2024's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

 I've only listened to about 80 albums from 2024. These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2024 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Äiti Maan Lapset" (18:50) - VIIMA - (39.75/40) = 9.9375

2. "Ilion" (11:08) - SLIFT - (19.75/20) = 9.875

3. "The Words That Have Never Been Heard" (12:32) - SLIFT - (23.75/25) = 9.5

4. "And then there Were Just Us/Duck's End" - THE ARISTOCRATS - (18.75/20) = 9.375

5. "The World Breathes with Me" (10:00) - CALIGULA'S HORSE - (18.5/20) = 9.25

6. "Journey to a Shrine" (10:49) - KARFAGEN - (18.5/20) = 9.25

7. "It Walks Among Us" (14:02) - HAVEN OF ECHOES - (27.5/30) = 91.66667

8. "Beneath the Masts" (17:26) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (31.75/35) = 90.71

9. "Good and Evil" suite (28:24) - ALEX CARPANI BAND - (54.5/60) = 9.08

Other Great Epics and Mesmerics:

"Helvetia" (21:13) - COLIN MASSON - (36/40) = 9.0

"The Fellowship of the Mystery" (21:44) - COMPASSIONIZER - (36/40) = 9.0

"Eternity in Your Eyes" (20:56) - NEAL MORSE and The RESONANCE - (36/40) = 9.0

"Africa" (15:31) - SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR - (27/30) = 9.0

"Stalagmite Steeple" (9:58) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Housefly Leg" (14:25) - TOM PENAGUIN - (27/30) = 9.0

"Collapse" (12:50) - MONKEY3 - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Caldwell 101" (9:26) - PARAPHON - (18/20) = 9.0

"Agora by Day" (10:04) - KRAFAGEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Die for Me" (9:09) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (18/20) = 9.0

"Nimh" (9:38) - SLIFT - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Another World" (11:43) - ELLESMERE - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"L'Empio Simulacro" (11:24) - PHAEDRA - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"270.45 Negative" (12:16) - PARAPHON - (22.3333/25) = 8.9333

"No Hill for a Climber" (28:50) - NEAL MORSE and The RESONANCE - (53.5/60) = 8.9167

"Prigioniero di Prisca Doglianza" (23:08) - PHAEDRA - (39.9375/45) = 8.875

"Arrival of the Great Hedgehog" (9:16) - TOM PENAGUIN - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Uruk" (9:55) - SLIFT - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Ignition" (10:38) - MONKEY3 - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Le Nuit Des Morts-Vivants" (9:50) - UTOPIANISTI - (17.5/20) = 8.875

"Kali Yuga" (10:01) - MONKEY3 - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Frailty" (12:05) - DRIFTING SUN - (22/25) = 8.875

"Into the Kaleidoscope" (11:49) - KARFAGEN - (22.25) = 8.875

"Canto per Lucy" (9:07) - PHAEDRA - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Amnesiac" suite (28:40) - ALEX CARPANI BAND - (48.75/55) = 8.864

"Non Sum - Non Curo (17:02) - HAVEN OF ECHOES - (31/35) = 8.857

"Mute" (12:00) - CALIGULA'S HORSE - (22.125/25) = 8.85

"Enigma of Reason" (10:06) - MAN DOKI SOULMATES - (17.6667/20) = 8.8333 

"Miramare" (10:18) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (17.667/20) = 8.833

"Back in Time" (14:24) - ODDLEAF - (26.5/30) = 8.8333

Also Considered:

"This Is the End" (9:18) - MEER - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Weavers' Weft" (9:41) - SLIFT - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Stranger Skies" (12:18) - ELLESMERE - (22/25) = 8.80 

"Black Science" (22:56) - INFRINGEMENT - (39.375/45) = 8.75

"Life in the Wires, Part 2" (15:51) - FROST* - (26.25/30) = 8.75

"The Story That Has Never Been Told" (12:35) - SLIFT - (21.75/25) = 8.75

"Dusk" (10:48) - NINE STONES CLOSE - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"KBC Void" (10:07) - PARAPHON - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Coexistence - Part I" (11:20) - ODDLEAF - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Figurative" (11:38) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Palace of Tears" (10:58) - THE PNEUMATIC TRANSIT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"La Selva degli Ombrosi Faggi" (10:00) - PHAEDRA - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Die for Me" (9:09) - RETURNED TO THE EARTH - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Exteroception" (9:45) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"The Message (Tablet III)" (11:27) - BLOOD INCANTATION - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Camouflaging" (10:01) - ROLAND BUHLMANN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Zoo Galactica" suite (20:34) - SOLARIS - (34.875/40) = 8.719

"Perchance to Dream" (13:10) - RICK MILLER - (21.75/25) = 8.70

"Eyota" (12:39) - OVRFRWRD - (21.75/25) 8.70

"Song for the Unloved" (14:21) - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - (26.6667/30) = 8.667

"Bones of the Mountain" (19:53) - COLIN MASSON - (34.6667/40) = 8.667

"Ly (Vuggesang)" (11:50) - KORNMO - (21.667/25) = 8.667

"Synaesthesia" (9:11) - WEATHER SYSTEMS - (17.33334/20) = 8.667
"Huldras hale" (19:24) - KORNMO - (34.5/40) = 8.625

"Life" (11:31) - ODDLEAF - (17.125/20) = 8.625

"We Forgotten Who We Are" (11:17) - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - (21.5/25) = 8.6

"White Lies" (20:08) - INFRINGEMENT - (34/40) = 8.5

"Frustration/Sedation" (11:55) - NINE STONES CLOSE - (21.25/25) = 8.5

"Perkunas" (9:28) - INNER EAR BRIGADE - (17/20) = 8.5

"The Nature of Evil" (10:21) - COLIN MASSON - (17/20) = 8.5 

"Sendebud fra vest" (17:44) - KORNMO - (29.375/) = 8.393

"Den dype skogen" (15:41) - KORNMO - (25/30) = 8.333 

"Altets hav" (9:11) - KORNMO - (16.5/20) = 8.25 

As-yet unrated:

"This Is Not the End, Part 2" (12:15) - PRESENT - (/25) = 

"This Is Not the End, Part 1" (26:30) - PRESENT - (/50) = 

"The Solution (Part I) (11:56) - THE SAMURAI OF PROG - (/25) = 

"The Solution (Part II) (7:12) - THE SAMURAI OF PROG -

"Do You Know?" (10:45) - JADIS - (/20) = 

"Ballad of Deluge" suite (21:03) - SOLARIS - (/40) =

"Dream Valley" suite (39:43) - SOLARIS - (/60) =

  

Great but too short:

"Confluence" (8:37) - SLIFT - (19/20) = 9.5

"Ad Infinitum (8:44) - HAVEN OF ECHOES

"Heartquake" (8:47) - LEVIATHAN

"Hearts of Strings" (8:56) - SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR 

* Bold print connotes a song's elevation to Progressive Rock's Vahalla of all-time masterpieces.