| artist | score | votes | |
| A Perfect Circle | 9 | 2 | |
| A.C.T. | 193 | 33 | |
| Abarax | 8 | 1 | |
| Abraxas | 3 | 1 | |
| Abrete Gandul | 8 | 1 | |
| Acid Mothers Temple | 14 | 2 | |
| Ad Infinitum | 4 | 1 | |
| Adagio | 13 | 2 | |
| Aereogramme | 8 | 1 | |
| Afro Celt Sound System | 2 | 1 | |
| After Crying | 24 | 7 | |
| After Forever | 39 | 8 | |
| Agalloch | 8 | 1 | |
| Aina | 3 | 1 | |
| Akineton Retard | 9 | 1 | |
| Al Stewart | 3 | 1 | |
| Alamaailman Vasarat | 15 | 3 | |
| Alan Holdsworth | 6 | 1 | |
| Alan Parsons Project | 3 | 1 | |
| Alaska | 9 | 1 | |
| Aldo Nova | 4 | 1 | |
| Alias Eye | 7 | 1 | |
| Alice Cooper | 9 | 1 | |
| Alquin | 9 | 1 | |
| Amagrama | 10 | 1 | |
| Amon Ra | 5 | 1 | |
| Amorphis | 9 | 1 | |
| Amplifier | 9 | 2 | |
| Anathema | 195 | 31 | |
| Andromeda | 17 | 5 | |
| Anekdoten | 57 | 12 | |
| Angra | 24 | 4 | |
| Anti-depressive Delivery | 10 | 1 | |
| Aragon | 4 | 1 | |
| Archive | 3 | 1 | |
| Arcturus | 1 | 1 | |
| Area 39 | 4 | 1 | |
| Areknamés | 3 | 1 | |
| Arena | 991 | 165 | |
| Ark | 86 | 15 | |
| Ars Nova | 10 | 1 | |
| Artsruni | 7 | 1 | |
| Asia | 47 | 10 | |
| Asturias | 10 | 1 | |
| Audioslave | 2 | 1 | |
| Avantasia | 11 | 2 | |
| Ayreon | 829 | 142 | |
| Beardfish | 7 | 2 | |
| Ben Folds | 7 | 1 | |
| Ben Folds Five | 9 | 1 | |
| Beyond Twilight | 4 | 1 | |
| Big Big Train | 12 | 2 | |
| Billy Joel | 8 | 1 | |
| Bjork | 6 | 1 | |
| Bjorn Lynne | 6 | 1 | |
| Blackfield | 134 | 24 | |
| Blind Guardian | 2 | 1 | |
| Blof | 1 | 1 | |
| Bob Catley | 3 | 1 | |
| Borknagar | 4 | 2 | |
| Bozzio Levin Stevens | 25 | 5 | |
| Brian Wilson | 5 | 2 | |
| Brother Ape | 9 | 1 | |
| Bruce Dickinson | 8 | 2 | |
| Bruce Hornsby | 3 | 1 | |
| Cabezas De Cera | 7 | 1 | |
| Cairo | 5 | 1 | |
| Calexico | 5 | 1 | |
| Camel | 244 | 50 | |
| Cannata | 11 | 2 | |
| Caravan | 2 | 1 | |
| Carpark North | 6 | 1 | |
| Carptree | 2 | 1 | |
| Cast | 5 | 1 | |
| Catherine Wheel | 10 | 1 | |
| Celtic Frost | 2 | 1 | |
| Chain | 7 | 1 | |
| Charisma | 5 | 1 | |
| Cheap Trick | 15 | 2 | |
| Chimpan A | 7 | 2 | |
| Chris Gaines | 5 | 1 | |
| Chroma Key | 9 | 2 | |
| Circus Maximus | 26 | 4 | |
| Citizen Cain | 5 | 1 | |
| Clepsydra | 76 | 13 | |
| Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman | 28 | 6 | |
| Coheed & Cambria | 34 | 6 | |
| Coldplay | 109 | 24 | |
| Colin Bass | 6 | 1 | |
| Condition Red | 4 | 1 | |
