I announced this live on the recent radio show but here it is (officially), my top 20 studio albums of 2019! No EPs, no live albums and no compilations allowed. I left off A LOT of great albums and my top 2 albums are actually tied. I flipped a coin (yes really).
20. Phil Keaggy, Tony Levin & Jerry Marotta – “The Bucket List”
19. Jon Anderson – “1000 Hands”
18. Gong – “The Universe Also Collapses”
17. Borknagar – “True North”
16. Voyager – “Colours in the Sun”
15. Devin Townsend – “Empath”
14. Thank You Scientist – “Terraformer”
13. The Claypool Lennon Delirium – “South of Reality”
12. Mörglbl – “The Story Of Scott Rötti”
11. RPWL – “Tales from Outer Space”
10. IQ – “Resistance”
9. Swallow the Sun – “When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light”
8. Rise Twain – “Rise Twain”
7. Flying Colors – “Third Degree”
6. Tool – “Fear Inoculum”
5. monkey3 – “Sphere”
4. Leprous – “Pitfalls”
3. Opeth – “In Cauda Venenum”
2. Soen – “Lotus”
1. Dream Theater – “Distance Over Time”
Give me your lists!!
Rob's Music Planet 
Everything on the list I’ve heard I agree with. The stuff I have not heard is by bands I don’t care for. 🙂 I love Voyager. I came across that one just browsing Bandcamp. I’d never heard RPWL until you posted them on PMP and I love them!
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With all due respect, the best album since 1976 IMO is IQ – Resistance, so obsessively this is my #1 but to get to a list of best 20 you have to listen to many albums (I believe you do, ha ha), I listen to about 400 albums on an average a year and from your list only 2 will make my list, I’m more into Prog Rock than Prog Metal but the other one on my list from your list is Leprous, I rate every album from 1 to 5 stars and my 5 stars is my list which this year consist of 29 albums to date that I can’t breakdown from 2 to 29 I have my list of 29 if you wish!
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I’d like to see that list if still available 🙂
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Excellent choice!
All my Top is there, except Cheeto’s Magazine – Amazingous! 😉
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Holy crap! This one is definitely on my list! But for some reason I thought it was released last year. But it is definitely 2019.
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