| Pos. | Artist/Band | Title | Votes | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IQ | Subterranea | 87 | 374 |
| 2 | Marillion | This Strange Engine | 54 | 180 |
| 3 | Fish | Sunsets On Empire | 53 | 155 |
| 4 | Spock's Beard | Beware Of Darkness | 40 | 135 |
| 5 | Dream Theater | Falling Into Infinity | 38 | 133 |
| 6 | Flower Kings | Stardust We Are | 34 | 104 |
| 7 | Fates Warning | A Pleasant Shade Of Grey | 27 | 94 |
| 8 | Yes | Keys To Ascension 2 | 32 | 86 |
| 9 | Savatage | The Wake Of Magellan | 19 | 59 |
| 10 | Discipline | Unfolded Like Staircase | 14 | 51 |
| 11 | Genesis | Calling All Stations | 22 | 47 |
| 12 | Jadis | Sommersault | 19 | 47 |
| 13 | Porcupine Tree | Coma Divine | 15 | 42 |
| 14 | Arena | Welcome To The Stage | 12 | 35 |
| 15 | Magellan | Test Of Wills | 11 | 32 |
| 16 | Finneus Gauge | More Once More | 8 | 31 |
| 17 | The Gathering | Nighttime Birds | 11 | 28 |
| 18 | Grey Lady Down | Fear | 9 | 28 |
| 19 | Chandelier | Timecode | 9 | 27 |
| Symphony X | The Divine Wings Of Tragedy | 9 | 27 | |
| 20 | Everon | Venus | 8 | 26 |
| 21 | Cast | Angels And Demons | 11 | 25 |
| 22 | Clepsydra | Fears | 8 | 25 |
| 23 | Steve Hackett | Genesis Revisited/Watchers Of The Skies | 9 | 23 |
| 24 | Enchant | Time Lost | 7 | 23 |
| 25 | Camel | Camel On The Road 81 | 5 | 23 |
| 26 | Threshold | Extinct Instinct | 8 | 22 |
| 27 | SAGA | Pleasure And The Pain | 6 | 21 |
| 28 | Twin Age | Lialim High | 6 | 19 |
| 29 | Darius | Voices From The Crowd | 4 | 19 |
| 30 | Arena | The Cry | 5 | 18 |
| 31 | Yes | Open Your Eyes | 7 | 15 |
| 32 | H | Ice Cream Genius | 6 | 14 |
| 33 | King Crimson | Epitaph | 5 | 13 |
| 34 | Saga | Phase One | 4 | 13 |
| 35 | King Crimson | Night Watch | 3 | 12 |
| 36 | Djam Karet | The Devouring | 4 | 11 |
| 37 | Finisterre Project | Hostonaten | 3 | 11 |
| Divine Regale | Ocean Mind | 3 | 11 | |
| 38 | Queensryche | Hear In The Now Frontier | 4 | 10 |
| 39 | Saviour Machine | Legend Part 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Iona | Heaven's Bright Sun | 3 | 10 | |
| 40 | Rhapsody | Legendary Tales | 2 | 10 |
| 41 | Isildurs Bane | MIND Volume 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Iluvatar | Sideshow | 4 | 9 | |
| 42 | Lands End | Natural Selection | 3 | 9 |
| Peter Gee | A Vision Of Angels | 3 | 9 | |
| 43 | Timothy Pure | Blood Of The Berry | 2 | 9 |
| 44 | Pendragon | Live In Krakow | 6 | 8 |
| 45 | Vanden Plas | The God Thing | 5 | 8 |
| 46 | Radiohead | OK Computer | 4 | 8 |
| 47 | Conception | Flow | 3 | 8 |
| 48 | Kerrs Pink | Art Of Complex Simplicity | 2 | 8 |
| Lemur Voice | Insights | 2 | 8 | |
| Odyssice | Moon Drive | 2 | 8 | |
| 49 | Tiles | Fence The Clear | 4 | 7 |
| 50 | John Wetton | Arkangel | 3 | 7 |
| 51 | Tempus Fugit | Tales From A Forgotten World | 2 | 7 |
| 52 | Red Jasper | Anagrammary | 3 | 6 |
| 53 | Sinkadus | Aurum Nostrum | 2 | 6 |
| Cromwell | Burning Banners | 2 | 6 | |
| Bruce Dickinson | Accident Of Birth | 2 | 6 | |
| 54 | Royal Hunt | Paradox | 2 | 5 |
| Barclay James Harvest | River Of Dreams | 2 | 5 | |
| 55 | Within Temptation | Enter | 1 | 5 |
| Liquid Sound Company | Exploring The Psychedelic | 1 | 5 | |
| U.P. | Mindfailure | 1 | 5 | |
| H2O | Unopuntosei | 1 | 5 | |
| Swell | Too Many Days Without Thinking | 1 | 5 | |
| Soundscape | Discovery | 1 | 5 | |
| 56 | Iced Earth | Days Of Purgatory | 3 | 4 |
| 57 | Fruitcake | One More Slice | 2 | 4 |
