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Here are THE WINNERS of The Progspace Awards 2021!

The winners were chosen by the votes of our readers!

For us at The Progspace, each nominee is already a winner as they all represent the very best of 2021 on each category. Thank you so much to each artist for creating amazing music to keep us all going during these strange times. Thanks to all you, we had a very very active 2021, filled with all of your
AWESOME MUSIC!

And a big Thank You to our readers for helping us to find the very best of the year!

Album of the Year: Progressive Metal

VOLA - Witness
21.15%
Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World
19.69%
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
14.53%
Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
11.17%
Cynic - Ascension Codes
10.52%
Need - Norchestrion: A Song for the End
7.80%
Wheel - Resident Human
5.32%
A kew’s tag - Hephioz
2.98%
Framing Skeletons - Luminescence
2.52%
Molybaron - The Mutiny
1.99%
Aeon Zen - Transversal
1.80%
Franklin Zoo - The Dandelion Child
0.54%

Album of the Year: Progressive Rock

Leprous - Aphelion
44.29%
Transatlantic - The Ultimate Universe
11.06%
Yossi Sassi & The Oriental Rock Orchestra - Hear & Dare
9.62%
Azure - Of Brine And Angel’s Beaks
7.24%
Frost* - Day and Age
6.07%
Meer - Playing House
5.80%
The Paradox Twin - Silence from Signals
5.13%
Smalltape - The Hungry Heart
3.87%
Echoes & Signals - Mercurial
2.52%
Kristoffer Gildenlöw - Let Me Be A Ghost
1.89%
Sinoptik - The Calling
1.48%
Glass Kites - Glass Kites II
1.03%

Album of the Year: Extreme Prog

Jinjer - Wallflowers
27.04%
Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers
16.60%
Rivers of Nihil - The Work
12.85%
Archspire - Bleed the Future
11.22%
First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
9.97%
DVNE - Etemen Ænka
7.24%
Fractal Universe - The Impassable Horizon
6.40%
Stortregn - Impermanence
2.09%
Inferi - Vile Genesis
1.95%
Sullen - Nodus Tollens Act I: Oblivion
1.86%
So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
1.86%
Bridge Burner - Disempath
0.93%

Album of the Year: Instrumental

Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
31.09%
God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
12.49%
The Omnific
11.49%
Ola Englund - Starzinger
9.78%
Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky
8.54%
Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul
5.87%
Syrek - Story
5.20%
Maybeshewill - No Feeling Is Final
4.67%
Syncatto - A Place to Breathe
3.39%
For Giants - There, There
3.24%
Five the Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
2.43%
Shy, Low - Snake Behind the Sun
1.81%

Album of the Year: Experimental

Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
31.96%
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
16.61%
Danny Elfman - Big Mess
11.79%
black midi - cavalcade
6.09%
Sur Austru - Obârșie
5.37%
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
5.26%
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths II
4.50%
Hail Spirit Noir - Mannequins (Original Soundtrack)
4.50%
Keor - Tearoom
4.06%
6:33 - Feary Tales For Strange Lullabies: The Dome
4.00%
Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
3.95%
Schizofrantik - Funk from Hell
1.92%

EP of the Year

Thank You Scientist - Plague Accommodations
21.51%
Insomnium - Argent Moon
15.86%
Novena - The Stopped Clock
14.78%
Cult of Luna - The Raging River
13.96%
Dark Horse White Horse - s/t
13.91%
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - The Helm of Sorrow
4.57%
Storchi - Crude
4.52%
Exist Immortal - Act Three: Water
3.39%
Exist Immortal - Act Two: Gold
2.87%
Alex Pilkevych - That Way Lies Madness
2.21%
Ashbreather - “Ow, My Eye”
1.64%
BAK - Crater
0.77%

Debut Album of the Year

Within Progress - Inner
20.92%
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
14.49%
Michał Łapaj - Are You There?
9.99%
Project MishraM - Meso
8.77%
Trifecta - Blundell, Holzman, Beggs - Fragments
8.07%
Perfect Storm - No Air
8.07%
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
6.31%
Voronoi - The Last Three Seconds
5.67%
Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From
5.61%
Bruit≤ - The Machine is Burning and now Everyone Knows it could Happen Again
5.44%
Exanimis - Marionnettiste
3.62%
Pleximents - The Maze Within
3.04%

Live Release of the Year

The Ocean - Phanerozoic Live
17.43%
Epica - Ωmega Alive
16.49%
Karnivool - Decade of Sound Awake
15.90%
The Aristocrats - FREEZE! - Live in Europe 2020
14.00%
Amorphis - Live at Helsinki Ice Hall
9.85%
Novena - Live from Home
6.05%
That Joe Payne - By Name By Nature Tour
4.70%
Klone - Alive
4.70%
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within Live
3.48%
Kyros - Celexa Streams
3.34%
Framing Skeletons - The Progspace Sessions
2.66%
Sinoptik - Three Man Forest Jam
1.40%

Cover Artwork of the Year

Humanity’s Last Breath - Välde
15.83%
White Moth Black Butterfly - The Cost of Dreaming
13.84%
Cynic - Ascension Codes
12.42%
DVNE - Etemen Ænka
10.43%
Vokonis - Odyssey
9.81%
Scale the Summit - Subjects
9.20%
Compile - Reaching
6.10%
Shagohod - Tin, Gold, Lead & Blood
6.06%
Syrek - Story
5.53%
Altesia - Embryo
4.33%
Confusion Field - Disconnection Complete
3.49%
A kew’s tag - Hephioz
2.96%

