Top10 BM Team 2019


Here are the personal TOP10s of 2019 of our BM team members:


X
Henri Strik

X
Arthur Haggenburg


X
Pedro Bekkers
Album Top10:
  1: Moon Letters -
        Until They Feel The Sun
  2: IQ -
        Resistance
  3: IZZ -
        Don't Panic
  4: The Samurai Of Prog -
        Toki No Kaze
  5: Crayon Phase -
        Two Hundred Pages
  6: Big Big Train -
        Grand Tour
  7: Lee Abraham -
        Comatose
  8: Drifting Sun -
        Planet Junkie
  9: RPWL -
        Tales From Outer Space
10: Mindspeak -
        Eclipse Chaser

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Twelfth Night -
    A Night To Remember
Best Concert:
KariBoW, June 30
't Blok, Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel (NL)

Album Top10:
   1: Clepsydra -
        The Gap
   2: IQ -
        Resistance
   3: Anubis -
        Lights Of Change
   4: Il Giardino Oniroco -
        Apofenia
   5: Introitus -
        Shadows
   6: RPWL -
        Tales From Outer Space
   7: Mostly Autumn -
        White Rainbow
   8: Huis -
        Abandoned
   9: Scarlett Stories -
        Necrologies
 10: Lee Abraham -
        Comatose

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???
      
Best concert:
IO Earth, September 21
Progdreams Festival, de Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)
Album Top10:
  2: Soen -
        Lotus
  3: Port Noir -
        The New Routine
  4: Tool -
        Fear Inoculum
  5: Rendezvous Point -
        Universal Chaos
  6: Devin Townsend -
        Empath
  7: Mother Of Millions -
        Artifacts
  8: Opeth -
        In Cauda Venenum
  9: Until Rain -
        Season V
10: Voyager -
        Colours In The Sun



Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
Devin Townsend, November 17
013, Tilburg (NL)




X
Roel Strik

X
Michel Stolk
 
X
Peter Willemsen
Album Top10:
  1: Moon Letters -
        Until They Feel The Sun
  2: Cryon Phase -
        Two Hundred Pages
  3: IQ -
        Resistance
  4: Nine Skies -
        Sweatheart Grips
  5: The Far Meadow -
        Foreign Land
  6: Izz -
        Don't Panic
  7: Red Sand -
        Forsaken
  8: The Samurai Of Prog -
        Toki No Kaze
  9: Gandalf's Fist -
        The Clockwork Prologue
10: Big Big Train -
        Grand Tour


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Big Big Train - Reflectors Of light

Best Concert:
IO Earth Progdreams 2019
De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Neal Morse -
        Jesus Christ The Exorcist
  2: Neal Morse Band -
        The Great Adventure
  3: Dream Theater -
        Distance Over Time
  4: Pattern Seeking Animals -
        Pattern Seeking Animals
  5: Magoria -
        JTR 1888
  6: The Flower Kings -
        Waiting For Miracles
  7: Midnight Sun -
        Dark Tide Rising
  8: District 97 -
        Screens
  9: Magic Pie -
        Fragments of the 5th Element
10: Flying Colors -
        Third Degree


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Sons Of Apollo - Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony
Best concert:
IO Earth, September 21
Progdreams Festival, De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: IQ -
        Resistance
  2: Steve Hackett -
        At The Edge Of Light
  3: Huis -
        Abandoned
  4: Lee Abraham -
        Comatose
  5: Nick Magnus -
        Catharsis
  6: RPWL -
        Tales From Outer Space
  7: Introitus -
        Shadows
  8: Mostly Autumn -
        White Rainbow
  9: Clepsydra -
        The Gap
10: Anamor -
        Za Witrazem


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
Lifesigns, March 9
De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)




X
Erik Neuteboom

X
Martien Koolen

X
Andrew Cottrell
Album Top10:
  1: Aton Five - Solarstalgia
        (2019 CD reissue)
  2: Jordsjo -
        Nattviolen
  3: Giant The Vine -
        Music For Empty Places
  4: Big Big Train -
        Grand Tour
  5: Andrew Roussak -
        Storm Warning
  6: The Far Meadow -
        Foreign Land
  7: This Winter Machine -
        A Tower Of Clocks
  8: Yesterdays -
        Senki Madara
  9: Banco -
        Transiberiana
10: Fungus Family -
        The Key Of The Garden


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Twelfth Night - A Night To Remember

Best concert:
Tangerine Dream, November 4,
De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Ray Alder -
        What The Water Wants
  2: Dream Theater -
        Distance Over Time
  3: Marillion -
        With Friends From
        The Orchestra
  4: Evergrey -
        The Atlantic
  5: The Flower Kings -
        Waiting For Miracles
  6: Flying Colors -
        Third Degree
  7: Opeth -
        In Caude Venenum
  8: Zonder/Wehrkamp -
        If it's Real
  9: Tool -
        Fear Inoculum
10: Steve Hackett -
        At The Edge Of Light

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???


