Top 100 LISTS OF 2011 - 2016

RICKTER SCALE TOP 100 OF 2016
1 Deus Ex Machina Devoto
2 Rikard Sjoblom The Unbendable Sleep
3 Southern Empire Southern Empire
4 Sonus Umbra Beyond The Panopticon
5 Travis Larson Band Anicca
6 David Cross Band Sign Of The Crow
7 Flor De Loto Arbol De La Vida
8 Kate Bush Before The Dawn
9 Big Big Train Folklore
10 Timelight Timelight
11 Birth Control Here And Now
12 The Gourishankar The World Unreal
13 Bent Knee Say So
14 The Gift Why The Sea Is Salt
15 Frost Falling Satellites
16 Antoine Fafard Sphere
17 Anakdota Overloading
18 Cactus Black Dawn
19 The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith Of Phobos
20 La Bocca Della Verita Avenoth
21 Melmac El Fin De La Guerra Del Volumen
22 Javier Sepulveda Pulse Of Nature
23 Edensong Years In The Garden Of Years
24 Hiromi The Trio Project : Spark
25 TCP Temporal Chaos
26 Tiles Pretending 2 Run
27 TEE (The Earth Explorer) Tales Of Eternal Entities
28 Ad Maiora Repetita Iuvant
29 Blues Funeral The Search
30 Opeth Sorceress
31 Gong Rejoice! I'm Dead!
32 Heliopolis Epic At The Majestic: Live At Rosfest
33 Vino Voyage
34 Elephants Of Scotland The Perfect Map
35 The Neal Morse Band The Similitude Of A Dream
36 Erik Norlander Surreal
37 Pete Laramee Chin Music
38 Antti Martikainen Set Sail For The Golden Age
39 La Experiencia Dremura
40 Agusa Katarsis
41 Anima Mundi I Me Myself
42 Knifeworld Bottled Out Of Eden
43 Gustavo Santhiago Animam
44 The Jelly Jam Profit
45 Kansas The Prelude Implicit
46 Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail
47 Karmakanic DOT
48 Brimstone Coven Black Magic
49 Half Past Four Land Of the Blind
50 Lazuli Nos Ames Saoues
51 Matthew Parmenter All Our Yesterdays
52 New Sun Transitory
53 No More Pain The Spader EP
54 Out Of the Beardspace Intent To Express
55 N.y.X The News
56 Eris Pluvia Different Earths
57 Paul Bremner The Witness
58 Seven Impale Contrapasso
59 Kaipa DaCapo Darkskapens Monotini
60 A.C.T. Trifles And Pandemonium
61 Elephant Plaza Momentum
62 Animals As Leaders The Madness Of Many
63 Izz Ampersand Volume 2
64 Nine Stones Close Leaves
65 Sanguine Hum What We Ask Is Where We Begin
66 Metamorphosis The Turning Point
67 Magenta Live From The Chaos Stage
68 Camelion Yksniv Arts
69 Levin Minnemann Rudess From The Law Offices Of
70 Haken Affinity
71 Eye Vision And Ageless Light
72 Blue Mammoth Stories Of A King
73 Pravda The Rising Mediocrity
74 Syd Arthur Apricity
75 Yossi Sassi Roots And Roads
76 iamthemorning Lighthouse
77 Kiama Sign Of IV
78 Human Factor Homo Universum
79 Zhaoze Intoxicatingly Lost
80 Arcade Messiah III
81 Simon McKechnie From My Head To My Feet
82 David Bowie Blackstar
83 Dream The Electric Sleep Beneath The Dark Wide Sky
84 Il Castello Di Atlante Arx Atlantis
85 Mother Turtle II
86 Rob Perez Bluesyndrome 3
87 The Fringe The Fringe
88 Aican Don't Go Deep In The Forest
89 Tempano Nowhere Now Here
90 Robert Reed Sanctuary II
91 Lyrian The Jester's Quest In The City Of Glass
92 Raza Clockwork Symphony
93 Last In Line Heavy Crown
94 Maschine Naturalis
95 Afforested Frithu
96 Beelzefuzz The Righteous Bloom
97 The Mute Gods Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
98 French TV Ambassadors Of Good Health And Clean Living
99 Heather Findlay Band I Am Snow
100 The Enid Dust

