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Melodic Black category is so much stronger than Black Metal this year. Good that Gaerea ended up in meloblack otherwise it would have been a bloodbath

00:41 - M C Vice

And I can never remember, do eps count as albums for the awards?

00:40 - M C Vice

Below the reviews? Didn't the write in button used to be just below the list of nominees?

00:39 - corrupt

MC Vice, you're misremembering that. Write-ins were always at the bottom. We just buffed up the UI and added a button to take you there so they get more visibility.

Reviews Articles

	Vertex The Purest Light
	Distant Tsukuyomi: The Origin
	Harakiri For The Sky Scorched Earth
	Avatarium Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
	The Great Old Ones Kadath
	Membrane Deathly Silence
	Besna Krásno
	Shedfromthebody Whisper And Wane
	Sunrot Passages [EP]
	Wardruna Birna

	A Year In Metal 2024
	Abattoir's Concert Hunt The Autumn Charm (2024)
	Splitting Hairs / Hearing Splits (Jul-Dec 2024)
	Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! December 2024
	Clandestine Cuts Vol. 14 Issue #12 Awesome New Demos and EPs
	Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! November 2024
	Clandestine Cuts Vol. 14 Issue #11 Awesome New Demos and EPs
	November Concert Round-Up

Events Now online Today

04.06 - Poland
Mystic Festival 2025 6

06.08 - Czech Republic
Brutal Assault 2025 6

11.05 - Austria
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsetour European Tour 2025 4

30.07 - Romania
Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2025 4

08.02 - Greece
Eluveitie: Ànv Rising European Tour 2025 - Part I 3

08.02 - Hungary
Paganfest 2025 - European Tour 3

27.05 - Hungary
Iron Maiden: Run For Your Lives World Tour 2025/26 (Europe) 3

Staff / Elite: 1

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Members: 16

Guests: 1107

Musicians' birthdays:

44 - Anna Brygård
35 - Daan Douma
39 - Daria Stavrovich
36 - Dmitry Lebed
(1964-1995) - Dwayne Goettel
66 - Enrique Héctor Chalar
49 - Freddy Lim
(1971-2025) - Fredrik "Fredda" Lindgren
38 - Hayley Morgan
45 - James Malone
(1964-2011) - Jani Lane
(1977-2023) - João Monteiro
40 - Johan Schuster
(1952-2016) - John "Big" Thomas
46 - José García
41 - Karl Linus Öhrn
51 - Kurt Parker Ballou
54 - Marcel Mönnig
7 - Marcin Walenczykowski
48 - Marco Kautonen
32 - Martin Matiašovič
47 - Mauricio Magaldi Suguihura
(1971-2003) - Mike Machette
31 - Nick "BeatenAndBarbecued"
41 - Nick Read
43 - Oliver Grbavac
57 - Paul Montgomery "Pauly" Shore
45 - Pedro J. Monge
54 - Radboud Burgsma
47 - Scotty Heath
38 - Sebastian Markus
35 - Simon Petrarca
43 - Takanori Matsumoto
24 - Thomas Young
63 - Tomoyasu Hotei
40 - Urban "Bruno" Medič
51 - Urs Fischer
70 - Václav Vlasák
58 - Walter Oberhofer
55 - Wayne Banks
70 - Wojciech Hoffmann

RIP:

2019 - Alex Brown
2021 - Casé Mar
2014 - Dmitry "Chiff" Semochkin
2015 - Joel DiPietro

Charts Top of 2024 Top 200

1.	The Halo Effect March Of The Unheard
2.	The Great Old Ones Kadath
3.	Harakiri For The Sky Scorched Earth
4.	Grave Digger Bone Collector
5.	Iotunn Kinship
6.	Patriarkh Пpopoк Илия
7.	Besna Krásno
8.	Wardruna Birna
9.	Hazzerd The 3rd Dimension
10.	Opeth The Last Will And Testament

1.	Megadeth Rust In Peace
2.	Judas Priest Painkiller
3.	Death Symbolic
4.	Opeth Blackwater Park
5.	Metallica Master Of Puppets
6.	Metallica Ride The Lightning
7.	Black Sabbath Paranoid
8.	Iron Maiden Powerslave
9.	Death The Sound Of Perseverance
10.	Agalloch The Mantle

1.	Iotunn Kinship
2.	Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
3.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
4.	Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek
5.	Wormwood The Star
6.	Opeth The Last Will And Testament
7.	Ulcerate Cutting The Throat Of God
8.	Wintersun Time II
9.	Gaerea Coma
10.	Panzerfaust The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion