Metal Storm Awards 2009 - Staff Picks Revealed!
Well, it is one week after your winners of the 2009 Metal Storm Awards were unveiled? you know what that means. It's time that we, the Metal Storm Staff, post up our winners.
We'd like to thank all the nominated bands for their efforts last year. There was a lot of good metal that we were able to enjoy. We spent the month of February listening to the nominees again and conducting our own polls. Some were runaway favorites whereas other genres had such tight competition that we required run-offs to determine a winner.
So we cordially invite you to tell us just how little we know about metal, how much our picks suck (or don't, if your tastes are similarly aligned)? you can do so here.
We'd like to thank all the nominated bands for their efforts last year. There was a lot of good metal that we were able to enjoy. We spent the month of February listening to the nominees again and conducting our own polls. Some were runaway favorites whereas other genres had such tight competition that we required run-offs to determine a winner.
So we cordially invite you to tell us just how little we know about metal, how much our picks suck (or don't, if your tastes are similarly aligned)? you can do so here.
| Category | Pick |
| Alternative | Mastodon - Crack The Skye |
| Atmospheric/Symphonic | Madder Mortem - Eight Ways |
| Black | Deströyer 666 - Defiance |
| Death | Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way |
| Doom | Process Of Guilt - Erosion |
| Extreme Doom | Colosseum - Numquam |
| Gothic | Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Grindcore | Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution |
| Hard Rock | Hardcore Superstar - Beg For It |
| Heavy | 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom |
| Melodeath/Gothenburg | Insomnium - Across The Dark |
| Metalcore | Converge - Axe To Fall |
| Pagan/Viking/Folk | Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin |
| Post-Metal/Avantgarde | Sólstafir - Köld |
| Power | Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays |
| Progressive | Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect |
| Sludge | Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs |
| Thrash | Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares |
| Cover song | Leaves' Eyes - Scarborough Fair (Traditional English song) |
| Debut album | Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu |
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| BlankFile Posts: 706 |
Nice pick in the Power Metal category by the staff of Metal Storm. Sonata Arctica´s The Days of Grays was really a great release and certainly the best in that genre in 2009! Stay Metal 
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| Sjuk Lord Of Jörg Posts: 71  |
Arkona didn't win the best Pagan/Viking/Folk Metal... I'm so sad 
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1353  |
Great picks! m/ I'm glad Paradise Lost won the staff awards since it didn't get the public one!
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| Ragana Rawrcat Posts: 4919  |
Man, I don't belong here. I've heard only two albums and nine bands of all. I don't know anything about power metal although I've heard the latest release of Sonata Arctica, but what I know for sure is that the Staff picked the best cover song (because of the performance, not the band itself or the album which indeed wasn't that great). Uh, what I REALLY want to hear is Sólstafir's "Köld"... and for a looong, loooong time.
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| replica of me Posts: 25  |
Written by BlankFile on 08.03.2010 at 23:08 IMO it was a horrible pick. This record has almost nothing to do with Power Metal. There were numerous albums that were much much better.
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| JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1567  |
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| MeloDeathViking Posts: 516  |
Glad to see BtBAM got some love here 
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Worst place!
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| ß Problem? Posts: 916  |
I sure prefer these picks over the current ones.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Odium on 09.03.2010 at 02:48 At least it's better than the users' pick  My favourites I discovered too late to try and get them in the staff nominations (Altar Of Plagues, Cobalt) But from the nominations I certainly went for Wolves In The Throne Room (guess it's not that surprising seeing which two releases I REALLY enjoyed last year)
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Nacur Posts: 50  |
Some of the pics were very nice...but... I have to say something about the Post/Avant-Garde, the first thing is that they should not be together...since they are pretty different. The second one is, Sólstafir's album was good, don't know if better than DSO, and could win the Avant-Garde. But considering the post metal bands...man, Sólstafir does not deserve it. =/ Hope next year we have different categories for this genres.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15288  |
Written by thesabbathfan on 09.03.2010 at 04:07 same could easily be said for the Megadeth album that racked up over 400 votes. As for Warbringer, have you seen them live? they were fantastic. i went to see Vader and a couple other bands, but walked out with Warbringer merch... they won me over. ____ as for black metal, tbh, it wasn't my top choice. Cobalt, which too few of us were able to check out in time, which i have already stated is my biggest regret of the entire process this year, and Oranssi Pazuzu were my top choices. but i'll take D666 over Immortal for '09.
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| thesabbathfan Posts: 410 |
Written by BitterCOld on 09.03.2010 at 05:13 yeah i saw them on Kreator's Hordes of Chaos tour. they have good stage presence and are talented for sure, but their music is just all style no substance...
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
I agree with the Warbringer choice, Asphyx and Process Of Guilt are ok, about the others, well, no comments.
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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| oroboros Posts: 134  |
Now this is a gud list...thank god Insomnium won..wonder who all voted for it???
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| Raiden Down Under Staff Elite Posts: 8292  |
Written by Nacur on 09.03.2010 at 04:50 Well we did have them separated but there weren't nearly enough Avantgarde releases so we combined it with the Post Metal category (the closest fit). A few of the nominees combine the styles in some way too so it wasn't too bad.
---- "Scream for me Melbourne!!!!" - Bruce Dickinson "I don't see any god up here" - Yuri Gagarin (while in orbit, 1961)
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| In Bone Factory Posts: 381  |
Finsterforst was a great choice but Sonata Arctica.
---- The End Is Nigh ...
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Ragana on 08.03.2010 at 23:33 You're mainstream  I do feel like I belong here since in the awards only two categories where I voted won [Metalcore and Post/avantgarde] but here I agreed with 5 votes in Metalcore, Atmospheric/Symphonic, Doom, Grindcore and best debut album. And also some of the albums that the staff choosed were in the second or third place imo, like in the death and extreme doom category. So yeah, this is way better than the awards, I'm glad that Oranssi Pazuzu got something, because they sure kick ass. I don't know shit about the power categories since I didn't vote for it... But Sonata Arctica?
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
Interesting picks.
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