Best Progressive Metal Albums of 2004

1 Back to Times of Splendor - Disillusion

2 The Human Equation - Ayreon

3 Leviathan - Mastodon

4 Wintersun - Wintersun

5 Temple of Shadows - Angra

6 Be - Pain of Salvation

7 Ink Compatible - Spastic Ink

8 Once - Nightwish

9 Isa - Enslaved

10 Cloudscape - Cloudscape

The Contenders

11 Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven - Orphaned Land

12 Miss Machine - The Dillinger Escape Plan

13 I - Meshuggah

14 The Alien Inside - Empty Tremor

15 The Eye of Every Storm - Neurosis

16 Since the Day It All Came Down - Insomnium

17 Panopticon - Isis

18 First - Baroness

19 FWX - Fates Warning

20 Truth Inside the Shades - Persefone

21 Concealed - Augury

22 The Inner Circle - Evergrey

23 Of Natural History - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

24 The Spell of Retribution - The Chasm

25 Fluxion - The Ocean