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50 Albums That Built Progressive Metal (in chronological order)
| 1. | "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" | Black Sabbath (1973) |
| 2. | "Kansas" | Kansas (1974) |
| 3. | "Sabotage" | Black Sabbath (1975) |
| 4. | "2112" | Rush (1976) |
| 5. | "Technical Ecstasy" | Black Sabbath (1976) |
| 6. | "Leftoverture" | Kansas (1976) |
| 7. | "A Farewell to Kings" | Rush (1977) |
| 8. | "Never Say Die" | Black Sabbath (1978) |
| 9. | "Hemispheres" | Rush (1978) |
| 10. | "Moving Pictures" | Rush (1981) |
| 11. | "Melissa" | Mercyful Fate (1983) |
| 12. | "Power Windows" | Rush (1985) |
| 13. | "Awaken the Guardian" | Fates Warning (1986) |
| 14. | "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" | Candlemass (1986) |
| 15. | "Mekong Delta" | Mekong Delta (1987) |
| 16. | "Life Cycle" | Sieges Even (1988) |
| 17. | "Dimension Hatross" | Voivod (1988) |
| 18. | "No Exit" | Fates Warning (1988) |
| 19. | "Operation Mindcrime" | Queensryche (1988) |
| 20. | "Them" | King Diamond (1988) |
| 21. | "Conspiracy" | King Diamond (1989) |
| 22. | "Nothingface" | Voivod (1989) |
| 23. | "Control & Resistance" | Watchtower (1989) |
| 24. | "A Social Grace" | Psychotic Waltz (1990) |
| 25. | "Dances of Death" | Mekong Delta (1990) |
| 26. | "The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth" | Skyclad (1991) |
| 27. | "Images & Words" | Dream Theater (1992) |
| 28. | "Kaleidoscope" | Mekong Delta (1992) |
| 29. | "The Outer Limits" | Voivod (1993) |
| 30. | "Focus" | Cynic (1993) |
| 31. | "Psychedelicatessen" | Threshold (1994) |
| 32. | "Wildhoney" | Tiamat (1994) |
| 33. | "Life, Death & Other Morbid Tales" | Memento Mori (1994) |
| 34. | "Awake" | Dream Theater (1994) |
| 35. | "Sophisticated" | Sieges Even (1995) |
| 36. | "Burnt Offerings" | Iced Earth (1995) |
| 37. | "The Seduction of Madness" | Garden Wall (1995) |
| 38. | "Abstrakt Algebra" | Abstrakt Algebra (1995) |
| 39. | "The Graveyard" | King Diamond (1996) |
| 40. | "Irrational Anthems" | Skyclad (1996) |
| 41. | "Extinct Instinct" | Threshold (1997) |
| 42. | "The Wake of Magellan" | Savatage (1997) |
| 43. | "Scenes from a Memory" | Dream Theater (1999) |
| 44. | "Blackwater Park" | Opeth (2001) |
| 45. | "Forget the Colours" | Garden Wall (2002) |
| 46. | "Towards the Silence" | Garden Wall (2005) |
| 47. | "Cortical Tectonics" | Canvas Solaris (2007) |
| 48. | "Death Magic Doom" | Candlemass (2009) |
| 49. | "Skies Darken" | Citizen Cain (2012) |
| 50. | "Now What?" | Deep Purple (2013) |
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