Metal Storm Awards 2015 - Results Are Up!
The voting is closed, the votes are counted, the results are up.
Friends, Romans, countrymen: pencils down. You came, you saw, you voted, and now the die is cast - behold them, the conquerors of the [ed: wait, what? We're still doing the Star Wars theme? Hang on.] Gands, Devaronians, Calamarians: turn off your datapads. Another edition of the Metal Storm Awards has come and gone, like only so many nomadic Alwari. Observe the results; have your prophecies been fulfilled?
While 2014's Awards shook up the competition with some fresh and unexpected victors, in the case of 2015, like any good Death Star, you could sense the results from lightyears away - as if millions of voices suddenly cried out and immediately voted only for the bands they recognized. In many of these categories, the winner was the only nominee to break a hundred votes, and then often by a margin more expansive than the Rakatan Infinite Empire. The only category with a reasonably close competition was Power, in which Blind Guardian and Symphony X traded places more times than Darth Vader has had to replace his right hand; otherwise, nobody managed to bring balance to the votes. Enslaved, Paradise Lost, Ghost, Ensiferum, Lamb Of God - just about every field got swept. It might be about time to present Amorphis with a Lifetime Achievement Award and excuse them from future competitions.
Nightwish ran through the Symphonic category like a fleet of World Devastators, snatching victory from the jaws of... well, completely foreseeable victory, as they pulled away with more than ten times as many votes as the runner-up. Interestingly, Nightwish also comfortably secured the dubious distinction of Biggest Letdown, crushing other reputable acts like Iron Maiden, Slayer, and The Avengers II: Age of Ultron (whose nomination we're pretty sure was Joss Whedon's first-ever on this or any metal site). While two of our users seem to have declared ar'krai against that film, another took it upon themselves to defend Robert Downey, Jr.'s honor by nominating him for Best Power Metal Album.
Biggest Surprise went to Swallow The Sun and their three-disc, multi-genre epic Songs From The North I, II & III (and not to Michael Kiske on account of "how much he looks like a potato now"). Metal Storm itself received four separate nominations for Biggest Drama. It means a lot to us, guys, but we have to hand it to Immortal - not since the Max Rebo Band nearly became sarlacc food has a band died such an undignified death, only to be resurrected after some faffing about technicalities. The Blizzard Beasts even topped Wintersun (nominated again; might be Time II give up on that one, folks). On a lighter note, we at Metal Storm Towers heeded your requests, and this year we reintroduced the Best Album Artwork category, which generated a lot of attention.
Win or lose, we maintain our philosophy that the Metal Storm Awards are about the music, and not about who gets our lovely, prestigious trophies. If you're feeling disenfranchised about the results (which were more thoroughly predictable than The Force Awakens), just remember that the nominees are all still down there, still available to be uncovered by potential fans.
But enough talk; go check out the results!
Friends, Romans, countrymen: pencils down. You came, you saw, you voted, and now the die is cast - behold them, the conquerors of the [ed: wait, what? We're still doing the Star Wars theme? Hang on.] Gands, Devaronians, Calamarians: turn off your datapads. Another edition of the Metal Storm Awards has come and gone, like only so many nomadic Alwari. Observe the results; have your prophecies been fulfilled?
While 2014's Awards shook up the competition with some fresh and unexpected victors, in the case of 2015, like any good Death Star, you could sense the results from lightyears away - as if millions of voices suddenly cried out and immediately voted only for the bands they recognized. In many of these categories, the winner was the only nominee to break a hundred votes, and then often by a margin more expansive than the Rakatan Infinite Empire. The only category with a reasonably close competition was Power, in which Blind Guardian and Symphony X traded places more times than Darth Vader has had to replace his right hand; otherwise, nobody managed to bring balance to the votes. Enslaved, Paradise Lost, Ghost, Ensiferum, Lamb Of God - just about every field got swept. It might be about time to present Amorphis with a Lifetime Achievement Award and excuse them from future competitions.
Nightwish ran through the Symphonic category like a fleet of World Devastators, snatching victory from the jaws of... well, completely foreseeable victory, as they pulled away with more than ten times as many votes as the runner-up. Interestingly, Nightwish also comfortably secured the dubious distinction of Biggest Letdown, crushing other reputable acts like Iron Maiden, Slayer, and The Avengers II: Age of Ultron (whose nomination we're pretty sure was Joss Whedon's first-ever on this or any metal site). While two of our users seem to have declared ar'krai against that film, another took it upon themselves to defend Robert Downey, Jr.'s honor by nominating him for Best Power Metal Album.
Biggest Surprise went to Swallow The Sun and their three-disc, multi-genre epic Songs From The North I, II & III (and not to Michael Kiske on account of "how much he looks like a potato now"). Metal Storm itself received four separate nominations for Biggest Drama. It means a lot to us, guys, but we have to hand it to Immortal - not since the Max Rebo Band nearly became sarlacc food has a band died such an undignified death, only to be resurrected after some faffing about technicalities. The Blizzard Beasts even topped Wintersun (nominated again; might be Time II give up on that one, folks). On a lighter note, we at Metal Storm Towers heeded your requests, and this year we reintroduced the Best Album Artwork category, which generated a lot of attention.
Win or lose, we maintain our philosophy that the Metal Storm Awards are about the music, and not about who gets our lovely, prestigious trophies. If you're feeling disenfranchised about the results (which were more thoroughly predictable than The Force Awakens), just remember that the nominees are all still down there, still available to be uncovered by potential fans.
But enough talk; go check out the results!