TOP 100 OF 2015
 

1 Thieves' Kitchen The Clockwork Universe
2 Nemo Coma
3 Cailyn Voyager
4 Minimum Vital Pavanes
5 Unreal City Il Paese Del Tremonto
6 Hasse Froberg & MC HFMC
7 Ghost Meliora
8 Asturias Elementals
9 Echolyn I Heard You Listening
10 Franck Carducci Torn Apart
11 Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls
12 Izz Everlasting Instant
13 Leap Day From The Days Of Decaulion, Chapter 2
14 Magic Pie King For A Day
15 Travis Larson Band Shift Happens - Live In Mexicali
16 3rdegree Ones And Zeroes Vol. 1
17 IO Earth New World
18 Kinetic Element Travelog
19 Ozric Tentacles Technicians Of the Sacred
20 Herba D'Hameli Interiors
21 Beardfish 4626- Comfortzone
22 Elephants Of Scotland Good Morning, Gettysburg Live At Rosfest
23 PTF What Is Constant
24 Sanguine Hum Now We Have Light
25 Lizard Destruction And Little Pieces Of Cheese
26 The Neal Morse Band The Grand Experiment
27 Yuka & Chronoship  The 3rd Planetary Chronicles
28 Steven Wilson Hand.Cannot.Erase.
29 Purposeful Porpoise Purposeful Porpoise
30 Comedy of Errors Spirit
31 Methexis Suiciety
32 Steve Hackett Wolflight
33 Morglbl Tea Time For Punks
34 Vermillion Skye Security Theater
35 Valkyrie Shadows
36 Anekdoten Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
37 Alco Frisbass Alco Frisbass
38 Spock's Beard The Oblivion Particle
39 Advent Silent Sentinel
40 Argos A Seasonal Affair
41 Profundo Ensueno Parasomnia
42 Intronaut The Direction of Last Things
43 Jaga Jazzist Starfire
44 T Fragmentropy
45 Tom Slatter Fit The Fourth
46 Ed Bernard Polydactyl
47 jh Morning Sun
48 Hildago Lancuyen
49 Theo The Game Of Ouroboros
50 Elegant Simplicity  All Life Is One
51 Mystery Delusion Rain
52 The Aristocrats Tres Caballeros
53 Steve Hughes Tales From The Silent Ocean
54 Corsair One Eyed Horse
55 Joe Satriani Shockwave Supernova
56 FM Transformation
57 Asturias Missing Piece Of My Life
58 Solaris Martian Chronicles Live
59 The Tangent A Spark In the Aether - The Music That Died Alone: Volume 2
60 Merry Go Round Merry Go Round
61 Delirium L'Era Della Menzogna
62 Davy O'List Second Thoughts
63 Muse Drones
64 Gin Lady Call The Nation
65 Zombi Shape Shift
66 Riverside Love,Fear, and the Time Machine
67 Agusa Tva
68 Godsticks Emergence
69 Joe Jackson Fast Forward
70 El Tubo Elastico El Tubo Elastico
71 And There Stand Empires III
72 Karfagen 7
73 District 97 In Vaults
74 Goblin Rebirth Goblin Rebirth
75 Arti E Mestieri  Universi Paralleli
76 The Tea Club Grappling
77 Perfect Beings  Perfect Beings II
78 Nad Sylvan  Courting The Widow
79 Spettri 2973 La Nemica Dei Ricordi
80 Arcade Messiah II
81 Glass Hammer The Breaking Of The World
82 Arena The Unquiet Sky
83 The Gentle Storm The Diary
84 Armonite The Sun Is New Each Day
85 Quantum Fantay  Dancing In Limbo
86 Narrow Pass A New Day
87 Box Of Shamans Belief And Illusion
88 Ripper Third Witness
89 Cast Vida
90 Panic Room  Essence
91 Cherry Five Il Pozzo Dei Giganti
92 The Winery Dogs  Hot Streak
93 Consider The Source World War Trio Parts II & III
94 Corvus Stone Corvus Stone Unscrewed
95 Until Sunrise Frozen Stars
96 UFO A Conspiracy Of Stars
97 Abigail's Ghost Black Plastic Sun
98 Ciccada The Finest Of Miracles
99 Pentagram Curious Volume
100 Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful

