The rules for my list are no live albums, no EPs (separate list), no compilations. Most albums are purely progressive while some have hints of prog on them. The bottom half of my favorite 40 albums of 2017 are as follows:

21. Persefone – “Aathma”
22. Wobbler – “From Silence to Somewhere”
23. Sky Architect – “Nomad”
24. Iris Divine – “The Static And The Noise”
25. Daniel Cavanagh – “Monochrome”
26. Leprous – “Malina”
27. Roger Waters – “Is This The Life We Really Want?”
28. Himmellegeme – “Myth of Earth”
29. Agusa – “Agusa”
30. Vattnet – “Vattnet”
31. Motorpsycho – “The Tower”
32. Styx – “The Mission”
33. Rikard Sjoblom’s Gungfly – “On Her Journey To The Sun”
34. Big Wreck – “Grace Street”
35. Sepultura – “Machine Messiah”
36. Lunatic Soul – “Fractured”
37. Elder – “Reflections of a Floating World”
38. Subterranean Masquerade – “Vagabond”
39. Ne Obliviscaris – “Urn”
40. Ulver – “The Assassination of Julius Caesar”

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