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The Progspace Awards 2023

This poll has ended (since 9 months).

Album of the Year: Progressive Metal

Haken - Fauna
26.31%
Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird
13.91%
Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars
11.71%
The Ocean - Holocene
10.31%
Voyager - Fearless In Love
10.09%
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
7.71%
Obsidian Tide - The Grand Crescendo
4.51%
DGM - Life
4.51%
Klone - Meanwhile
3.85%
Anubis Gate - Interference
3.45%
Ramage Inc. - Humanity Has Failed
2.75%
Mask of Prospero - Hiraeth
0.88%

Album of the Year: Progressive Rock

Riverside - IDentity
24.20%
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
20.30%
Peter Gabriel - IO
14.05%
Marekvist - Varde
6.81%
Lumsk - Fremmede Toner
6.67%
Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 2
5.43%
Lalu - The Fish Who Wanted To Be King
4.29%
The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Aiorea Book I
4.10%
Subsignal - A Poetry of Rain
4.10%
Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past
3.62%
Southern Empire - Another World
3.33%
Pattern-Seeking Animals - Spooky Action At A Distance
3.10%

Album of the Year: Extreme Prog

Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
20.31%
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
14.38%
Enslaved - Heimdal
11.43%
Ignea - Dreams Of Lands Unseen
11.38%
Insomnium - Anno 1696
9.45%
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
7.04%
Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask
6.85%
Anima Tempo - Chaos Paradox
5.64%
Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current
4.78%
Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
3.33%
The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony
2.89%
Stortregn - Finitude
2.51%

Album of the Year: Instrumental

Arch Echo - Final Pitch
24.31%
Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding
12.77%
Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night
12.24%
Hackberry - Breathing Space
8.96%
Gleb Kolyadin - The Outland
7.67%
The Resonance Project - Ad Astra
7.44%
Psygnosis - Mercury
6.33%
Spurv - Brefjare
5.57%
Feather - Eternal
4.51%
Stömb - Massive Disturbed Meta Art
3.93%
Lesotho - Through The Dying Light
3.28%
Volkor X - The Loop
2.99%

Album of the Year: Experimental

Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
33.56%
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
15.30%
Sigur Ros - Atta
9.26%
Bell Witch - Futures Shadow Part 1 The Clandestine Gate
7.28%
The Hirsch Effekt - Urian
6.19%
Jo Quail - Invocation-Supplication
5.40%
Monika Roscher Bigband - Witchy Activities And The Maple Death
4.80%
The World Is Quiet Here - Zon
4.65%
Seven Impale - Summit
4.26%
SHRVL - Limbus
4.06%
A Flying Fish - El Pez Que Voló - Act 1
3.56%
Tardigrade Inferno - Burn The Circus!
1.68%

EP of the Year

Plini - Mirage
24.48%
Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions
22.91%
Stream of Passion - Beautiful Warrior
14.88%
Exploring Birdsong - Dancing in the Face of Danger
9.55%
Loam - Featherbrained
7.33%
A.C.T - Falling
4.72%
Asymmetric Universe - The Sun Would Disappear As I Imagined The Stars
4.56%
MMXX - The Next Wave
2.99%
Dissona - Dreadfully Dinstinct
2.71%
Ashbreather - Primordial Bong Soup
2.17%
Tardigrade Inferno - Arrival of a Train
1.90%
Maruja - Knocknarea
1.79%

Debut Album of the Year

Temic - Terror Management Theory
25.61%
Einar Solberg - 16
23.40%
Nospun - Opus
9.49%
The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness
8.89%
Avkrvst - The Approbation
7.00%
Enoch Root - Delusion
6.13%
Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium
5.85%
Helga - Wrapped in Mist
3.41%
Neverus - Burdens of the Earth
2.90%
HamaSaari - Ineffable
2.67%
Ophelia Sullivan - Disposable Identity
2.44%
Fleshvessel - Yearning Promethean Fates Sealed
2.21%

Live Release of the Year

Leprous - Live 2022
20.67%
Porcupine Tree - Closure-Continuation.Live
18.67%
Devin Townsend - Devolution 3 - Empath Live in America
12.36%
Transatlantic - The Final Flight Live At LOlympia
10.89%
Ulver - Grieghallen 20180528 (Live)
9.56%
Countless Skies - Resonance Live from the Studio
7.73%
Orphaned Land - A Heaven You May Create
6.40%
Plini - Finnvox Sessions (Live)
5.96%
Chaos Divine - The Human Connection - Live at Badlands
2.44%
PreHistoric Animals - Livefires
2.13%
Messa - Live at Roadburn
1.91%
Abraham Sarache - Live at ProgPower Europe 2022
1.29%

Cover Artwork of the Year

Haken - Fauna
33.40%
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
11.83%
The Ocean - Holocene
10.02%
Wolves In The Throne Room - Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge
7.75%
Silent Skies - Dormant
7.07%
Moonstone_Growth
6.74%
Miserere Lumins - Ordalie
5.94%
Lumsk - Fremmede Toner
5.49%
The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Aiorea Book I & II
4.00%
Lesotho - Through The Dying Light
3.55%
Lalu - The Fish Who Wanted To Be King
2.79%
Bosco Sacro - Gem
1.41%