TOP 100 OF 2014

1  IQ  The Road Of Bones
2  Flor De Loto  Nuevo Mesias
3  Kotebel  Live At Prog-Resiste
4  JPL  MMXIV
5  Falconer  Black Moon Rising
6  Salem Hill  The Unseen Cord
7  Resistor  To The Stars
8  Enchant  The Great Divide
9  Opeth  Pale Communion
10  Eccentric Orbit  Creation Of The Humanoids
11  Karmakanic  Live In The US
12  Logos  L'Enigma Della Vita
13  Heliopolis  City Of The Sun
14  The Healing Road  Birdbrain's Travels
15  Supernal Endgame  Touch The Sky Volume II
16  Rocket Scientists  Refuel
17  Ad Maiora  Ad Maiora!
18  United Progressive Fraternity  Fall In Love With The World
19  El Trio  Lena!!!
20  Backhand  Through The Turbulence
21  Steve Rothery  The Ghosts Of Pripyat / Live in Rome
22  Elephants Of Scotland  Execute And Breathe
23  Robert Reed  Sanctuary
24  Wishbone Ash  Blue Horizon
25  Nathan Mahl  Justify
26  Iluvatar  From The Silence
27  Yossi Sassi  Desert Butterflies
28  Steve Hackett  Genesis Revisited Live At The Royal Albert Hall
29  Osada Vida  The After Effect
30  Slug Comparison  Slug Comparison
31  Saga  Sagacity
32  Jack Foster III   Apple Jack Magic
33  Strattman  The Lie Of The Beholder
34  Antoine Fafard  Ad Perpetuum
35  Contusion  Contusion
36  Tiles  Off The Floor 02
37  RPWL  Wanted
38  Introitus  Anima
39  Farpoint  Paint The Dark
40  Necromonkey  A Glimpse Of Possible Endings
41  Haken  Restoration
42  Distorted Harmony  Chain Reaction
43  Tohpati  Tribal Dance
44  Hidden Lands  Lycksalighetens O
45  Flying Colors  Second Nature
46  Ian Anderson  Homo Erraticus
47  Dean Watson  Fantasizer!
48  Siena Root  Pioneers
49  Zombie Frogs  Awaken
50  The Samurai Of Prog  The Imperial Hotel
51  Syd Arthur  Sound Mirror
52  Hiromi  The Trio Project- Alive
53  Corvus Stone  Corvus Stone 2
54  Formativ  Formativ
55  A.C.T  Circus Pandemonium
56  Glass Hammer  Ode To Echo
57  Perfect Beings  Perfect Beings
58  Eye  Live At Relay
59  Knifeworld  The Unravelling
60  Transatlantic  Kaleidoscope
61  Kataya  Lives
62  Kaipa  Sattyg
63  Alberto Rigoni  Overloaded
64  Karfagen  Magician's Theater
65  Spock's Beard  Live At Sea
66  Don Airey  Keyed Up
67   Adventure  Caught In The Web
68   Judas Priest  Redeemer Of Souls
69  Ut Gret  Ancestors' Tale
70  Red Dragon Cartel  Red Dragon Cartel
71   Albatros  Mundo Bosque
72  MoeTar  Entropy Of The Century
73  Doors - Various Artists Light My Fire
74  Djam Karet  Regenerator 3017
75  Taylor Watson  (A)Synchronous
76  The Invincible Czars Play Graham Reynolds & Peter Stopschinski
77  Keith Emerson & Greg Lake  Live From Manticore Hall
78  Minor Giant  On The Road
79  Druckfarben  Second Sound
80  Dream The Electric Sleep  Heretics
81  Solaris  Martian Chronicles II
82  Anton Roolaart  The Plight Of Lady Oona
83  Knight Area  Hyperdrive
84  Delusion Squared  The Final Delusion
85  Chaos Venture  Chaos Venture 1.0
86  Deluge Grander  Heliotians
87  California Breed  California Breed
88   Manning  Akoustik #2
89  Voice Of The Enslaved  Voice Of The Enslaved
90  Lapis Lazuli  Alien-Abra Cadaver
91  Uriah Heep  Outsider
92  Neal Morse  Songs From November
93  Synaesthesia  Synaesthesia
94  Deep Limbic System  The Embryo
95  Cast  Arsis
96  Jordan Rudess  Explorations
97  Dave Bainbridge  Celestial Fire
98  Looking-Glass Lantern  The Hound Of The Baskervilles
99  Long Distance Calling  Nighthawk
100   Anima Morte  Upon Darkened Stains

