2025's Best Prog Epics and Mesmerics

  I've only listened to about 100 albums from 2025. These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2025 studio releases:

Masterpieces:

1. "Twin Peaks" (13:49) - SOLSTICE - (30/30) = 10.0

2. "Lullaby for a Broken Dream" (16:17) - DOMINIC SANDERSON - (29.5/30) = 9.83

3. "The Great Divide" (13:13) - JOHN HOLDEN - (24.5/25) = 9.8

4. "From the Weeping Cradle" (12:00) - DOMINIC SANDERSON - (24.5/25) = 9.8

5. "Frippada Andaluza (La mar limpia)" (10:04) - MALABRIEGA - (19.5/20) = 9.75

6. "Master of Drama" (13:11) - TRITOP - (24/25) = 9.6

7. "The Shadow Man Incident" (19:32) - DREAM THEATER - (38/40) = 9.5

"Digital Coma" (17:19) - ATOMIC TIME - (33/35) = 9.43

"Billiards of Pit" (21:54) - WIPPY BONSTACK - (42.375/45) = 9.417

"Iconoclast" (11:14) - ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - (18.75/20) = 9.375

"Storm Warning" (9:41) - JOHN HOLDEN - (18.75/20) = 9.375

"Demain à l'aube" (13:39) - GÉRALD MASSOIS - (28/30) = 9.333

"Doomstar" (15:58) - DOCTORS OF SPACE - (28/30) = 9.333

"All the Light That Shines" (13:31) - CEA SERIN - (28/30) = 9.333

"Voie Aérienne" (24:22) - PAREIDOLON - (46.5/50) - 9.3

"Faithless Folly" (10:27) - DOMINIC SANDERSON - (18.5/20) = 9.25

"Dead Asleep" (11:06) - DREAM THEATER - (18.5/20) = 9.25

"Wanderlust" (9:43) - TRITOP - (18.5/20) = 9.4375

"Waving at the Sky" (12:18) - AVKRVST - (23/25) = 9.20

"No More Bombs (only Bongs!)" (12:54) - DOCTORS OF SPACE - (23/25) = 9.2

"Hamburg's Heaviest Pebble" (15:48) - TOM PENAGUIN - (27.5/30) = 9.1667

"Temptations" (10:34) - NUMEN - (18.333/20) = 9.1667

"Where None Shall Follow" (12:09) - CEA SERIN - (22.875/25) = 9.125

"Future Perfect World" (9:38) - PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS - (18.25/20) = 9.125

"Where the Lack of Logic Lies" (11:21) - FLUCTUS QUADRATUM - (18.25/20) = 9.125

"Letters to a Distant Past" (9:46) - DEPOSED KING - (18.25/20) = 9.125 

"P.S. Far er død" (12:40) - DANEFAE - (22.75/25) = 9.10

"Cyclical Night" (12:35) - ATOMIC TIME - (22.75/25) = 9.1

"Voice of God" (16:53) - ATOMIC TIME - (31.75/35) = 9.07

"And We're Left Wondering Why" (9:17) - THE EMERALD DAWN - (18.125/20) = 9.0625

Other Great Epics and Mesmerics:

"Kontraster" (20:14) - BRIEDABLIK - (36/40)) = 9.0

"Long Piece No. 1 Five Years Later" (16:33) - TOM PENAGUIN - (27/30) = 9.0 

"Last Letter Home" (Fig. 4) (14:45) - HOOFFOOT - (27/30) = 9.0

"Une colline sans nom" (14:32) - GÉRALD MASSOIS - (27/30) = 9.0

"Reverie" (12:24) - DEPOSED KING - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Long Piece No. 1" (12:20) - TOM PENAGUIN - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Another Holy Grail" (12:20) - PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS - (22.5/25) = 9.0

"Phantom Limb" (Fig. 1) (11:17) - HOOFFOOT - (18/20) = 9.0

"La bataille de l'Ebre Pt. 2" (10:41) - GÉRALD MASSOIS - (18/20) = 9.0

"Astral Zenith" (10:20) - THE LAB EXPERIENCE - (18/20) = 9.0

"Art and Craft" (9:17) - JOHN HOLDEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Earthrise" (9:16) - AMBIENT DEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Brujería" (9:13) - EKZILO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Camel" (9:11) - SOFT FFOG - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Book Of Hours Part IV" (9:03) - AGROPELTER - (18/20) = 9.0

"The Unknown Door" (22:33) - IQ - (40.333/45) = 8.963

"Transmutation"(22:53) - KARMAKANIC - (40.25/45) = 8.944

"When The Insane Go Marching In" (Fig. 2) (11:42) - HOOFFOOT - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Oh Jimi" (10:19) - SOFT FFOG (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Night Terror" (9:55) - DREAM THEATER - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"Vertigo" (10:15) - TALE CUE - (17.875/20) = 8.9375

"The Cell" (16:02) - MOONSHINE BLAST - (26.375/30) = 8.9167

"When the Wretched and the Brave Align" (11:13) - CEA SERIN - (22.25/20) = 8.9

"The Book Of Hours Parts I-IV" (33:19) - AGROPELTER - (57.75/65) = 8.885

"De Tre Gratier" (12:27) - LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE - (22.125/25) = 8.885

