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The Progspace Awards 2025

Here are THE WINNERS of The Progspace Awards 2022!

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 2022 in each category. 2022 was a massive year of releases and performances of the highest quality.
Thank you to each artist for all your AWESOME MUSIC!

You Voted! You chose the best of the Prog Releases and Performances in 2022!
Thank you, our dear readers, for your participation!

Congratulations to all the winners and to all the nominees!

Album of the Year: Progressive Metal

Wilderun - Epigone
16.45%
Threshold - Dividing Lines
11.96%
Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds: Part II
11.63%
David Maxim Micic - Bilo IV
11.13%
Playgrounded - The death of Death
10.24%
Star One - Revel In Time
8.47%
Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
5.70%
Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting
5.37%
Soulsplitter - Connection
5.26%
Avandra - Prodigal
5.20%
Soledad - XIII
4.32%
Feather Mountain - To Exit A Maelstrom
4.26%

Album of the Year: Progressive Rock

Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
38.00%
Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash
12.23%
Verbal Delirium - Conundrum
9.04%
Maraton - Unseen Color
6.37%
Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert in the Blue Forest
5.86%
Lalu - Paint the Sky
5.46%
Major Parkinson - Valesa - Chapter 1: Velvet Prison
4.60%
Toehider - I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories
4.50%
A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests
4.40%
Karcius - Grey, White, Silver, Yellow and Gold
3.34%
Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet
3.23%
PreHistoric Animals - The Magical Mystery Machine (Chapter 2)
2.98%

Album of the Year: Extreme Prog

Persefone - metanoia
22.47%
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
12.97%
An Abstract Illusion - Woe
12.51%
Fallujah - Empyrean
10.89%
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
9.84%
Allegaeon - Damnum
6.37%
Darkane - Inhuman Spirits
5.33%
Disillusion - Ayam
4.98%
SYK - Pyramiden
4.81%
Conjurer - Pathos
4.11%
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
3.24%
Ashbreather - Hivemind
2.49%

Album of the Year: Instrumental

The Aristocrats - The Aristocrats With Primuz Chamber Orchestra
26.79%
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
20.00%
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
13.49%
Russian Circles - Gnosis
8.03%
Andy Gillion - Arcade Metal
6.83%
Toundra - Hex
4.86%
Ghost Toast - Shade Without Color
4.08%
Poly-Math - Zenith
3.81%
Cydemind - The Descent
3.81%
Étrange - Enigme
3.44%
behind closed doors - caged in helices
2.48%
Mono - My Story, The Buraku Story (OST)
2.39%

Album of the Year: Experimental

Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
28.00%
Heilung - Drif
13.69%
Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse
9.96%
Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
9.52%
Messa - Close
8.09%
Jessica O’Donoghue - Rise Up
7.34%
Jo Quail - The Cartographer
6.72%
Vitam Aeternam - Revelations of the Mother Harlot
5.79%
Johan Reinholdz - Weightless and Numb
4.36%
Tuhaf - Mere Guld
2.36%
Tranzat - Ouh La La
2.30%
E-L-R - Vexier
1.87%

EP of the Year

Wheel - Rumination
27.26%
Mother of Millions - Orbit
18.57%
Iotunn - Access All Worlds - An Acoustic Voyage
9.39%
Prehistoria – Cursed Lands
6.21%
Mimesis - Trilogy
6.21%
Reliqa - I Don’t Know What I Am
6.14%
Être - I: Human
5.72%
RO1 - Errorist
4.80%
Jambinai - Apparition
4.52%
Geminii - Gemini
4.52%
Morgan Wick - The Great Stereopticon
3.46%
Framing Skeletons - The Rightful Heir to Acrelot
3.18%

Debut Album of the Year

Obsidious - Iconic
26.96%
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
20.09%
Inhalo - Sever
14.51%
YAWN - Materialism
7.83%
Rioghan - Different Kinds Of Losses
5.58%
The Devils of Loudun - Escaping Eternity
5.07%
Apeiron Bound - Multiplicity
5.01%
Pristine Kids - Leave No Trace
4.75%
!GeRald! - The Lost Tapes
2.89%
The Gerald Peter Project - Incremental Changes Pt. 2
2.76%
Aquae Furtivae - Road to Square One
2.63%
Ckraft - Epic Discordant Vision
1.93%

Live Release of the Year

Soen - Atlantis
19.61%
VOLA - Live from the Pool
15.35%
Evergrey - Before the Aftermath - Live in Gothenburg
14.29%
Voyager - A Voyage Through Time
8.85%
Thy Catafalque - Mezolit (Live at Fekete Zaj)
6.39%
Vanden Plas - Live & Immortal
5.83%
Ross Jennings - Acoustic Shadows
5.83%
Anna von Hausswolff - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
5.77%
Major Parkinson - A Night at the Library
5.10%
In Mourning - Live In Valley Sound Studio
4.59%
Ihlo - Live Sessions From Pirate Studios
4.31%
Lost in Kiev - Live Sessions: Midilive
4.09%

Cover Artwork of the Year

Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts (David Seidman)
17.50%
An Abstract Illusion - Woe (Adam Burke)
15.57%
Mountainscape - Atoms Unfurling (Erskine Designs)
10.17%
Hei’An - Imago (Marc "Xenoyr" Campbell)
9.31%
Dreadnought - The Endless (Reza Afshar)
8.67%
Moon Tooth - Phototroph (Caroline Harrison)
7.92%
Ingested - Ashes Lie Still (David Seidman)
7.22%
Guranfoe - Gumbo Gumbo (Micha Huigen)
5.83%
Jade - The Pacification of Death (Adam Burke)
5.19%
Enma - Apathy Awakened (Maarten Donders/Arno Frericks)
4.76%
Maladie - Wound of Gods (Giannis Nakos / Remedy Art Design)
4.65%
Ardarith - Home (Colin Winkler)
3.21%

