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
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TOP 100 OF 2014
1Â IQÂ The Road Of Bones
2 Flor De Loto Nuevo Mesias
3 Kotebel Live At Prog-Resiste
4Â JPLÂ 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
32Â Jack Foster IIIÂ Â Apple Jack Magic
33 Strattman The Lie Of The Beholder
34 Antoine Fafard Ad Perpetuum
35 Contusion Contusion
36 Tiles Off The Floor 02
37Â RPWLÂ 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
55Â A.C.TÂ 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
73Â Doors - Various Artists Light My Fire
74 Djam Karet Regenerator 3017
75 Taylor Watson (A)Synchronous
76Â 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 -Â 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                       Â
| 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