MS Awards 2018 - Staff Picks!!
| Written by: | ScreamingSteelUS |
| Published: | March 17, 2019 |
Another edition of the Metal Storm Awards has come and gone. Names were taken, votes were counted, and that whole blood-soaked month passed in what seemed to be the blink of an eye, leaving us with another bevy of democratically selected champions by which to remember the year 2018. Of course, democracy is for rubes, which is why we, the staff, elites, and contributors who run this place, have once again taken it upon ourselves to share some wisdom and show the world who the true winners of the MSAs are.
2018 Metal Storm Staff Picks
 | Alternative Metal Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment |  | Ambient / Drone / Noise Wolvennest - Void |
 | Avantgarde / Experimental Metal Sigh - Heir To Despair |  | Black Metal Funeral Mist - Hekatomb |
 | Death Metal Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye |  | Djent / Math Metal Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
 | Doom Metal Messa - Feast For Water |  | Extreme Doom Metal Et Moriemur - Epigrammata |
 | Extreme Progressive Metal Shining - X - Varg Utan Flock |  | Folk / Pagan / Viking Metal Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins |
 | Gothic Metal Tribulation - Down Below |  | Grindcore Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt |
 | Hard Rock Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn |  | Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want |
 | Heavy / Melodic Metal Dee Snider - For The Love Of Metal |  | Industrial / Cyber / Electronic Metal Author & Punisher - Beastland |
 | Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal Nekrogoblikon - Welcome To Bonkers |  | Melodic Black Metal Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram |
 | Metalgaze Møl - Jord |  | Post-Metal Sinistro - Sangue Cássia |
 | Power Metal Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath |  | Progressive Metal Voivod - The Wake |
 | Sludge / Stoner Metal Somali Yacht Club - The Sea |  | Symphonic Metal MaYaN - Dhyana |
 | Thrash Metal Deathhammer - Chained To Hell |  | Debut Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers |
As you can see, there is some overlap between the general MSA results and the real results, but also a healthy amount of distinction. I, for one, am disappointed to see that not even my fellow staffers heeded my advice to vote Chthonic in Folk (I specifically told everyone at the start of the MSAs), but it's already well into 2019 now, so who is even still thinking about music from 2018 anymore? It's almost time to start work on the MSAs 2019! We'll see you soon enough for another round. Until then, we hope you've gotten the most out of this Awards season; have fun listening.
 | Written on 17.03.2019 by I'm the reviewer, and that means my opinion is correct. |
Comments
| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62001  |
Sometimes its beter be silent
---- 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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| nikarg Staff Posts: 7345  |
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| Ball Fondlers Posts: 513  |
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
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| musclassia Staff Posts: 7621  |
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
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| Kuroboshi Posts: 1200  |
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.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989  |
For the record, I was sober when the decision to put Daughters in Hardcore happened
---- 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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| nikarg Staff Posts: 7345 |
Written by Auntie Sahar on 20.03.2019 at 15:45 Yeah man, what the fuck were we thinking 
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1352  |
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.
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989 |
Written by nikarg on 20.03.2019 at 20:55 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.
---- 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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| Ball Fondlers Posts: 513 |
Written by WorpeX on 20.03.2019 at 21:50 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.
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| MetalManic Posts: 653  |
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
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| kaskadian Posts: 37  |
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