Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…

1.Living Colour - Vivid

2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

3.Faith No More - The Real Thing

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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1.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

2.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3.Grima - Will Of The Primordial

4.Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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Here is a list of all the bands who received at least one write-in vote during MSA 2019.

Following the annoucement of the results, this information is lost, I post it here so you can continue to explore…

1.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

2.Cave In - Final Transmission

3.Mother Of Millions - Artifacts

4.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

5.Soen - Lotus

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Thanks to digital media, I have been exposed to a large number of great metal albums from female vocalists, especially over the last 5 years. 2020 saw a number of these super releases, and lead me to make…

1.Royal Thunder - CVI

2.Konvent - Puritan Masochism

3.Julie Christmas - Mariner [Collaboration]

4.L7 - Smell The Magic

5.In This Moment - Blood

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1.Cellar Darling - The Spell

2.Lacuna Coil - Black Anima

3.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

4.Ex Libris - ANN - Chapter 3: Anne Frank

5.Cathubodua - Continuum

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1.Lacuna Coil - Black Anima

2.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

3.(EchO) - Below The Cover Of Clouds

4.Novembers Doom - Nephilim Grove

5.Numenorean - Adore

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Most of them aren't in Metal Storm.

1.Lacuna Coil - Black Anima

2.The Black Keys - Lets Rock

3.Rival Sons - Feral Roots

4.The Wildhearts - Renaissance

5.Gary Clark Jr. - This Land

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1.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Darkwater - Human

4.Soilwork - Verkligheten

5.Wind Rose - Wintersaga

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2.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

3.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

4.Negator - Vnitas Pvritas Existentia

5.Lacuna Coil - Black Anima

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