BEST OF PROGRESSIVE METAL 2023: RESULTS
It’s done! With almost 600 votes, The 2023 r/progmetal poll is finished and the results have been tallied! Same as last year, the results will be shown in lowest to highest order so you can read through all the way to our #1 spot! View this thread to see how scores were tallied. Let’s get into it!
TOP 50 BEST ALBUMS OF PROGRESSIVE METAL 2023:
| Position | Artist - Album | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 50th | Hills Like White Lions - Meander | 3 |
| 49th | Anubis Gate - Interference | 3 |
| 48th | Obsidian Tide - The Grand Crescendo | 3.25 |
| 47th | Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current | 3.25 |
| 46th | The Mercury Tree - Self Similar | 3.5 |
| 45th | Bear Ghost - Jiminy | 3.5 |
| 44th | Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium | 3.75 |
| 43rd | Amun - Spectra and Obsession | 4 |
| 42nd | Temic - Terror Management Theory | 4.5 |
| 41st | Strotregn - Finitude | 4.75 |
| 40th | Entheos - Time Will Take Us All | 5 |
| 39th | Gorod - The Orb | 5.5 |
| 38th | The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys | 5.5 |
| 37th | Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal | 5.75 |
| 36th | Thy Catafalque - Alföld | 6 |
| 35th | Veil Of Maya - [m]other | 6.5 |
| 34th | Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium | 6.75 |
| 33rd | Enslaved - Heimdal | 7 |
| 32nd | Voyager - Fearless In Love | 7 |
| 31st | Alkaloid - Numen | 8 |
| 30th | Einar Solberg - 16 | 8 |
| 29th | Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us | 8.5 |
| 28th | Sermon - Of Golden Verse | 8.75 |
| 27th | Closure in Moscow - Soft Hell | 9.25 |
| 26th | Baroness - Stone | 10.75 |
| 25th | Omnerod - The Amensal Rise | 11.25 |
| 24th | Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit | 11.25 |
| 23rd | Hypno5e - Sheol | 11.5 |
| 22nd | The Zenith Passage - Datalysium | 11.75 |
| 21st | Riverside - ID.Entity | 12.25 |
| 20th | Unprocessed - ...And Everything In Between | 12.5 |
| 19th | Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex | 14.75 |
| 18th | Plini - Mirage | 16 |
| 17th | Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1 | 16.5 |
| 16th | Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen | 16.75 |
| 15th | The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness | 21.5 |
| 14th | Earthside - Let the Truth Speak | 23.25 |
| 13th | Ok Goodnight - The Fox and The Bird | 25 |
| 12th | Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars | 27.75 |
| 11th | Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream... | 37.5 |
| 10th | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation | 39.75 |
| 9th | The World Is Quiet Here - Zon | 53 |
| 8th | The Ocean - Holocene | 68.75 |
| 7th | Aviations - Luminaria | 76.75 |
| 6th | Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden | 79.75 |
| 5th | Ne Obliviscaris - Exul | 84 |
| 4th | Nospūn - Opus | 91.5 |
| 3rd | Periphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre | 111.5 |
| 2nd | TesseracT - War of Being | 152.25 |
| 1st | Haken - Fauna | 162.75 |
Haken notches out the top spot for their album Fauna. Wasn’t as close as last year, but Haken & TesseracT both tower over the rest of the competition with over a 40 point lead. Haken also took the #1 spot for both the first and second favourite album choices. TesseracT took the #1 spot for the third and fourth favourite album choice.
Last year I introduced my super scientific SnizzPants’ patented “Score Adjusted for Popularity Chart” to address the result of a bands popularity influencing their position on these charts. It’s no doubt we see it in full effect this year, with Haken, TesseracT, & Periphery being veterans of this space for over a decade, and taking our top 3 spots. As a fun extra bit of information, I’ve taken each bands monthly Spotify listeners, and divided that by the number of votes they received in this poll to reach SnizzPants’ “Score Adjusted for Popularity Chart”. The closer to 1 you are, the stronger the score! Behold:
| Position | Artist - Album | Score Adjusted for Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | Hypno5e - Sheol | 995.13 |
| 9th | Obsidian Tide - The Grand Crescendo | 454.77 |
| 8th | Aviations - Luminaria | 261.65 |
| 7th | The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness | 245.77 |
| 6th | Omnerod - The Amensal Rise | 230.04 |
| 5th | The Mercury Tree - Self Similar | 228.57 |
| 4th | Hills Like White Lions - Meander | 215.33 |
| 3rd | Amun - Spectra and Obsession | 116.25 |
| 2nd | Nospūn - Opus | 76.47 |
| 1st | The World Is Quiet Here - Zon | 39.26 |
If you’re wanting new music in the world of prog - this is the place to look! The World is Quiet Here and Nospūn with some incredibly strong scores.
