2015 Album Of The Year

[TCProgger]

You won't believe this but when I went to the Riverside gig in NJ, someone showed up wearing a Transience t-shirt.

That's the way, represent!

I love to see things like that. That's a great way to spread the word about an an awesome band.

 

[Crazy Booduh]

Ghost - Meliora
Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
Darkology - Fated to Burn

Man, Darkology was such a disappointment to me. I loved their first album but didn't listen to the new one more than a few times. Kelly Carpenter is one of my favorite vocalists but I just really wasn't digging his style on Fated to Burn, and the lyrics were just terrible.

Wow...Wilderun is amazing. Thanks so much for posting the link.

You bet! It was a great find for me as well, they deserve to be signed for sure.

 

[lasercd]

2015 was pretty good.

My top 3 albums (in no order):

Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Arcane - Known/ Learned
Nat Birchall - Invocations

 

[TCProgger]

Quite a lot of excellent releases last year on the metal side, but I haven't heard anything prog rock yet that has stood out ( although there are some solid efforts). If Phideaux had finally put out Infernal then I'm sure that would have been instant #1.

 

[DeepestPurple]

District 97's "In Vaults" was great. Looking forward to finally seeing them live this year.
Native Construct's "Quiet World" & Gazpacho's "Molok" were also standouts.

 

[lasercd]

District 97's "In Vaults" was great. Looking forward to finally seeing them live this year.
Native Construct's "Quiet World" & Gazpacho's "Molok" were also standouts.

I really liked Native Construct's album. It totally took me by surprise - particularly for a debut. I saw them live at ProgPower and I thought they were not very good. In fact I walked out about half way through. All the keyboards were canned - coming off a laptop. The vocalist struggled. It just wasn't happening. Perhaps with some more touring it will come together for them.

 

[Frank Murphy]

My No.1 of the year is La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche di Giorno
One of the best RPI albums I have heard in a long time.

 

[TCProgger]

Well I'm going to throw my hands up in defeat and declare it here, now. I didn't feel there was a single best album of 2015, so I will call ties in Metal and Rock.

Best Metal:
Tie between Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror and Symphony X - Underworld.

Best Rock:
3-way between Beardfish - +4626-Comfortzone, Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine, and Subsignal - The Beacons of Somewhere Sometime.

Other standouts include:
Caligula's Horse - Bloom
Dead Letter Circus - Aesthesis
Transience - Temple (already declared my Best Debut)
Kingcrow - Eidos
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (not prog but killer Hard Rock that must be mentioned)
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
Queensryche - Condition Human (I was unsure if I would dig the post-Tate version of the band, but this one sold it to me good.)

 

[JPM73]

Hey! So many...

BEST PROGALBUMS 2015!

Vanden Plas: The chronicles of immortals - Netherworld ll
Subsignal: Beacons of somewhere sometime
Caligula's horse: Bloom
Mystery: Delusion rain
Steven Wilson: Love. Cannot. Erase.
Riverside: Love, fear and the timemachine
Arcane: Known/Learned
Symphony X: Underworld
Sylvan: Home
Kingcrow: Eidos
Kamelot: Haven
Nightwish: Endless forms most beautiful
...
YOUR FAVOURITES, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

 

[Terry L]

Even though my tastes steer towards the heavier side of prog, I absolutely love YUKA & CHRONOSHIP - 3rd Planetary Chronicles

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I forget which albums I listened to that are from 2015, but Riverside's Time Machine comes to mind, and I love it