MS Awards 2024 - Staff Picks!!

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MS Awards 2024 - Staff Picks!!

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An article by
ScreamingSteelUS
March 23, 2025
The 2024 Awards cycle achieves final resolution with this, the last installment in our celebrations of the year in music. In the staff picks, we of the Metal Storm staff voted on our favorites of each category's official nominees and have produced these results to parallel the results of the public voting: in other words, the correct answers. As usual, we had some close runs and some ties, and even one double-tie that went to sudden death: Grindcore came down to a harrowing finish between Nails and Brodequin that very nearly resulted in the title of Best Grindcore Album being handed off to Dido's Life For Rent (the threatened victor in such an instance). A deal was brokered, but we'll welcome Dido back to next year's competition just in case.




2024 Metal Storm Staff Picks






Alternative Metal
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
Ambient / Drone / Noise
Insect Ark - Raw Blood Singing

Avant-Garde / Experimental Metal
Laudare - Requiem
Black Metal
Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

Death Metal
Veilburner - The Duality Of Decapitation And Wisdom
Djent / Math Metal
Hippotraktor - Stasis

Doom Metal
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Extreme Doom Metal
Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence

Extreme Progressive Metal
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Folk / Pagan / Viking Metal
Bloody Valkyria - Kingdom In Fire

Gothic Metal
Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Æternum
Grindcore
Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe

Hard Rock
Khirki - Κυκεώνας
Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore
State Faults - Children Of The Moon

Heavy / Traditional Metal
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Industrial / Cyber / Electronic Metal
An Axis Of Perdition - Apertures

Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal
Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall
Melodic Black Metal
Gaerea - Coma

Metalgaze
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
Post-Metal
Hauntologist - Hollow

Power Metal
Triumpher - Spirit Invictus
Progressive Metal
Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light

Sludge Metal
Thou - Umbilical
Stoner Metal
Sergeant Thunderhoof - The Ghost Of Badon Hill

Symphonic Metal
Folterkammer - Weibermacht
Thrash / Speed Metal
Mayhemic - Toba

Debut
Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke
Clandestine Cut
Swampworm - Architeuthis




And that does it for 2024. We look forward to seeing you back here at the same time next year.
Written on 23.03.2025 by
ScreamingSteelUS
Written on 23.03.2025 by
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Cooool all stuff good with great covers pix.
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For newcomers who trying to adapt to MS and may have participated in MSA awards, this section of "Staff picks" will really help you out in getting to know the highlights of the year. It's good for your comparison with your pickings as well.
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01.04.2025 - 18:47

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Some top picks here for sure, great to see Swampworm's effort get some attention!
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