clouds [07:54]
8. The Journey [09:02]
9. Ancient Future [08:03]
Friday, 14 Ensemble 1 – Guitar, Bass, and Drums 47:06 experimental metal Brighton, UK Independent
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Guitar, Bass & Drums I [09:23]
2. Guitar, Bass & Drums II [15:19]
3. GBD I Delay Loops [22:33]
Tuesday, 25 May Source – Ethereal Self 77:00 progressive metal Boulder, Colorado Horus Music Limited
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Ethereal Self [0:09:19]
2. My Encumbrance [0:07:03]
3. Nakatapurcinalick [0:01:02]
4. The Insipidness [0:04:53]
5. False Prophet [0:07:20]
6. Movements [0:09:15]
7. Origin [0:05:18]
8. The Goddess Death [0:09:23]
9. Paper Tiger [0:08:36]
10. Larva [0:00:57]
11. Pupa [0:13:55]
Tuesday, 1 June Myxo – One Dozen and One Nights 62:40 progressive metal Riga, Latvia Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Introspectrum [01:06]
2. Bedouin’s Track [05:19]
3. Samūm [05:27]
4. Hashāashīn [04:49]
5. Tale of Scheherazade [06:58]
6. Sarcophagus [05:57]
7. Mirage Edge [05:18]
8. Wrath of Nature [05:22]
9. Faqir [03:31]
10. Bazaar [02:25]
11. The Carpet Merchant [05:18]
12. Tayaran [05:34]
13. Outroboros [05:36]
Friday, 30 July Rototypical – Volume Ⅰ: The Tactician 67:31 progressive metal San Francisco, California Independent
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Flint & Tinder [04:38]
2. Perfecsion [03:41]
3. Cyclic: Bereft to Sodden [04:38]
4. Honir I: Durator [07:23]
5. Honir II: Traveler [06:35]
6. Honir III: Objective Mind [03:52]
7. Honir IV: Bisect at the Seams [06:32]
8. Honir V: Putrefaction [06:01]
9. Girl of Gold [01:27]
10. Lunacy [12:40]
11. Relic Glow [10:04]
Friday, 6 August Terrestria – Terrestria 38:31 progressive metal Los Angeles, California Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Halo [05:12]
2. Red Line [04:46]
3. Attrition [05:02]
4. Blood & Body [05:29]
5. The Malignant Condition [05:46]
6. For All Supreme [04:27]
7. Crop Circles [07:49]
Friday, 20 August Between the Buried and Me – Colors Ⅱ 78:24 progressive metal Raleigh, North Carolina Sumerian
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Monochrome [0:03:14]
2. The Double Helix of Extinction [0:06:16]
3. Revolution In Limbo [0:09:12]
4. Fix The Error [0:05:00]
5. Never Seen / Future Shock [0:11:41]
6. Stare Into The Abyss [0:03:53]
7. Prehistory [0:03:07]
8. Bad Habits [0:08:43]
9. The Future Is Behind Us [0:05:22]
10. Turbulent [0:05:56]
11. Sfumato [0:01:09]
12. Human Is Hell (Another One With Love) [0:15:07]
Tuesday, 21 September Felipe Andreoli – Resonance 47:10 progressive metal, jazz fusion Brazil Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Driven [04:48]
2. Resonance [05:18]
3. Thorn in Our Side – feat. Simon Phillips & Dino Jelusick [04:14]
4. Not a Day Goes By [05:08]
5. Metaverse – feat Virgil Donati & Andre Nieri [04:23]
6. Neutron Star – feat. Brett Garsed [05:04]
7. Chaos Theory [04:04]
8. Down The Line – feat. Guthrie Govan [04:11]
9. Sagan – feat. Kiko Loureiro [05:45]
10. Thorn in Our Side [Instrumental] – feat. Simon Phillips [04:15]
Friday, 24 September Æon Zen – Transversal 30:03 progressive metal UK Layered Reality
Tracklist (click to display) 1. I: Twilight [04:04]
2. II: A New Day [03:54]
3. III: Chase The Sunrise [04:53]
4. IV: 10.000 Eyes [02:15]
5. V: Force of Fire [01:10]
6. VI: Lines Redrawn [01:16]
7. VII: Purgatory Rechristened [03:51]
8. VIII: Twilight Reprise [00:47]
9. IX: It Ends As It Began [04:48]
10. X: Forever [03:05]
Friday, 1 October 6:33 – Feary Tales for Strange Lullabies: The Dome 53:10 progressive metal Paris, France Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Wacky Worms [03:54]
2. Holy Golden Boner [05:11]
3. Prime Focus [06:07]
4. Party Inc. [06:31]
5. Hot Damn Chicas [04:49]
6. Rabbit In The Hat [05:59]
7. Release The He-Shes [05:40]