| Conspiracy | 5 | 1 | |
| Cosmos | 6 | 1 | |
| Crash Dīet | 4 | 1 | |
| Credo | 24 | 5 | |
| Crucible | 24 | 3 | |
| Cryptic Vision | 8 | 3 | |
| Dali's Dilemma | 6 | 1 | |
| Damian Wilson | 9 | 3 | |
| Dark Suns | 6 | 1 | |
| Dave Bainbridge | 45 | 6 | |
| Dave Matthews Band | 10 | 1 | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 1 | |
| David Gilmour | 37 | 7 | |
| David Sylvian | 9 | 3 | |
| Dead Soul Tribe | 13 | 2 | |
| Death | 6 | 2 | |
| Deep Purple | 11 | 2 | |
| Derek Sherinian | 7 | 1 | |
| Discipline | 100 | 15 | |
| Discus | 9 | 2 | |
| Disillusion | 5 | 1 | |
| Djam Karet | 10 | 1 | |
| Doves | 2 | 1 | |
| Dream Theater | 2148 | 326 | |
| Dredg | 10 | 2 | |
| Ebony Ark | 7 | 1 | |
| Echolyn | 222 | 39 | |
| Edguy | 2 | 1 | |
| Editors | 7 | 1 | |
| Eleni Karaindrou | 1 | 1 | |
| Elfonia | 6 | 1 | |
| Elliott Smith | 8 | 1 | |
| Eloy | 12 | 2 | |
| Embrace | 6 | 1 | |
| Empty Tremor | 2 | 1 | |
| Enchant | 65 | 15 | |
| Ephel Duath | 3 | 1 | |
| Epica | 4 | 2 | |
| Ergo Sum | 8 | 1 | |
| Erik Norlander | 16 | 2 | |
| Eternity X | 8 | 1 | |
| Europe | 11 | 2 | |
| Event | 2 | 1 | |
| Evergrey | 53 | 12 | |
| Everon | 26 | 6 | |
| Explorer's Club | 28 | 6 | |
| Eyestrings | 3 | 1 | |
| Faith No More | 6 | 2 | |
| Fantômas | 2 | 1 | |
| Fat Freddy's Drop | 3 | 1 | |
| Fates Warning | 236 | 38 | |
| Final Conflict | 2 | 1 | |
| Finisterre | 2 | 1 | |
| Fish | 172 | 36 | |
| Flamborough Head | 11 | 2 | |
| Focus | 7 | 1 | |
| Fragile Vastness | 13 | 3 | |
| Frameshift | 20 | 3 | |
| Francis Dunnery | 10 | 1 | |
| Freak Kitchen | 1 | 1 | |
| French TV | 1 | 1 | |
| Frogg Cafe | 7 | 1 | |
| Frost* | 128 | 25 | |
| Funeral For A Friend | 8 | 1 | |
| GPS | 20 | 4 | |
| Galahad | 32 | 8 | |
| Galleon | 8 | 3 | |
| Gamma Ray | 3 | 1 | |
| Gary Brooker | 7 | 1 | |
| Gazpacho | 126 | 21 | |
| Geddy Lee | 1 | 1 | |
| Genesis | 88 | 21 | |
| Geoff Tate | 3 | 1 | |
| Glass Hammer | 147 | 31 | |
| Godsmack | 4 | 1 | |
| Godspeed You Black Emperor | 40 | 6 | |
| Gordian Knot | 14 | 3 | |
| Grand Stand | 2 | 1 | |
| Grandaddy | 9 | 1 | |
| Green Carnation | 58 | 7 | |
| Green Day | 6 | 1 | |
| Grey Lady Down | 10 | 1 | |
| Greyhaven | 5 | 1 | |
| Grovjobb | 5 | 1 | |
| Guapo | 5 | 1 | |
| Guy Manning | 3 | 1 | |
| H | 2 | 1 | |
| Halloween | 5 | 1 | |
| Hamadryad | 6 | 1 | |
| Hans Zimmer | 7 | 1 | |
| Happy The Man | 7 | 3 | |
