Sometimes its beter be silent

Preposterous.

It's a much better list than the actual winners for sure, which had way to many default winners (Soulfly,Immortal...). Most of these staff picks were my first or second choice
I'll give some of these another listen, such as Deathhammer and Wytch Hazel. Maybe Dee Snider too. I'll pass on Nekrogoblikon though

Rolo Tomassi FTW, all is well!
So I picked 11 winners in the regular awards and 5 here, turns out I'm more mainstream than I thought

Yeah I like these picks. I'm glad that you observed Møl as well, which for me was the album of the year. Necrophobic was really rad, too.

For the record, I was sober when the decision to put Daughters in Hardcore happened

Written by Auntie Sahar on 20.03.2019 at 15:45

For the record, I was sober when the decision to put Daughters in Hardcore happened

Yeah man, what the fuck were we thinking

Dee Snider over Firepower and Queen Of Time? Yikes. I dunnooo about that one. Sure it was a better album than any of us could have ever expected but its still pretty cheesy and lacking lyrically. Kinda feel like the staffers just wanted to be different and go against popular opinion there.

Written by nikarg on 20.03.2019 at 20:55

Yeah man, what the fuck were we thinking

Not quite sure in retrospect, but industrial or even alternative would've been a much better fit for it. A lot of times in the MSA when I see users complaining about "WTF is X album doing in Y category," I normally ignore those comments as them simply blowing hot air, but this time around the grievances with the Daughters placement are totally spot on.

Written by WorpeX on 20.03.2019 at 21:50

Dee Snider over Firepower and Queen Of Time? Yikes. I dunnooo about that one. Sure it was a better album than any of us could have ever expected but its still pretty cheesy and lacking lyrically. Kinda feel like the staffers just wanted to be different and go against popular opinion there.

It seemed like more of a candidate for "Biggest Surprise", but it didn't even get a look in there. I remember when the album came out one of the staffers was really really impressed with it, but I still don't see how it beats the other two mentioned.

I guess that's because it's Dee Snider, so there's some string attached. I say that, because I'm "guilty" of the same : if it was a first album by someone unknow, I would probably enjoy it a bit less. Life is unfair, and our brain are full of biais.

But in any case, I think we can all agree that it was a pleasant surprise and a solid album

Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment. Despite it's dumb name, the album fully deserves it's status on the staff picks and quite honestly should have been the winner as chosen by fans.

Pretty cool. My personal top 10 included 4 of these (CoD, Trib., Roo, Anti.) Thanks for this list. Will be digging more

Glad to see Messa get props in the doom category.