I'm gonna go compile a list of all the 10+ minute songs I've heard this year now because of this thread
Okay here. First the prog songs:
Karfagen - Birds of Passage (Part 1) [22:41]
Karfagen - Birds of Passage (Part 2) [21:12]Sons of Apollo - New World Today [15:51]
M-Opus - Infinite Within [23:47]Nektar - Love Is / The Other Side [17:57]Thematic - This Golden Day [11:55]
Marco Grieco - Winter [14:51]
Dakesis - Fractures [15:12]
Steam Theory - Passages [11:39]
Chimpan A - Stars [10:04]
Amuzeum - The Challenge [11:22]
Amuzeum - Carousel [12:12]
Pattern-Seeking Animals - Lifeboat [17:20]Pattern-Seeking Animals - Soon but Not Today [12:03]
Caligula's Horse - The Ascent [10:43]
Guillaume Perret - Poseidonis [11:47]
Vespero - Urizen [11:48]
Vespero - The Emanation of the Giant Albion [21:03]
This Will Destroy You - Dining Room [14:48]
This Will Destroy You - Garden [21:41]
Pyramid Theorem - Beyond the Exosphere [17:53]
Gazpacho - Space Cowboy [19:41]Gazpacho - Sapien [15:22]
Bulb - Borthelcash (April Fools) [11:51]
Soul Secret - Breathe and Recover [13:00]
Fates Warning - The Longest Shadow of the Day [11:29]
then a bunch of non-prog stuff from death/power metal all the way to indie stuff and slightly proggy stuff:
Frigoris - Die Gleise an denen wir starven II (...in Stille) [12:37]
Grey Skies Fallen - Visions from the Last Sunset [11:04]
Grey Skies Fallen - Picking up the Pieces [11:21]
Grey Skies Fallen - After the Summer Comes the Fall [10:24]
Pat Metheny - America Undefined [13:22]
Demons & Wizards - Children of Cain [10:07]
Death the Leveller - The Golden Bough [12:05]
Burden of Life - The Makeshift Conqueror, Pt. II [10:49]
Huntsmen - The Swallow [10:42]
Dyssidia - Good Grief [10:39]
Pure Reason Revolution - Silent Genesis [10:20]
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea [13:23]
Nightwish - All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World [30:58]Loviatar - Lightless [10:25]
Band of Rain - Petrichor [12:11]
Fairyland - Of Hope and Despair in Osyrhia [12:02]
sleepmakeswaves - the endings that we write [11:27]
Damnation Angels - Remnants of a Dying Star [12:59]
Fellwarden - Wreathed in Mourncloud [10:35]
Fellwarden - An Elder Reckoning [11:42]
Fellwarden - Upon Stone [12:38]
Memories of Old - The Zeramin Game [14:03]
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly [12:23]
Sufjan Stevens - America [12:30]
Emyn Muil - Halls of the Fallen [10:50]
Trident - Schaman [10:43]
Lords of Black - Alchemy of Souls [10:23]
So no, prog epics/epic songs in general are going nowhere