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Points: 2111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2017 at 08:23
The ‘epic’ doesn’t seem too important these days to progressive musicians, but Steven Wilson’s Raider II and Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn are quite good to give just two examples. I just read the OP mentioned no Steven Wilson, so scratch him and add in Anathema’s The Lost Song, which is in three different parts but when you add them in together it clocks in around 17 minutes or so.


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Ok, given the limitations you have put on the question, how about Rogue by Discipline?



Or just under the 15 minute mark, from the same disc my favorite track of the disc, When She Dreams She Dreams in Color
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Unitopia - The garden (22:34) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLan00rTcTc
Eternal wanderers - The end of the satellite age (23:26) https://eternalwanderers.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystery-of-the-cosmic-sorrow
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Marillion~This Strange Engine 30:24
LTE~3 Min Warning 28:36
IQ~Without Walls 19:15
Riverside~SLS 15:40
TFK~Numbers 25:26
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Points: 4116 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2017 at 13:21
Somewhere but Yesterday by Citizen Cain is one of my favorites TBH. You should check it out for I'm sure it is really overlooked.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Marillion~This Strange Engine 30:24

and these 15 minutes of silence are gorgeous.   
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:



Id also mention Guapo's "King Lindorm"


Kudos for a pick from the Guapo album nobody talks about! Sadly unappreciated record, as far as I can tell. Though if I was picking one modern epic by Guapo it'd be The Pilman Radiant.
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This is epic as a b*****d:



I might have picked Inaugural Bash from the debut album, but it's now 11 years old, so tech iczlly put of scope.
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Full on psych prog wig-out of Homeric dimensions:
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From a band that specialises in long compositions:



In similarly jazz-inflected prog vein I'd also mention Hooffoot's eponymous album from 2015, featuring two side-long belters.

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A little avant chamber prog:
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Fresh from March 2017:
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I just discovered thsi group about a year ago thought they have been a round a long time.....one of my favorite recent long tracks....
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2017 at 16:07
And from the same label as the Zu album:





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Oh yeah:
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Points: 16143 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2017 at 20:22
Just missing the op's criteria by two years would be "Change" by Magic Pie. However, some people might consider it neo prog. Still, I'd say it's one of the best prog epics outside of the Flower Kings and Transatlantic I've heard from the past fifteen years or so. It's from their first album "Motions of desire."
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Points: 23993 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2017 at 02:54
A summary of some great epics of the past 10 years (of which some have been mentioned before):

2008: Neal Morse - So Many Roads
2009: Alejandro Matos - El Infierno de los Buenos
         Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
2011: Discipline - Rogue
2012: Echolyn - Islands
2013: Days between Stations - In Extremis
2014: Druckfarben - Second Sound
         Deluge Grander - Ulterior (14 minutes, but I can't skip this one)
         Deluge Grander - Reverse Solarity
2015: Alejandro Matos - Pertenencia
2016: Nine Stones Close - Spoils (listed under Neo, but this one does not sound much like Neo)

I will listen to the Ga'an epic as soon as I have overcome the turn-off caused by their record label name.

Finally, as an encore, let me add this overlooked one from 2013 which just reaches the 15-minute mark:
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Points: 12352 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2017 at 09:15
In the last few years, I have heard many good ones, but nothing that blows my brain out.
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One of the most breathtaking and beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard, it's Spring Knocks on the Door of Men by Anima Mundi. Have a listen!



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