Best Progressive Metal Albums of 2002

1 The Odyssey - Symphony X

2 Remission - Mastodon

3 Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater

4 Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation

5 Deliverance - Opeth

6 Celestial Entrance - Pagan's Mind

7 In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

8 The Sham Mirrors - Arcturus

9 MoonBabies - Planet X

10 Nothing - Meshuggah

The Contenders

11 In the Halls of Awaiting - Insomnium

12 The Second Stage Turbine Blade - Coheed and Cambria

13 A Night at the Opera - Blind Guardian

14 Oceanic - Isis

15 Conceived in Fire - Living Sacrifice

16 Between the Buried and Me - Between the Buried and Me

17 The Gates of Oblivion - Dark Moor

18 Critical Mass - Threshold

19 Damage Done - Dark Tranquility

20 Wings of Forever - Power Quest

21 Unfortunate Snort - Pinkly Smooth

22 Space Metal - Star One

23 The Mantle - Agalloch