Music Video of the Year

ANIMALS AS LEADERS - Monomyth
21.52%
Twelve Foot Ninja - Over and Out
15.01%
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Fix The Error
13.11%
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Celebremos Lo Inevitable
10.83%
Earthside - All We Knew And Ever Loved
10.10%
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Problem of Other Minds
6.75%
Fractal Universe - Symmetrical Masquerade
6.51%
MARIUSZ DUDA - KNOCK LOCK
4.86%
Cult of Luna - Cold Burn
4.37%
Karmanjakah - First Sun
3.30%
BRUIT ≤ - THE MACHINE IS BURNING
2.57%
Alase - Unburden
1.07%

Performance of the Year: Vocals

Einar Solberg (Leprous)
15.68%
Devin Townsend
12.71%
Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer)
11.19%
Davidavi Dolev (Subterranean Masquerade)
10.37%
Vessel (Sleep Token)
9.18%
Daniel Tompkins (White Moth Black Butterfly, TesseracT)
8.40%
Marcela Bovio (Dark Horse White Horse)
7.28%
Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox)
7.25%
Anneke van Giersbergen
7.21%
Ross Jennings (Solo, Novena)
4.68%
Johanne Kippersund (Meer)
3.34%
Gareth Mason (Novena)
2.71%

Performance of the Year: Guitars

Guthrie Govan (The Aristocrats)
24.31%
Roman Ibramkhalilov (Jinjer)
16.16%
Brody Uttley (Rivers of Nihil)
10.29%
Phil Tougas (First Fragment)
10.25%
Steve Hackett
9.51%
George Ravaya (Need)
8.77%
Galen Stapley (Azure)
6.89%
Benjamin Lechuga
5.83%
Johannes Weik (A kew’s tag)
2.97%
Malcolm Pugh (Inferi)
2.62%
Mike Low (Inferi)
1.29%
Evgen Tsibulin (Pleximents)
1.10%

Performance of the Year: Keyboards

Jordan Rudess (LTE, Dream Theater)
29.72%
Einar Solberg (Leprous)
18.38%
Martin Werner (VOLA)
11.04%
Michał Łapaj (Solo, Riverside)
7.89%
Harrison White (Novena)
7.77%
Ruben Wijga (Dark Horse White Horse)
7.20%
Jem Godfrey (Frost*)
4.49%
Mood Yassin (Turbulence)
4.01%
Ole Gjøstøl (Meer)
3.36%
David van Pelt (Acolyte)
3.06%
Thomas Rocca (The Wormhole Experience)
2.03%
Aleks Podraza (Voronoi)
1.04%

Performance of the Year: Bass Guitar

Tony Levin (LTE, King Crimson)
23.23%
Eugene Abdukhanov (Jinjer)
14.38%
Dominic "Forest" Lapointe (First Fragment)
10.90%
Nicolai Mogensen (VOLA)
9.55%
Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura)
7.41%
Adam Biggs (Rivers of Nihil)
6.64%
Pete Trewavas (Transatlantic)
6.10%
Matt Fack & Toby Peterson-Stewart (The Omnific)
5.57%
Siebe Sol Sijpkens (Phantom Elite, Dark Horse White Horse)
5.53%
Moat Lowe (Novena)
5.53%
Steve DiGiorgio (Terra Odium)
3.52%
Sebastien de Saint Angel (Molybaron)
1.64%

Performance of the Year: Drums

Mario Duplantier (Gojira)
19.77%
Baard Kolstad (Leprous, Creature, Rendezvous Point)
18.17%
Mike Portnoy (LTE/NMB/Transatlantic)
16.18%
Spencer Prewett (Archspire)
8.81%
Mike Mangini (Dream Theater)
8.73%
Adam Janzi (VOLA)
7.37%
Jared Klein (Rivers of Nihil)
4.60%
Nicholas Wells (First Fragment)
4.48%
Matt Lynch (Cynic)
3.98%
Clément Denys (Fractal Universe)
3.66%
Bryan Holub (Framing Skeletons)
2.38%
Spencer Moore (Inferi)
1.87%

Performance of the Year: Non-Traditional Rock Instrument

Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Cello (Solo, Musk Ox, Leprous)
24.68%
Ben Karas, Violin (Thank You Scientist)
14.84%
Mel Collins, Saxophone/Flute (King Crimson)
13.41%
Chloé Panhaleux, Electric Harp (Djiin)
8.31%
Gabriel Marin, Dutar/Satar/Dombra/Saz/Chaturangui (Consider the Source)
6.32%
Åsa Ree, Violin (Meer)
6.32%
Johannes Bergion, Cello (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
6.27%
Daniel Hedin, Trombone (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
4.74%
Ingvild Nordstoga Eide, Viola (Meer)
3.98%
Simen Å Ellingsen, Saxophones (Shamblemaths)
3.88%
Martin Isaksson, Trumpet (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
3.77%
Luc Blanchot, Cello (BRUIT ≤)
3.47%

Streaming Event of the Year

VOLA Live from the Pool (Sept. 11)
15.12%
Karnivool: A Decade of Sound Awake (May 12)
13.99%
Caligula’s Horse: Live After Lockdown (June 20)
13.01%
Leprous: Malina & Pitfalls (Feb. 20/21)
11.94%
Leprous: Bilateral & Coal (April 10/11)
11.45%
Voyager - A Voyage Through Time (Sept. 05)
9.78%
Fractal Universe: The Impassable Horizon Alive (July 25)
7.05%
Toehider - Full Moon Streams (Various Dates)
5.87%
Hypno5e: A Distant (Dark) Source (Feb. 27)
3.28%
Acolyte Live at the Chapel (June 06)
3.13%
BRUIT ≤ (Live at DUNK Festival) (May 14)
2.74%
Baard Kolstad Solo Stream (May 08)
2.64%