MS Awards 2016 - Staff Picks!!
| Written by: | D.T. Metal |
| Published: | March 10, 2017 |
It wasn't an easy task... emotions ran high?
threats were made... 
longtime friendships were on the verge of falling apart? 
Nah, it wasn't that bad, and in the end we came to our senses, hugged it out, and "kumbaya" was echoing in the halls of the MS Tower.
Some of our picks coincided with what you, our trusted users, have picked as the "Best Album" in the genre. Well? except for one particular album where the votes went into a tie-break and almost tied with the next choice once again. (*cough* sorry un-named Staff-member *cough*).
Make sure you check out some of the lesser known bands below and now, without further ado, here are our picks:
2016 Metal Storm Staff Picks
 | Alternative Metal Gojira - Magma |  | Ambient / Drone / Noise Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP |
 | Avantgarde / Experimental Metal Zeal And Ardor - Devil Is Fine |  | Black Metal Schammasch - Triangle |
 | Death Metal Départe - Failure, Subside |  | Djent / Math Metal The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation |
 | Doom Metal Khemmis - Hunted |  | Extreme Doom Metal Eye Of Solitude - Cenotaph |
 | Extreme Progressive Metal Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust [EP] |  | Folk / Pagan / Viking Metal Saor - Guardians |
 | Gothic Metal Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale |  | Grindcore Wormrot - Voices |
 | Hard Rock Vôdûn - Possession |  | Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore Oathbreaker - Rheia |
 | Heavy / Melodic Metal Metal Church - XI |  | Industrial / Cyber / Electronic Metal Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law |
 | Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal Dark Tranquillity - Atoma |  | Melodic Black Metal Rotting Christ - Rituals |
 | Metalgaze Alcest - Kodama |  | Post- Metal Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration] |
 | Power Metal Sunburst - Fragments Of Creation |  | Progressive Metal In The Woods... - Pure |
 | Sludge / Stoner Metal Ortega - Sacred States |  | Symphonic Metal Delain - Moonbathers |
 | Thrash Metal Flotsam And Jetsam - Flotsam And Jetsam |  | Clandestine Cut Of The Year Conjurer - I [EP] |
| Debut Départe - Failure, Subside |
So, the Metal Storm Awards are a wrap for this year. Hopefully you discovered some new bands in the process and now onward to 2017; which already promises to be a good year for metal.
The Metal Storm Awards Team
 | Written on 10.03.2017 by Former boss lady. Now just a professional concertgoer... dangerously armed with a camera! |
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| tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266  |
I slept on the Ortega release. Really dam good album.
---- rekt
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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
Haha Flotsam And Jetsam was also my vote. 
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287  |
Written by Maco on 10.03.2017 at 04:30 Thrash was a mess, some good albums and people with varying tastes. i went D666 on that one.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| EricAxel36 Posts: 164  |
Dark Tranquillity yes! Winter's Gate is ridiculously overrated. Insomnium pretended they wrote an incredibly epic album and everyone just ate it up.
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| Clutch Posts: 4 |
There we go. A way higher percentage of the picks align with my own. The popularity contest of the reader vote makes it pointless. People voting for Metallica for everything lol. I particularly like the Departe, Sunburst, and Zeal & Ardor picks. I also voted for Dark Tranquillity, Alcest, and Khemmis. I still think that the Gojira album is overrated. It's okay, not bad, but I think Katatonia's new album was much better. For progressive metal, I need to listen to that In The Woods more. It didn't catch my attention the first time I listened to it. I much preferred Haken, Oceans of Slumber, Anciients, Witherscape, and Fates Warning in there. I also really don't like the new Gorguts and easily prefer the new Ihsahn. It's all just opinion anyways
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
Written by Clutch on 10.03.2017 at 17:30 I wanted Witherscape for prog and threatened everybody in the Staff but to no avail :| Still think it was the best out of those awesome releases. Also would've preferred Katatonia, like you, but was happy with Sunburst, Vôdûn and Oathbreaker getting some recognition. Overall, more balanced yes.
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| 3rdWorld China was a neat Posts: 4367  |
Schammasch's Triangle as the best bm?
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15287 |
Written by [user id=162327] on 10.03.2017 at 21:01 will check that out, but I was quite happy with D666. what i meant by "a mess" was on initial staff pick voting we had like six people who each cast for a different album.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| MetalManic Posts: 653  |
I always enjoy the Staff Picks every year however I do miss the slightly descriptive blurbs featured alongside the presented albums. What gives?
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| fandango68 Posts: 194  |
Delain before Epica?????? You really have GOTTA be kidding...
---- First gig was Manowar (loincloths 'n' all), Bristol Colston Hall in March 1983, on the 'Hail to England' tour. Tickets were £3.75, 300 in the audience, Mercyful Fate never showed, but my hearing still got seriously trashed..
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| Nick Carter Posts: 257  |
I'm so happy to see Dark Tranquility, Trees of Eternity and, especially, Guardians (my 2016 fav). I will still miss Ocean's of slumber or even Witherscape, but you can't have everything.
---- #MetalIsForEveryone
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by fandango68 on 14.03.2017 at 21:19 No, we're not.
---- 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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| Cavernous Posts: 29  |
So long since the last time i entered this forum that almost forgot how much i disagree with metalstorm's official dogma
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| fandango68 Posts: 194 |
Written by Cavernous on 18.03.2017 at 02:02 No, I only really use his site for the catalogue of bands and their discographies.... never really found it to be a particularly friendly place either, tbh...
---- First gig was Manowar (loincloths 'n' all), Bristol Colston Hall in March 1983, on the 'Hail to England' tour. Tickets were £3.75, 300 in the audience, Mercyful Fate never showed, but my hearing still got seriously trashed..
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Cavernous on 18.03.2017 at 02:02 Holy shit dude, you are alive. Nice to see you and all! I can say i disagree with a couple of picks here but eh... It's just votes. Although I'm glad that most of us enjoyed Zeal & Ardor as well as Oathbreaker. I can't say I really understand what dogma you are talking about since we have at least 50% new people since the last time i saw you anyways! Written by fandango68 on 18.03.2017 at 12:49 Really? That's a shame. Any particular events you could have alerted the mods of? :\
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62015  |
Quote: Cool, I wish it was real lol
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Aker Posts: 11  |
Nice picks!!!. .. just i like Zeal and Ardor but... Meta from Thy Catafalque is a Materpiece!! 
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