Best Progressive Metal Albums of 2010

1 The Great Escape - Seventh Wonder

2 Aquarius - Haken

3 Periphery - Periphery

4 Anthropocentric - The Ocean

5 After - Ihsahn

6 Axioma Ethica Odini - Enslaved

7 Marrow of the Spirit - Agalloch

8 At The Edge Of Time - Blind Guardian

9 Valley of Smoke - Intronaut

10 The Obsidian Conspiracy - Nevermore

The Contenders

11 Road Salt One - Pain of Salvation

12 The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden

13 Blue Record - Baroness

14 Beacons - Cloudkicker

15 A Determinism of Morality - Rosetta

16 The Evolution of Chaos - Heathen

17 Exoplanet - The Contortionist

18 Jupiter - Atheist

19 Concealing Fate - Tesseract

20 Heliocentric - The Ocean

21 The Seraphic Clockwork - Vanden Plas

22 Monolith - In Mourning

23 Static Impulse - James Labrie

24 Return to Heaven Denied Pt. II: A Midnight Autumn - Labyrinth