| After The Fall | In A Safe Place | 2 | 4 | |
| Final Conflict | Stand Up | 2 | 4 | |
| Lizard | W Galerii Czasu | 2 | 4 | |
| Megadeth | Cryptic Writings | 2 | 4 | |
| Minimum Vital | Esprit d'Amor | 2 | 4 | |
| Blackmore's Night | Shadow Of The Moon | 2 | 4 | |
| 58 | Enchant | Wounded | 1 | 4 |
| Scott Mcgill | The Hand Farm | 1 | 4 | |
| The Mentals Go Fishing | Mentalbum | 1 | 4 | |
| Django Bates | Winter Truce (And Fires Blaze) | 1 | 4 | |
| Pekka Pohjola | Pewit | 1 | 4 | |
| Foglio Di Vetro | Same | 1 | 4 | |
| Vulgar Unicorn | Sleep With The Fishes | 1 | 4 | |
| Renaissance | At The Royal Albert Hall Pt. 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Black Jester | Divine Comedy | 1 | 4 | |
| Par Lindh Project | Bilbo | 1 | 4 | |
| Galadriel | Mindscapers | 1 | 4 | |
| 59 | Sieges Even | Uneven | 2 | 3 |
| Landberk | Indian Summer | 2 | 3 | |
| 60 | Lightmare | The Fool | 1 | 3 |
| Frank Zappa | Lather | 1 | 3 | |
| Ambrosia | Anthology | 1 | 3 | |
| Eternity-X | The Edge | 1 | 3 | |
| XII Alphonzo | The Lost Frontier | 1 | 3 | |
| World Turtle | Wilderness Of Eden | 1 | 3 | |
| Vjestice Croatia | Kradljivac Srca | 1 | 3 | |
| Volare | Uncertainty Principle | 1 | 3 | |
| ASIA | Live In Koln | 1 | 3 | |
| Therion | A Arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming | 1 | 3 | |
| Superior | Behind | 1 | 3 | |
| Judas Priest | Jugulator | 1 | 3 | |
| Roland Grapow | 4 Seasons Of Life | 1 | 3 | |
| Seppo Tyni | Niin Aina | 1 | 3 | |
| Nepenthe | Everything Was Beautiful.... | 1 | 3 | |
| Gentle Giant | Under Construction | 1 | 3 | |
| Peter Hammill | Everyone You Hold | 1 | 3 | |
| 61 | Blue Shift | Not The Future I Ordered | 1 | 2 |
| Brandywine | I Have A Kite | 1 | 2 | |
| Marathon | Norm | 1 | 2 | |
| Zello | Zello | 1 | 2 | |
| Deep Purple | Live At Olympia | 1 | 2 | |
| Oracular | Volition And Deceptions | 1 | 2 | |
| Foo Fighters | The Colour And The Shape | 1 | 2 | |
| Versus X | Disturbance | 1 | 2 | |
| Psychomusak | The Exstazy | 1 | 2 | |
| Various-Mellow Records | Zarathustra's Revenge | 1 | 2 | |
| Court | Distances | 1 | 2 | |
| Jimi Hendrix | First Rays Of The New Rising Sun | 1 | 2 | |
| G3 | G3 Live Albom | 1 | 2 | |
| Lacrimosa | Stille | 1 | 2 | |
| Stratovarius | Visions | 1 | 2 | |
| Psychotic Waltz | Bleeding | 1 | 2 | |
| Sanvoisen | Soul Seasons | 1 | 2 | |
| Hard Rain | Hard Rain | 1 | 2 | |
| Soul Cages | Moments | 1 | 2 | |
| 62 | No Man | Dry Cleaning Ray | 1 | 1 |
| Glass Hammer | Perelandra | 1 | 1 | |
| Supertramp | Some Things Never Change | 1 | 1 | |
| Artension | Phoenix Rising | 1 | 1 | |
| Ars Nova | The Goddes Of Darkness | 1 | 1 | |
| Quasar Luxsymphoniae | Enlightening March Of The Argonauts | 1 | 1 | |
| Anthony Phillips | Time And Tide | 1 | 1 | |
| Psyco Drama | Bent | 1 | 1 | |
| Parallel Or 90 Degrees | Afterlifecycle | 1 | 1 | |
| Damian Wilson | Cosmas | 1 | 1 | |
| Metallica | Re-Load | 1 | 1 | |
| Tempest | The Gravel Walk | 1 | 1 | |
| Man On Fire | Man On Fire (Advance Copy) | 1 | 1 | |
| Renaissance | Songs From Renaissance Days | 1 | 1 | |
| Visible Wind | Narcissus Goes To The Moon | 1 | 1 | |
| The Quiet Room | Introspect | 1 | 1 | |
| Empty Tremor | Apocolokytosys | 1 | 1 | |
| Elp | King Biscuit Flower Hour Concert | 1 | 1 | |
| DFA | Lavori In Corso | 1 | 1 | |
| Eels | Beautiful Freak | 1 | 1 | |
| Rush | Test For Echo | 1 | 1 | |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens | Black Light Syndrome | 1 | 1 |