John "BoBo" Bollenberg | Larry "LarryD" Daglieri | Duncan Glenday | Davide Guidone | Eric Porter | Stephanie Sollow | Joshua Turner | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003
John "Bo Bo" Bollenberg's Top 10 2004:
Larry "LarryD" Daglieri's Top 10 2004:
Duncan Glenday's Top 20 2004:
Davide Guidone's Top 10 2004:
(no particular order)
- Mind Key - Journey Of A Rough Diamond
- Proto-kaw - Before Became After
A very well received come back from the first nucleus of Kansas. Even if the largest part of the songs is 30 years old, every piece has an astonishing freshness in a mix of neoprog, pomp rock, fusion and jazzy atmospheres.
- Threshold - Subsurface
After Critical Mass a great album for the English prog metal giants. A wise mixture of guitars and keyboards, due to a wonderful production, plus an amazing songwriting, makes this album a little milestone in the Threshold discography. Intelligent lyrics and the best artwork in my opinion.
- Sylvan - X-rayed
Sylvan show how it can be possible to alternate neoprog elements with some harder and newer music styles. The band introduce to us a wide range of music. Never a dull moment!
- Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness
- DGM - Misplaced
A much power prog oriented album for the Italian band DGM, with some hard rock tunes. A band that finally has reached an own identity and a very personal sound. A must for all the fans of the genre.
- Izz - Ampersand
A great confirmation for Izz, after the very interesting I Move. A compilation of previously unreleased material, but showing a cohesive structure. Catchy and complex at the same time.
Chain - Chain.exe
In the prog world, Henning Pauly is a little genius, that's for sure. He comes back with his group and presents a very different album from Frameshift and Reconstruct. A Heavy, complicated, challenging release with an its own sound. Excellent.
- Pain Of Salvation - Be
And speaking of challlenging performance, here it is the new opus by POS. it represents what prog music should be: innovative. This phrase doesn't need any other word.
- Moongarden - Round Midnight
3 Best DVDs
- IQ - Twentieth Anniversary Show
An immense double dvd in a stylish digipack, showing a perfect performance from the best neoprog band, perhaps. Every progressive music fan should buy it, I assure it.
- Threshold - Critical Energy
An high quality standard DVD, from the technique to the track list and the extras. A must for the prog metal listeners.
- Neal Morse - Testimony Live
The DVD that testimony(ehehe) the tour of the best album of 2003.
Eric Porter's Top 9 2004:
Stephanie Sollow's (Preliminary) Top 10 2004 - updated 5/23/06:
Seems I never got around to doing a top ten of 2004... well, here's three that have made this list...
Joshua Turner's Top 10 2004:
Honorable Mentions:
Sorry if I missed a band or artist that deserved mention. There was so much good music last year, it's almost impossible to track them all.
Early bids for 2005
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