Devin Townsend – “
Down and Under”
Cherry Five – “The Swan Is A Murderer, Part 2”
Star One – “Castle Hall (Live)”
The Watch – “Goddess”
Obscura – “Orbital Elements”
Egg – “Long Piece No. 3: Part 4”
Pendragon – “Eraserhead”
Adrian Belew – “On”
we are jupiter – “Never Went Swimming”
Rush – “Beneath, Between & Behind (Live)”
agent cooper – “Timing Crucial”
Tiles – “Static”
Mahavishnu Orchestra – “Eternity’s Breath Part 1”
Trey Gunn – “Field Raiders”
King Crimson – “Waiting Man (Live)”
Pagan’s Mind – “Back to the Magic of Childhood, Part 1: Conception”
Storms Approach – “Mosaic”
Fish – “Vigil”
The Ocean – “Statherian”
Rewiring Genesis – “Fly on a Windshield / Broadway Melody 1974”
Kamelot – “When the Lights Are Down (Live From Belgrade)”
H. P. Zinker – “The Breed”
Frank Zappa – “Zomby Woof”
Enchant – “My Enemy”
Daylight Dies – “Last Alone”
Kansas – “Icarus – Borne on Wings of Steel”
Redemption – “Release (Live in Atlanta)”
Marillion – “Punch & Judy”
Tinyfish – “God Eat God”
Under the Sun – “Tracer”
Tuner – “Slow Cabaret (Live in Estonia)”
Therion – “Invocation of Naamah (Live in Mexico City)”
Gentle Giant – “Funny Ways”
Nightingale – “Wounded Soul”
Wolverine – “A House of Plague”
The Nice – “Azreal Revisited”
Amorphis – “Shaman”
Frantic Bleep – “Sins of Omission”
Kurgan’s Bane – “Frankie Four Angels”
Genesis – “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”
Dark Empire – “The Forgotten Sin”
Marillion – “Goodbye To All That/Wave”
Kaipa – “Folke’s Final Decision”
Pink Floyd – “Any Colour You Like”
Dream Theater – “One Last Time”
Head Control System – “Skin Flick”
Genesis – “Los Endos”
Sieges Even – “Tidal”
Parallel or 90 Degrees – “Embalmed in Acid”
Agalloch – “Fire Above, Ice Below”
Peter Hammill – “She Wraps It Up”
Steven Wilson – “No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun”
Fish – “The Company”
Port Mahadia – “Requiem Of The Mind”
Neuraxis – “Memento”
Dream Theater – “Solitary Shell”
Kansas – “The Wall (live with London Symphony Orchestra)”
And now for my top tens for 08:
2008 Metal Albums
Daylight Dies – Lost to the Living
Opeth – Watershed
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Amaseffer – Exodus: Slaves For Life
Ayreon – 01011001
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Ihsahn – angL
Suspyre – When Time Fades
Pyramaze – Immortal
Andromeda – The Immunity Zone
2008 Prog Albums
Demians – Building an Empire
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Magenta – Metamorphosis
Simon Says – Tardigrade
The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
Ephrat – No One’s Words
Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul
Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Marillion – Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Moongarden – Songs from the Lighthouse
King Crimson – “Three of a Perfect Pair (Live)”
Gallery – “Sarin and Airplanes”
Retrospective – “Enemy World Vision”
Greg Lake – “I Believe In Father Christmas”
Brainstorm – “Surrounding Walls”
Genesis – “The Fountain of Salmacis”
Orphaned Land – “Norra el Norra (Entering the Ark)”
Sylvan – “Questions (Live)”
Skyclad – “Fainting by Numbers”
Agua de Annique – “Trail of Grief”
Frost* – “Falling Down”
Anubis Gate – “Andromeda Unchained”
Camel – “Flight of the Snow Goose (single edit)”
Deluge Grander – “Inaugural Bash (excerpt)”
The Third Ending – “Eleven”
Control Denied – “Cut Down”
The Watch – “The Border”
Jack Foster III – “Outbreak Monkey”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Curse of Baba Yaga/The Hut of Baba Yaga”
Tool – “h.”
3 – “My Divided Falling”
Rewiring Genesis – “Anyway”
Pagan’s Mind – “Evolution Exceed”
Kansas – “Paradox”
Elfonía – “Aura”
Marillion – “Warm Wet Circles”
Cynic – “Adam’s Murmur”
IZZ – “Ancient Memory”
Lunatic Soul – “The New Beginning”
Dionysus– “Puppet Show”
Mörglbl – “Les Mécanismes du Temps”
Devin Townsend – “The Greys”
Agalloch – “A Celebration for the Death of Man”
Ayreon – “Eyes of Time/Brainwaves”
Eyestrings – “Groove Seven”
Steven Wilson – “Harmony Korine”
Cherry Five – “The Swan Is A Murderer – Part 1”
Spock’s Beard – “Thoughts (Part II)”
Andromeda – “Worst Enemy”
Damon Shulman – “Scum”
Genesis – “White Mountain”
RC2 – “Coming Down Again”
Ark – “Absolute Zero”
Martyr – “Realms of Reverie”
Saga – “Sound Advice”
Enemy of the Sun – “Feel the Beating”