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Here are THE WINNERS of The Progspace Awards 2023!

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 2023 on each category. 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 2023, 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

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%