Awards Voting Now Closed
So this, the 10th Annual Metal Storm Awards, have come to pass.
The awards have continued to grow, with numerous categories surpassing 1000 votes cast, despite a lack of big name clout. For point of comparison, Therion was the biggest vote getter in our first ever awards, racking up 191 for Lemuria. In 2014 they barely would have cracked the Top 25. And that is only if Kvelertak doesn't score two more votes as I type this during the waning hours of the month. That is some growth.
While in general this lack of big names in many genres lead to some closer contests, as with each of the prior 9 editions, we also had the typical big name beat downs. Carcass racked up nearly 600 votes, nearly half cast in the Death Metal field. TesseracT also pulled nearly half the votes in Djent, thumping their competitors. Ever popular Amorphis exorcised Ghost B.C. by over 200 votes, and garnering a third of the vote in a busy Heavy/Melodic metal.
Conversely Orphaned Land won a relatively tight 20 vote victory over Finntroll in a strong Folk / Pagan / Viking cast, and Amaranthe for eeking out a "count the difference on your fingers" victory over Shining in Industrial/Cyber Metal. Congrats and hails to Gloryhammer for winning Best Debut.
Best Clandestine Cut was the newest, bestest, tightest race ever. How tight? Try a tie. Our first tie ever. Deception was winning by a paltry two votes over Pin-Up Went Down as I wrote this up with about an hour before voting closed and went down to the wire as a tie with 20 minutes to go. This has left me furiously typing and updating this piece so it's accurate. Maybe we can find the brick who voted for My Dying Bride to break the tie?
Earlier this year your humble narrator didn't have great things to say about the latest Megadeth? Looks like the Metal Storm masses found it equally limp, Burn!ing it with Biggest Letdown, with more than double the write-ins of second place "winner" Turisas.
And much to my surprise,Carcass Black Sabbath took Biggest Surprise for making an album that wasn't even remotely surprising. Not sure what y'all were expecting from them? Grind Zydeco? Death Doom Himalayan Throat Singing?
Check out all our winners here.
So 10 up, 10 down. Congratulations to our winners. But more importantly, congratulations to those fans who found new bands, and those bands who found new fans.
The awards have continued to grow, with numerous categories surpassing 1000 votes cast, despite a lack of big name clout. For point of comparison, Therion was the biggest vote getter in our first ever awards, racking up 191 for Lemuria. In 2014 they barely would have cracked the Top 25. And that is only if Kvelertak doesn't score two more votes as I type this during the waning hours of the month. That is some growth.
While in general this lack of big names in many genres lead to some closer contests, as with each of the prior 9 editions, we also had the typical big name beat downs. Carcass racked up nearly 600 votes, nearly half cast in the Death Metal field. TesseracT also pulled nearly half the votes in Djent, thumping their competitors. Ever popular Amorphis exorcised Ghost B.C. by over 200 votes, and garnering a third of the vote in a busy Heavy/Melodic metal.
Conversely Orphaned Land won a relatively tight 20 vote victory over Finntroll in a strong Folk / Pagan / Viking cast, and Amaranthe for eeking out a "count the difference on your fingers" victory over Shining in Industrial/Cyber Metal. Congrats and hails to Gloryhammer for winning Best Debut.
Best Clandestine Cut was the newest, bestest, tightest race ever. How tight? Try a tie. Our first tie ever. Deception was winning by a paltry two votes over Pin-Up Went Down as I wrote this up with about an hour before voting closed and went down to the wire as a tie with 20 minutes to go. This has left me furiously typing and updating this piece so it's accurate. Maybe we can find the brick who voted for My Dying Bride to break the tie?
Earlier this year your humble narrator didn't have great things to say about the latest Megadeth? Looks like the Metal Storm masses found it equally limp, Burn!ing it with Biggest Letdown, with more than double the write-ins of second place "winner" Turisas.
And much to my surprise,
Check out all our winners here.
So 10 up, 10 down. Congratulations to our winners. But more importantly, congratulations to those fans who found new bands, and those bands who found new fans.
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| Hex_Omega Gem Seeker Posts: 1178 |
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| psykometal A staff guy... Elite Posts: 6101  |
Damnit! Finally got a minute with some WiFi to jump on the Kindle to get all my votes in, and it closed while I was voting in Heavy. -_-
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15293  |
Written by pojechany on 01.03.2014 at 00:20 because we didn't have the clean up done and an astonishing number of voters cannot enter an artist and album title properly.
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311  |
Written by BitterCOld on 01.03.2014 at 00:46 There's also that Devin's MS profile includes the work of The Devin Townsend Band and Devin Townsend Project, so in this specific case they should be counted.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989  |
I'm sorry, but Inquisition winning black metal is just sickening. Pure example of the sheeple en masse voting for bands out of popularity rather than on actual ability. I mean I could dig Obscure Verses For The Multiverse, don't get me wrong, but putting that against Carpe Noctem, Cult Of Fire, Wormlust, and Progenie Terrestre Pura... Come the fuck on, guys. Seriously.
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| psykometal A staff guy... Elite Posts: 6101 |
Written by Auntie Sahar on 01.03.2014 at 03:19 Couldn't agree more. PTP got my vote.