| Hawkwind | 2 | 1 | |
| Heavens Cry | 1 | 1 | |
| Hidria Spacefolk | 1 | 1 | |
| High Wheel | 7 | 1 | |
| Hoobastank | 3 | 1 | |
| Hourglass | 3 | 1 | |
| Hybrid | 1 | 1 | |
| Hærskar | 8 | 1 | |
| Höstsonaten | 6 | 1 | |
| Höyry-kone | 8 | 2 | |
| H˙dra | 10 | 1 | |
| IQ | 1784 | 287 | |
| IZZ | 24 | 8 | |
| Ian Anderson | 39 | 4 | |
| Ian Mosley & Ben Castle | 1 | 1 | |
| Ice Age | 6 | 1 | |
| Illuvatar | 14 | 3 | |
| Imogen Heap | 10 | 1 | |
| Indukti | 2 | 1 | |
| Ines Project | 3 | 1 | |
| Inquire | 1 | 1 | |
| Iona | 88 | 16 | |
| Iron Maiden | 54 | 10 | |
| Isildurs Bane | 47 | 9 | |
| Isis | 6 | 1 | |
| Jadis | 26 | 7 | |
| James | 3 | 1 | |
| James Labrie | 4 | 1 | |
| Jane's Addiction | 1 | 1 | |
| Janison Edge | 8 | 1 | |
| Jean Michel Jarre | 1 | 1 | |
| Jethro Tull | 23 | 6 | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 8 | 1 | |
| Joel Hoekstra | 2 | 1 | |
| Joey Vera - A Chinese Firedrill | 6 | 1 | |
| John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess | 4 | 1 | |
| John Wetton | 16 | 2 | |
| Jon Lord | 3 | 2 | |
| Jon Oliva's Pain | 18 | 3 | |
| Jorn Lande | 10 | 2 | |
| Journey | 4 | 1 | |
| K2 | 12 | 2 | |
| KBB | 6 | 2 | |
| Kaipa | 94 | 22 | |
| Kamelot | 68 | 13 | |
| Kansas | 18 | 6 | |
| Karelia | 5 | 1 | |
| Karmakanic | 35 | 7 | |
| Karnataka | 54 | 10 | |
| Katatonia | 6 | 2 | |
| Kate Bush | 55 | 12 | |
| Kayak | 56 | 15 | |
| Kayo Dot | 10 | 1 | |
| Keith Emerson | 6 | 1 | |
| Keneally Metropole Orkest | 6 | 1 | |
| Kevin Gilbert | 87 | 16 | |
| King Black Acid And The Womb Star Orchestra | 7 | 1 | |
| King Crimson | 234 | 40 | |
| Kino | 201 | 37 | |
| Klaus Schulze | 4 | 1 | |
| Knight Area | 46 | 9 | |
| Koenji Hyakkei | 2 | 1 | |
| Kollar Attila | 3 | 2 | |
| Kotebel | 4 | 1 | |
| Kurt Rongey | 3 | 1 | |
| La Maschera Di Cera | 13 | 4 | |
| La Tulipe Noire | 3 | 1 | |
| Lacrimosa | 13 | 2 | |
| Lana Lane | 2 | 1 | |
| Landmarq | 20 | 4 | |
| Le Orme | 3 | 2 | |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 1 | |
| Like Wendy | 3 | 1 | |
| Lila Downs | 2 | 1 | |
| Liquid Scarlet | 6 | 2 | |
| Liquid Tension Experiment | 87 | 16 | |
| Little Atlas | 6 | 1 | |
| Little Tragedies | 5 | 1 | |
| Live | 2 | 1 | |
| Lord Of Mushrooms | 4 | 1 | |
| Loreena Mckennitt | 14 | 2 | |
| Lost Horizon | 10 | 1 | |
| Lunatica | 7 | 2 | |
| Machine And The Synergetic Nuts | 9 | 1 | |
| Madsword | 2 | 1 | |
