These are some of the results of 1998 Perpetual Motion Awards
used by permission from the The Perpetual Motion Board

My thanks to everyone that voted this year. The winners are in numerical order. I also listed an "honorable mention" for a significant share of the votes. A (*) indicates TOTAL DOMINATIION OF A CATEGORY.
-Glenn "Harvester of Sorrow" Harveston


And the Perp goes to:

Prog Metal Disc:
*1.Shadow Gallery- "Tyranny"
2. Pain of Salvation- "One Hour by the Concrete Lake"
3. Symphony X- "Twilight in Olympus"
Honorable Mention: Athena- "A New Religion?", Savatage-" The Wake of the Magellen," Superior- "Younique"


Band:
1. Shadow Gallery
2. Symphony X
3. Blind Guardian
Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation


Vocalist:
1. Russell Allen (Symphony X)
2. Mike Baker (Shadow Gallery)
3. Tie: Ray Alder (Fates Warning)/Chris Salinas (Power of Omens)
Honorable Mention: DC Cooper (Royal Hunt), Daniel Gildenlow ( Pain of Salvation)


Bassist:
1. John Myung (Dream Theater)
2. Carl Cadden-James (Shadow Gallery)
3. Tony Levin (King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment)
Honorable Mention: Thomas Miller (Symphony X)


Keyboardist:
1. Jens Johansson (Stratovarius)
2. Chris Ingles (Shadow Gallery)
Tie: Kevin Moore (Chroma Key)/Vitalij Kuprij (Artension)
Honorable Mention: Michael Pinnella (Symphony X)


Song:
1. New World Order (Shadow Gallery)
2. Through the Looking Glass (Symphony X)
3. Test of Wills (Power of Omens)
Honorable Mention: Bands with multiple nominations: Angra, Shadow Gallery, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Symphony X


Producer/team:
1. Carl Cadden-James, Gary Wehrkamp, & Shadow Gallery
2. Flemming Rasmussen & Blind Guardian
3. Jim Morris
Honorable Mention: Jon Olivia, & Paul O'Neil


Song writer(s):
1. Carl Cadden-James Chris Ingles, Mike Baker
2. David DeFeis
3. Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Honorable Mention: Hansi Kursch/ Andre Olbrich, Jim Matheos


Band you most want to see tour the US (open to US residents only):
1. Tie: Shadow Gallery/Symphony X
3. Blind Guardian
Honorable Mention: Stratovarius, Angra


Band you most want to see tour Europe (open to European residents):
1. Shadow Gallery
2. Rhapsody
3. Ocean Machine
Honorable Mention: Pain of Salvation


Hall of Fame (3 inductees):
1. Dream Theater
2. Queensryche
3. Savatage
Honorable Mention: Rush, Shadow Gallery, Iron Maiden