2018's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2018 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Grace Meditation" (23:40) - STEVE ROACH - (49/50) = 9.8

2. "Anamnesis Park" (10:37) - TOBY DRIVER - (19.5/20) = 9.75

3. "Shine" (10:53) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (19.5/20) = 9.75

4. "Bortglömda Gårdar" (14:04) - ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - (29/30) = 9.6667

5. "The Dreaded Lurg" (14:53) - REGAL WORM - (29/30) = 9.6667

5. "Abyssal Bloom" (14:01) - KEOR - (29/30) = 9.6667

6. "Omen" (12:59) - ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - (24/25) = 9.625

7. "Ici et maintenant" (25:40) - SEQUENTIA LEGENDA - (48/50) = 9.6

8. "Time" (9:55) - ATMOSPHERES - (19/20) = 9.5

9. "Magmatic Warning" (16:09) - ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - (28.5/30) = 9.5

10. "Los Heraldos Negros" (10:21) - HYPNO5E - (19/20) = 9.5
11. "Hquark"(23:03) - VAK - (42.75/45) = 9.5

12. "Confluence" (10:23) - GLEB KOLYADIN - (19/20) = 9.5

13. "Vortex" (9:37) - SONAR (with David Torn) - (19/20) = 9.5

14. "Chapter X" (10:20) - DAAL - (19/20) = 9.5

15. "Valentins Traum" (17:24) - SEQUENTIA LEGENDA - (33/35) = 9.42857

16. "Brizh" (14:48) - SEVEN REIZH - (28.25/30) = 9.416667

17. "The Immutability" (12:10) - MOONGARDEN - (23.5/25) = 9.4

18. "Petrichor" (11:28) - KEOR - (18.75/20) = 9.375

19. "Kriz" (9:27) - SEVEN REIZH - (18.75/20) = 9.375

20. "gravelax de spleen" (14:17) - ARNAUD BUKWALD - (28/30) = 9.3333

21. "The Truth, The Glow, The Fall" (12:37) - ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - (23.333/25) = 9.3333

22. "Lostmarc’h" (9:59) - SEVEN REIZH - (18.5/20) = 9.25

23. "Celestial Stream" (12:04) - ALIO DIE & AGLAIA - (23/25) = 9.2

24. "Agent Orange" (9:46) - VANTOMME - (18.5/20) = 9.25

25. "Plains" (9:02) - COSMIC GROUND - (18.5/20) = 9.25

26. "Ugly and Vengeful" (16:17) - ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - (27.5/30) = 9.16667

27. "Ilha verde" (10:44) - MONOBODY - (18.25/20) = 9.125

28. "Er Lein" (9:30) - SEVEN REIZH - (18.25/20) = 9.125

29. "El eco del sol" (9:05) - BUBU - (18.25/20) = 9.125

30. "Echophrasia" (9:59) - MONOBODY - (18.25/20) = 9.125

31. "Red Shift" (10:31) - SONAR (with David Torn) - (18.25/20) = 9.125

32. "Seas of Change" (42:43) - GALAHAD - 9.105

33. "Budo" (27:28) - VAK - (50/55) = 9.091

34. "Pilon Bran Coucou" (14:02) - PiNioL - (27.25/30) = 9.083333

Also Very Good Songs:

"Looking for Something Else" (16:54) - MYSTERY - (31.5/35) = 9.0

"Una vita migliore" (12:34)  - LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Miro al cielo que no tengo" (9:01) - JOSÉ MARIA BLANCO - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone" (13:08) - VANTOMME - (22.5/25) = 9.0
"Trapped In" (9:42) - NOT A GOOD SIGN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Enchanted Element" (10:05) - SACRED LAKE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Schooner" (11:02) - ELLESMERE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Night On The Petrified Sea" (10:58) - HYPNO5E - (18/20) = 9.0
"Phase Reverie" (10:11) - STEVE ROACH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Part 44" (9:56) - SONAR (with David Torn) - (18/20) = 9.0
"Cascades" (12:07) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"All Traps on Earth" (18:15) - ALL TRAPS ON EARTH - (35.5/40) = 8.875

"Je travaille dans la banque" (9:10) - THE AMAZING - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"The First Step Depends on the Last" (9:23) - ALIO DIE & AGLAIA - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Beach" (11:27) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"A Fairy Tale" (26:02) - KARIBOW - (44/50) = 8.80

"Expansion" (9:56) - DREAMSTATE LOGIC - (17.5/20) = 8.75
"Errores Involuntarios" (9:52) - ÁBRETE GANDUL - (17.5/10) = 8.75

"Hidden Smile" (9:08) - NOT A GOOD SIGN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"White Mist" (11:05) - THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Nero, Grigio et tu" (9:10) - LA DOTTRINA DEGLI OPPOSTI - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Feast of Selenites" (11:05) - VESPERO - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Light Of Desert And The Shadows Inside" (15:33) - HYPNO5E - (26.25/30) = 8.75