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| Karlabos Posts: 5769  |
^ It looks like a vagina
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3419  |
Quote:Written by woodsmoke666 on 03.03.2016 at 23:15 Here's an example of why high ratings don't always mean votes. In the black category, 2 albums I'd given 9s to were nominated (I think they were the only 9s I gave in the genre last year). Both albums I gave high ratings to, but I could only choose 1 (neither o them won, unfortunately). Hence an album that's number 2 or 3 on someone's genre list will rate highly, but still won't get the votes because it isn't their number 1 pick.
---- "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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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3419 |
Written by Ilham on 03.03.2016 at 00:23 Good to see you back. I keep copies of my favourite album covers on my wall. This was my vote. 
---- "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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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3419 |
And more importantly, does anyone agree that Kiske looks like a potato? (see band photo in the new Kiske/Somerville album)
---- "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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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
Written by woodsmoke666 on 03.03.2016 at 23:15 Simply because it's not what the staff thinks. I usually don't agree with some of their nominations too, but it's their decision at the end of the day, not ours. And the user ratings are there just to help some people to find more music. If it has a high score, it has more chances to get some listens from new people. It's not related to the awards. Under The Red Cloud was nominated, not because it was the album with the highest rating from last year, it was because the staff thought it was good enough to get nominated.
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| D.T. Metal Staff Posts: 4193  |
Written by Maco on 04.03.2016 at 06:47 hmmm; or it maybe had something to do that Under The Red Cloud is THE highest voted album in their genre  Granted, it's under melo-death but we felt it's more melodic than deathish. And whoever was complaining about the black metal noms .... do me a favor and check the genre albums of 2015 and compare to how many top voted albums actually DID get nominated. Yep, some maybe not in black metal since we felt it sounds more like something else. The top albums in the genre DID win in other cats. Enslaved, Tribulation, Melechesh for example. Just saying 
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| Classic Bob G Posts: 46  |
Metal Storm: The only website that could have Endless Forms Most Beautiful simultaneously be the best Symphonic album and the biggest disappointment. That album was dope as hell.
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| Karlabos Posts: 5769 |
^Ha! Hadn't noticed that. I guess sympho metal fans predicted that all the others would suck so they weren't even disappointments?
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| ToxicGriever Posts: 16  |
Every user who voted Tribulation's newest as the best death metal album needs a refresher course on what death metal is.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989  |
Written by ToxicGriever on 04.03.2016 at 22:06 Surely! Obituary, Morbid Angel, CC, and Malevolent Creation or GTFO. Death to all posers and their post-2000, pseudo death metal wankery! Listening to Tribulation is a tribulation in itself. Emptiness gives me spiritual emptiness. Bolzer should be crushed beneath a boulder!  Am I doing it right or nah?
---- 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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| Alakazam spendin' cheese Posts: 1218  |
Written by CoolNameGuy91 on 04.03.2016 at 00:20 Awww. Well that made my shit week so far clean up a bit. ^_^
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| ToxicGriever Posts: 16 |
Written by Auntie Sahar on 05.03.2016 at 00:34 Written by [user id=4365] on 05.03.2016 at 00:41 Apothecary - 0 !J.O.O.E.! -1 IMO, The Children of the Night is a gothic metal album with black metal vocals. Listen to the Cure cover they did for the special edition and tell me otherwise.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989 |
Written by ToxicGriever on 06.03.2016 at 01:46 Meh, I was half drunk when I made that post anyway, so excuse me if I misunderestimated you  You're probably right though, I don't necessarily disagree that death metal was a bit of an odd place for that album (Chaos Echoes as well)
---- 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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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18439  |
Written by ToxicGriever on 06.03.2016 at 01:46 I agree with you. But in another discussion I wouldn't use a cover as a basis to prove my point. Even if I was right with the rest of the album.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62283  |
How did ms staffers count drama? Your vote: Metal Storm - deadone, Redn1ght, racism some vote just dead one, something does those and any ms related votes was separate or counted as one?
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| Czerny Reiter Posts: 291  |
GTTongues' collab with Dragged into Sunlight in E.Doom also seemed rather out of place to me.
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| Zap Posts: 3589  |
Weird that Mgla won best black metal. I guess I never realized just how popular they were. Don't really understand why it would be so popular either. It's pretty normal stuff.
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| Karlabos Posts: 5769 |
Written by Zap on 09.03.2016 at 21:11 But then again isn't most popular stuff just normal in their respective genres?
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| Vombatus Potorro Posts: 2397  |
Tbh, the nominees in the BM category are hardly "popular" bands. I don't think it's weird.
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| Vombatus Potorro Posts: 2397 |
Written by [user id=4365] on 09.03.2016 at 21:58 Well dunno... veritable institutions doesn't always mean most votes (like Maiden). And to be fair, I've seen a lot of people discovering Mgla only now, and really appreciating what they do. That probably translates to the MS population, which is not necessarily the norm. Good example in AFoS, came in second (and along with Mgla they more than double Leviathan) and already won a few years back. I've never seen them so appreciated outside of MS.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989 |
Written by Zap on 09.03.2016 at 21:11 Or, in other words, "something that appeals to the majority of black metal fans"  Really though, I was pretty surprised that Leviathan didn't sweep the whole thing, Wrest and all his twisted splendor is far more known in the international BM community than Mgla are (I think?)
---- 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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| Corandy Posts: 6  |
I think metalstorm staff had an impact on the results. There were obviously write-in votes that could won or be second of third if they were staff picked. But most times i'm happy with the results  Thank you Metal Storm team!
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| K✞ulu Seeker of Truth Posts: 2574  |
I know I am beyond late with this one, but how the hell did Caligula's Horse not get nominated in the Prog Metal category??!!!
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