Subtitled "Images and words behing prog's most celebrated albums 1990-2016"
https://progreport.com/product/essentia ... ums-ebook/
As mentioned here:
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/vi ... f=3&t=6106
It's very similar to the list that was published on the Prog Report website in 2015 even though there are a few differences, it's unranked, and there's a "More essential albums" section. By the way, I suggest you guys just take a quick peek at this section for a smirk...
Here's the full list.
Queensrÿche | Empire | 1990
King's X | Faith Hope Love | 1990
Fates Warning | Parallels | 1991
Dream Theater | Images and Words | 1992
Enchant | A Blueprint of the World | 1993
Cynic | Focus | 1993
Marillion | Brave | 1994
Dream Theater | Awake | 1994
Spock's Beard | The Light | 1995
Enchant | Wounded | 1996
The Flower Kings | Stardust We Are | 1997
Fates Warning | A Pleasant Shade of Gray | 1997
Devin Townsend | Ocean Machine: Biomech | 1997
Liquid Tension Experiment | Liquid Tension Experiment | 1998
Dream Theater | Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 1999
Spock's Beard | V | 2000
Opeth | Blackwater Park | 2001
Transatlantic | Bridge Across Forever | 2001
Pain of Salvation | Remedy Lane | 2002
Dream Theater | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 2002
Spock's Beard | Snow | 2002
Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | 2002
Opeth | Damnation | 2003
The Tangent | The Music That Died Alone | 2003
Marillion | Marbles | 2004
Ayreon | The Human Equation | 2004
IQ | Dark Matter | 2004
Karmakanic | Wheel of Life | 2004
Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | 2005
Riverside | Second Life Syndrome | 2005
Frost* | Milliontown | 2006
Neal Morse | Sola Scriptura | 2007
Porcupine Tree | Fear of a Blank Planet | 2007
Between the Buried and Me | Colors | 2007
Opeth | Watershed | 2008
Karnivool | Sound Awake | 2009
Transatlantic | The Whirlwind | 2009
Periphery | Periphery | 2010
Haken | Visions | 2011
Thank You Scientist | Maps of Non-Existent Places | 2012
Devin Townsend Project | Epicloud | 2012
Riverside | Shrine of New Generation Slaves | 2013
Steven Wilson | The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 2013
Spock's Beard | Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep | 2013
Scale the Summit | The Migration | 2013
Haken | The Mountain | 2013
Big Big Train | English Electric: Full Power | 2013 [compiles the album English Electric Part One | 2012 and English Electric Part Two | 2013 plus four bonus tracks]
The Flower Kings | Desolation Rose | 2013
Transatlantic | Kaleidoscope | 2014
Flying Colors | Second Nature | 2014
Steven Wilson | Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 2015
The Dear Hunter | Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 2015
Opeth | Sorceress | 2016
The Neal Morse Band | The Similitude of a Dream | 2016
More essential albums:
Änglagård | Hybris | 1992
Echolyn | As the World | 1995
Meshuggah | Destroy Erase Improve | 1995
Radiohead | OK Computer | 1997
Symphony X | V: The New Mythology Suite | 2000
Kevin Gilbert | The Shaming of the True | 2000
Tool | Lateralus | 2001
The Mars Volta | De-Loused in the Comatorium | 2003
Magenta | Seven | 2004
Coheed and Cambria | Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2005
Beardfish | Sleeping in Traffic: Part One | 2007
Beardfish | Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two | 2008
Mastodon | Crack the Skye | 2009
Anathema | We're Here Because We're Here | 2010
Glass Hammer | If | 2010
Leprous | Bilateral | 2011
Sound of Contact | Dimensionaut | 2013
Roie Avin - Essential modern progressive rock albums (book, 2017)
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