Top10 BM Team 2020


Here are the personal TOP10s of 2020 of our BM team members:


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Henri Strik

X
Arthur Haggenburg


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Pedro Bekkers
Album Top10:
  1: Neal Morse -
        Sola Gratia
  2: Submarine Silence -
        Did Swans Ever See God?
  3: La Maschera Di Cera -
        S.E.I.
  4: Bernard And Pörsti -
        Gulliver
  5: Bernard And Pörsti -
        La Tierra
  6: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  7: Magenta -
        Masters Of Illusion
  8: Red Sand -
        Crush The Seed
  9: LogoS - Sadako E Le
         Mille Gru Di Carta
10: Code 18 -
        Human Error!

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

Best concert:
Mangrove - January 17, 2020
Gigant, Apeldoorn (NL)


Album Top10:
  1: IO Earth -
        Aura
  2: Windom End -
        Perspective Views
  3: The Ryszard Kramarski Project
        Kay and Gerda
  4: Millenium -
        The Sin
  5: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  6: Submarine Silence -
        Did Swans Ever See God?
  7: Ovrfwrd -
        Starstuff
  8: Magenta -
        Masters Of Illusion
  9: Eye2Eye -
        Nowhere Highway
10: ESP Project -
        Phenomena

Album Top10:
  1: Haken -
        Virus
  2: Lunatic Soul -
        Through shaded woods
  3: Jupiter Hollow -
        Bereavement
  4: Fates Warning -
        Long day good night
  5: Pain of Salvation -
        Panther
  6: Lazuli - Le fantastique
        envol de Dieter Böhm
  7: Katatonia -
        City burials
  8: Caligula's Horse -
        Rise radiant
  9: The Pineapple Thief -
        Versions of the truth
10: PreHistoric Animals - The
        Magical Mystery Machine Ch1

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Devin Townsend - Order Of magnitude - Empath live volume 1





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Roel Strik

X
Michel Stolk
 
X
Peter Willemsen
Album Top10:
  1: Windom End -
        Perspective Views
  2: Submarine Silence -
        Did Swans Ever See God
  3: Days Between Stations -
        Giants
  4: Magenta -
        Masters Of Illusion
  5: Karfagen -
        Birds Of Passage
  6: Code 18 -
        Human Error!
  7: Bernard & Porsti -
        Gulliver
  8: Neal Morse -
        Sola Gratia
  9: Millenium -
        The Sin
10: La Maschera Di Cera -
        S.E.I


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

Best concert:
The Book Of Genesis
February 21, Parkvilla Theater
Alphen a/d Rijn (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: IO Earth -
        Aura
  2: Neal Morse -
        Sola Gratia
  3: Pure Reason Revolution -
        Eupnea
  4: Haken -
        Virus
  5: Rikard Sjobloms Gungfly -
        Alone Together
  6: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  7: Denhollander -
        Birth Of A Lifetime
  8: Pain Of Salvation -
        Panther
  9: The Flower Kings -
        Islands
10: Lesoir -
        Mosaic


Best concert:
Pendragon, March 7
Cultuurpodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer (NL)
Album Top10:
  1: Windom End -
        Perspective View
  2: Millenium -
        The Sin
  3: Different Light -
        Binary Suns: part 1
  4: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  5: Lazuli - Le Fantastique
        Envol De Dieter Böhm
  6: Spiral Orchestra -
        Atlas Ark
  7: Kansas -
        Absense Of Presence
  8: Rick Miller -
        Belief In The Machine
  9: Traumhaus -
        In Oculis Meis
10: Millenium Trilogy Project -
        Act I: The Trial






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Erik Neuteboom

X
Martien Koolen

X
Andrew Cottrell
Album Top10:
  1: The Flying Caravan -
        I Just Wanna Break Even
  2: Fren - Where Do You Want
        Ghosts to Reside
  3: Quel Che Disse El Tuono -
        Il Velo Dei Rifless
  4: LogoS -
        Sadako E le Mille Gru Di Carta
  5: O.A.K. - Nine Witches Under
        A Walnut Tree
  6: Red Sand -
        Crush The Seed
  7: Big Big Train -
        Empire
  8: La Maschera Di Cera -
        S.E.I.
  9: Unalei -
        Galatea
10: Ubi Maior -
        Bestie, Uomini e Dèi
Album Top10:
  1: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  2: Kansas -
        The Absence Of Presence
  3: The Flower Kings -
        Islands
  4: Fates Warning -
        Long Day Good Night
  5: Derek Sherinian -
        The Phoenix
  6: PreHistoric Animals - The
        Magical Mystery Machine Ch1
  7: Airbag -
        A Day At The Beach
  8: Caligula's Horse -
        Rise Radiant
  9: Magenta -
        Masters Of Illusion
10: Soul Secret -
        Blue Light Cage
Album Top10:
  1: Katatonia -
        City Burials
  2: Marjana Semkina -
        Sleepwalking
  3: Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens -
        L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S
  4: Lunatic Soul -
        Through Shaded Woods
  5: The Pineapple Thief -
        Versions of the Truth
  6: Catherine Davis & B. Butler -
        In Memory of My Feelings
  7: Sigur Ros -
        Odin's Raven Magic
  8: Airbag -
        A Day At The Beach
  9: Bernard & Pörsti -
        La Tierra
10: The Tangent -
        Auto Reconnaissance





