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The Progspace Awards 2025

Here are THE WINNERS of The Progspace Awards 2025!

The winners were chosen by the votes of our readers!

For us at The Progspace, each nominee is already a winner! Thank you so much to all artists for creating so much and so amazing music and making it available to us. Thanks to all you, we had a very very active 2025, filled with 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

Ihlo - Legacy
21.51%
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
13.05%
Psychonaut - World Maker
12.93%
Maestrick - Espresso Della Vita: Lunare
9.73%
Avkrvst - Waving at the Sky
9.37%
The Reticent - please
8.10%
Benthos - From Nothing
5.74%
Phase Transition - In Search of Being
4.23%
Feather Mountain - A Liminal Step
4.17%
Danefae - Trøst
4.05%
Tiberius - Singing For Company
3.93%
Defecto - Echoes of Isolation
3.20%

Album of the Year: Progressive Rock

Moron Police - Pachinko
34.18%
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Songs No One Will Hear
19.36%
Lunatic Soul - The World Under Unsun
10.74%
Paatos - Ligament
7.70%
Gazpacho - Magic 8-Ball
5.40%
Everon - Shells
4.14%
Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Gamle Mester
3.79%
Magic Pie - Maestro
3.33%
O.R.k. - Firehose of Falsehoods
2.93%
Obiymy Doschu - Vidrada
2.87%
A.C.T - Eternal Winter
2.87%
Dim Gray - Shards
2.70%

Album of the Year: Extreme Prog

Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil
17.85%
Jinjer - Duél
16.22%
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
15.11%
Amorphis - Borderland
13.77%
Fallujah - Xenotaph
8.17%
Spire of Lazarus - Those Who Live in Death
6.77%
In Mourning - The Immortal
5.60%
Fractal Universe - The Great Filters
4.32%
Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
4.03%
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
3.91%
Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence
2.63%
Lychgate - Precipice (Dec. 19)
1.63%

Album of the Year: Instrumental

We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
17.36%
Bumblefoot - Bumblefoot …Returns!
16.89%
Lux Terminus - Cinder
14.09%
Anika Nilles - False Truth
11.08%
Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Audio Lab) - Resist The Erosion
5.67%
Gösta Berlings Saga - Forever Now
5.67%
Gleb Kolyadin - Mobula
5.67%
Asymmetric Universe - A Memory and What Came After
5.07%
Myriad Drone - A World Without Us
5.01%
RO1 - Sunder
4.81%
Ciconia - Synaesthetic Garbage
4.47%
Hiroe - Wield
4.21%

Album of the Year: Experimental

Igorrr - Amen
27.97%
Messa - The Spin
14.87%
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Lifeblood
10.05%
Imperial Triumphant - Imprints of Man
8.35%
Panzerballett - Übercode Oeuvre
7.56%
A Flying Fish - El Pez Que Voló - Act II
7.07%
Jo Quail - Notan
5.48%
BRUIT ≤ - The Age Of Ephemerality
4.88%
Maruja - Pain to Power
4.33%
Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
3.96%
Kauan - Wayhome
3.84%
Ckraft - Uncommon Grounds
1.65%

EP of the Year

Seventh Station - On Shoulders of Giants
18.88%
Marcela Bovio - Harmonies Unveiled
18.20%
Nospūn - Ozai
14.06%
Voidchaser - Trust
12.98%
Kalandra - Mørketid
12.02%
Aeons - 6EQUJ5
5.67%
Myth of I - Stream
4.54%
Paul Sadler - The Irrational EP
3.12%
Blackshape - Prismer I
2.89%
TrotaMundo - EVA
2.83%
Ipomonia - Contemplation I
2.72%
Dawnwalker - The Between
2.10%

Debut Album of the Year

Changeling - Changeling
16.77%
Royal Sorrow - Innerdeeps
14.35%
Ursa - Call of the Infinite
12.01%
Jacob Roberge - The Passing
11.40%
Primrose Path - Ruminations
9.99%
Demon King - Death Knell
7.51%
Visitant - Rubidium
7.38%
Kali - Samsara
6.30%
Dissocia - To Lift The Veil
5.23%
Connor Kaminski - Tapestry
4.36%
Afargang - Andvake
3.29%
FLIGHT CNCLLD - Safety Wire
1.41%

Live Release of the Year

Leprous - An Evening of Atonement
19.67%
Haken - Liveforms: An Evening with Haken
17.22%
TesseracT - Live at Radar (O.S.T.)
13.51%
Riverside - Live ID.
8.78%
The Ocean - The Ocean | Audiotree From Nothing
8.32%
Persefone - Live in Andorra
7.35%
Beat - Live
7.30%
Steve Hackett - The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall
7.01%
Iamthemorning - Live at St. Matthias
3.48%
Alex Henry Foster - A Nightfall Ritual
2.68%
A.A. Williams - A.A. Williams on Audiotree Live
2.62%
La Suspendida - La Suspendida Live
2.05%

