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2021 - The Worthy Ones


2021 albums that I enjoyed so far, a lot more coming, obviously a work in progress

Created by: JoHn Doe | 17.06.2021



1. Wheel - Resident Human
2. Needlepoint - Walking up That Valley
my favorite prog-rock album this year, so far, very organic, Canterbury-prog like, excellent musicianship, tasteful drumming
3. Sur Austru - Obârşie
4. Dordeduh - Har
5. Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End
6. Monobody - Comma
Canterbury-esque jazz-rock fusion from the US
7. White Void - Anti
8. Vola - Witness
9. Atravan - The Grey Line
progressive rock band from Iran
10. Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
11. Voice Among The Many - Collide
progressive metal band from New Zealand, catchy and competent
12. Witherfall - The Curse Of Autumn
13. Sylvan - One To Zero
German prog veterans are back after 5 years
14. The Watch - The Art of Bleeding
the Italian proggers are back with another great album
15. Poverty's No Crime - A Secret To Hide
16. Lake Of Tears - Ominous
17. Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water
18. Soen - Imperial
19. Nordsind - Lys
excellent post-rock/post-black album, all instrumental
20. Helloween - Helloween
21. The Vintage Caravan - Monuments
22. Frost* - Day and Age
solid British prog, not much else to say
23. The Antlers - Green To Gold
glad these guys came back with a new album
24. Silver Talon - Decadence And Decay
25. Delving - Hirschbrunnen
interesting atmospheric prog, with touches of psychedelia and post-rock.
26. Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
Canadian band that mixes Krautrock with post-rock and psychedelic/space-rock
27. Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul
28. Be'lakor - Coherence
29. Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
excellent prog-rock band from Norway
30. Diagonal - 4
eclectic prog from UK
31. Ske - Insolubilia
Italian eclectic prog
32. Terminus - The Silent Bell Toll
33. King Buffalo - The Burden Of Restlessness
34. Felipe Andreoli - Resonance
solo album of the bassist of Angra, with several guests, there's fusion, shredding, I did not know Felipe was so skilled
35. Images Of Eden - Angel Born
36. Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris
37. Teramaze - Sorella Minore
38. Seventh Dimension - Black Sky
39. Memoriam - To The End
40. Animate - Infinite Imaginations
progressive metal from Poland, nice guitar work and great vocalist, reminds a bit of Votum.
41. Teramaze - And The Beauty They Perceive
42. Black Sites - Untrue
43. Count Raven - The Sixth Storm
44. Eldritch - Eos
45. Weedpecker - IV: The Stream Of Forgotten Thoughts
46. Agusa - En Annan Varld
retro-prog from Sweden, just two epics with nice flow.
47. Creye - II
melodic rock/AOR band, I was pleasantly surprised.
48. Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra
49. Chevelle - NIRATIAS
50. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
51. Molybaron - The Mutiny
classifying this as progressive metal is not wrong, French band, competent musicians.
52. Big Hogg - Pageant Of Beasts
classic prog sounding, Canterbury inspired in places
53. Leprous - Aphelion
54. Asymmetry - Anima - female fronted djenty prog from Belarus, catchy, competent, very good vocals
55. Brainstorm - Wall Of Skulls
56. Karmanjakah - A Book About Itself
catchy djenty progressive metal from Sweden
57. A Dying Planet - When The Skies Are Grey
progressive metal with members of Zero Hour
58. Feeling Of Presence - Of Lost Illusion
it's Frequency Drift without the vocals
59. Fallensun - The Wake Of The Fall
60. Negură Bunget - Zău
61. Himmellegeme - Variola Vera
Norwegian prog band, with hints of psychedelia
62. Elder / Kadavar - Eldovar - A Story Of Darkness And Light [Collaboration]
63. Glasgow Coma Scale - Siren
well crafted post-rock, nice flow
64. Neon Black Audio - Karma
German project/band, djent & shred done right
65. God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
66. Artem Illusio - Artem Illusio
proggish modern heavy/power, good vocals
67. Ghosts Of Jupiter - Keepers Of The Newborn Green
a retro prog album to relax to
68. Jordsjo - Pastoralia
excellent 70s prog worship from Norway, gets better with every listen
69. Apostle Of Solitude - Until The Darkness Goes
70. Memory Garden - 1349
71. Sweet Oblivion - Relentless
72. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
73. Sunstorm - Afterlife
74. Mordred - The Dark Parade
75. White Stones - Dancing Into Oblivion
76. Gunshee - Friends Through Here
Romanian band, I don't know how to label this - heavy-prog? proggish stoner (never liked the term)
77. Todd La Torre - Rejoice In The Suffering
78. Hollow - Tower
79. Dec Burke - Life in Two Dimensions
British prog-rock, he's been in Frost, Darwin's Radio and AudioPlastiK after all
80. Sangham - Intangible
djenty progressive metal from France
81. Altesia - Embryo
82. Our Man In The Bronze Age - Hexed Endeavours
proggish heavy rock from the UK
83. The Wormhole Experience - The Oracle
djenty jazzy instrumental prog from Italy
84. In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
85. Within Progress - Inner
86. Clæmus - Daydream
87. Dunbarrow - III
stoner rock from Norway
88. Kosmodome - Kosmodome
Norwegian prog, a nice mix of prog-rock, post rock and psychedelic rock
89. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: The Breath Of Life (Abridged Version)
90. Exodus - Persona Non Grata
91. Trna - Istok
92. Accept - Too Mean To Die
93. Michael Schenker Fest - Immortal
94. Theos - Precognitive
instrumetal progressive metal, with hints of djent and post-rock
95. Lucifer - Lucifer IV
96. Synapse - Singularities
97. King Buffalo - Acheron
98. Pentesilea Road - Pentesilea Road
prog-rock from Italy, will please progressive metal listeners as well, Ray Alder and Mark Zonder are guests
99. Gojira - Fortitude
100. NorthTale - Eternal Flame