"Violeta's Dream" (23:44) - ATOMIC TIME - (39.75/45) = 8.83

"The Overview" (18:27) - STEVEN WILSON - (35.5/40) = 8.875

"Moonlight Lullaby" (9:17) - DEPOSED KING - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"De Rerum Natura" (9:03) - CELESTE - (17.5/20) = 8.875

"Dunas" (9:09) - EKZILO - (17.5/20) = 8.875

"Patibulum" (9:10) - EKZILO - (17.5/20) = 8.875

"Medusas Flåte" (9:08) - LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Objects Outlive Us" (23:19) - STEVEN WILSON - (44.25/50) = 8.85

"End of the Road" (10:22) - KARMAKANIC - (17.6667/20) = 8.8333

"The Last Voice" (18:35) - RED SAND - (35.25/40) = 8.8125

"The Book Of Hours Part I" (11:07) - AGROPELTER - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"The Rose on the Ruin" (10:22) - CEA SERIN - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Natale 1914" (10:13) - LIMITE ACQUE SICURE - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Red Forest" - ENIGMATIC SOUND MACHINES - (17.625/20) = 8.8125

"Asymmetrical Reflections of a Restless Heart" (23:32) - TRITOP - (44/50) = 88.0

"D.o.o.m. (Mortuarii Octavarii Obscuri Declamatio)" (13:00) - DAAL - (22/25) = 8.8

"A Grief That Does Not Speak" (12:35) - JAMIE PARKER - (22/25) = 8.8

Also Considered:

"Waking In The Land Of Giants" (14:47) - JAMIE PARKER - (26.375/30) = 8.791667

"Evolution" (18:50) - EKZILO - (35/40) = 8.75

"The Radient" (17:39) - JAMIE PARKER - (30.625/35) = 8.75

"Under Changing Skies" (16:50) - THE EMERALD DAWN -  (30.625/35) = 8.75

"Direlight" (13:01) - FLUCTUS QUADRATUM - (21.875/25) = 8.75

"Jakten På Det Kalydonske Villsvin" (10:09) - LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Lucifer, Bringer of Light" (10:49) - MOTORPSYCHO - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"A Storm is Brewing" (10:27) - DJABE & STEVE HACKETT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Wisdom of the Aging Fathers: Three Regards to Reason" (10:08) - CEA SERIN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Blue" (14:46) - ATOMIC TIME - (26.125/30) = 8.71

"Chickshit Burger Boy" (12:46) - DOCTORS OF SPACE - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"Until the Dark Responds" (12:39) - CEA SERIN - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"Neotzar (The Second Coming)" (21:07) - MOTORPSYCHO - (34.75/40) = 8.6875

"Kontraster" (19:51) - JORDSJØ - (34.75/40) = 8.6875

"Balthazaar" (11:40) - MOTORPSYCHO - (17.375/20) = 8.6875

"We Are The Young" (9:53) - COSMOGRAF - (17.375/20) = 8.6875

"Nubendi Traditi" (13:37) - LUCIANO MARGORANI - (26/30) = 8.667

"Terraforming" - AMBIENT DEN - (26/30) = 8.667

"Sliding Trees" (9:18) - DJABE & STEVE HACKETT - (17.125/20) = 8.5625

"Far from Here" (12:44) - IQ - (21/25) = 8.4

"Moon and Cloud Dancing" (12:01) - CELESTE - (21/25) = 8.4

"While Oceans Die" (13:57) - THE EMERALD DAWN - (25/30) = 8.333

As-yet unrated:

"Garden of Eden" (9:40) - EYE 2 EYE - (/20)

"Meadows of Silence" (12:03) - EYE 2 EYE - (/25)
"Lost Horizon ( Ghosts Endgame)" (22:45) - EYE 2 EYE - (/45)

"Time Has No Place" (16:37) - ECHOLYN - (/30) 

"Water in Our Hands, Pts. 1-4" (28:51) - ECHOLYN - (/60)

"Have Some Tea" (11:36) - THE AURORA PROJECT - (/20)

"Freedom of Thought" (9:09) - THE AURORA PROJECT - (/20)

Great but too short:

"Struggle With the Beast" (8:44) - ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - (20/20) = 10.0

"How I Caught The Moon" (8:31) - JAMIE PARKER - (19.5/20) = 9.75

"Focus" (8:40) - SOFT FFOG - (19/20) = 9.5

"Істини / Truths" (8:57) - OBIYMY DOSCHU - (18.75/20) = 9.375

"Pocus" (8:30) - SOFT FFOG - (18.75/20) = 9.375

"A Broken Man" (8:30) - DREAM THEATER - (18.75/20) = 9.375

"Fusing your Synapses" (8:46) - ATOMIC TIME - (18.667/20) = 9.333

"Toys" (8:51) - NUMEN - (18.5/20) = 9.25

"The Ebb and Flow of Heartache" (8:43) - PAREIDOLON - (18.5/20) = 9.25

"The Seventh Sleeper" (8:11) - PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS - (13.75/15)

"This Jewel Was Ours" (8:46) - JOHN HOLDEN - (18/20) = 9.0

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