| Maestoso | 5 | 1 | |
| Magellan | 2 | 1 | |
| Magenta | 191 | 35 | |
| Magic Pie | 38 | 9 | |
| Magma | 13 | 3 | |
| Malpractice | 2 | 1 | |
| Man On Fire | 3 | 1 | |
| Manfred Mann | 2 | 1 | |
| Mangala Vallis | 16 | 5 | |
| Mangrove | 3 | 1 | |
| Manic Street Preachers | 1 | 1 | |
| Manning | 14 | 2 | |
| Mansun | 5 | 1 | |
| Manu Chao | 9 | 1 | |
| Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 2 | 1 | |
| Marillion | 1438 | 233 | |
| Martin Darvill And Friends | 6 | 1 | |
| Martin Orford | 2 | 1 | |
| Massive Attack | 6 | 1 | |
| Mastermind | 14 | 2 | |
| Masterplan | 7 | 1 | |
| Mastodon | 6 | 1 | |
| Material | 10 | 1 | |
| Mats/Morgan | 16 | 2 | |
| Matthew Parmenter | 7 | 1 | |
| Maximum Indifference | 10 | 1 | |
| Mayfair | 7 | 1 | |
| Meat Loaf | 1 | 1 | |
| Megadeth | 6 | 1 | |
| Mercury Rev | 10 | 2 | |
| Meshuggah | 2 | 1 | |
| Metallica | 10 | 2 | |
| Mew | 42 | 7 | |
| Mike Keneally Band | 10 | 2 | |
| Mike Oldfield | 9 | 1 | |
| Mind Key | 2 | 1 | |
| Mind Odyssey | 9 | 1 | |
| Mind's Eye | 18 | 2 | |
| Mindflow | 9 | 2 | |
| Mindgames | 11 | 2 | |
| Miriodor | 10 | 2 | |
| Missa Mercuria | 5 | 1 | |
| Mogwai | 5 | 1 | |
| Mokoma | 10 | 1 | |
| Molly Bloom | 3 | 1 | |
| Moon Of Steel | 4 | 1 | |
| Moongarden | 21 | 4 | |
| Moonsafari | 57 | 10 | |
| Morte Macabre | 6 | 1 | |
| Mostly Autumn | 262 | 54 | |
| Mr. Bungle | 19 | 3 | |
| Muse | 282 | 47 | |
| Mägo De Oz | 19 | 2 | |
| Nathan Mahl | 3 | 1 | |
| Neal Morse | 622 | 109 | |
| Negua | 6 | 1 | |
| Nektar | 1 | 1 | |
| Nemo | 29 | 7 | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | 1 | 1 | |
| Nevermore | 30 | 5 | |
| Nexus | 1 | 1 | |
| Niacin | 10 | 1 | |
| Nick Magnus | 9 | 1 | |
| Night Watch | 1 | 1 | |
| Nightwish | 70 | 11 | |
| Nik Kershaw | 2 | 1 | |
| Nil | 32 | 4 | |
| Nine Inch Nails | 25 | 4 | |
| No Man | 18 | 3 | |
| Nosfell | 3 | 1 | |
| OSI | 68 | 13 | |
| Oceansize | 20 | 4 | |
| Opeth | 402 | 83 | |
| Orphan Project | 6 | 1 | |
| Orphaned Land | 13 | 2 | |
| Overhead | 19 | 5 | |
| Ozric Tentacles | 6 | 2 | |
| PFM | 11 | 3 | |
| Paatos | 24 | 6 | |
| Pagan's Mind | 11 | 2 | |
| Pain Of Salvation | 688 | 130 | |
| Pallas | 246 | 50 | |
| Parallel Or 90 Degrees | 5 | 1 | |
| Pat Metheny Group | 11 | 2 | |
| Paul Mccartney | 3 | 1 | |
| Pekka Pohjola | 7 | 1 | |
| Pendragon | 269 | 57 | |
| Peter Gabriel | 265 | 45 | |
| Peter Hammill | 7 | 1 | |
