Written by:	D.T. Metal
Published:	March 14, 2016

Every year, the Metal Storm Team puts together the Awards to allow you, our beloved users, to choose the absolute best albums of the previous year. And every year, you people screw it up so badly that we subsequently share with you our divine wisdom. Of course, even we happy few are not without our drama and shake-ups.

Though Melechesh, Deathhammer, and Chaos Ech?s comfortably eclipsed their fellows like an Eclipse-class Star Destroyer, Post and Sludge/Stoner saw support for nearly every nominee.

Marriages thoroughly obliterated their "competition," crushing the other nominees like a Haor Chall seismic tank in a surprisingly brutal takeover for such a non-brutal album. We spent less time deciding that one than George Lucas did writing dialogue for the prequel trilogy.

Symphonic, Folk, and Black alike fell into disarray; like the Imperial warlords during the Thrawn crisis, the other nominees were so divided amongst themselves (six, six, and seven albums, respectively, each receiving a single vote) that none could stand against the ultimate victors.

Meanwhile, we pitted Sigh and Dødheimsgard against each other viciously in Avant-garde, an interminably escalating conflict that made the Jedi Civil War look like a minor turf dispute in Taris's Lower City. Both sides made threats, promised vengeance, insulted each other's honor, agreed to a duel, showed up, chickened out, got ice cream, went home, posted nasty comments, got bored, fell asleep, and then woke up to find that somehow somebody had resolved the tie.

Iron Maiden and Magister Templi nearly faced the same fate in Heavy/Melodic, but cooler minds prevailed and brought imbalance to the votes.

After all that, the final chapter in the Metal Storm Awards 2015 has come to an end, and here are the 2015 picks from your MS Staff, Elites and Official Contributors. We hope you have enjoyed the journey. Me juuz ku, wermo.

2015 Metal Storm Staff Picks

	Alternative Metal Marriages - Salome		Ambient / Drone Metal Echoes Of Yul - The Healing
	Avantgarde / Experimental Metal Sigh - Graveward		Black Metal A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
	Death Metal Chaos Ech?s - Transient		Djent / Math Metal SikTh - Opacities [EP]
	Doom Metal Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields		Extreme Doom Metal Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
	Extreme Progressive Metal Enslaved - In Times		Folk / Pagan / Viking Metal Negură Bunget - Tău
	Gothic Metal Enshine - Singularity		Grindcore Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
	Hard Rock Clutch - Psychic Warfare		Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore Anopheli - The Ache Of Want
	Heavy / Melodic Metal Magister Templi - Into Duat		Industrial / Cyber / Electronic Metal Killing Joke - Pylon
	Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal Sunless Rise - Unrevealed		Melodic Black Metal Melechesh - Enki
	Metalgaze Sannhet - Revisionist		Post-Metal Izah - Sistere
	Power Metal Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards		Progressive Metal Leprous - The Congregation
	Sludge / Stoner Metal Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Exile		Symphonic Metal Leah - Kings & Queens
	Thrash Metal Deathhammer - Evil Power		Clandestine Cut Of The Year Exgenesis - Aphotic Veil
	Debut Chaos Ech?s - Transient

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So, and now that this year's Metal Storm Awards are a wrap, we hope that despite your displeasure that your favorite band was not nominated, you still were able to discovered some new tunes. Since this is what it's all about. Now, lets get back to the year 2016.