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Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen. The Metal Storm members made it happen. Here are the results of the annual Metal Storm Awards. The circle will now be complete.
The biggest and most pleasant surprise here for us at the Metal Storm HQ is just how many people took their time to vote in our ever-growing awards this year. We think we are well on our way to becoming the definitive metal awards in the world and we have our members to thank for it. We have also noticed from discussions in the forum and the shoutbox that many people took their time and listened to all the nominees before voting this year. Well done! We couldn't have done it without you and we appreciate all the effort and intelligent voting!
This year's biggest winners are Blind Guardian, Enslaved, Anathema, Agalloch and Scorpions, all of which managed to get over 500 votes each. Meanwhile, Wintersun seems to be annoying the highest amount of people by taking their sweet time to release their new album titled, uh, Time. It's about time to release this, too much hype can be a bad thing.
The closest battle occured in the Best Debut category, where Barren Earth valiantly fought against Triptykon only to finally win by... 1 vote! The post-Celtic Frost project also fared well in the Avantgarde category by securing second place behind Alcest (but by a larger margin).
But why are we rambling on about all of this? The results are now visible and we welcome you to check out all of them. You are definitely in for some surprises! Make sure you also discuss them in the forums and in this thread.
We are also very happy that so many people voted in the Clandestine Cuts category. This section still needs time to grow in popularity but this is a good start. Finally, no write-in vote has yet managed to win any category. This must mean our staff is pretty good at nominating the right albums. For our staff picks, please check back in a week or so!
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 Best albums by genre
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Other awards
Special award
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The Best Alternative Metal Album
The Best Black Metal Album
The Best Death Metal Album
The Best Doom Metal Album
The Best Extreme Doom Metal Album
The Best Gothic Metal Album
The Best Grindcore Album
The Best Hard Rock Album
The Best Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore Album
The Best Heavy Metal Album
The Best Industrial Metal Album
The Best Melodeath/Gothenburg Metal Album
The Best Pagan/Viking/Folk Metal Album
The Best Post-Metal/Avantgarde Metal Album
The Best Power Metal Album
The Best Progressive Metal Album
The Best Sludge/Stoner Metal Album
The Best Symphonic Metal Album
The Best Thrash Metal Album
Clandestine Cut Of The Year
The Best Cover Song
The Best Debut Album
The Best DVD
The Best Video
The Biggest Letdown
The Biggest Surprise
No Drama
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The biggest drama of 2010 is that... there was no drama.
2010 proved to be a fairly undramatic year in metal. Mike Portnoy quit the world's most popular progressive metal band to play poppy metalcore... only to quit poppy metalcore to play in his Beatles cover band. Some "artists" tried to capitalize on the death of a fellow brother-in-metal... Such events are pretty lame compared to previous years' drama of the year nominees. Besides, they were far overshadowed this year by what makes 2010 by far one of the darkest years in metal history. We lost a lot of comrades in 2010.
On April 14, Type O Negative front-man Peter Steele died at age 48.
May 15, Juhani Palomäki of Yearning and Colosseum passed away at 32.
On May 16, Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at the age of 67.
Also on May 16, influential thrash and death metal manager Debbie Abono died of cancer at the age of 80.
On May 25, Slipknot bassist Paul Gray died at age 38.
On August 1, Early Graves vocalist Makh Daniels died in an automobile accident.
On October 2, we lost Sweet Savage founding guitarist Trevor Fleming.
On October 5, Gotthard singer Steve Lee died.
On November 25, Saint Vitus' ex-drummer Armando Acosta passed away.
Let us use this opportunity to salute these fallen and those who we might have missed with a glass of our best lager. Let them remain in our memory. At the same time, in 2010 two famous metal musicians underwent life-threatening procedures. Adam "Nergal" Darski of Behemoth endured chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to conquer leukemia, while King Diamond underwent a successful triple-bypass surgery. Let us take solace in the knowledge that some warriors still remain victorious and hope that 2011 will be a much better year for all of us.
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