| Phideaux | 14 | 2 | |
| Phish | 4 | 1 | |
| Phoenix Foundation | 10 | 1 | |
| Pink Floyd | 6 | 2 | |
| Placebo | 4 | 1 | |
| Planet X | 12 | 2 | |
| Platypus | 11 | 2 | |
| Poets Of The Fall | 1 | 1 | |
| Porcupine Tree | 2352 | 387 | |
| Poverty's No Crime | 14 | 3 | |
| Priam | 13 | 2 | |
| Prince | 9 | 1 | |
| Proto-kaw | 42 | 10 | |
| Puhdys | 2 | 1 | |
| Pure Reason Revolution | 19 | 5 | |
| Pär Lindh Project | 6 | 2 | |
| Queensr˙che | 32 | 5 | |
| Quidam | 13 | 3 | |
| RPWL | 83 | 20 | |
| Radiohead | 324 | 51 | |
| Rain | 7 | 2 | |
| Rammstein | 8 | 1 | |
| Ray Wilson | 4 | 2 | |
| Redemption | 25 | 5 | |
| Renaissance | 5 | 1 | |
| Retroheads | 11 | 2 | |
| Rhapsody Of Fire | 4 | 1 | |
| Rick Van Der Linden | 8 | 1 | |
| Rick Wakeman | 28 | 4 | |
| Ricocher | 2 | 1 | |
| Riverside | 631 | 120 | |
| Robert Plant | 15 | 3 | |
| Rocket Scientists | 10 | 2 | |
| Roger Taylor | 4 | 1 | |
| Roger Waters | 20 | 4 | |
| Roine Stolt | 4 | 2 | |
| Roy Harper | 4 | 1 | |
| Royal Hunt | 9 | 1 | |
| Rumah Sakit | 14 | 2 | |
| Rush | 113 | 20 | |
| SBB | 13 | 2 | |
| Saens | 2 | 1 | |
| Saga | 54 | 12 | |
| Salem Hill | 65 | 12 | |
| Sanhedolin | 8 | 1 | |
| Satellite | 122 | 28 | |
| Savatage | 23 | 6 | |
| Saviour Machine | 3 | 1 | |
| Scapeland Wish | 4 | 1 | |
| Scorpions | 5 | 1 | |
| Seven Reizh | 6 | 2 | |
| Seventh Key | 8 | 1 | |
| Shadow Gallery | 154 | 34 | |
| Shakary | 26 | 5 | |
| Sieges Even | 98 | 17 | |
| Sigur Rķs | 47 | 11 | |
| Simon Phillips | 1 | 1 | |
| Simon Says | 6 | 1 | |
| Simple Minds | 7 | 1 | |
| Sinkadus | 5 | 1 | |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | 2 | 2 | |
| Solaris | 12 | 2 | |
| Sonata Arctica | 1 | 1 | |
| Soul Sirkus | 8 | 1 | |
| Spektrum | 5 | 1 | |
| Spiral Architect | 18 | 3 | |
| Splinter | 1 | 1 | |
| Spock's Beard | 1477 | 252 | |
| Stam1na | 7 | 1 | |
| Star One | 41 | 11 | |
| Steelhouse Lane | 9 | 1 | |
| Steely Dan | 2 | 1 | |
| Steve Hackett | 183 | 31 | |
| Steve Morse | 15 | 2 | |
| Steve Thorne | 17 | 3 | |
| Steve Vai | 5 | 2 | |
| Strangefish | 21 | 4 | |
| Strapping Young Lad | 4 | 1 | |
| Stream Of Passion | 24 | 5 | |
| Stride | 3 | 1 | |
| Styx | 4 | 2 | |
| Superior | 6 | 1 | |
| Sylvan | 338 | 60 | |
| Symphony X | 139 | 29 | |
| System Of A Down | 4 | 1 | |
| Syzygy | 2 | 2 | |
| T-tauri | 4 | 1 | |
| Taal | 5 | 1 | |
| Taking Back Sunday | 5 | 1 | |