Here are r/progmetal’s TOP 50 BEST SONGS OF PROGRESSIVE METAL 2023:
| Position | Artist - Song | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 50th | Katatonia - Austerity | 7.25 |
| 49th | Earthside - We Who Lament | 7.25 |
| 48th | Periphery - Everything is Fine! | 7.5 |
| 47th | Nospūn - Within the Realm of Possibility | 7.5 |
| 46th | Tesseract - Burden | 7.75 |
| 45th | The Anchoret - Until the Sun Illuminates | 8 |
| 44th | OK Goodnight - The Bear | 8.5 |
| 43rd | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Motor Spirit | 8.5 |
| 42nd | The World Is Quiet Here - Impetus I: Torrid Sands | 9 |
| 41st | The Ocean - Atlantic | 9.25 |
| 40th | Sleep Token - Chokehold | 10 |
| 39th | Nospūn - ...And Then There Was One | 10 |
| 38th | Ne Obliviscaris - Misericorde | 10 |
| 37th | Avenged Sevenfold - Mattel | 10 |
| 36th | Humanity’s Last Breath - Instill | 11.25 |
| 35th | Ne Obliviscaris - Misericorde II - Anatomy of Quiescence | 11.75 |
| 34th | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gila Monster | 12 |
| 33rd | Haken - Lovebite | 12 |
| 32nd | Earthside - Let The Truth Speak | 12.25 |
| 31st | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Dragon | 13 |
| 30th | The Ocean - Subboreal | 13.5 |
| 29th | Haken - Beneath The White Rainbow | 13.75 |
| 28th | Periphery - Thanks Nobuo | 14 |
| 27th | Ne Obliviscaris - Suspyre | 14 |
| 26th | The World Is Quiet Here - Heliacal Vessels I: The Mothers of No Kin | 14.5 |
| 25th | The World is Quiet Here - Helical Vessels II: In the Unity of the Lake | 15 |
| 24th | The World Is Quiet Here - Ossuary | 15.75 |
| 23rd | Ne Obliviscaris - Graal | 16.25 |
| 22nd | The Ocean - Parabiosis | 17.5 |
| 21st | Periphery - Atropos | 17.5 |
| 20th | Caligula's Horse - Golem | 17.75 |
| 19th | VOLA - Paper Wolf | 19.5 |
| 18th | Periphery - Wildfire | 19.75 |
| 17th | Haken - Eyes of Ebony | 20.5 |
| 16th | Avenged Sevenfold - Cosmic | 20.75 |
| 15th | Nospūn - Earwyrm | 22 |
| 14th | Vildhjarta - + den spanska känslan + | 22.25 |
| 13th | Periphery - Dracul Gras | 25.25 |
| 12th | TesseracT - The Grey | 27.75 |
| 11th | Caligula's Horse - The World Breathes with Me | 28 |
| 10th | Nospūn - The Death of Simpson | 28.75 |
| 9th | Sleep Token - The Summoning | 35 |
| 8th | Ne Obliviscaris - Equus | 36.75 |
| 7th | Periphery - Wax Wings | 51.75 |
| 6th | Aviations - Coma | 52 |
| 5th | Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden | 52.75 |
| 4th | TesseracT - Legion | 53.75 |
| 3rd | Haken - Sempiternal Beings | 62.25 |
| 2nd | TesseracT - War of Being | 62.5 |
| 1st | Haken - Elephants Never Forget | 73.75 |
Haken takes #1 for song as well with their Gentle Giant inspired epic! Maybe as expected after seeing the album rankings, Haken & TesseracT trade off taking the top 4 spots.
Well that wraps it! Hopefully this serves as a great resource for old & new of r/progmetal for the best releases of last year. Looking forward to what 2024 brings!
Posted Jan 8, 2024, 6:50 PM UTC