Music Video of the Year

NE OBLIVISCARIS, "Equus" (Official Music Video) 2022
27.80%
Voyager - Submarine (Official Music Video)
11.37%
TOUNDRA - El Odio (LA PELÍCULA/FULL MOVIE)
8.78%
Nordic Giants - Faceless (ft. Alex Hedley) - Official Video
8.78%
Playgrounded - The death of Death (Official Video)
8.33%
PreHistoric Animals - Ghostfires
6.19%
Lesoir - Babel (Official Short Film)
6.08%
Feather Mountain - Sincere [MUSIC VIDEO]
5.63%
QUEEN of the NIGHT (A Silent Fantasy) by Dirt Poor Robins
5.18%
SOULSPLITTER feat. Viktorija Kukule - Disconnected (Official Video)
4.50%
SOULSPLITTER - Reconnected (Official Video)
4.00%
I HAVE LITTLE TO NO MEMORY OF THESE MEMORIES: "THE HOARDER"
3.38%

Performance of the Year: Vocals

Devin Townsend
29.44%
Davidavi Dolev (Seventh Station)
13.08%
Joel Ekelöf (Soen)
11.64%
Cammie Beverly (Oceans of Slumber)
9.51%
George Prokopiou (Mother of Millions)
6.59%
Anna von Hauswolff
6.06%
Damian Wilson (Lalu)
5.28%
Jargon (Verbal Delirium)
4.23%
Fredrik Bergersen Klemp (Maraton)
3.97%
Danny Estrin (Voyager)
3.58%
Andy Robison (Ihlo)
3.40%
Mike Mills (Toehider)
3.23%

Performance of the Year: Guitars

Guthrie Govan (The Aristocrats)
27.30%
Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders)
17.83%
Rafael Trujillo (Obsidious)
11.20%
Michael Romeo
8.23%
Carlos Lozano (Persefone)
8.05%
Charlie Griffiths
7.71%
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Star One)
6.07%
Filipe Baldaia (Persefone)
3.49%
David Maxim Micic
3.49%
Daniel Magdic (PreHistoric Animals)
2.63%
Kurt Valencia (Exist Immortal)
2.45%
Morgan Reid
1.55%

Performance of the Year: Keyboards

Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree)
30.68%
Miguel “Moe” Espinosa (Persefone)
14.25%
Vikram Shankar (Silent Skies/Threads of Fate/Avandra)
12.66%
Robert Stenvall (An Abstract Illusion)
11.18%
Richard West (Threshold)
7.45%
Lars Christian Bjørknes (Major Parkinson)
6.03%
Lewin Krumpschmid (Soulsplitter)
5.21%
Gleb Kolyadin
4.16%
Rohan Sharma (RO1)
3.45%
Camille Delage (Cydemind)
2.63%
Gerald Peter
1.15%
Antoine Flipo (Glass Museum)
1.15%

Performance of the Year: Bass Guitar

Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats)
32.48%
Linus Klausenitzer (Obsidious)
15.48%
Clay Gober (Polyphia)
14.77%
Pete Trewavas (Marillion)
9.54%
Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings/Steve Hackett)
5.41%
Ilja John Lappin (The Hirsch Effekt)
5.18%
Joe Leigh Branton (Poly-Math)
4.70%
Sylvain Auclair (Karcius)
3.80%
Noah Magnusson (PreHistoric Animals)
2.94%
Dave Meros (Pattern-Seeking Animals)
2.09%
Joost van der Graaf (Choreomanic)
2.04%
Antoine Duffour (Hypnagone)
1.57%

Performance of the Year: Drums

Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats)
21.40%
Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree)
18.73%
Thomas Haake (Meshuggah)
15.23%
Sebastian Lanser (Obsidious)
9.51%
Matt Garstka (Animals As Leaders)
7.84%
Anika Nilles
7.80%
Sergi Verdeguer (Persefone)
7.05%
Leith Ajob (An Abstract Illusion)
3.38%
Peter Wildoer (Darkane)
2.67%
Clark McMenemy (Ihlo)
2.63%
John Macaluso (Michael Romeo)
1.96%
Samuel Granath (PreHistoric Animals)
1.79%

Performance of the Year: Non-Traditional Rock Instrument

Jo Quail, Cello
18.01%
Jason Blake, Warr Guitar
14.80%
Nerissa Schwarz, Electric Harp
9.79%
Claudia “Peri Winkle” Cox, Violin (Major Parkinson)
9.03%
Yan Vedaman, tenor & soprano saxophones (Karfagen)
8.81%
Olivier Allard, Violin (Cydemind)
8.16%
Chris Olsen, Saxophones (Poly-Math)
7.62%
Tomáš Štěpánek, Violin (End of Scream)
5.98%
János Pusker, Cello (Ghost Toast)
5.98%
Charles Kieny, augmented Accordion (Ckraft)
4.41%
Théo Nguyen Duc Long, Tenor Saxophone (Ckraft)
3.70%
Stian Carstensen, Accordion (High Castle Teleorkestra)
3.70%