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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17.06.2021 - 11:36
JoHn Doe
Work in progress for half a year
An overwhelming amount of music to listen to, hard to keep up with, I'll make a list soon

I will also comment on some of these albums as soon as I can.
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17.06.2021 - 23:32
JoHn Doe
So one user since I posted this list, oh well...
just wait till December
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18.06.2021 - 13:24
JoHn Doe
Comments added so far for the artists not on MS.
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22.06.2021 - 17:33
JoHn Doe
New additions
albums from
God Is an Astronaut
Terra Odium
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24.06.2021 - 16:47
JoHn Doe
New additions
albums from

Vintage Caravan
Nordsind
Sunstorm
Michael Schenker Fest
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28.06.2021 - 17:31
JoHn Doe
New additions
albums from

Silver Talon
Transatlantic
Seventh Dimension
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29.06.2021 - 00:16
JoHn Doe
New additions
albums from

Teramaze
The Antlers
Chevelle
Images of Eden
Needlepoint
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06.07.2021 - 08:41
JoHn Doe
Three more additions since I last posted here
albums from

Heavy Temple
Animate
Frost*
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15.07.2021 - 10:10
JoHn Doe
Two more additions
albums from

Iotunn
Delving
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11.08.2021 - 10:58
JoHn Doe
Three more additions
albums from

Pentesilea Road
Mordred
Asymmetry (Belarus) - I'm mentioning the country because there is a Serbian band with the same name.
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16.08.2021 - 15:07
JoHn Doe
Made it to 50 albums , definitely not a bad year

two more additions
albums from

Molybaron
Artem Illusio
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28.08.2021 - 17:21
JoHn Doe
Three more additions
albums from

Fallensun
Leprous
Big Hogg
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05.09.2021 - 11:21
JoHn Doe
Three more additions
albums from

White Stones
Theos
Brainstorm
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19.09.2021 - 12:02
JoHn Doe
Yay, made it to 60 albums, new Mono album is great!
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23.09.2021 - 12:59
musclassia
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Nice to see some recognition for Karmanjakah on the site, one of my top djent releases this year
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23.09.2021 - 13:12
JoHn Doe
Written by musclassia on 23.09.2021 at 12:59

Nice to see some recognition for Karmanjakah on the site, one of my top djent releases this year


Thanks for checking out my list and commenting, you are the first, my list is not in vain now
Definitely the best djenty prog-metal I've heard this year.
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27.09.2021 - 07:46
JoHn Doe
Three more additions
albums from

Yoo Doo Right
Glasgow Coma Scale
The Watch
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29.09.2021 - 10:51
JoHn Doe
Three more additions
albums from

A Dying Planet
Terminus
Caligonaut
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01.10.2021 - 16:19
JoHn Doe
New additions
albums from

King Buffalo
Felipe Andreoli
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15.10.2021 - 19:04
AndyMetalFreak
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Wow! You've sure been busy this year, keep it up
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15.10.2021 - 20:50
JoHn Doe
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 15.10.2021 at 19:04

Wow! You've sure been busy this year, keep it up


thanks!
my list is small though compared to others that got hundreds.
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15.10.2021 - 21:14
AndyMetalFreak
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Written by JoHn Doe on 15.10.2021 at 20:50

thanks!
my list is small though compared to others that got hundreds.

You have listened to more from this year than me, but Anghellic67 currently has 451, I think that will take some beating.
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15.10.2021 - 21:31
JoHn Doe
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 15.10.2021 at 21:14

Written by JoHn Doe on 15.10.2021 at 20:50

thanks!
my list is small though compared to others that got hundreds.

You have listened to more from this year than me, but Anghellic67 currently has 451, I think that will take some beating.


I want to listen properly to those 14 albums from the post above, some of them will make the list.
So much music, so little time.
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19.10.2021 - 11:28
JoHn Doe
Four more additions
albums from

Feeling Of Presence (Frequency Drift)
Himmellegeme
Neon Black Audio
Gunshee
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20.10.2021 - 19:00
JoHn Doe
Two more additions (made it to 75! )
albums from

SKE
Diagonal
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21.10.2021 - 17:06
JoHn Doe
Two more additions
albums from

Todd La Torre
Trna
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23.10.2021 - 13:37
JoHn Doe
Two more additions
albums from

Teramaze
Altesia
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26.10.2021 - 19:39
JoHn Doe
Two more additions
albums from

Jordsjo
Dream Theater
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29.10.2021 - 16:23
JoHn Doe
Two more additions
albums from

Black Sites
Devoid
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01.11.2021 - 19:00
JoHn Doe
Made it to 85 albums with the new albums from Be'Lakor and Dec Burke.
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