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Best Progressive Rock Album of 2012 Poll

Prog News November 26, 2012 223 Comments

Progressive Rock Central presents its 2012 Reader’s poll for Best Progressive Rock album. This year we have very strong contenders from North America, Europe and the British Isles with a mix of renowned veteran artists and newer acts representing the latest generations of progressive rock.

Please vote quality rather than name recognition. If you think that we have a left out a significant album, send us an email or write a comment.

Multiple choices are allowed.

Final results will be announced December 18th.

Editor’s note: This poll only features progressive rock acts. Sub-genres include: avant-garde, Canterbury, fusion, neo-prog, post-rock, progressive folk, psychedelic, Rock In Opposition (RIO), space rock, symphonic progressive rock, and Zeuhl.

Anathema’s latest album is included because the band has evolved and there is no metal anymore. It’s a highly evolved form of post-rock.

On the other hand, popular band Rush is not included because it is essentially a hard rock band. Rush released a couple of albums, A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres, that could legitimately be considered progressive rock, but the current direction of the band is fundamentally hard rock.

Lastly, check out our Progressive Rock Gift Guide. It includes links to sample and purchase the below albums and many other goodies.

Final Note: this poll is closed. For final results read this article: Best Progressive Rock Album of 2012 Poll Results

223 Replies to “Best Progressive Rock Album of 2012 Poll”

  3. J’ai découvert Anathema il y a 2 semaines à l’Atelier (Luxembourg). Hâte de les revoir en vedette principale. Là je découvre tous leurs albums.

  4. Mantiis by Obsidian Kingdom is clearly one of the best progressive metal albums I’ve eard this year and is missing from this list…

  8. Hi. And what about Harvest “Chasing Time” ? In my opinion is one of the best albums of this 2012.

    Handen

  10. and where”s ASTRA? ….their “the black chord” album was awesome indeed! i voted steve hackett -genesis revisited 2 just cos i”m a 70″s genesis freak!

  15. Visited Anathema’s concert in Köln lately, once again they were very great. They deserve to win and get a high number of fans more

  16. You need to add other excellent albums from very good bands. Please check other sites and I would suggest at least a total of 50 bands:
    Astra,Marillion,Galahad,Threshold,Unitopia,
    Hemina,Kaipa, Rush,ProFusion, RPWL, Colin Mold, Diagonal, Quaterna Requiem, Gazpacho, Delusion Squared, IO Earth, The Gathering, 3RD Degree, Mangala Valis, Bearfish, Syndone, Mystery, Alpha Taurus, Arjen Lucassen, Karcius, and many more!

  41. I notice that Anathema is nr. 1 at the moment. It’s a nice album, but quite overrated to my opinion. There are many more interesting albums, some aren’t even in the list like Mystery-The World Is A Game, Astra-The Black Chord.

  49. i love anthema but this record i dont like so much, my vote is for big big train and flower kings electric england and ank of edens

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