Best of 2016?

[TCProgger]

So with people still posting in the Best of 2015 thread, I figured it's time we started talking about what we thought the best of the past year was.

I'll be back later with my own selections.

 

[Joey Jojo]

1. Affinity- Haken
2. Everchild- Dark Suns
3. Folklore- Big Big Train
4. Bottled Out Of Eden- Knifeworld
5. Theories Of Flight- Fates Warning
6. The Prelude Implicit- Kansas
7. Machina Viva- Wolverine
8. Pretending 2 Run- Tiles
9. Transcendence- Devin Townsend
10. The Imprisoned Words Of Fear- Verbal Delirium

 

[Terry L]

I have not listen to everything out there, but I am willing submit a list of my favorites from 2016.

Prog-rock-(Symphonic, Neo, Heavy)
Ingranaggi Della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue (vocals are in English)
Cirrus Bay - Places Unseen
Edensong - Years In The Garden Of Years
Eternal Wanderers - The Mystery Of The Cosmic Sorrow
Haken - Affinity
Hemina - Venus
Seven Implae - Contrapasso
An Endless Sporadic - Magic Machine
The Neal Morse Band - Stimilitude Of A Dream

Metal-(prog, power, traditional)
Alamanac - Tsar
Them - Sweet Hollow-(better than King Diamond's last two albums)
Circus Maximus - Havoc
Myrath - Legacy
DGM - The Passage
Poverty's No Crime - Spiral Of Fear
Rhapsody Of Fire - Into The Legend
Sound Storm - Vertigo
Dante - When We Were Beautiful
Pagan's Mind - Full Circle: Live At Center Stage (....but I still want a new album...)

 

[Mullmuzzler]

For me it was Fates Warning's Theories and Haken's Affinity. That's what kicked my ass most of the time this year.