2016's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

 I have listened to well over 350 albums from 2016. These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2016 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Deep Five" (10:32) - THE MERCURY TREE - (20/20) = 10.0
2. "Funeral" (11:40) - MICE ON STILTS - (20/20) = 10.0
3. "Crooked House" (9:44) - GHOST MEDICINE - (20/20) = 10.0

4. "Quantum Unknown (Riveted Eye)" (9:46) - GRAVITYSAYS_I - (20/20) = 10.0

5. "Little Animal" (11:14) - UNAKA PRONG - (20/20) = 10.0
6. "Harvest Moon" (13:08) - MOTHER TURTLE - (25/25) = 10.0

7. "Tsukutomi II" (10:36) - CORIMA - (19.75/20) = 9.875

8. "Lemma" (8:59) - SEVEN IMPLAE - (19.5/20) = 9.75

9. "Reprise (Speranze Distorte)" (10:23) - LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ - (19.5/20) = 9.75

10. "Walpurgi Flame" (20:15) - MOTHER TURTLE - (39/40) = 9.75

11. "Shapes and Objects" (14:16) - LOST WORLD BAND - (28.875/30) = 9.625

12. "Passagero" (12:30) - AKT - (24/25) = 9.6

13. "La Rivolta - Il Massacro dei Terrestri" (12:55) - LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ - (24/25) = 9.6 

14. "The End Of The Satellite Age" (23:26) - ETERNAL WANDERERS - (48/50) = 9.6
15. "Téton effrayant - sauerkraut" (16:57) - ARNAUD BUKWALD - (33.5/35) = 9.5714

16. "Conglomeration (or: The Grand Pathetic Suite)" (26:54) - SHAMBLEMATHS - (52.5/55) = 9.545

17. "The Art of Ending a Revolution" (14:44) - MOTHER TURTLE - (28.5/30) = 9.5
18. "Swirls" (10:26) - YVES POTIN/JAZZCOMPUTER.ORG - (19/20) = 9.5
19. "Discontinuance" (11:14) - GHOST MEDICINE - (19/20) = 9.5

20. "The Illusion's Reckoning" (9:54) - MANTRA VEGA - (19/20) = 9.5

21. "Call For Cthulhu: Orison" (9:24) - INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - (19/20) = 9.5

22. "La Deportazione degli Avenothiani" (9:55) - LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ - (19/20) = 9.5

23. "Misophonia III" (17:37) - ELECTRIC ORANGE - (33/35) = 9.429

24. "Terra cava" (14:06) - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - (28.25/30) = 9.416667
25. "Lacuna / Sunrise" (9:46) - MOTORPSYCHO - (18.75/20) = 9.375

26. "Following A Neutrino's Flight" (9:29) - ETERNAL WANDERERS - (18.75/20) = 9.375
27. "Secret Signs of Green" (11:28) - BRUNO MANSINI - (18.75/20) = 9.375
28. "Concurrent Abreaction, Parts I-VI" (35:23) - STARE AT THE CLOUDS - (64.5/70) = 9.214

29. "Dark Woods-Dawn Meadows" (11:50) - LOST KITE - (23/25) = 9.2  

30. "Inertia" (9:09) - SEVEN IMPALE - (18.25/20) = 9.125
31. "Locus II" (9:25) - RESINA - (18.25/20) = 9.125 

Other Very Good Songs:

"Athletics" (10:32) - PROMENADE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Stalker" (19:55) - SHAMBELMATHS - (36/40) = 9.0

"The Greatest Gatsby" (9:46) - AMPLEDEED - (18/20) = 9.0

"Clockwise" (9:03) - AMOEBA SPLIT - (18/20) = 9.0

"I Believe" (15:56) - PERVY PERKIN - (27/30) = 9.0

"The Old Man and The Table Saw" (10:30) - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (18/20) = 9.0

"Inntal" (10:34) - INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Fighting the Doughboy" (13:42) - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (27/30) = 9.0

"Permutations" (10:42) - THE MERCURY TREE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Why Are We Whispering" (10:23) - ALI FERGUSON - (18/20) = 9.0

"Astral Lynx" (9:01) - COSMIC BEAST - (18/20) = 9.0 

"Prometheist" (9:00) - THE MERCURY TREE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Fairy Tales" (10:23) -  ARNAUD BUKWALD - (18/20) = 9.0

"As a Matter of Breath" (9:27) - YUGEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Pursue" (10:46) - THENCE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Cromagnosis" (9:48) - ULVER - (18/20) = 9.0

