| # | Musician | Band | Album Title | Votes | |
| 1 | John Petrucci | Dream Theater | Black Clouds & Silver Linings | 80 | |
| 2 | Roine Stolt | Transatlantic | The Whirlwind | 61 | |
| 3 | Steven Wilson | Porcupine Tree | The Incident | 49 | |
| 4 | Mike Holmes | Iq | Frequency | 37 | |
| Steve Hackett | Steve Hackett | Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth | 37 | |
| 6 | Piotr Grudzinski | Riverside | Anno Domini High Definition | 16 | |
| 7 | John Fontana | Shadow Circus | Whispers And Screams | 14 | |
| 8 | Roine Stolt | Agents Of Mercy | The Fading Ghosts Of Twilight | 12 | |
| 9 | Nick Barrett | Pendragon | Pure | 9 | |
| 10 | Dave Gregory | Big Big Train | The Underfall Yard | 8 | |
| Steve Rothery | Marillion | Less Is More | 8 | |
| Nick Barrett | Pendragon | Concerto Maximo | 8 | |
| 13 | Lori Linstruth | Guilt Machine | On This Perfect Day | 6 | |
| 14 | Roland Van Der Horst | Mangrove | Beyond Reality | 5 | |
| Björn Bisch | Martigan | Vision | 5 | |
| 16 | Mark Vermeule | Knight Area | Realm Of Shadows | 4 | |
| Brent Hinds | Mastodon | Crack The Skye | 4 | |
| Gary Wehrkamp | Shadow Gallery | Digital Ghosts | 4 | |
| 19 | Jocke Jj Marsh | Eggs & Dogs | You Are | 3 | |
| Jon Arne Vilbo | Gazpacho | Tick Tock | 3 | |
| Jp Louveton | Nemo | Barbares | 3 | |
| Carl Baldassarre | Syzygy | Realms Of Eternity | 3 | |
| Omar Rodriguez-lopez | The Mars Volta | Octahedron | 3 | |
| 24 | Speedy Saarinen | Ageness | Songs From The Liar's Lair | 2 | |
| Hansi Cross | Cross | The Thrill Of Nothingness | 2 | |
| Tony Iommi | Heaven & Hell | The Devil You Know | 2 | |
| Brick Williams | Hourglass | Oblivious To The Obvious | 2 | |
| John Mitchell | Lee Abraham | Black & White | 2 | |
| Matthew Bellamy | Muse | The Resistance | 2 | |
| Jim Matheos | OSI | Blood | 2 | |
| Ed Wynne | Ozric Tentacles | The Yum Yum Tree | 2 | |
| Nick Van Dyk | Redemption | Snowfall On Judgement Day | 2 | |
| Pete Prown | Sir Clive & The Raging Cartographers | Guitar Safari | 2 | |
| Steve Morse | Steve Morse Band | Outstanding In Their Field | 2 | |
| Markus Steffen | Subsignal | Beautiful & Monstrous | 2 | |
| Jan Petersen | Sylvan | Force Of Gravity | 2 | |
| Steve Rothery | The Wishing Tree | Ostara | 2 | |
| Jake Cinninger | Umphrey's Mcgee | Mantis | 2 | |
| 39 | Adrian Belew | Adrian Belew Trio | E | 1 | |
| Bjørn Riis | Airbag | Identity | 1 | |
| Esa Holopainen | Amorphis | Skyforger | 1 | |
| Mirek Gil | Believe | This Bread Is Mine | 1 | |
| Paul Waggoner | Between The Buried And Me | The Great Misdirect | 1 | |
| Greg Spawton | Big Big Train | The Underfall Yard | 1 | |
| Kalle Wallner | Blind Ego | Numb | 1 | |
| Stefan Damicolas | Brother Ape | Turbulence | 1 | |
| Peter Loeffler | Chevelle | Sci-fi Crimes | 1 | |
| Gerry Mc Gerigal | Dead Heroes Club | A Time Of Shadow | 1 | |
| Frank Bornemann | Eloy | Visionary | 1 | |
| Zbigniew Slatata | Elsie | Elsie [ep] | 1 | |
| Francis Dunnery | Francis Dunnery | Theres A Whole New World Out There | 1 | |
| Mattias Eklundh | Freak Kitchen | Land Of The Freaks | 1 | |
| Mikael Krømer | Gazpacho | Tick Tock | 1 | |
| Steve Hillage | Gong | 2032 | 1 | |
| Arjen Lucassen | Guilt Machine | On This Perfect Day | 1 | |
| Einar Baldursson | Gösta Berlings Saga | Detta Har Hänt | 1 | |
| Allan Holdsworth | Holdsworth - Haslip - Pasqua - Wackerman | Blues For Tony | 1 | |
| Paul Bremner | Izz | The Darkened Room | 1 | |
| Martin Sandström | Jeniferever | Spring Tides | 1 | |
| Joe Stump | Joe Stump | Virtuosistic Vendetta | 1 | |
| John Frusciante | John Frusciante | The Empyrian | 1 | |
| Tor Oddmund Suhrke | Leprous | Tall Poppy Syndrome | 1 | |
| Bill Kelliher | Mastodon | Crack The Skye | 1 | |
| Bo Madsen | Mew | No More Stories... | 1 | |
| Emanuele Colella | Mind Key | Pulse For A Graveheart | 1 | |
| Takaagira Goto | Mono | Hymn To The Immortal Wind | 1 | |
| Marcin Kruczek | Moonrise | Souls Inner Pendulum | 1 | |
| Liam Davison | Mostly Autumn | Pass The Clock | 1 | |
| Dave Foster | Mr. So & So | Sugarstealer | 1 | |
| Christophe Godin | Mörglbl | Jäzz For The Deaf | 1 | |
| Chris Poland | Ohmphrey | Ohmphrey | 1 | |
| Oz Noy | Oz Noy | Schizophrenic | 1 | |
| Ossi Schaller | Parzival's Eye | Fragments | 1 | |
| Gabriel Moffat | Phideaux | Number Seven | 1 | |
| John Wesley | Porcupine Tree | The Incident | 1 | |
| Stefan Artwin | Relocator | Relocator | 1 | |
| Kalle Wallner | Rpwl | The Rpwl Live Experience | 1 | |
| Ian Crighton | Saga | Human Condtion | 1 | |
| Francis Lickerish | Secret Green | To Wake The King | 1 | |
| Brendt Allman | Shadow Gallery | Digital Ghost | 1 | |
| Karl Groom | Shadowland | Edge Of Night | 1 | |
| Aldo Adema | Silhouette | Moods | 1 | |
| Brian De Graeve | Silhouette | Moods | 1 | |
| Steve Howe | Steve Howe | Homebrew 4 | 1 | |
| Gary Chandler | Steve Thorne | Into The Ether | 1 | |
| Steven Wilson | Steven Wilson | Insurgentes | 1 | |
| Ville Eriksson | Taipuva Luotisuora | Iv | 1 | |
| Devin Townsend | The Devin Townsend Project | Addicted | 1 | |
| Devin Townsend | The Devin Townsend Project | Ki | 1 | |
| René Rutten | The Gathering | The West Pole | 1 | |
| Francis Dunnery | The Syn | Big Sky | 1 | |
| Ari Lotringer | Time's Forgotten | Dandelion | 1 | |
| Neal Morse | Transatlantic | The Whirlwind | 1 | |
| Tommy Ermolli | Twinspirits | The Forbidden City | 1 | |
| Sylvester Vogelenzang De Jong | Ulysses | The Gift Of Tears | 1 | |
| Jos Wernars | Us | Everything Changes | 1 | |