 | The Silent Force by Within Temptation
Buy used from: $19.98 This is my top pick for 04! This effort is packed with melody, crunch, choirs, and soaring vocals! All of the elements that make progpower music great!
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 | Once by Nightwish
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.63 This is the Finnish band's strongest effort due to orchestration, crunch, melody, and as always, great vocals from Tara Turunen!
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 | Anima Mundi by Dionysus
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $18.02 This German band's second is a grand slam! Their first one, Sign of Truth, is ok, but this is sheer metal greatness!
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 | Decoding the Soul by Magnitude 9
Buy used from: $6.23 Magnitude 9 hales from Columbus, OH, and has become one of progpower metal's greatest newcomers! This album sounds like Back for the Attack era Dokken on steroids!
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 | The Glorious Burden by Iced Earth
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.24 If this effort doesn't make you proud to be an American and a metal head, then you better check your pulse! Tim "Ripper" Owens proves how much of a monster vocalist he is!
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 | Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Vol. 2: The Dark Secret by Rhapsody
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.60 This Italian band has scaled back on the speed, added more melody and Christopher Lee as a narrator in order to create a metal masterpiece!
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 | The Christmas Trilogy (3CD/DVD) by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $30.99 TSO's Christmas Trilogy is a holiday must these days! TSO comprises of the American, symphonic metal band, Savatage with special guest. If you like progpower metal, then you should dig this!
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 | Heathen Machine
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.77 Heathen Machine is for those of us that wonder what Queensryche could have sounded like if they hadn't wimped out! This British prog metal band will make your mouth water!
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![Modus Vivendi [CD on Demand]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/dp/no-image-no-ciu._SL75_V46836203_.gif) | Modus Vivendi [CD on Demand] by Tad Morose
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.99 This German band tops out my list for the best of 2004! Why these guys aren't huge yet is beyond me! Their music is pure, fist pumping, traditional power metal! These guys tear it up live too!
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 | Evanescence - Anywhere But Home
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.76 Evanescence gets my honorable mention! This is a very impressive live DVD shot in Paris, France in front of a monster crowd! Hopefully, Evanescence will continue to make great music!
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 | Thunderdome by Pink Cream 69
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.78 This is the one I forgot to mention! PC 69 is just good ol' fashioned late 80's hardrock done right! Stellar vocals, tight playing, and intelligent lyrics make for a 5 star hardrock CD!
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 | FWX by Fates Warning
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.48 You can't go wrong with any of their output, but FWX came out in 2004. Their latest is a step forward in my eyes! This is truly melodic, complex prog metal. Highly recommended!
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 | Out to Every Nation by Jorn
Buy new: $47.98 / Used from: $22.99 Jorn Lande is the best voice in power/progressive metal, hands down! Do yourself a favor, and check this guy out. He delivers the goods! Out to every nation came out this year.
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 | Worldchanger by Jorn
Buy used from: $23.49 This is Jorn's 2nd solo release. The songs are mostly in the hard rock style, while Out to Every Nation is more progressive metal. Jorn's voice is a cross between Dio and Coverdale!
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 | Casting the Stones by Jag Panzer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.37 Jag Panzer is my latest discovery, and man, what a great one! These guys have been around for years, and keep cranking out bone crushing, American power metal! Harry Conkin is a monster vocalist!
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