"Snow Moon" (10:17) - CARLTON MELTON - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Who’s Master" (9:17) - FREQUENCY DRIFT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Monte Analogo" (9:47) - ALIO DIE & AGLAIA - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Inside My Head" (10:32) - THE PROGNOSIS - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Playing Chess with Barney Rubble" (9:04) - VANTOMME - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Who Wakes Up From This Dream Does Not Bear My Name" (11:10) - HYPNO5E - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Space Lane" (11:16) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Atmospheric River" (13:08) - CARLTON MELTON - (21.875/25) = 8.75

"Benson se convirtio completamente furiosa" (9:55) - THE AMAZING - (17.4/20) = 8.7

"Coherence" (10:26) - DREAMSTATE LOGIC - (17.4/20) = 8.7

Also considered:

"Crusader" (20:22) - KARIBOW - (34.75/40) = 8.6875

"Constant Flow" (15:45) - KARFAGEN - (26/30) = 8.66667

"Soyuz Out" (13:26) - GAZPACHO - (26/30) = 8.6667

"Evolve" (10:00) - ATMOSPHERES - (17.3333/20) = 8.6667

"Sizzurp" (10:45) - VANTOMME - (17.333/20) = 8.6667

"Kingdom of Kent" (11:10) - THE KENTISH SPIRES - (17.333/20) = 8.667

"Bright Circles" (9:18) - ALIO DIE & AGLAIA - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Burning in the Cold" (10:00) - SERVANTS OF SCIENCE - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Birds Contending" - (43:27) - ZHAOZHE - (73.25/85) = 8.618

"Überschall" (12:18) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (21.5/25) = 8.6

"From Hydrogen To Love" (14:04) - PHIDEAUX - (25.5/30) = 8.5

"Chrysalis" (15:08) - MYSTERY - (25.5/30) = 8.5

"Elay" (12:11) - KARIBOW - (21.25/25) = 8.5

"Click Away!" (15:28) - 3RDEGREE - (25.5/30) = 8.5

"Empath Current" (15:03) - STEVE ROACH - (25.5/30) = 8.5

"Hyperbole" (11:13) - SWIMMER - (17/20) = 8.5

"From Sand to Neon Waves" (9:19) - THE VARDAMAN ENSEMBLE - (17/20) = 8.5

"Le Bateleur" (11:24) - ALCO FRISBASS - (17/20) = 8.5

"Purple Sky" (11:44) - SACRED LAKE - (17/20) = 8.5

"The Deer (Psalm 42)" (Revelation Reprise) (9:32) - ÜMIT - (17/20) = 8.5

"We Slipped Into Midnight" (10:28) - DURGHA ESMAEL - (17/20) = 8.5

"Father" (10:34) - SUNCHILD - (17/20) = 8.5

"Molecules of Motion" (24:22) - STEVE ROACH - (42.5/50) = 8.5

"Danube Wave" (11:12) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (17/20) = 8.5

"Equal Minds" (11:19) -  VANTOMME - (17/20) = 8.5

"Riravaler" (9:19) - ZWOYLD - (17/20) = 8.5

"MOnuMENTO" (11:41) - KARIBOW - (17/20) = 8.5

"Free The City" (12:15) - SACRED LAKE - (17/20) = 8.5

"Marine Extravaganza" (11:55) - ELLESMERE - (21/25) = 8.4

"All These Suns" (12:13) - QUARKSPACE - (21/25) = 8.4

"Over Our Heads (A Flying Nickel Samovar)" (11:34) - DISSONANT DISTANCE - (16.75/20) = 8.375 

"Tell Me It Matters" (9:03) - COATSWORTH-HAY - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Deep End" (9:57) - COSMIC GROUND - (16.75/20) = 8.375

"Progeny" (20:21) - COSMIC GROUND = (33/40) = 8.25

"Soufre et mercure" (9:33) - ALCO FRISBASS - (16.5/20) = 8.25

"Descending Mist" (20:28) - B-RAIN - (33/40) = 8.25

"Victory Voyager" (20:33) - SUNCHILD - (33/40) = 8.25

"Bending Our Flags In The Evening" (11:51) - DISSONANT DISTANCE - (20.5/25) = 8.2