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Account deleted Written by Auntie Sahar on 01.03.2014 at 03:19 Of course. This is nothing new. The whole point of the awards is for the exposure of the lesser-known artists which are often many times better than their better known counterparts. There is no discernible relation between quality and popularity so just because a band won it doesn't mean that they are better, just better known 
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| Vombatus Potorro Posts: 2394  |
I think Inquisition winning is one of the least sickening things about the votes... coz if you look the amount of votes, they are quite equally distributed, Inquisiton (with only 16,18% of votes) ending up first coz they might be more popular than the rest (though I would not consider them a "popular" band by any means). And all must be said, the BM was really tight this year in terms of quality with lots of great stuff, which was reflected in vote distribution. Compare it to DM category, that is an aberration and very illustrative of the awards being purely popularity... goddamn Carcass got over 46% !! Holy shit, I thought people would realise that 6 or 7 of the other nominees are vastly superior and would somehow bring a little bit of competition (even if Carcass was bound to win anyway, not doubt, but not by such abysmal difference).
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| Dracoil Posts: 146  |
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3415  |
Written by BitterCOld on 01.03.2014 at 00:46 Need an instructional video on how to copy and paste from the already written in write in votes.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989 |
Written by [user id=4365] on 01.03.2014 at 03:40 It's nothing new, but this year it just seems that the popularity vote is a lot more intense than before. Really the only winning bands I can agree with are Kvelertak, The Ruins Of Beverast (although I preferred Station Dysthymia), and Avatarium (although I preferred Dark Buddha Rising).
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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| Rulatore Posts: 1108  |
I'm just impressed by the winners... Carcass over any other in the death metal category ? This is sick. Also, Amorphis winning the heavy metal category with Ghost in second. I want to puke, holy shit. The others winners were terrible, almost all of them, but these two were the worse.
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| psykometal A staff guy... Elite Posts: 6101 |
Written by Rulatore on 01.03.2014 at 05:20 Ghost winning would have been just as bad. Hell, Twilight of the Gods and Enforcer were far superior to Amorphis and Ghost.
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| Rulatore Posts: 1108 |
Written by psykometal on 01.03.2014 at 06:23 That's what I wanted to say  I personally thought that Satan was going to win, easily... how wrong I was 
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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18389  |
Written by Vombatus on 01.03.2014 at 04:00 Thank you. It needed to be said... I actually think all the albums from that category are superior to Carcass (maybe not Revocation though). I honestly can't believe they even got nominated. This proves you that even between the staffers/elites that take part of the nominations... we still disagree immensely and few leave satisfied. Written by Auntie Sahar on 01.03.2014 at 04:36 Nah, I disagree. It has always been this way and like Vombatus said: BM was actually one of the least offensive results considering how the votes are distributed. DM is by the the sickest example but still: Nothing irregular about this. My bet is that it looks this way to you because now you took part of the whole process... So everything looks awesome, right before leaving all the nominees and the fanboys come and do their work.
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3415 |
Can't believe Omnium Gatherum didn't win. Beyond was in the top 10 for half the year. Anathema only won best dvd cause Devin Townsend and Nightwish got split each. Otherwise they would have been 2nd and 1st.
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7595  |
Well, people whining related to favorites is same as every year. As JOOE quoted, "This is nothing new". We got to have to drink the pain and move on. This year, popularity awfully exceeded over precious quality. Hell, many winners woudn't happy to see MS awards of 14 and they themselves know how drab their new record was. Some cats were as shocking as see ugly fat lady groping me while others were just fine enough.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7595 |
Written by Auntie Sahar on 01.03.2014 at 04:36 Man, I voted for ETL and I'd like Dark Buddha. Now, seeing Black Sabbath over our picks is like some malnutritioned guy punched in our guts and looting us. We're fucking handcuffed over results. Well, no worries. As I said, we should be
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
I'm surprised Avatarium won actually, but glad. The only other two categories I'm pleased with are prog (Leprous) and sludge/stoner (Kylesa). Well deserved.
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I honestly think, that Industrial Cyber Metal results and MS users, who voted for main winner in this category should be in next episode of Shaqtin' A Fool  Shaq - I don't have any doubts you have found Javale McGee replacement 
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| Eternity'sChild Posts: 152 |
For me, it was the first time with the metalstorm awards and I have to say, that I didn't expect the winners to be mostly just the most popular bands/albums of the year. But I'm not complaining, because I found lots of great stuff I didn't knew about. 
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| Hex_Omega Gem Seeker Posts: 1178 |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 01.03.2014 at 09:34 It happens every year The weird thing is that new Korn album wasn't even nominated in Alternative category this year, while their previous album 'The Path Of Totality' which most people hate (on MS, just look at rating 5.5) actually Won in 2011 in Industrial/Cyber/Electronic category. James LaBrie, Karnivool, Blindead? Ok, good albums indeed, but Korn is for me the purest example of 'Alternative Metal'.
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
Haha, I agree about the surprise of Black Sabbath winning the biggest surprise award.
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Written by Dracoil on 01.03.2014 at 04:22 Of course!
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