TOP 100 OF 2013

1 Nemo - Le Ver Dans Le Fruit
2 Black Sabbath - 13
3 Lizard - Master & M
4 Half Past Four - Good Things
5 Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 1
6 Magenta - The Twenty-Seven Club
7 Discipline - This One's For England
8 Flamborough Head - Lost In Time
9 Violent Silence - A Broken Truce
10 Resistor - Live At Rosfest
11 Thieves' Kitchen - One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
12 Little Atlas - Automatic Day
13 Niacin - Krush
14 Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
15 Osada Vida - Particles
16 Haken - The Mountain
17 Apple Pie - The Gates Of Never
18 Pawel Penska - Pandemonium
19 Leap Day - From The Days Of Decaulion, Chapter 1
20 La Tulipe Noire - Matricide
21 Il Tempio Delle Clessidre - Alienatura
22 Sanguine Hum - The Weight Of The World
23 The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
24 Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare And Fantasy
25 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
26 The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
27 Deep Purple - Now What?!
28 KBB - Age Of Pain
29 Gin Lady - Mother's Ruin
30 Believe - The Warmest Sun In Winter
31 Touchstone - Oceans Of Time
32 Big Big Train - Full Power
33 Volto! - Incitare
34 Vultress - Distance
35 Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
36 Mahogany Head Grenade - Return To The Point Of Departure
37 Gran Torino - Fate Of A Thousand Worlds
38 Trion - Funfair Fantasy
39 Ghost - Infestissumam
40 Styx - The Grand Illusion/Pieces Of Eight Live
41 Riverside -Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
42 Science NV - The Last Album Before The End Of Time
43 Alessandro Bertoni - Keystone
44 Vermillion Sands -Spirits Of The Sun
45 El Trio - Las Manos
46 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
47 Museo Rosenbach - Barbarica
48 Bolus - Triangulate
49 King Bathmat -Overcoming The Monster
50 Circle Of Illusion -Jeremais - Foreshadow Of Forgotten Realm
51 Profundo Ensueno -  El Origen
52 Fright Pig - Out Of The Barnyard
53 Haze - The Last Battle
54 Legend - The Dark Place
55 Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisted: Live At Hammersmith
56 Standing Ovation - The Antikythera Mechanism
57 The Windmill - The Continuation
58 Fromuz - Sodom And Gommorah
59 Russ Tippins Electric Band - Combustion
60 Wolf People - Fain
61 Dialeto - The Last Tribe
62 Willowglass - The Dream Harbour
63 Maschine - Rubidium
64 Miriodor - Cobra Fakir
65 Might Could - Relics From the Wasteland
66 Sky Architect - A Billion Years Of Solitude
67 Ontofield - Sleeping With Fractals
68 Days Between Stations - In Extremis
69 Oceans 5 - Return To Mingulay
70 Levin / Minnemann / Rudess - s/t
71 Mavara - Season Of Salvation
72 The Tangent - L'Etagere Du Travail
73 Birds And Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
74 Protest the Hero - Volition
75 Tom Slatter - Three Rows Of Teeth
76 miRthkon - Snack(s)
77 Sonus Umbra -Winter Soulstice
78 Canvas - Long Way to Mars
79 Lantinor - Ensign Of Fairies, Book I
80 Simak Dialog - The 6th Story
81 Karfagen - Aleatorica
82 Ampledeed - A Is For Ampledeed
83 Elephants Of Scotland - Home Away From Home
84 Joe Satriani - Unstoppable Momentum
85 Portnoy Sheehan MacAlpine Sherinian - Live in Tokyo
86 Oxhuitza - Oxhuitza
87 Godsticks -The Envisage Conundrum
88 3rd Ear Experience - Peacock Black
89 Elekriti - s/t
90 Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happimess (Part 2)
91 Orphaned Land - All Is One
92 Garden - Somewhere Else
93 Stick Men - Deep
94 Dream Theater - Dream Theater
95 Manning - The Root, The Leaf & The Bone
96 Charles Brown - Light Of the Dawn
97 Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut
98 Spiral Key - Perfect Machine
99 Lifesigns - s/t
100 The Inner Road -Ascension

