Congratulations, everyone: you've made it to the end. The results of the 2023 Metal Storm Awards are now online.

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Look alive, fellas - the 2023 Metal Storm Awards are now open for voting. And you can thank Pope Gregory XIII, because this year, like every year ending in 4, we've got a whole other day in February to spend being atomically super brutal.

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It's been a long short month, and after heaps and heaps of votes have rolled in (most of them within the first five minutes), it's time to check the counters and see which of your predictions came true and which of your longshots pulled through. The 2022 Metal Storm Awards are closed and the winners are on display. Feel free to discuss the results below.

That's about it for the 2022 season, folks. In a couple of weeks we'll have the 2022 staff picks article online, and after that, it's time to start preparing for 2023.

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The Metal Storm Awards can never arrive fast enough - for one full month of 2023, you've been waiting for our biggest event of the year (and we've been frantically scrambling to put it together). The wait is well worth it, though, because we seem to be the only publication on the internet that actually waits until the end of the year to post our end-of-year lists. You'd be surprised how many great albums slide under the door at the end of December.

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Calling all Metal Storm users with a nose for news! Do you take pride in being the first to know the scuttlebutt? Do you have your finger on the pulse of the metal community? Do you do neither of those things but still have the ability to summarize recent events in a tight and efficient manner? If so, then Metal Storm wants your help.

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Russian avant-garde/jazz metal outfit Uhadish Distage (Ухадиш Дистаж) has announced that it will be donating the proceeds of album sales to charitable organizations to support Ukrainian relief.

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Band profile:	Uhadish Distage

In May 2018, US post-metal band Intronaut parted ways with their drummer, Danny Walker, citing “recent activity that we as individuals have zero tolerance for” as the impetus for the split. In his own statement, Walker, who has also performed with Cephalic Carnage, O Zorn!, Phobia, Teeth, and numerous others, acknowledged “serious allegations” of him “being a woman beater” – that is, accusations of physical assault made by his ex-girlfriend.

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Band profile:	Intronaut

The 2021 Metal Storm Awards have finally ended! It's time to march down the halls of metal history and find out who has been honored with this virtual distinction.

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Greetings, fellow Metal Stormers. While you are all making preparations for your end-of-year-holiday of choice, we here in Metal Storm Towers are gearing up for the most important holiday(s) of them all: the annual Metal Storm Awards.

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Dear Metal Stormers,

As you may have noticed, the site has undergone a few adjustments in recent months. We're now letting you in on what's happening and what that means for the site and its community.

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Big City, the '80s-inspired heavy metal project of Blood Red Throne guitarist Daniel Olaisen, has released a music video for the single "Testify," from the upcoming album Testify X.

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Band profile:	Big City

American metal quartet A Sound Of Thunder has released the details of a crowdfunding campaign to support its next album, entitled The Krimson Kult.

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Band profile:	A Sound Of Thunder

Dear readers, today marks a great change for Metal Storm as an institution and as a community. For over 20 years now, we have been a leading voice in the metal underground, providing invaluable resources for music fans through our database, forums, publications, and more. Up until now, we have managed to do this without asking anything in return, powering through year after year purely for the love of the craft. Metal Storm has always operated on a volunteer basis, never motivated by profit, and we had hoped that this would always be the case. Unfortunately, as we have seen over the last year, times change.

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Another February has been remanded to the custody of memory, and one of the most exciting editions of the Metal Storm Awards is now naught but a matter of record. The MSAs continue to expand slowly; if we can just pull Symphonic up to ten nominees next year (and we'll make an effort, we promise), we could hit a full 260 nominees in total (272, counting the Clandestine Cuts). We'll see how things go, but for now, thank you once again for taking the time to listen, vote, and enjoy all this music with us. Discuss the results below.

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Ivory Knight guitarist Rob Gravelle has released a cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter", taken from their 1973 album Houses Of The Holy.

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Band profile:	Rob Gravelle