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Here are the results of our first The Progspace Awards!
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 2020 on each category.

Thank you so much to each artist for creating such amazing pieces of art and for keeping this strange year 2020 very active on the GOOD MUSIC side of things. 

And a big Thank You to our readers for heeding the call to select your favorites of the year and with your support, making these Awards a success!

Album of the Year: Progressive Metal

Haken - Virus
30.65%
Caligula’s Horse - Rise Radiant
17.16%
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
12.23%
Pain of Salvation - Panther
8.68%
Katatonia - City Burials
7.80%
Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear
6.37%
Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night
5.35%
Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber
3.79%
Mobius - Kala
3.75%
Martin Grech - Hush Mortal Core
1.60%
Avandra - Skylighting
1.31%
Paul Sadler - Soon to be Absorbed
1.31%

Album of the Year: Progressive Rock

Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods
18.45%
Ayreon - Transitus
13.76%
Toehider - I Like It!
13.65%
Kyros - Celexa Dreams
10.27%
Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
8.49%
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
6.77%
Vulkan - Technatura
6.67%
Our Oceans - While Time Disappears
6.41%
Golden Caves - Dysergy
4.59%
PreHistoric Animals - The Magical Mystery Machine - Chapter One
4.33%
Abraham Sarache - Kaleidoscope of Dreams
4.17%
Ring Van Möbius - The 3rd Majesty
2.45%

Album of the Year: Extreme Prog

Enslaved - Utgard
22.38%
Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
18.25%
Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
11.74%
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
9.31%
Luna’s Call - Void
8.39%
The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps
6.63%
Wills Dissolve - Echoes
5.66%
The Reticent - The Oubliette
4.93%
Rannoch - Reflections Upon Darkness
3.53%
Exist - Egoiista
3.28%
Azusa - Loops of Yesterdays
2.98%
Aeternam - Al Qassam
2.92%

Album of the Year: Instrumental

Plini - Impulse Voices
37.79%
Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want to Live?
10.93%
Intervals - Circadian
10.07%
Cloudkicker - Solitude
6.55%
pg.lost - Oscillate
6.09%
Their Dogs Were Astronauts - Dreamcatcher
5.81%
Panzerballett - Planet Z
5.18%
Gösta Berlings Saga - Konkret Musik
4.44%
Pixie Ninja - Colours Out of Space
4.15%
Stömb - From Nihil
3.87%
Anika Nilles - For A Colorful Soul
3.59%
Jason Kui - NAKA
1.54%

Album of the Year: Experimental

Ulver - Flowers of Evil
25.33%
Igorrr - Spirituality & Distortion
22.11%
Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard - Chemical Reactions
14.12%
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
6.97%
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within
6.85%
Thy Catafalque - Naiv
5.48%
Volkor X - This Is Our Planet Now
3.93%
Kilter - Axiom
3.75%
Convulsif - Extinct
3.64%
Rïcïnn - Nereïd
3.46%
Obsidian Kingdom - Meat Machine
2.92%
Le Grand Sbam - Furvent
1.43%

EP of the Year

Ihsahn - Pharos
25.75%
Soilwork - A Whisp of the Atlantic
11.62%
Lucas de la Rosa - Sunlight Highlights
10.34%
Arch Echo - Story I
9.51%
Dirty Loops - Phoenix
9.40%
Kyros - Four of Fear
8.62%
Inferi - Of Sunless Realms
7.17%
Dvne - Omega Severer
4.95%
Bluewave Quartet - Poney-Club
4.12%
Thrailkill - Detach
3.45%
Celestial Ember - Absition
2.95%
Stefan Altzar - The Empty House by the Beach
2.11%

Debut of the Year

Novena - Eleventh Hour
30.27%
Guppy Fish - The Fall of Man
16.08%
Cult of Lilith - Mara
11.01%
Myth of I - Myth of I
7.54%
Calyces - Impulse to Soar
7.18%
Jargon - The Fading Thought
5.24%
That Joe Payne - By Name. By Nature.
4.83%
Arcing Wires - Prime
4.12%
Rohan Sharma - 18
3.95%
Molassess - Through the Hollow
3.53%
Ashbreather - Ashbreather
3.30%
Gargoyl - Gargoyl
2.94%

Live Release of the Year

Devin Townsend - Order of Magnitude: Empath Live Volume 1
19.31%
Ayreon - Electric Castle Live & Other Tales
15.18%
Katatonia - Dead Air
9.63%
Ihlo - In Stasis
9.07%
Jinjer - Alive in Melbourne
8.55%
Periphery - Live in London
8.51%
Slice the Cake - Live from Home
7.52%
Steve Hackett - Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith
5.73%
Myrath - Live in Carthage
4.56%
Sigur Ros - Odin’s Raven Magic
4.46%
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets - Live at the Roundhouse
4.09%
Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
3.38%

Cover Artwork of the Year

Caligula’s Horse - Rise Radiant (Chris Stevenson-Mangos)
28.26%
Oceans of Slumber - Oceans of Slumber (Giannis Nakos)
15.50%
Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear (Niklas Sundin)
7.69%
covet - technicolor (Yvette Young)
7.27%
Mobius - Kala (Above Chaos/Vincent Fouquet)
7.22%
Stömb - From Nihil (Sylvie Gedda)
6.55%
Luna’s Call - Void (Ian Purdy)
5.37%
Ebonivory - The Long Dream I (Charlie Powlett)
5.03%
Döda Havet - Tid Och Rum (Prakash Khatri Chhetri)
4.69%
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within (Heather Sita Black)
4.60%
Tiberius - A Peaceful Annihilation (Alex ‘Alexhibition’ Spence)
4.44%
Vulkan - Technatura (Jonas Åsman)
3.38%