TOP 100 OF 2012

1 Rush - Clockwork Angels
2 Special Providence - Soul Alert
3 Shadow Circus - On A Dark And Stormy Night
4 Moon Safari - The Gettysburg Address
5 Syzygy - A Glorious Disturbance
6 Beardfish - The Void
7 Minimum Vital - Chapitre 3 (DVD)
8 Unitopia - Covered Mirror
9 Kotebel  -Concerto For Piano…
10 Izz - Crush Of Night
11 Carpe Nota - s/t
12 Tohpati Bertiga - Riot
13 Fen - Of Losing Interest
14 Cryptic Vision - Of Infinite Possibilities
15 Hasse Froberg etc - Powerplay
16 Arjen Lucassen - Lost In The New Real
17 Iron Maiden - En Vivo!
18 Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
19 Steve Vai - The Story Of Light
20 The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
21 Corvus Stone - s/t
22 Delusion Squared - Delusion Squared II
23 District 97 - Trouble With Machines
24 Morglbl  -Brutal Romance
25 Mars Hollow - Live
26 Echolyn - s/t
27 Neal Morse - Momentum
28 Muse - The 2nd Law
29 3rdegree - The Long Division
30 Flying Colors - s/t
31 Mahogany Frog - Senna
32 Tiles - Off The Floor
33 Kaipa - Vittar
34 Jadis - See Right Through You
35 Sanguine Hum - Live In America
36 Johan Randen - Summary
37 Effloresce - Coma Ghosts
38 Erik Norlander - Live in Gettysburg
39 Anglagard - Viljans Oga
40 Elf Project - The Great Divide
41 Alphataurus - AttosecondO
42 Karcius - The First Day
43 Phideaux/Mogon - Promotional Issue
44 Cailyn - Four Pieces
45 Pinnacle - A Blueprint For Chaos
46 Distorted Harmony - Utopia
47 Auroris - It's Coming Through the Trees
48 Anima Mundi - Live in Europe
49 Moon Safari - Lover's End Pt. III…
50 Mist Season - Reflections                        

