PopMatters' Best Progressive Rock / Metal of 2018

If there's one word to define progressive rock and metal this year, it's

Source

Rank Album Artist Info
#1 Automata II Between The Buried And Me Jul-13-2018, Progressive Metal
#2 Queen of Time Amorphis May-18-2018, Progressive Metal
#3 Infernal Phideaux Sep-09-2018, Progressive Rock
#4 Idol Horrendous Sep-28-2018, Progressive Metal
#5 Wasteland Riverside Sep-28-2018, Progressive Rock
#6 Vector Haken Oct-26-2018, Progressive Metal
#7 Friendship Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly Nov-09-2018,
#8 Soyuz Gazpacho May-18-2018, Art Rock
#9 Messages to the Past Kevin Hufnagel Jun-29-2018,
#10 The Wake Voivod Sep-21-2018, Progressive Metal
#11 Automata I Between The Buried And Me Mar-09-2018, Progressive Metal
Markdown

| Rank | Album | Artist | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Automata II | Between The Buried And Me | Album, Jul-13-2018, Progressive Metal |
| #2 | Queen of Time | Amorphis | Album, May-18-2018, Progressive Metal |
| #3 | Infernal | Phideaux | Album, Sep-09-2018, Progressive Rock |
| #4 | Idol | Horrendous | Album, Sep-28-2018, Progressive Metal |
| #5 | Wasteland | Riverside | Album, Sep-28-2018, Progressive Rock |
| #6 | Vector | Haken | Album, Oct-26-2018, Progressive Metal |
| #7 | Friendship | Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly | Album, Nov-09-2018,  |
| #8 | Soyuz | Gazpacho | Album, May-18-2018, Art Rock |
| #9 | Messages to the Past | Kevin Hufnagel | Album, Jun-29-2018,  |
| #10 | The Wake | Voivod | Album, Sep-21-2018, Progressive Metal |
| #11 | Automata I | Between The Buried And Me | Album, Mar-09-2018, Progressive Metal |