Music Video of the Year

HAKEN - Canary Yellow (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
29.88%
Gojira - Another World [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
25.14%
IGORRR - DOWNGRADE DESERT
11.46%
VOLA - Head Mounted Sideways (Official Music Video)
10.70%
Tiberius - Leviathan (Official Music Video)
4.24%
PreHistoric Animals - A good start/What a lucky day!
3.94%
Gösta Berlings Saga - Basement Traps (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
3.13%
Wolverine - A Darkened Sun (Official Audio-Visual EP 2020)
2.88%
DGM - "Flesh and Blood" - Official Music Video
2.88%
District 97 - Ghost Girl (Official Short Film)
2.68%
Rïcïnn - "Psamatäe" [Music Video - "Nereïd" - 2020]
2.47%
BLUEOX - Fearless (Official Music Video)
0.61%

Performance of the Year: Vocal

Ross Jennings (Haken/Novena)
15.90%
Devin Townsend
14.15%
Jim Grey (Caligula’s Horse)
13.67%
Mike Mills (Toehider)
10.10%
Mariusz Duda (Lunatic Soul/Riverside)
8.92%
Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation)
8.88%
Cammie Gilbert (Oceans of Slumber/Ayreon)
7.26%
Laure Le Prunenec (Rïcïnn/Igorrr)
6.45%
Andy Robison (Ihlo)
5.31%
Kjetil Nordhus (Green Carnation)
4.70%
Joe Payne (That Joe Payne)
2.60%
Paul Sadler
2.07%

Performance of the Year: Guitar

Richard Henshall (Haken)
23.70%
Plini
20.69%
Jim Matheos (Fates Warning)
9.23%
Lucas de la Rosa
9.18%
Charlie Griffiths (Haken)
8.40%
Steve Hackett
7.75%
Joey Frevola (Kyros)
5.24%
Aaron Marshall (Intervals)
5.01%
Paul Sadler
4.96%
Daniel Magdic (PreHistoric Animals)
3.25%
Wes Thrailkill (Thrailkill)
1.76%
Jason Kui
0.83%

Performance of the Year: Keyboard

Diego Tejeida (Haken)
30.78%
Harrison White (Novena/Slice the Cake)
9.28%
Jonah Nilsson (Dirty Loops)
8.15%
Gleb Kolyadin (iamthemorning)
7.71%
Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Wobbler)
7.17%
Vikram Shankar (Silent Skies/Redemption)
6.63%
Miguel "Moe" Espinosa (Persefone)
6.53%
Adam Warne (Kyros)
5.69%
Andy Robison (Ihlo)
5.35%
Joey Izzo (Arch Echo)
5.20%
Jargon
4.47%
Rohan Sharma
3.04%

Performance of the Year: Bass

Conner Green (Haken)
28.06%
Mariusz Duda (Lunatic Soul/Riverside)
17.46%
Henrik Linder (Dirty Loops)
10.51%
Moat Lowe (Novena/Slice the Cake)
8.41%
Joey Vera (Fates Warning)
7.27%
Stein Roger Sordal (Green Carnation)
6.58%
Yoann Oudoire (Bluewave Quartet)
5.39%
Peter Episcopo (Kyros)
5.21%
Ilja John Lappin (The Hirsch Effekt)
3.93%
Alex Weber (Exist)
3.52%
Noah Magnusson (PreHistoric Animals)
2.01%
Antoine Fafard (Chemical Reactions)
1.65%

Performance of the Year: Drums

Ray Hearne (Haken)
22.04%
Gavin Harrison (The Pineapple Thief/Chemical Reactions)
17.33%
Anika Nilles
12.92%
Josh Griffin (Caligula’s Horse)
12.31%
Leo Margarit (Pain of Salvation)
8.73%
Andrew Scott (Leviathan Owl/Slice the Cake)
5.19%
Cameron Spence (Novena)
4.85%
Clark McMenemy (Ihlo)
4.58%
Martin Kneppen (Wobbler)
4.10%
Aron Mellergård (Dirty Loops)
3.40%
Brody Smith (Exist)
2.44%
Samuel Granath (PreHistoric Animals)
2.10%

Streaming Event of the Year

TesseracT: P O R T A L S (Dec. 12)
19.36%
Leprous Interactive Stream (Oct. 9)
15.39%
Leprous & Ihsahn (Dec. 20)
12.92%
UK Techfest (June 2/3)
10.77%
Katatonia (May 09)
9.65%
Kyros: Celexa Streams Isolation Gigs (Various Dates)
6.44%
Green Carnation (May 23)
5.74%
Slay at Home Series - Metal Injection (Various Dates)
5.46%
Enslaved: Cinematic Summer Tour/Winter Solstice (Various Dates)
4.20%
Madder Mortem (May 30)
3.82%
Rendezvous Point - Drammens Teater (Oct. 11)
3.26%
Maraton (June 06)
2.99%