"Monochrome Ritual" (19:26) - COSMIC GROUND - (36/40) = 9.0

"The Valley Beneath the Waves" (9:58) - THE ARBORIST - (18/20) = 9.0

"Them" (10:45) - DISEN GAGE - (18/20) = 9.0 

"The Course Of Abagaz" (16:18) - VESPERO - (27/30) = 9.0

"Ras Dashen" (9:31) - VESPERO - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Emperor’s Second Self" (11:39) - VESPERO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Entropia" (15:26) - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO - (27/30) = 9.0

"Ludzie-muchomory" (11:35) - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Where Swallows Fly" (10:08) - LOST KITE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Los Monumentos" (9:32) - RESINA - (18/20) = 9.0

"When The Door Opens, It Opens On Everything" (12:08) - JACK O' THE CLOCK - (22.75/25) = 8.9

"We're Putting on our Bulldog Faces (and Hoping Something Good Happens)" (9:29) - FRENCH TV = (17.75/20) = 8.875

"First Departure" ((11:05) - CIRRUS BAY - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Killers" (9:18) - ARIBAG - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Spadające Gwiazdy" (8:59) - PAWEL FIEDYS - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"III. West Shore:  Where We Lost the Ones" (10:31) - HYPNO5E - (17.75/20) = 8.875 

"Goliath" (10:52) - MACROSCREAM - (17.6667/20) = 8.833333

"Bottledrone" (11:48) - ELECTRIC ORANGE - (22/25) = 8.8

"Mr. Why" (12:52) - MACROSCREAM - (22/25) = 8.8

"CH-7" (12:33) - AISLES - (21.875/25) = 8.75

"Stolen Love Bite" (14:46) - AUDIO'M - (26.25/30) = 8.75

"Carnival" (9:52) - MARBIN - (175/20) = 8.75

"Big Black Dog" (17:43) - MOTORPSYCHO - (31/35) = 8.857

"Suita Nr 9 (1)" (15:35) - SBB - (26.5/30) = 8.8333

"Spirit Holy Rising" (26:57) - HOWARD GIVENS & CRAIG PADILLA - (45/55) = 8.18

"Entropia" (15:26) - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO - (26.333/30) = 8.777

"Full Fathom Five" (10:58) - INTERPHASES - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Lili's Day" (10:54) - GADI CAPLAN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Fadeaway" (Chapter V) (10:34) - GRIOT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Second Departure" (10:34) - CIRRUS BAY - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Metronome Crisis" (10:46) - FRENCH TV - (17.5/20) = 8.75 

"The Poet Part I: Dusk" (10:06) - AISLES - (17.5/20) = 8.75 

"La Suite dei Tre Pianeti" (17:43) - LA BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ - (30.5/35) = 8.714

"Impenetrable Oak Bark" (12:15) - MACROSCREAM - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"D-Day Drone" (9:21) - ULVER - (17.4/20) = 8.7

"Disconnected"(13:10) - AIRBAG - (21.75/25) = 8.7 

"A Winter in The Woodshed, A Summer in The Stockyard"(10:33) - THE COLOR GLASS - (17.4/20) = 8.7

Also considered:

"Ground Control (16:05) - COSMIC GROUND - (26/30) = 8.66667

"Italian Luxury II (include Ritorno A Ieri)" (10:38) - MOOGG - (17.333/20) = 8.6667

"Light At The Endless Tunnel" (9:17) - iNFiNiEN - (17.333/20) = 8.6667

"Fragmanets" (15:20) - SHAMALL - (26/30) =  8.6667

"Secular Soul" (10:35) - HEADSPACE - (17.3333/20) = 8.6667

"Requiem for Hell" (17:49) - MONO - (30.3333/35) = 8.66667

"Kimon" (16:52) - KURUSHIMI - (30.25/35) = 8.643

"Toward The Omega Point" (9:35) - HORSE LORDS - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"As a Matter of Breath" (9:27) - YUGEN - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Phoenix" (11:14) - SEVEN IMPALE. - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Rocka-Saggy-Baby-Bubba-Shaggy-Baba-Boo" (9:39) - FRENCH TV - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Isidore’s Prophet" (10:23) - VESPERO - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Dead Quiet" (9:09) - AUDIO'M - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"Hoodoo" (9:07) - LARGE BODIES - (17.25/20) = 8.625
"The Final Thing on My Mind" (9:54) - THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - (17/20) = 8.5

"Helix" (9:16) - SEVEN IMPALE - (17/20) = 8.5

"In Love and War" (10:08) - DIFFERENT LIGHT - (17/20) = 8.5

"Architettura Dell'acqua" (11:27) - UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - (17/20) = 8.5

