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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%