Best concert:
Queensryche, Effenaar, August 3, Eindhoven (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Magic Pie -
        The 5th Element
  2: No -
        Man - Love You To Bits
  3: !amthemorning -
        The Bell
  4: Opeth -
        In Cauda Venenum
  5: This Winter Machine -
        Tower Of Clocks
  6: In Continuum -
        Acceleration Theory Pts 1&2
  7: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -
        Ghosteen
  8: Freedom To Glide -
        Seed
  9: Yuval Ron -
        Somewhere In The Universe
10: Red Bazar -
        Things As They Appear


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Roger Waters - Us+Them


Best concert:
Steve Hackett, November 19
Barbican, York (UK)




X
Dave Smith
 
X
Erik van Os
 
X
Arne van Os van den Abeelen
Album Top10:
  1: Big Big Train -
        Grand Tour
  2: Cosmograf -
        Mind Over Depth
  3: Red Bazar -
        Things As They Appear
  4: IZZ -
        Don't Panic
  5: Gong -
        The Universe Also Collapses
  6: Nad Sylvan -
        The Regal Bastard
  7: The far meadow -
        Foreign Land
  8: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Depth Of Field
  9: No -
        Man - Love You To Bits
10: District 97 -
        Screens


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Big Big Train- Reflectors Of Light

Best concert:
Big Big Train, October 27
    City Hall, Newcastle (GB)
Album Top10:
  1: Opeth -
        In Cauda Venenum
  2: Ihlo -
        Union
  3: Devin Townsend -
        Empath
  4: IQ -
        Resistance
  5: Mother Of Millions -
        Artifacts
  6: Bruce Soord -
        All This Will Be Yours
  7: Daniel Tompkins -
        Castles
  8: Tim Bowness -
        Flowers At The Scene
  9: Soen -
        Lotus
10: De Staat -
        Bubble Gum


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Twelfth Night - A Night To Remember
Best concert:
Alice In Chains, May 5
013, Tilburg (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Kaprekar's Constant -
        Depth Of Field
  1: Blank Manuskript -
        Krásná Hora
  3: A Formal Horse -
        Here Comes A Man From The
        Council With A Flamethrower
  4: Brighteye Brison -
        V
  5: No -
        Man - Love You To Bits
  6: Dreamwalkers inc. -
        First Re-Draft
  7: Lonely Robot -
        Under Stars
  8: Rob Cottingham -
        Back Behind The Orchard Tree
  9: The Far Meadow -
        Foreign land
10: Rammstein -
        Rammstein

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Arena Re-Visited Live!
Best concert:
Adam Holzman's Brave New World - November 9
    De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)







X
Carsten Busch
 
X
Aad Bannink
 
X
Erik Gibbels
Album Top10:
  1: Neal Morse Band -
        The Great Adventure
  2: Pattern Seeking Animals -
        Pattern Seeking Animals
  3: Motorpsycho -
        The Crucible
  4: The Flower Kings -
        Waiting For Miracles
  5: John Mayall -
        Nobody Told Me
  6: Swifan Eohl&The Mudra Choir-
        The Key
  7: Big Big Train -
        Grand Tour
  8: Miles Davis -
        Rubberband
  9: Alan Parsons -
        The Secret
10: Steve Hackett -
        At the Edge Of Light


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
???

Best concert:
???
Album Top10:
  1: RPWL -
        Tales From Outer Space
  2: Eveline's Dust -
        K
  3: A Lifelong Journey -
        A Lifelong Journey
  4: IQ -
        Resistance
  5: Lee Abraham -
        Comatose
  6: In Continuum -
        Acceleration Theory (part I&II)
  7: Bjorn Riis -
        A Storm Is Coming
  8: Millennium -
        The Web
  9: Infringement -
        Alienism
10: The Dave Foster Band -
        Nocebo


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
RPWL - Live From Outer Space

Best concert:
Chandelier
     - Night Of The Prog,Loreley (D)
Album Top10:
  1: The Legendary Pink Dots -
        Angel In The Detail
  2: Edward Ka-Spel -
      The Moon Cracked Over Albion
  3: Edward Ka-Spel And
        Motion Kapture -
        Alien Subspace
  4: Patrick Q. Wright -
        Asylum Relapse
  5: The Young Gods -
        Data Mirage Tangram
  6: The Foreign Resort -
        Outnumbered
  7: Download -
        Unknown Room
  8: Of Tanz Victims -
        Darksite Ov DeEarth
  9: Mono -
        Nowhere Now Here
10: Motor!k -
        Motor!k

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Patrick Q Wright - Asylum Relapse (Bonus DVD)
Best concert:
The Residents, January 29,
Concertgebouw, Eindhoven (NL)


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