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What an incredible 2025 it’s been in the world of prog. This year, we’ve taken a different approach to our Critics’ Choice and instead of printing our writers’ Top 20 lists, we’ve pooled them to create a definitive Top 50 with profile pieces on some of the key players. Did your favourite make the cut? We look forward to reading your thoughts on the results.

IF YOU LOOK under the hood of Car Bomb’s Tiles Whisper Dreams EP, and you’re going to find a twisted metal landscape of tech-death complexity, heavy shoegaze subversion and engine-cracking djent-outs

Ex-Tangerine Dreamer returns with evolution of his emotional ‘guitartronica’.

A 12-year gap between albums would see most bands lose fans and momentum. But progmetallers Karnivool tell us they’re back to reclaim their crown – if they don’t die on stage first.

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