8. Downtown Flavour [01:31]
9. Flesh Cemetery [04:01]
10. Act Like An Animal [03:51]
11. Hangover [05:36]
Sunday, 10 מעניש – רפא 65:07 progressive metal Israel Independent
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Hivemind [0:06:48]
2. Breed [0:03:56]
3. Instructions for Alienation [0:08:37]
4. Idol [0:05:30]
5. Euthanasia [0:07:41]
6. Lament [0:06:02]
7. Monolith (feat. “Vidi” Davidavi Dolev) [0:07:01]
8. Erasure [0:04:56]
9. Heal [0:07:37]
10. Titus’s Mosquito [0:07:05]
Friday, 15 Hippotraktor – Meridian 41:50 progressive metal, post-metal Mechelen, Belgium Pelagic
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Manifest the Mountain [04:55]
2. Mover of Skies [06:09]
3. Sons of Amesha [05:27]
4. God is in the Slumber [04:35]
5. Juncture [06:20]
6. Beacons [06:53]
7. A Final Animation [07:31]
Friday, 22 Android Trio – Other Worlds 53:25 progressive metal Oakland, California Cuneiform
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Anger Dance [05:07]
2. Concentric Lines [04:11]
3. Extra Terrestrial Folk Dance [05:18]
4. Miscellany B [04:23]
5. Serial Tune [04:19]
6. Fanfare [03:41]
7. Secular Athletes [03:22]
8. Open Air [02:53]
9. Cryptosaur [04:47]
10. Take Me [05:40]
11. Water Song [04:37]
12. Quark [05:07]
Others by No One – Book Ⅱ: Where Stories Come From 74:29 progressive metal Dayton, Ohio Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Counting Raindrops [02:27]
2. An Artwork; Clandestine [01:47]
3. A Reverie to Quell the Giants [10:55]
4. Right Side of the Brain [05:52]
5. The Impassecopedum [14:16]
6. Foxjune [04:28]
7. Debt for Your Thoughts [05:21]
8. Tomes [03:17]
9. Tombs [04:01]
10. The Tales of Nebulous Man [01:21]
11. Well-Read [06:54]
12. The Plight of Proxy [05:15]
13. Where Stories Come From [08:35]
Friday, 12 November Cave Bastard – Wrath of the Bastard 39:20 progressive metal California Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Contaminate-Annihilate [00:41]
2. Anti-Vaxxtermination [06:04]
3. Chaos Unearthed [06:09]
4. A Horrible Light [02:02]
5. Fools of Enslavement [05:12]
6. Wrath of the Bastard [04:23]
7. The Kreist [07:22]
8. Welcome to Oblivion [01:04]
9. Futility En Masse [06:23]
Friday, 19 Æphanemer – A Dream of Wilderness 86:31 progressive power metal Toulouse, France Napalm
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Land of Hope [01:30]
2. Antigone [04:12]
3. Of Volition [04:43]
4. Le Radeau de La Méduse [05:42]
5. Roots and Leaves [07:23]
6. Vague à l’âme [01:34]
7. Strider [05:15]
8. Panta Rhei [05:24]
9. A Dream of Wilderness [06:16]
10. Le Radeau de La Méduse (French Version) [05:40]
11. Antigone (Instrumental) [04:12]
12. Of Volition (Instrumental) [04:43]
13. Le Radeau de La Méduse (Instrumental) [05:42]
14. Roots and Leaves (Instrumental) [07:23]
15. Strider (Instrumental) [05:15]
16. Panta Rhei (Instrumental) [05:24]
17. A Dream of Wilderness (Instrumental) [06:13]
Sound Struggle – The Bridge 114:30 progressive metal, jazz fusion New York, New York Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Setting [01:01]
2. Foresight [05:38]
3. The Pursuit Of Happiness [05:50]
4. Welcome Home [06:02]
5. Closer To The Truth [07:28]
6. Letter Home [01:19]
7. Decisions [08:18]
8. The Bridge [20:45]
9. Vogel [07:20]
10. Missing Out [06:42]
11. Doubt [02:19]
12. No Contest [06:24]
13. Where Is She? [05:38]
14. No Way Out [08:24]
15. Bombardment [07:39]
16. Try To Fly [06:30]
17. Hindsight [02:48]
18. Epilogue [04:25]
Saturday, 20 The Wormhole Experience – The Oracle 44:27 progressive metal, jazz fusion Rome, Italy Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Safe Room [02:30]
2. Gravity [05:59]
3. Waking Mind [04:47]
4. Correspondence [05:39]
5. Arrival [05:16]
6. Prometheus [05:33]
7. The Oracle [09:46]
8. Mary’s Got A Secret [04:57]
