Time Band Song Time Album Year Composer Label Listeners
In Momeorium
15:05:06 David Bowie Blackstar 9:57 Blackstar [Explicit] 2016 David Bowie 54
15:15:05 miwshowopen 1:14 52
Best Discovered Album of 2016
15:21:02 Tiger Moth Tales Beauty Awakes 3:41 Story Tellers Part One 2015 Pete Jones 47
Best Prog Song or Album to Play AD&D to
15:27:22 THEO The Blood That Floats My Throne 8:17 The Game of Ouroboros 2015 Jim Alfredson 48
15:37:23 Gandalf’s Fist The Capture (Including the Song for a Fallen Nightkeeper) 6:48 The Clockwork Fable 2016 48
Best Prog Song or Album to Base a Doctor Who Episode On
15:47:18 Riverside Time Travellers 6:36 Love,Fear and the Time Machine 2015 Insideoutmusic (Universal Music) 51
15:55:57 Avantasia Mystery of a Blood Red Rose 3:43 Ghostlights 2016 Tobias Sammet Nuclear Blast 46
Best Prog Song or Album to based on a book
16:05:03 As Follows Sailing By Moonlight 8:15 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym 2015 Intelligent Egg 42
16:14:48 Cosmograf The Unreasonable Silence 8:58 The Unreasonable Silence 2016 41
Best Cover
16:26:10 Unitopia Even In The Quietest Moments 6:40 Covered Mirror 2012 42
16:33:46 Antimatter Welcome to the Machine 6:31 Welcome to the Machine / Too Late – CD1 2016 43
Best Opening Track
16:43:22 Mystery A Moning Rise 1:14 The World Is A Game 2012 Unicorn Digital 43
16:44:36 Mystery Pride 11:18 The World Is A Game 2012 Unicorn Digital 43
16:55:54 Crystal Palace Dawn 2:34 Dawn of Eternity 2016 45
17:00:05 Crystal Palace Confess Your Crime 8:21 Dawn of Eternity 2016 43
Best Ending Track
17:11:07 Project Creation Returning Home 6:52 Floating World 2006 Prog Rock Records 46
17:20:33 Airbag Returned 4:39 Disconnected 2016 46
Best German Prog Album
17:28:35 Vanden Plas Scar Of An Angel 7:23 Seraphic Clockwork 2010 Andy Kuntz Frontiers Records 47
17:39:26 Avantasia Draconian Love 4:51 Ghostlights 2016 Tobias Sammet Nuclear Blast 42
Best UK Album
17:45:56 Steven Wilson Happy Returns 5:46 Hand. Cannot. Erase. 2015 Steven Wilson Kscope 41
17:54:57 Preacher Always 6:11 Aftermath 2016 38
Best US Album
18:03:08 The Dear Hunter Wait 3:21 Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise 2015 Equal Vision Records 40
18:08:35 Bent Knee Black Water 4:35 Say So 40
Best Chicago Album
18:14:31 District 97 Who Cares? 4:47 Trouble With Machines 2012 Jim Tashjian Laser’s Edge 40
18:21:17 Fire Garden Far and Near 2:21 Far and Near 39
18:23:38 Fire Garden There’s Something 7:33 Far and Near 37
Best Side Project Album
18:33:29 Wisdom of Crowds Radio Star 4:24 Wisdom of Crowds 2013 Bruce Soord; Johnny Wilks Kscope 38
18:39:29 Blind Ego Blackened 5:19 Liquid 2016 Gentle Art Of Music 36
Best Debut Album
18:46:12 Exovex The Last Orbit 5:41 Radio Silence 35
18:52:40 Paradigm Shift An Easy Lie 8:44 Becoming Aware 2016 35
Best Live Album
19:03:32 Rush The Wreckers (with Clockwork Angels String Ensemble) [Live] 5:28 Clockwork Angels Tour 2013 Roadrunner Records 38
19:10:07 Big Big Train Uncle Jack 4:08 A Stone’s Throw From The Line 2016 39
Best Prog Metal Album
19:16:09 Von Hertzen Brothers New Day Rising 5:27 New Day Rising 2015 Von Hertzen Brothers Caroline (Universal Music) 37
19:22:27 Headspace All That You Fear Is Gone 4:50 All That You Fear Is Gone 2016 Inside Out Music 36
Best Solo Album
19:29:56 Kevin Gilbert The Best Laid Plans 5:30 The Shaming of the True 2000 www.kevingilbert.com 34
19:36:48 Rikard Sjöblom Realm Of You And Me 5:06 The Unbendable Sleep 2016 Rikard Sjöblom 34
Best Concept Album
19:44:00 Shadow Gallery Rain 8:39 Room V 2005 Brendt Allman Inside Out Music 35
19:54:27 The Dear Hunter The Fire (Remains) 5:25 Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional 2016 35
Best 10+ Album
20:01:41 Fish Perfume River 10:45 A Feast Of Consequences 2013 Dick / Vantsis 34
20:16:01 Marillion Living In F E a R 6:19 F E A R 2016 34
 Best Epic
20:27:02 Arcane Atlas Metris Tsemär 26:28:00 Metris 2016 36
 Best MiW Song
20:57:16 Anathema The Storm Before the Calm 9:11 Weather Systems 2012 John Douglas The End 31
21:07:29 Preacher Vision 5:30 Aftermath 2016 31
 Best Song
21:16:39 Flicker Breathless 8:16 How Much are You Willing to forget 2013 flicker Sound 32
21:25:52 Preacher Aftermath 6:04 Aftermath 2016 Preacher 32
 Best Album
21:34:23 Discipline. Circuitry 6:16 To Shatter All Accord 2011 Strung Out Records 33
21:44:12 Preacher Vinyl 6:27 Aftermath 2016 33