51 Steve Harris - British Lion
52 Syd Arthur - On And On
53 Hidden Lands - In Our Nature
54 Aaron English - Animals Like Us (DVD)
55 Chowder - Passion Rift
56 Gin Lady - s/t
57 Polcat - s/t
58 Dean Watson - Imposing Elements
59 It Bites - Map Of the Past
60 Corsair - s/t
61 KingBathmat - Truth Button
62 M.I.GOD. - Floor 29
63 The Tea Club - Quickly Quicky Quickly
64 Black Country Communion - Afterglow
65 Silhouette - Across the Rubicon
66 Big Big Train - English Electric Part One
67 O.S.I. - Fire Make Thunder
68 Mystery - The World Is A Game
69 Ian Anderson - Thick As A Brick 2
70 Mind - Soldier's Dream
71 Focus - Focus X
72 OHMphrey - Posthaste
73 IOEarth - Moments
74 Tabula Rasa - Dark Weather
75 Adrenaline Mob - Omerta
76 Mike Keneally - Wing Beat Fantastic
77 Presto Ballet - Relic Of the Modern World
78 Galahad - Battle Scars
79 Mostly Autumn - The Ghost Moon Orchestra
80 Farpoint - Water Of Life…
81 Disconnect - Enough Blame To Go Around
82 Cross - Wake Up Call
83 John Galgano - Real Life Is Meeting
84 I And Thou  -Speak
85 Magma - Felicite Thosz
86 Saga - 20/20
87 Ocean Architecture - Animus
88 Bill Psarras - Concrete Angel
89 Afforested - Surviving Remnants Of The Medieval Greenwood
90 New Sun - Damage Done
91 Shearwater - Animal Joy
92 The Cult - Choice Of Weapon
93 Tribal Tech - X
94 Trevor Rabin - Jacaranda
95 Realmbuilder - Fortification Of The Pale Architect
96 Glass Hammer - Perilous
97 Quidam - Saiko
98 Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made
99 Accept - Stalingrad
100 Angel Witch - As Above So Below


TOP 50 OF 2011

50. The Aristocrats – s/t
49. Thierry Payssan - Dans La Maison Vide
48. Levin/Torn/White – s/t
47. The Rhythm Is Odd – Raw Material
46. Black Country Communion – 2
45. Memory Driven – Animus
44. Opeth – Heritage
43. Leap Day - Skylge's Lair
42. Sky Architect - A Dying Man's Hymn
41. Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning
40. Yes – Fly From Here
39. Mike Keneally Band - Bakin' At The Potato
38. Guy Hatton’s Pantechnicon – s/t
37. Meridian Voice - Atypical Symmetry
36. Resistor – The Secret Island Band Jams
35. Agents Of Mercy – The Black Forest
34. Lisa LaRue 2KX - Fast And Blue
33. Trettioariga Kriget - Efter Efter
32. Sanguine Hum - Diving Bell
31. The Rick Ray Band - Can't Lie Hard Enough
30. The Samurai Of Prog – Undercover
29. Credo - Against Reason
28. Mothership – Lemniscate
27. Neal Morse - Testimony 2
26. Wishbone Ash - Elegant Stealth
25. Druckfarben – s/t
24. TCP - Fantastic Dreamer
23. Karmakanic – In A Perfect World
22. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn Of Events
21. Steve Hackett - Beyond The Shrouded Horizon
20. Kyng - Trampled Sun
19. Images Of Eden - Rebuilding The Ruins
18. Fair To Midland - Arrows And Anchors
17. Mars Hollow - World In Front Of Me
16. Magenta – Chameleon
15. Man On Fire - Chrysalis
14. Uriah Heep - Into The Wild
13. Falconer - Armod
12. Gungfly - Lamentations
11. Jellyfiche - Symbiose
10. Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys
9.  Three - The Ghost You Gave To Me
8.  Haken - Visions
7.  ARZ - Turn Of The Tide
6.  Phideaux - Snowtorch
5.  Beardfish - Mammoth
4.  Discipline - To Shatter All Accord
3.  Flor De Loto - Imperio De Cristal
2.  Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy

1.  Asturias - Fractals