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Prog's 50 best albums of the year 2025

The prog genre has enjoyed an incredible year in 2025. Here are our top 50 albums of the past 12 months – did your favourite make the cut?

Louder · Dec 31, 2025

“It’s me giving the finger to those who say an album shouldn’t be more than 40 minutes, just because people don’t have time to listen. It’s for an audience that’s trying to heal”: Riverside’s Mariusz Duda unchains himself from Lunatic Soul

After releasing The World Under Unsun, he’s defiantly making himself listen to more records and read more books. He ponders how much change is to come, and how much time he has left for it

Louder · Dec 8, 2025

“As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end

Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)

Louder · Nov 1, 2025

“Being dramatic is their charm, but here they let go of a degree of preciousness, allowing themselves to react to the audience’s gusto”: Riverside are charged up on Live ID

The Polish prog metallers’ fourth live album contains maximum simpatico between band and audience

Louder · Feb 5, 2025

Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda share new remixed and remastered version of The Old Peace

Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda recorded heartfelt collaboration The Old Peace to honour a young fan, Alec Wildey, who sadly died from cancer

Louder · Oct 30, 2024

“This is very strange music!" Lunatic Soul and the making of Walking On A Flashlight Beam

With 2014's fourth album Walking On A Flashlight Beam Lunatic Soul found themselves travelling down a far deeper and darker path

Louder · Oct 12, 2024

"We’re slowly becoming a band with its own identity.” How Riverside made Love, Fear & The Time Machine

Trading in prog metal riffs for a sound inspired by 80s pop, Riverside’s sixth album marked a daring change in direction, which perfectly suits a record that’s all about change itself.

Louder · Feb 21, 2024

“We’ll die because the sun will burn out, or there will be no drinking water, and we’ll ask AI to help… it will only be another tool”: In Mariusz Duda’s own Marvel Universe, his album AFR AI D is about taming nightmares

Riverside and Lunatic Soul mastermind on his investigations of emerging technology, the early demos he’s kept but no one wants to hear, and selfishly releasing music that wouldn’t last the test of time

Louder · Feb 8, 2024

“I didn’t want to record the best progressive album of all time, I just wanted to have fun." How Riverside made ID.Entity

2023's ID.Entity saw Polish prog rockers Riverisde moving into a new phase of their career

Louder · Jan 20, 2024

We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

Louder · Dec 29, 2023