Best Respective Epics of the Past Two Decades

[Mr. Not]

2000 - 2009

2010 - Present (or future predictions if you'd like to make that stretch)

[Mr. Not]

for the last decade, it's tougher for me to decide... It probably would have to be from Porcupine Tree or The Mars Volta. Right now I'd have to nominate:

TMV: Tetragrammaton, Cassandra Gemini

PT: Russia on Ice, Anesthetize

 

but also:

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

 

Currently I'm going with Tetragrammaton:

 

http://youtu.be/l1_1VgDVmQo

 

 

For the present decade, there's only two I consider, really. Almah's "Treasure of the Gods" which falls in favor ahead of Stratovarius's "Elysium". Neither are entirely outstanding though, I'm sure they will be surpassed by a later release or discovery of mine.

[Union 5-3992]

Steven Wilson - Raider II

[Segue Myles]

Albums only? Or songs as well?

[Mr. Not]

Steven Wilson - Raider II

 

For such a great songwriter, he seems to have trouble with writing extensive pieces... The two I listed above are fantastic exceptions :)

 

Albums only? Or songs as well?

 

songs only, epic lengthy songs like 2112 (title track)

[Red Dwarf]

DREAM THEATRE-SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE.

Surely DTs " magnum opus"!

[Union 5-3992]

Raider II is probably my favorite SW epic. Seeing it live was mind blowing.

 

Opeth - The Leper Affinity (This'll turn your brain into mush)

Dream Theater - Illumination Theory (2013)

Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany (2011)

Devin Townsend Project - Planet of the Apes (2011)

Porcupine Tree - Even Less (1999)

Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (2005)

Truckfighters - Mastodont (2014)

Truckfighters - Majestic (2009)

Ayreon - Into The Black Hole (200)

[Segue Myles]

Ok:

 

Nightwish- The Poet And The Pendulum

[Mr. Not]

If I were to go with a DT epic, only Octavarium would cut it. Love Count of Tuscany too though, usually ambient-like interludes fail to capture me and I just see them as filler - but that's definitely not the case here (or in Tetragrammaton, or going back to the 20th century Close to the Edge :D )