"Greasy" (12:29) - COSMIC GROUND - (20.5/25) = 8.2

"The Impossible Engineer" (12:22) - SWIMMER- (16/20) = 8.0

"Chapter II" (16:25) - DAAL - (24/30) = 8.0

"Monolith" (10:47) - SONAR (with David Torn) - (16/20) = 8.0

"Stained" (11:30) - COSMIC GROUND - (16/20) = 8.0 

"Synchronicity Embraced" (10:40) - ATARAXIA - (16/20) = 8.0

"Navels Falling into a Living Origami" (49:27) - DAAL - (79/100) = 7.9

"Going Back" (9:12) - SLEEPING PANDORA - (15.75/20) = 7.875

"Sea Cerebral" (9:29)  - SWIMMER - (15.5/20) = 7.75

"Nature" (15:08) - SACRED LAKE - (22.5/30) = 7.5

"Cows (Simmental Breed)" (11:30) - ÜMIT - (15/20) = 7.5

"The Last Harvest" (13:09) - THE KENTISH SPIRES - (18.75/25) = 7.5

"Interstellar Fuzz Star" (9:53) - PSYCHIC LEMON - (15/20) = 7.5

"We See Red" (25:05) - VIRIDITAS - (35/50) = 7.0

"The Message Of The Strength" (9:47) - DURGHA ESMAEL - (14/20) = 7.0

"The Unity Of Being" (10:22)  - DURGHA ESMAEL - (14/20) = 7.0

"Satori Disko" (:30) - PSYCHIC LEMON - (14/20) = 7.0

"Emmetropia" (9:00) - VANTOMME - (14/20) = 7.0

Still under review / As-Yet Unrated:

"Act III: Arrow" (15:39) - EMPEROR NORTON - (/30) = 

"Solaris, Part 3 & 4" - LONKER SEE

"Tears from the Sun" - JOHN HOLDEN

"Fra le dita" - LA DOTTRINA DEGLI OPPOSTI

"Edge of the World" - ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE

"Summit" (9:25) - FAR CORNER - (/20) = 

"Alea Ludere" (9:21) - FAR CORNER - (/20) = 

"Carta Marina" - Ángel Ontalva & VESPERO

"Ziphius" - Ángel Ontalva & VESPERO

"Soil" (38:17) - COSMIC GROUND - (/80) = 

"Eloise's Tale" (32:35) - SCIENCENV - (/65) = 

"Guedra" suite (18:34) - PERFECT BEINGS - (/40) = 

"Vulkanen" (20:59) - OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - (/40) = 

"Argo" (32:16) - YUKA & THE CHRONOSHIP - (/65) = 

"Topos 2" (20:52) - METHEXIS - (/40) = 

"Topos 1" (19:29) - METHEXIS - (/40) = 

"Zea Mice part 3: Nostos" - MOTHER TURTLE

"When the Tide Comes in" - ARGOS

"White Mist" - THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

"We See Red" - VIRIDITAS

"Out of the Silence" - SEQUENTIA LEGENDA

"Lillian Gish" - LONKER SEE 

"Modus Operandi" - SEASON OF THE CROW
"Unfamiliar Skies" - COLOURATURA

"Straniero" - MALIBRAN

"Scaffolds" - THE LAZE
"Prożności" - AXII 
"A Strange Road" - MATERIALEYES
"StarShoo" (9:26) - ZWOYLD - (/20) = 

"The Long-Nosed Wiseman" (10:10) - OLD MAN WIZARD - (/20) = 

"Don't Want to Go Back" - MINAMI DEUTSCH

"Blot" - BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME

"L'errante" - THE CINEMA SHOW

"Il mare" - THE CINEMA SHOW

"Castle Walls" - CELL 15

"River Utopia" - CELL 15

"Shô Shin" - PiNioL
"Orbite" - PiNioL
"François 1er" - PiNioL

"Miracle Car Wash, 1978" - JACK O' THE CLOCK

"A Sick Boy" - JACK O' THE CLOCK

"Locus Ceruleus" -  THE YELLOW BOX

"The Forever Man" - THE YELLOW BOX

"The Voice of Beauty Drowned" GALASPHERE 347
"Barbarella's Lover" - GALASPHERE 347
"The Fallen Angel" - GALASPHERE 347

"Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine" - AMGALA TEMPLE

"Moon Palace" - AMGALA TEMPLE

"Bosphorus" - AMGALA TEMPLE
"Ritou" - GLASTON
"Sunnar" - GLASTON

"King Ordros" - DOUG THE EAGLE
"Numerology" - DOUG THE EAGLE

"The Emerging" - SUTEJ SINGH

"Timeless" - SUTEJ SINGH
"The Golden Arc" - PERFECT BEINGS
"Vibrational" - PERFECT BEINGS
"Anunnaki" - PERFECT BEINGS
"A Widening Road" - ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE
"Star Gathering" - ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE
"Nonobutterfly" - ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE

Just shy (too short):
"Opalescent Edges" - MONOBODY
"Time, Life, Again" - ELLESMERE
"Tutti Quanti" (8:52) - ZWOYLD - (18/20)

"Irma" - UNAKA PRONG
"Down Below" - NOT A GOOD SIGN
"Caterpillar" - OLA KVERNBERG 
"Insula Magnetica" - Ángel Ontalva & VESPERO
"Waves and Particles" - SONAR WITH DAVID TORN
"Zundia" (8:47) - ZWOYLD - (18/20)
"Psalm 6" - ROZ VITALIS
"L'Aspettativa del Bimbo Scuro" - LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO
"The Magnificent Moon" - MIDLIFE

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