Friday, 26 Cynic – Ascension Codes 48:57 progressive metal Miami, Florida Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Mu-54* [00:31]
2. The Winged Ones [05:08]
3. A’-va432 [00:27]
4. Elements and their Inhabitants [03:09]
5. Ha-144 [00:29]
6. Mythical Serpents [06:24]
7. Sha48* [00:18]
8. 6th Dimensional Archetype [04:06]
9. DNA Activation Template [05:25]
10. Shar-216 [00:22]
11. Architects of Consciousness [06:20]
12. DA’z-a86.4 [00:33]
13. Aurora [04:33]
14. DU-*61.714285 [00:30]
15. In a Multiverse Where Atoms Sing [03:48]
16. A’jha108 [00:27]
17. Diamond Light Body [05:42]
18. Ec-ka72 [00:45]
Eternity’s End – Embers of War 45:13 progressive power metal Bad Neustadt An Der Saale, Germany Prosthetic
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Dreadnought (The Voyage Of The Damned) [05:19]
2. Bane Of The Black Sword [04:50]
3. The Hounds Of Tindalos [04:34]
4. Call Of The Valkyries [05:24]
5. Arcturus Prime [05:54]
6. Shaded Heart [05:17]
7. Deathrider [04:25]
8. Embers Of War [09:30]
Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû – Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû 44:17 progressive thrash metal Poland Agonia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Amenta: Accelerando: Azyn including Hierophantasmal Expounder [03:52]
2. Esoterically Excoriating The Exoteric [04:35]
3. Quasaric Pestilence [03:28]
4. Mirroracles [03:56]
5. In-Betweeness Gateway Commuters [05:26]
6. Jupiter In Capricornus [01:46]
7. Dedicated To Thoth, But Azathoth Wasn’t Listening (A Necroloquy) [03:27]
8. Caliginous Whorl [03:23]
9. The Coagulating Respite [02:43]
10. Prana: Therion: Akasha [02:47]
11. Tantrums Of Azag-Kkû [03:09]
12. Every Watchtower Within Is The Axis Of A Watchtower Without including Totemic Thresholds [05:45]
Friday, 3 December Intrinsic – Event Horizon 69:14 progressive metal Minnesota Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Dawn [03:10]
2. Inertia [05:58]
3. Perpetual Motion [07:01]
4. Dream [03:53]
5. Mahāmudrā [10:52]
6. Deva [04:09]
7. Prajñā [09:37]
8. Lazarus [02:36]
9. Cause and Effect [04:06]
10. Event Horizon [09:19]
11. Dusk [08:43]
Friday, 10 December Dessiderium – Aria 60:34 progressive death metal Phoenix, Arizona Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. White Morning in a World She Knows [15:13]
2. Pale [10:59]
3. Aria [13:41]
4. Moon Lust Delirium [09:15]
5. The Persecution Complex [11:26]
Saturday, 11 سراب – أرواح حرّة 58:30 world fusion Paris, France Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Yally shaghalt al bal [05:54]
2. Lilith’s samaii [06:21]
3. Ya snin hubbi [05:32]
4. Nahnu Haraq – étranger est un verbe [05:58]
5. Reminisence [00:42]
6. Ma bahwa had [03:46]
7. Choral [03:44]
8. Collapse – Inhiar [05:48]
9. Reminisence [00:32]
10. Tikhunuh [05:40]
11. Zidni bi fart al hubb [05:34]
12. Arwah hurra – âmes libres [08:59]
Friday, 17 Mega Colossus – Riptime 40:44 progressive power metal Raleigh, North Carolina Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Razor City [05:12]
2. Midnight Zone [05:24]
3. Vigilo Confido [05:44]
4. Tinker Tanner [05:14]
5. Run to the Fight [06:52]
6. Boiling Seas [03:47]
7. Iron Rain [08:31]
Tuesday, 21 December Syrek – Story 77:03 progressive metal Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Independent
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Magic Lantern (Into the Woods) [01:39]
2. I Think It’s A Monster [08:37]
3. Balloon Ride Over a Jigsaw Map [09:30]
4. I Got a Lightning Bug [06:55]
5. What The Owl Said [07:45]
6. Starcrowned [09:27]
7. The Perilous Flight From Castle Abathria [05:01]
8. Strange Machine [09:45]
9. Dandelion Sword [03:51]
10. Gnomus Maleficus (Tea With the Angry Gnome) [07:30]
11. Promenade Into The End [00:49]
12. The End? [05:44]
13. Home (Out of the Woods) [00:30]
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