| Tangerine Dream | 5 | 1 | |
| Tantalus | 10 | 1 | |
| Tatentel | 9 | 1 | |
| Tears For Fears | 16 | 4 | |
| Tempano | 8 | 1 | |
| Tenacious D | 6 | 1 | |
| Terje Rypdal | 8 | 1 | |
| The Amber Light | 21 | 3 | |
| The Audition | 7 | 1 | |
| The Aurora Project | 1 | 1 | |
| The Decemberists | 3 | 1 | |
| The Devin Townsend Band | 40 | 6 | |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan | 7 | 1 | |
| The Flaming Lips | 33 | 7 | |
| The Flower Kings | 1717 | 288 | |
| The Gathering | 142 | 25 | |
| The Gift | 10 | 2 | |
| The Lens | 15 | 2 | |
| The Mars Volta | 192 | 36 | |
| The Mountain Goats | 4 | 1 | |
| The Pineapple Thief | 42 | 9 | |
| The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 15 | 2 | |
| The Red Masque | 4 | 1 | |
| The Strokes | 2 | 1 | |
| The Syn | 7 | 1 | |
| The Tangent | 393 | 78 | |
| The Tea Party | 1 | 1 | |
| The Underground Railroad | 29 | 4 | |
| The Urbane | 4 | 1 | |
| The Watch | 30 | 6 | |
| Therion | 7 | 1 | |
| Thessera | 2 | 1 | |
| Thinking Plague | 11 | 2 | |
| Thomas Bodin | 3 | 1 | |
| Threshold | 153 | 35 | |
| Tiles | 2 | 2 | |
| Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers | 1 | 1 | |
| Timothy Pure | 19 | 4 | |
| Tirill | 8 | 1 | |
| Tom Waits | 8 | 1 | |
| Tomas Bodin | 33 | 6 | |
| Tomorrow's Eve | 4 | 1 | |
| Tony Banks | 7 | 1 | |
| Tool | 177 | 32 | |
| Tori Amos | 6 | 1 | |
| Toto | 5 | 1 | |
| Townscream | 2 | 1 | |
| Tr3nity | 4 | 2 | |
| Trans Siberian Orchestra | 11 | 2 | |
| Transatlantic | 1469 | 240 | |
| Trion | 4 | 1 | |
| Trivium | 1 | 1 | |
| Troy Donockley | 9 | 1 | |
| Twelfth Night | 4 | 1 | |
| Twilight Singers | 4 | 1 | |
| Twin Age | 14 | 2 | |
| U2 | 25 | 3 | |
| Umphrey's Mcgee | 4 | 2 | |
| Under The Sun | 7 | 2 | |
| Univers Zéro | 9 | 1 | |
| Universal Totem Orchestra | 1 | 1 | |
| Us | 34 | 4 | |
| Van Der Graaf Generator | 26 | 7 | |
| Vanden Plas | 71 | 12 | |
| Various Artists | 19 | 4 | |
| Victor Smolski | 7 | 1 | |
| Violent Silence | 10 | 2 | |
| Virgin Steele | 15 | 2 | |
| Vox Tempus | 6 | 1 | |
| Wetton / Downes | 21 | 4 | |
| White Willow | 63 | 12 | |
| Wicked Minds | 4 | 1 | |
| Wilco | 2 | 1 | |
| Within Temptation | 38 | 10 | |
| Wobbler | 38 | 8 | |
| Wolverine | 18 | 4 | |
| Wuthering Heights | 5 | 1 | |
| X-saviour | 2 | 1 | |
| XTC | 21 | 4 | |
| Yes | 229 | 45 | |
| Yolk | 9 | 1 | |
| Zenit | 10 | 1 | |
| Zero Hour | 11 | 4 | |
