Here's a list from a website called Prog Report. It looks like a staff list, but I don't know the general eligibility criteria.
http://progreport.com/top-50-prog-albums-1990-2015/
They also issued a book with a similar title and purpose, Essential Modern Progressive Rock Albums: Images and Words Behind Prog's Most Celebrated Albums 1990-2016 authored by their editor, Roie Avin:
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Modern ... ock+albums
It's probably very similar to the list I'm transcribing here, but a few of the album covers on the book cover aren't featured in this top, so it should present some differences. I don't want to pay for the book, so it will be yours to track down, guys (unless its entry on Google Books updates with a table of contents/index).
Here's the list on the website:
1 | Dream Theater | Images and Words | 1992
2 | Steven Wilson | The Raven That Refused to Sing | 2013
3 | Dream Theater | Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 1999
4 | Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | 2002
5 | Transatlantic | Bridge Across Forever | 2001
6 | Opeth | Blackwater Park | 2001
7 | Spock's Beard | The Light | 1995
8 | Porcupine Tree | Deadwing | 2006
9 | Tool | Lateralus | 2001
10 | Spock's Beard | Snow | 2002
11 | Porcupine Tree | Fear of a Blank Planet | 2007
12 | Neal Morse | Sola Scriptura | 2007
13 | Queensrÿche | Empire | 1990
14 | Dream Theater | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 2002
15 | Steven Wilson | Hand. Cannot. Erase | 2015
16 | Liquid Tension Experiment | Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 1999
17 | Haken | The Mountain | 2013
18 | Dream Theater | Awake | 1994
19 | Opeth | Watershed | 2008
20 | Spock's Beard | V | 2000
21 | Liquid Tension Experiment | Liquid Tension Experiment | 1998
22 | Cynic | Focus | 1993
23 | Transatlantic | Kaleidoscope | 2014
24 | Flying Colors | Second Nature | 2014
25 | Between the Buried and Me | Colors | 2007
26 | Anathema | We're Here Because We're Here | 2010
27 | Neal Morse | One | 2004
28 | Periphery | Periphery | 2010
29 | Fates Warning | A Pleasant Shade of Gray | 1997
30 | Spock's Beard | Beware of Darkness | 1996
31 | Rush | Clockwork Angels | 2012
32 | Fates Warning | Parallels | 1991
33 | Animals as Leaders | Animals as Leaders | 2009
34 | Transatlantic | The Whirlwind | 2009
35 | Tool | 10,000 Days | 2006
36 | Riverside | Shrine of a New Generation Slaves | 2013
37 | Meshuggah | Destroy Erase Improve | 1995
38 | Dream Theater | Train of Thought | 2003
39 | King's X | Faith Hope Love | 1990
40 | Rush | Test for Echo | 1996
41 | Big Big Train | English Electric: Full Power | 2013 [re-release of the two English Electric albums as a double album with four bonus tracks]
42 | Thank You Scientist | Maps of Non-Existent Places | 2012
43 | Karnivool | Sound Awake | 2009
44 | The Mars Volta | De-Loused in the Comatorium | 2003
45 | Scale the Summit | The Migration | 2013
46 | Jolly | The Audio Guide to Happiness | 2013 [there were actually two releases with this title, one in 2011 and another in 2013. While the date and cover are that of the 2013 release, the text suggests that the entry covers both albums]
47 | Haken | Visions | 2011
48 | Mastodon | Crack the Skye | 2009
49 | The Flower Kings | Desolation Rose | 2013
50 | Enchant | Wounded | 1996
Prog Report: Top 50 Prog Albums 1990-2015 (July 2015)
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