Y2K's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2000 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Castlerigg" (9:25) - IONA - (21/20) = 10.0

2. "I Am The Sun (Part 2)" (10:40) - THE FLOWER KINGS - (20/20) = 10.0 

3. "Catastrophe" (9:31) - KBB - (20/20) = 10.0

4. "Nessa No Kiuku" (9:41) - KBB - (20/20) = 10.0

5. "Static" (22:36) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (44/45) = 9.778

6. "Divine Design" (9:26) - KBB - (19/20) = 9.5

7. "Woven Cord" (9:28) - IONA - (19/20) = 9.5

8. "Prognosis: The Cure" (17:31) - MANNING - (32.6667/35) = 9.333

9. "The Peter Criss Jazz" (10:36) - DON CABALLERO - (18.5/20) = 9.25

10. "Barbiturus"  (15:16)  - TAAL - (27.5/30) = 9.1667

Also Very Good:

"Antarctica" (13:28) - KBB - (27/30) = 9.0

"Still Remains" (16:11) - FATES WARNING - (27/30) = 9.0

"Super Flat Moon" (11:35) - TAAL - (18/20) = 9.0

"Ones All Over the Place" (9:00) - DON CABALLERO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Rediscovery (Part II) - The New Mythology" (12:01)  - SYMPHONY X - (22.25/25) = 8.9

"Anamnesus" (9:11) - WHITE WILLOW - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Something From Nothing" (10:58) - FATES WARNING - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Songs of Ascent" suite (21:57) - IONA - (39.75/45) = 8.8333

"Antennas to Heaven" (18:58) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (35/40) = 8.75

"The Crossing" (9:11)  - ENSLAVED - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"King of Loss" (9:46) - PAIN OF SALVATION - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"The Perfect Element" (10:09) - PAIN OF SALVATION - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Russia on Ice" (13:04) - PORCUPINE TREE - (21.875/25) = 8.75

"Gnostalgia" (10:17) - WHITE WILLOW - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Cathédrale" (10:45) - CAFEÏNE - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Flat Spectre" (12:34) - TAAL - (21.75/25) = 8.7

Also considered:

"The Seventh House" (14:23) - IQ - (26/30) = 8.667

"The Reach" (10:59) - WHITE WILLOW - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Fantasma Suite" (14:32) - EVERON - (55.5/65) = 8.538

"Sleep" (23:17) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (37.5/45) = 8.3333

"Storm" (22:32) - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - (37.5/45) = 8.333

"Guiding Light" (9:58) - IQ - (16/20) = 8.0

"Monster Within" (12:55) - THE FLOWER KINGS - (19/25) = 7.6

"The Wrong Side Of Weird" (12:24) - IQ - (19/25) = 7.6

"I Am the Sun - Part One" (15:03)  - THE FLOWER KINGS - (24/30) = 8.0

"At the End of the Day" (16:30) - SPOCK'S BEARD - (21/30) = 7.0

"The Great Nothing" (27:18) - SPOCK'S BEARD - (38.5/55) = 7.0

* Bold print denotes songs the have risen into the pantheon of my All-time favorite epics.

As-Yet unreviewed:

"All of the Above" (30:59) - TRANSATLANTIC - 

"Faust" (44:33) - MINSTREL - 

"My New World" (16:15) - TRANSATLANTIC - 

"Falcon Suite" (20:57) - LIKE WENDY - 

"Stava Scritto" (16:17) - IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE - 

"Starfooted in a Garden of Cans" (15:04) - METAPHOR - 

"An Autopsy in Artificial Light" (25:04) - PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES - 

"Further On" (20:43) - ABSOLUTE ZERO - 

"Sweet Hope Suite" (33:53) - SALEM HILL - 

"Suenos sobre un espejo" (16:46) - ABSOLUTE ZERO - 

"Reunion" (30:40) - ASH RA TEMPEL  -

"Pikant" (21:40) - ASH RA TEMPEL - 

"Friendship" (26:30) - ASH RA TEMPEL - 

"Cutting the Veil" (21:50) - VERSUS X - 

"The Hostile Sea" (15:26) - VERSUS X -