Best Album (First Heard)
Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
Honorable Mention: The Protomen; White Pepper; The Maniacal Vale; Zombified
Relistens of Note
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Honorable Mention: Hope Like a Candle; Moonlover; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn; A Death Grip on Yesterday
Weirdest
Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing
Honorables: Hope Like a Candle; Apocalips; The Maniacal Vale; The Painter's Palette
Mood Builders
King Gong - Music is Not a Copy
Honorable: The Black Ark
The Avant-Garde and Esoteric Metal Corner
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Honorable Mentions: A Sombre Fear; A Mood Lit Only by Fire; Buiikikaesu; Apocalips; The August Engine; The Devil's Resolve
A (Non-Guilty) Pleasure
Atreyu - A Death Grip on Yesterday
Honorable Mention: Aseptic White
Most Disappointing
Gran Magnus - Iron Will
Dishonorables: Godsmack; Otaku Hearts; Shades of Misery; Crossover
