swap_horiz Spock's Beard - V Alternatives

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Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Opeth's 2005 eighth studio album Ghost Reveries was their debut on Roadrunner Records and the first to feature keyboardi...

Melodic 00S Prog Metal Death Doom

8.8 Great

2

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Porcupine Tree’s *In Absentia* (2002) marked a significant shift for the British progressive-metal band. This album blen...

Heavy Melodic 00S Prog Metal

8.8 Great

3

Karnivool - Sound Awake

Sound Awake (2009) is the second studio album by Australian band Karnivool, widely regarded as a landmark of Australian...

Atmospheric Melodic 00S Prog Metal

8.7 Great

4

Obscura - Cosmogenesis

Second studio album (2009) by German technical death metal band Obscura, their international breakthrough, featuring gue...

Melodic 00S Prog Metal Technical Death

8.7 Great

5

Opeth - Damnation

Opeth's 2003 seventh studio album Damnation, produced by Steven Wilson, is the acoustic and clean-vocal companion to Del...

Acoustic Mellow Prog Rock 00S

8.6 Great

6

Baroness - Blue Record

Second full-length album (2009) by Savannah, Georgia progressive sludge metal band Baroness, widely praised for expandin...

Melodic 00S Prog Metal Sludge

8.6 Great

7

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Deadwing (2005) is a Porcupine Tree album conceived alongside a screenplay co-written by Steven Wilson and Opeth's Mikae...

Heavy Melodic 00S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

8

Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

A 2005 concept album by Polish band Riverside widely considered their international breakthrough and one of the defining...

Concept Album Melodic Riverside 00S

8.4 Great

9

Protest the Hero - Fortress

Fortress (2008) is the second studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero from Whitby, Ontario, acc...

Technical Melodic 00S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

10

Spock's Beard - Snow

Snow is a 2002 double-album rock opera by California progressive rock band Spock's Beard and the final studio album to f...

Concept Album Symphonic 00S Prog Metal

8.4 Great

11

Marillion - Marbles

Marbles is a 2004 double album by British progressive rock band Marillion, notable for pioneering direct-to-fan music fu...

Atmospheric Melodic 00S Marillion

8.4 Great

12

Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

Riverside's 2007 third studio album, exploring themes of consciousness and identity through the band's characteristic bl...

Atmospheric Melodic Riverside 00S

8.3 Great

13

Cynic - Traced in Air

Traced in Air is Cynic's 2008 second full-length, a Miami progressive metal record with vocoder-processed vocals and the...

Melodic Jazz Influenced 00S Prog Metal

8.2 Great

14

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Dream Theater's 2005 eighth studio album is anchored by the 24-minute title track, with musical and lyrical motifs linki...

Melodic Orchestral 00S Prog Metal

8.1 Great

15

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

Porcupine Tree's 1999 sixth studio album Stupid Dream is widely noted for a shift toward more accessible, melodic songwr...

Melodic 90S Alternative Prog Rock

8.0 Great

16

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

Porcupine Tree's Lightbulb Sun (2000) is a UK progressive rock album by Steven Wilson's band, marking a shift toward mor...

Melodic Alternative Prog Rock 00S

7.9 Good

17

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

A 2009 album by Riverside featuring a heavier, more aggressive direction while addressing themes of modern alienation an...

Heavy Melodic Riverside 00S

7.8 Good

18

Opeth - Pale Communion

Opeth's 2014 eleventh studio album Pale Communion continued their progressive rock direction and features orchestral str...

Retro Melodic Prog Rock 10S

7.7 Good

19

Riverside - Out of Myself

The 2003 debut album by Polish progressive rock band Riverside, establishing the Warsaw quartet's melodic and atmospheri...

Atmospheric Melodic Riverside 00S

7.7 Good

20

Karnivool - Themata

Themata (2005) is the debut studio album by Australian progressive rock/metal band Karnivool from Perth, Western Austral...

Melodic Alternative 00S Prog Metal

7.7 Good