Music Video of the Year

Haken - Taurus (Official Video)
26.15%
Steven Wilson - Beautiful Scarecrow
22.96%
ENSLAVED - Forest Dweller (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
13.45%
STORTREGN - Omega Axiom (Official Video)
7.94%
Kalandra - Bardaginn (Official Music Video)
6.48%
Monika Roscher Bigband - 8 Prinzessinnen (Official Video)
5.73%
6:33 - No One Lives Forever (Oingo Boingo cover)
4.05%
BRUIT ≤ LES TEMPS PERDUS ( short music film )
3.19%
KYROS - The End in Mind (Official Video)
3.03%
HAMASAARI - BLEAK (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
2.81%
PreHistoric Animals - He is number 4
2.11%
A FLYING FISH - Teezûck [Single]
2.11%

Performance of the Year: Vocals

Daniel Tompkins (TesseracT)
21.05%
Einar Solberg
19.39%
Fredrik Klemp (TEMIC)
13.49%
Daniel Estrin (Voyager)
11.44%
Löic Rossetti (The Ocean)
5.78%
Lynsey Ward (Exploring Birdsong)
5.34%
Freja Ordell (Etre)
5.18%
Sylvain Auclair (The Anchoret)
4.12%
Phillip Rich (Nospün)
4.12%
Mike Mills (Toehider)
3.80%
Helga Gabriel (Helga)
3.56%
Romain Jeuniaux (Omnerod)
2.73%

Performance of the Year: Guitars

Eric Gillette (TEMIC)
18.42%
Richard Henshall (Haken)
11.22%
Simone Dow (Voyager)
11.14%
Plini
10.18%
Benjamin Baret (Ne Obliviscaris)
9.79%
Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry)
8.75%
Charlie Griffiths (Haken)
8.47%
Maciej Meller (Riverside)
6.68%
Ola Englund
5.81%
Oz Avneya (Obsidian Tide)
5.21%
Yas Nomura (The Resonance Project)
2.55%
Federico Vese (Asymmetric Universe)
1.79%

Performance of the Year: Keyboards

Diego Tejeida (TEMIC)
19.05%
Peter Jones (Haken)
15.85%
Einar Solberg
15.08%
Michał Łapaj (Riverside)
11.36%
Lynsey Ward (Exploring Birdsong)
7.95%
Vikram Shankar (Silent Skies-Redemption)
7.78%
Joey Izzo (Arch Echo)
5.44%
Peter Voigtmann (The Ocean - Shvrl)
5.10%
Andy Tillison (The Anchoret-The Tangent)
4.92%
Espen Warankov Godø (Lumsk)
3.59%
Richard Blumenthal (Aviations)
2.42%
Jerry Sahlin (A.C.T)
1.47%

Performance of the Year: Bass Guitar

Conner Green (Haken)
16.43%
Amos Williams (Tesseract)
15.80%
Mariusz Duda (Riverside)
14.58%
Martin Garratoni (Ne Obliviscaris)
12.35%
Alex Canion (Voyager)
11.00%
David John Levy (Unprocessed)
6.83%
Linus Klausenitzer (Alkaloid - Solo)
5.39%
Yas Nomura (The Resonance Project)
4.89%
Shachar Bieber (Obsidian Tide)
4.55%
Ilja John Lappin (The Hirsch Effekt)
4.00%
Werner Erkelens (Aviations)
2.15%
Nicoló Vese (Asymmetric Universe)
2.02%

Performance of the Year: Drums

Baard Kolstad (Leprous)
21.27%
Ray Hearne (Haken)
16.92%
Simen Sandnes (TEMIC)
16.19%
Dan Presland (Ne Obliviscaris)
10.43%
Ben Shanbrom (Earthside)
6.57%
Paul Seidel (The Ocean)
6.29%
James Knoerl (Aviations-The Anchoret)
4.99%
Keli Guðjónsson (Einar Solberg)
4.83%
Erez Nadler (Obsidian Tide)
4.38%
Aric Improta (Night Verses)
4.14%
Pablo Schwilden Diaz (Omnerod)
2.03%
Bastian Thusgaard (The Arcane Order)
1.95%

Performance of the Year: Non-Traditional Rock Instrument

Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Cello (Einar Solberg)
18.72%
Tim Charles, Violin (Ne Obliviscaris)
17.48%
the_maximalist, Mridangam (Art Against Agony)
10.23%
Jo Quail, Cello
9.21%
Yossi Sassi, Bouzukitara (Yossi Sassi & The Oriental Rock Orchestra)
8.42%
Jason Blake, Warr Guitar
7.97%
Danielle Sassi, Flute (Yossi Sassi & The Oriental Rock Orchestra-Obsidian Tide)
5.60%
Siv Lena Waterloo Laugtug, Violin (Lumsk)
5.41%
Carina Bruwer, Flute (The Anchoret)
5.26%
Juan Ignacio Varela Espinoza, Alto Saxophone (The Anchoret)
4.59%
Monika Roscher Bigband
3.76%
Raphaël Verguin, Cello (Psygnosis)
3.35%

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