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Dave Smith
 
X
Alison Reijman
 
X
Arne van Os van den Abeelen
Album Top10:
  1: Tiger Moth Tales -
        The Whispering Of The World.
  2: The Tangent -
        Auto Reconnaissance
  3: Solstice -
        Sia.
  4: Lunatic Soul -
        Through Shaded Woods.
  5: Dyble Longdon - Between
        A Breath And A Breath
  6: Kansas -
        The absence Of Presence.
  7: Days Between stations -
        Giants.
  8: Pendragon Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear.
  9: Wobbler -
        Dwellers Of The deep.
10: Motorpsycho -
        The All Is One.


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Camel Live At The Royal Alber Hall

Album Top10:
  1: Fish -
        Weltschmerz
  2: Lazuli - Le Fantastique
        Envol De Dieter Bohm
  3: Lonely Robot -
        Feelings Are Good
  4: The Tangent -
        Auto Reconnaissance
  5: Amy Birks -
        All That I Am & All That I Was
  6: Solstice -
        Sia
  7: Rain -
        Singularity
  8: Wobbler -
        Dwellers Of The Deep
  9: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
10: Pain Of Salvation -
        Panther -


Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Big Big Train - Empire

Best concert:
Lazuli, March 14
Drill Hall, Chepstow (UK)
Album Top10:
  1: Jargon -
        The Fading Thought
  2: IO Earth -
        Aura
  3: Jump -
        Breaking Point
  4: Maidens Of Mercury -
        Life
  5: Blank Manuskript -
        Himmelfahrt
  6: Tom de Wit -
        The Days The Clock Stopped
  7: Armed Cloud -
        Torque
  8: Arabs In Aspic -
        Madness And magic
  9: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
10: McStyne And Minnemann -
        McStyne And Minnemann


Best concert:
Blank Manuskript, January 27
W2, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL)




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Carsten Busch
 
X
Aad Bannink
 
X
Erik Gibbels
Album Top10:
  1: Fish -
        Weltschmerz
  2: Deep Purple -
        Whoosh!!
  3: Ayreon - Electric Castle Live
        And Other Tales
  4: Kansas -
        The Absence of Presence
  5: Polis -
        Weltklang
  6: Dennis De Young -
        26 East, Vol. 1
  7: Pure Reason Revolution -
        Eupnea
  8: Neal Morse -
        Sola Gratia
  9: Blues Pills -
        Holy Moly!
10: Ayreon -
        Transitus

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
Ayreon -
Electric Castle Live And Other Tales

Album Top10:
  1: Lee Abraham -
        Harmony/Synchronicity
  2: Pendragon -
        Love Over Fear
  3: My Arrival -
        Satur9 & Indigo
  4: Fish -
        Weltschmerz
  5: Maciej Mell -
        Zenith
  6: Compass -
        Out Time On Earth
  7: Armed Cloud -
        Torque
  8: ESP Project -
        Phenomena
  9: The Flower Kings -
        Islands
10: The Ikan Method -
        Blue Sun

Best concert:
IQ, January 25
Turbinenhalle 2, Oberhausen (D)
Album Top10:
  1: The Residents -
        Metal, Meat & Bone
  2: Six Organs of Admittance -
        Companion Rising
  3: Edward Ka-spel
        A Red Winter Lights Dream
  4: Portion Control -
        Head Buried
  5: Motor!k -
        2
  6: Cabaret Voltaire -
        Shadow Of Fear
  7: The Orb - Abolution Of The
        Royal Familia
  8: Ozric Tentacles -
        Space For The Earth
  9: The Use Of Ashes -
        Burning Gnome
10: Electric Orange -
        Encoded

Best DVD/Blu-ray:
The Residents -
In Between Dreams (live In San Francisco)


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