Cover Artwork of the Year

Moron Police - Pachinko (DULK)
31.01%
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City (Alex Eckman-Lawn)
12.27%
Ihlo - Legacy (Mattias Norén)
10.78%
In Mourning - The Immortal (Metastazis)
6.93%
Changeling - Changeling (Aaron Pinto/KidSquidy)
6.88%
Ithildin - Suite Magique (Jacob Devlin)
6.21%
RO1 - Sunder (mk Cooper/Bearded Artist Studio)
5.08%
Danefae - Trøst (Sissel Geyti)
4.98%
Calyces - Fleshy Waves of Probability (Maria Stergiou)
4.72%
Feather Mountain - A Liminal Step (Arie Fasant)
4.16%
Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded (Adam Yates)
3.59%
Farseer - Portals to Cosmic Womb (Ryan T. Hancock)
3.39%

Performance of the Year: Vocals

Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer)
21.18%
Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me)
15.45%
Davidavi Dolev (Seventh Station)
14.64%
Andy Robison (Ihlo)
10.93%
Andy Thomas (Rivers of Nihil)
10.45%
Fábio Caldeira (Maestrick)
7.13%
Lindsay Rose (Primrose Path)
5.39%
Pipi Gogerl (Ancient Fragments)
5.15%
Chad Bernatchez (Voidchaser)
3.13%
Râhoola (A Flying Fish)
2.74%
Mikkel Aen Lohmann (Feather Mountain)
2.02%
Nicklas Sonne (Defecto)
1.78%

Performance of the Year: Guitars

Phil Monro (Ihlo)
14.70%
Dmitri Alperovich (Seventh Station)
13.33%
Maja Holst Partsch (Ipomonia)
12.70%
Karl Westerlund (An Abstract Illusion)
10.47%
Tom Fountainhead (Changeling)
10.18%
Vince Wilquin (Fractal Universe)
8.07%
Scott Carstairs (Fallujah)
7.61%
Dave Davidson (Revocation)
6.58%
Sam Mooradian (Fallujah)
5.09%
Connor Kaminski (Solo)
4.35%
Federico Vese (Asymmetric Universe)
4.12%
Nicklas Sonne (Defecto)
2.80%

Performance of the Year: Keyboards

Lars Christian Bjørknes (Moron Police)
21.86%
Eren Basbuğ (Seventh Station)
15.00%
Ryo Okumoto (Spock’s Beard)
14.00%
Vikram Shankar (Lux Terminus)
12.67%
Robert Stenvall (An Abstract Illusion)
12.62%
Troll Hart (Fleshvessel)
6.36%
Lars-Fredrik Frøislie (Solo)
4.81%
Gleb Kolyadin (Solo)
3.71%
Rohan Sharma (RO1)
2.77%
Oliver Philipps (Everon)
2.32%
Antony Kalugin (Karfagen)
2.27%
Martin Shahbazyan (Martinian)
1.60%

Performance of the Year: Bass Guitar

Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me)
22.32%
Eugene Abdukhanov (Jinjer)
15.96%
Arran McSporran (Changeling)
9.90%
Sakda Srikoetkhruen (Fleshvessel)
8.10%
Valentin Pelletier (Fractal Universe)
7.20%
Evan Brewer (Fallujah)
7.14%
Alex Weber (Revocation)
6.60%
Thomas Fèanis (Spire of Lazarus)
6.24%
Alberto Fiorani (Benthos)
5.70%
Brian Craft (Lux Terminus)
4.98%
Nicolò Vese (Asymmetric Universe)
3.06%
Barend Tromp (Solo)
2.82%

Performance of the Year: Drums

Anika Nilles (Solo)
20.78%
Blake Richardson (Between the Buried and Me)
16.10%
Clark McMenemy (Ihlo)
10.03%
Kenny Grohowski (Imperial Triumphant)
8.38%
Isak Nilsson (An Abstract Illusion)
7.94%
Kevin Alexander (Fallujah)
7.77%
Mike Heller (Changeling)
7.44%
Colin MacAndrew (Fleshvessel/Voidchaser/Ashbreather)
5.84%
Ashley Doodkorte (Primrose Path)
5.79%
Alessandro Tagliani (Benthos)
4.08%
Christian Dahl-Blumenberg (Feather Mountain)
3.36%
William Bur (Ckraft)
2.48%

Performance of the Year: Non-Traditional Rock Instrument

Patrick Corona, Alto Saxophone (Rivers of Nihil)
29.09%
Jo Quail, Cello (Solo)
14.54%
Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Cello (Solo)
13.49%
Sofia Beco, Violin (Phase Transition)
8.27%
Danielle Sassi, Flute (Storchi)
7.58%
Vittorio Sabelli, Clarinet (A.M.E.N./Dawn of a Dark Age)
5.10%
Olav Luksengård Mjelva, Hardanger Fiddle (Afargang)
4.66%
Luc Blanchot, Cello (BRUIT ≤)
3.79%
B.C. Manjunath, Konnakol Vocals (Freak Audio Lab/Mattias IA Eklundh)
3.79%
Clément Libes, Violin/Viola (BRUIT ≤)
3.73%
Charles Kieny, Augmented Accordion (Ckraft)
3.11%
Théo Nguyen Duc Long, Saxophone (Ckraft)
2.86%