Top Favorite New Era Prog Metal Albums ... rank them

[introclaus]

Alright, if you thought we were all done with ranking alums, think again ...

We've discussed the classic prog metal scene quite a bit, so I thought it would be interesting to see how y'all feel about the modern day prog metal. This isn't your old-man's prog, so no Queensryche, Dream Theater or Fates Warning sounding stuff here.

I've divided it into two parts here that I feel are distinct enough;
1) next-gen prog and djent
2) progressive core (post-hardcore, mathcore, metalcore)

You might disagree with where I've put these bands, and that's just fine. After all, this is just an exercise in naming some of YOUR favorites, and hopefully inspiring others to try them out.

As always; 15 bands/15 albums per genre, ranked, no bubblers ...

NEXT-GEN PROGRESSIVE METAL / DJENT
1. Port Noir – Any Way the Wind Carries
2. Leprous – Coal
3. Good Tiger – We Will All Be Gone
4. Unprocessed - Gold
5. Boil – Axiom
6. Tesseract – Altered State
7. Mother of Millions - Artifacts
8. Soen - Lotus
9. Voices from the Fuselage – Odyssey II
10. Cønstatine - Esthesia
11. Artificial Language – Now We Sleep
12. Shaolin Death Squad – Five Deadly Venoms
13. Sikth – Death of a Dead Day
14. Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radient
15. Haken - Virus

(yes, quite surprising even to myself that those two last ones made it onto the list, but I actually REALLY like those and I very excited about where those guys can take it with their next releases)


PROGRESSIVE POST-HARDCORE / PROGRESSIVE METAL CORE / MATHCORE
1. Protest the Hero – Palimsest
2. Coheed & Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV
3. Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
4. Syqem – Reflections of Elephants
5. Hail the Sun – Mental Knife
6. Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic
7. The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
8. Circa Survive – The Amulet
9. A Lot Like Birds - Divisi
10. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
11. Time, the Valuator – How Fleeting How Fragile
12. Sianvar – Stay Lost
13. Born of Osiris – The Simulation
14. Within the Ruins – Black Heart
15. Interloper – Search Party