2005's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2005 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "At the Court of Alkinoos" (21:33) - GLASS HAMMER - (40/40) = 10.0

2. "Chapter IX" (21:32) - AETHER - (40/40) = 10.0

3. "Second Life Syndrome" (15:40) - RIVERSIDE - (30/30) = 10.0

4. "Sulle ali del sogno Odissea" (28:16) - C.A.P. - (59/60) = 9.83

5. "The Way Up: Part Two" (20:30) - PAT METHENY - (39/40) = 9.75

6. "She" (9:28) - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - (19.5/20) = 9.75

7. "Zilezi" (15:15) - ARANIS - (29/30) = 9.67

8. "Mourning Sun" (10:34) - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - (19.25/20) = 9.625

9. "Cygnus...Vismund cygnus" (13:02) - THE MARS VOLTA - (24/25) = 9.6

10. "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore" (13:10) - THE MARS VOLTA - (24/25) = 9.6

11. "Cassandra Gemini" (32:47) - THE MARS VOLTA - (62/65) = 9.538

12. "El Regresso (the Return)" (27:50) - NEXUS - (57/60) = 9.5

13. "Milanó" (10:27) - SIGUR  RÓS - (19/20) = 9.5

14. "Le Gardien" (20:11) - NIL - (38/40) = 9.5 

15. "La Vision" (12:19) - TANGERINE DREAM - (23.75/25) = 9.5

16. "Idle End" - NOSOUND - (18.5/20) = 9.25

17. "Flight Of Shamash" (9:13) - KVAZAR - (18.5/20) = 9.25

18. "The Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly, Like Sunlight Through the Shutters, as We Looked Back in Regret" (19:32) - RED SPAROWES - (37/40) = 9.25

19. "Late Night Salvation" (12:17) - IZZ - (23/25) = 9.2

20. "Dérégénération" (14:32) - NIL - (27.5/30) = 9.167

21. "The Moment She Knew" (9:38) - NOSOUND - (18.25/20) = 9.125

22. "Le Combat Des Épées" (14:02) - TANGERINE DREAM - (27.25/30) = 9.08333

Also Very Good Songs:

"Sol 29" (10:02) - NOSOUND - (18/20) = 9.0

"Sequence I: The Weight" (10:14) - SEIGES EVEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"A Giant's Lullaby" (9:42) - KVAZAR - (18/20) = 9.0

"Sequence III: Unbreakable" (9:00) - SEIGES EVEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"When Everything Dies" (10:00) - GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Way Up: Part Three" (15:54) - PAT METHENY GROUP - (26.75/30) = 8.91667

"Hinterland" (27:47) - WOBBLER - (49/55) = 8.909

"Green Arrow" (12:25) - MY EDUCATION - (22.25/25) = 8.9

"Deafening Silence" (21:36) - IZZ - (35.5/40) = 8.875

"Pigwhistle" (14:00) - THE FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND - (26.25/30) = 8.75

"Reverie/Harlequin Forest" (11:39) - OPETH - (17.5/20) = 8.75 

"The Way Up: Part One" (26:27) - PAT METHENY GROUP - (43.5/50) = 8.7

"Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" (12:03) - PORCUPINE TREE - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"The Baying of the Hounds" (10:41) - OPETH - (17.4/20) = 8.7 

"A Love Story" (12:50) - BEARDFISH - (21.75/25) = 8.7

Also Considered:

"Ghost of Perdition" (10:29) - OPETH - (17.333/20) = 8.667

"Rubato Industry" (12:45) - WOBBLER - (21.667/25) = 8.667 

"Deadwing" (9:46) - PORCUPINE TREE - (17.33/20) = 8.667 

"Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Though the City Walls and Everyone Reveled in Their Ignorance" (11:20) - RED SPAROWES - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"The Grand Conjuration" (10:21) - OPETH - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"L'Via L'Viaquez (12:21) - THE MARS VOLTA - (21.5/25) = 8.6

"The Reason of Construction and/or Building a Pyramid" (9:08) - BEARDFISH - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Chapter VII" (24:14) - TÉMPANO - (42.5/50) = 8.5

"Ornament/The Last Wrongs" (9:21) - OCEANSIZE - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"From Ismarus to the Land of Death" (26:01) - XII ALFONSO - (41/50) = 8.2

"Clair Obscur" (15:37) - WOBBLER - (26.75/30) = 

"Chapter V: Minds of Mortal Men--Meander Tales" (25:40) - SIMON SAYS - (40/50) = 8.0

"Chupacabras" (20:42) - PHIDEAUX - (32/40) = 8.0

"Dance with the Shadow" (11:39) - RIVERSIDE -  (20/25) = 8.0

"Étranger dans sa demure" (22:22) - MINIMUM VITAL - (35/45) = 7.778

"Chapter I: Of Longings, Suitors, Deities and Quests..." (24:07) - NATHAN MAHL - (37.5/50) = 7.5

Songs Just Shy of 9 Minutes:

"Das Tor" (8:28) - FAUN
"Garden" (8:15) - WILLOWGLASS
"Nocturn" (8:34) - KATE BUSH

"Shroud" - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM

"Wammilica Iffirom" (8:39) - KOENJI HYAKKEI

"La Marche" (8:36) - TANGERINE DREAM

"La Force Du Courage" (8:37) - TANGERINE DREAM

*Bold print denotes a song that has risen into my pantheon of All-time favorite "epics."