That said, I think you might be mixing things up a bit. Click on the image below.I am of the opinion that you should get 3 guitars and have a set from each placed on them Way more fun that way Curious? Stay tuned, or else take a peek at my revised BEST OF 2017 list.īy the way, I cannot wait to hear the five disc box set coming out from Rikard this year, in 2018! If you haven’t yet pre-ordered, do so now, because it is an amazing deal: Rumbling Box.

Instead, I am swapping in Gungfly and one other worthy artist that I discovered in January 2018 (thanks to all those awesome Progarchy Best Of lists). Because I had built-in overlap between my BEST METAL and BEST PROG lists (in order to accommodate this very type of “late to the party” 2018 situation), I can take Sons of Apollo and Unleash the Archers off of my best prog list, since they are already duplicated on my BEST METAL list. In any case, I am now officially revising my 2017 lists, due to Rikard’s amazing achievement. As for 2017, I can’t decide which masterpiece is better: Dave Kerzner, Schooltree, or Gungfly.

Sure enough, the album is absolutely freaking amazing, one of the best things I have heard in ages. So, finally, in January, I set aside time to listen.

Well, a bunch of Progarchy people, whose taste I trust, put the disc on their year end lists. And for the dumbest reasons too: I had no idea how to pronounce either one of Rikard Sjoblom’s names (first or last) I figured solo work by any BBT dude would never be as good as BBT itself and I had no idea what the hell a “gungfly” was (although I do know Socrates the “gadfly”). I knew of it earlier, but never got around to listening to it. For instance, take Gungfly’s On Her Journey to the Sun (2017). The greatest thing about Top Ten lists is that I get to learn about the best stuff during the year that I missed.

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