"A Falling Ember"  (9:27) - SHAMBLEMATHS - (17?20) = 8.5

"Keep Us In Space" (18:44) - COSMIC GROUND - (34/40) = 8.5

"Mourning Dove" (13:24) - AUDIO'M - (25.5/30) = 8.5

"Pale Blue Dot" (9:53) - AISLES - (17/20) = 8.5

"Serpentine Maelstrom 1" (12:27) - ANGEL GRAVE - (21/25) = 8.4

"It's Been a Long Time" (11:45)  - SHAMALL - (21/25) = 8.4

"Liquid Sun" (13:03) - THE SPACELORDS - (21/25) = 8.4 

"The Lost Continent of Mu" (11:20) - THE ARBORIST - (16.8/20 = 8.4

"Eve" (9:12) - BENT KNEE - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"All In The Winds" (9:05) - ALI FERGUSON - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Of Woe / Migratory Birds" (9:45) - GRAVITY SAYS_I - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Esporas" (9:47) - RESINA - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Ieri / Italian Luxury I" (11:23) - MOOGG - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"No Cave" (10:06) - MASERATI - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Crumbling Darkness" (16:41) - COSMIC GROUND - (25/30) = 8.3333

"Sea God's Plight" (9:19) - ANGEL GRAVE - (16.6667/20) = 8.333

"II" (9:31) - AKT - (16.5/20) = 8.25

"Ecclesiastes (A Vernal Catnap)" (9:01) - ULVER - (16.5/20) = 8.25

"In the Flame" (11:05) - TEMPORAL CHAOS PROJECT - (16.5/20) = 8.25

"Archivists of the Universe" (9:56) - ANGEL GRAVE - (16.25/20) = 8.125

"Cirrus sequence" (9:26) - ARNAUD BUKWALD - (16/20) = 8.0

"Geocentrism" (15:20) - ANGEL GRAVE - (24/30) = 8.0

"The Daily Dark Delirium" (12:52) - N.y.X. - (24/30) = 8..0

"Isle of Awakening Slumber" (11:02) - ANGEL GRAVE (15.75/20) = 7.875 

"Fantasize/Into the Blue" (11:59) - TEMPORAL CHAOS PROJECT - (19/25) = 7.6

"All The Pain in All the Wide World" (10:09) - KAYO DOT - (14/20) = 7.0

As-yet Unrated:

"Darkling" (22:11) - DISCONNECT - (/45) = 

"Hair in a G-String, Part 3 (I'm Going Down)" (10:09) - THE COLIN TENCH PROJECT - (/20) = 

"At The Edge of Time" (23:15) - OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - (/50) = 

"In The Beginning of Time" (20:27) - OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - (/40) = 

"World of Amphibia" (18:15) - THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT - (/40) = 

"Remoteness of Light" (19:20) - THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT - (/40) = 

"Organized Suffering" (18:11) - ELECTRIC ORANGE - (/35) = 

"Mr. Gutman" (26:00) - PERVY PERKIN - (/50) = 

"T.I.M.E. (Part 1 The Experiment") (19:31) - PERVY PERKIN - (/40) = 

"New World Order" - NINETEEN TWELVE

"Flat Is Round" - ANDROID 16

"Più uguale" - DEUS EX MACHINA

"The Battle" - APERÇU

"In the Grand Scheme of Things" - DIFFERENT LIGHT

"Eternal Return" - DIFFERENT LIGHT

Close but just too short:
"Those Fading Hours" (8:34) - AMOEBA SPLIT - (20/20) = 10.0

"Postlude II" (8:13) - AXON-NEURON - (20/20) = 10.0
"Lada Niva" (8:49) - INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - (20/20) = 10.0

"Child" (8:26) - VANETA - (20/20) = 10.0

"The Eastern Glow" (8:40) - THE GHOSTS OF JUPITER - (20/20) = 10.0

"Rings of Earth" (8:40) - KAYO DOT - (20/20) = 10.0

"Staying Up Late" (8:24) -ANEKDTOA - (19/20) = 9.5

"Desert Spring" (8:54) - GHOST MEDICINE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Follow The Fitawrari" (8:49) -VESPERO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Salutation to The Sun" (8:45) - DRAKKAR NOWHERE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Mantrip" (8:46) - RESINA - (19/20 = 9.5

"A Sequence Of Moments" (8:46) - ALI FERGUSON - (18/20) = 9.0

"Alexandrine" (8:44) - GRICE - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Sheltering Cove" (8:51) - CIRRUS BAY - (/20) = 

"Small Ships" (8:47) - LARGE BODIES - (/20) = 

"The Flying Giampy" (8:57) - MACROSCREAM - (/20) = 

"Misophonia I" (8:57) - ELECTRIC ORANGE - (/20) = 

"Elogio del dubbio" UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA

"...on a Dark Cloud" - THE WINSTONS
"Winter" - YOSSI SASSI BAND
"Uvertura XIX" - DIVJE JEZER
"Ocean Suite" - INNER PROSPEKT
"Rehumanizer" - MASERATI

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