Metal Hammer Awards

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The Metal Hammer Award is a German music prize and has been presented annually by the German metal magazine Metal Hammer since 2009. The award is not to be confused with the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards from the British Metal Hammer.

General

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the magazine, the Metal Hammer Awards were presented for the first time in 2009. A jury made up of musicians, the editorial staff and the readers of the magazine will decide on the award of the prize . In addition to prizes in the categories of best album , best debut album , best German band, best international band, prizes are awarded in the categories Legende , God of Riff (best guitarist), Metal Anthem (best song), Up and Coming (best newcomer) and Maximum Metal (best personality) awarded. At the first award ceremony in 2009, prizes were also awarded for the best internet presence and the closest to the fans.

Categories

You can vote in ten categories every year (twelve categories in 2009). These are defined / defined as follows:

Best album : The basis for the decisions should be the reviews of music albums published by Metal Hammer, of which over 100 are released every month. In 2009 it was possible to vote for all albums that were released from January 2008 to summer 2009. Since then, the valid publication period begins in the summer of the previous year for an award ceremony and ends about a year later in the summer immediately before an award ceremony.

Best German band : Votes should be for German bands "who have a lasting influence on the international scene and who celebrate great successes abroad".

Best international band : You should vote for the best non-German band.

Legend : This category is looking for a person who had a lasting impact on the metal scene , so that he or she will still be seen as an important person for this music in the future.

Riff-Gott : The best guitarist of an award period is to be chosen in this category.

Best Live Band : This category in particular is about the current impression of the bands. Primarily only the performances in the respective award period are decisive.

Metal-Hymne 20xx : Voting should be for the best or catchiest metal song of each award period.

Newcomer 20xx : The best newcomer band in an award period is to be determined. Both the subjective impression of the live qualities and the music itself should be included.

Best debut : In this category, only the albums by newcomer bands count.

Maximum Metal-Band : It is to be decided which band the Metal-Hammer-Motto Maximum Metal! "lives most convincingly on and off the stage."

Best online presence : In this category, which was only activated in 2009, we had to vote for the most appealing and best web presence of a band.

Greatest fan proximity : Also only awarded in 2009 was the band that was closest to the fan and thus left a lasting impression on the public.

The winners

2009

The award ceremony took place as part of the Wacken Open Air Festival. The event was moderated by the Holy Moses singer Sabina Classen . The musicians' jury consisted of Scott Ian ( Anthrax ), Mauricio lacono ( Kataklysm ), Angela Gossow ( Arch Enemy ), Lee Dorian ( Cathedral ), Gregor Mackintosh ( Paradise Lost ), Barney Greenway ( Napalm Death ), and Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer ( Destruction ), Ivar Bjørnson ( Enslaved ) and Marcus Bischoff ( Heaven Shall Burn ).

2010

The award ceremony took place on August 5th, 2010 as part of the Wacken Open Air Festival. The event was moderated by the Destruction singer and bassist Marcel "Lubricant" Schirmer. The musician jury consisted of Scott Ian ( Anthrax ), Schmier (Destruction), Jeff Waters ( Annihilator ), Joel Stroetzel ( Killswitch Engage ), Tim Owens ( Beyond Fear ) and Tom Angelripper ( Sodom ).

2011

The award ceremony took place on September 12, 2011 in the Berlin Kesselhaus in the Kulturbrauerei . The event was moderated by the JBO singers and guitarists Vito C. and Hannes Holzmann. Audrey Horne , Primal Fear , Caliban and Die Apokalyptischen Reiter performed as live bands in front of around 700 spectators from all over Germany . The only star guest who did not come from the music sector was the swimmer and metal fan Paul Biedermann , who presented Amon Amarth with the award for her album Surtur Rising .

2012

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 14, 2012 in the Kesselhaus in Berlin. The event was moderated by Angela Gossow ( Arch Enemy ) and Jakob Kranz . The musician jury consisted of Robb Flynn ( Machine Head ), Phil Anselmo ( Down ), Tim Lambesis ( As I Lay Dying ), Winston McCall ( Parkway Drive ), Adam Michał "Nergal" Darski ( Behemoth ), Michael Amott (Arch Enemy) , Marc Görtz ( Caliban ), Mitch Lucker ( Suicide Silence ), Chuck Billy ( Testament ), Michael Rhein ( In Extremo ), Matthew Heafy ( Trivium ) together. Sabaton , Eluveitie , Callejon and Madison Affair , who emerged as winners in the newcomer online voting on metal-hammer.de, appeared as live bands that evening .

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best live band Best International Band
Best album God of riffs Legend

2013

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 13, 2013 in the Berlin Kesselhaus. The event was moderated by Asphyx singer Martin van Drunen . Kreator , Powerwolf , While She Sleeps and Dust Bolt appeared as live bands . The musician jury consisted of Chris Boltendahl ( Grave Digger ), Adam Dutkiewicz ( Killswitch Engage ), Mikael Åkerfeldt ( Opeth ), Shagrath ( Dimmu Borgir ), Jill Janus ( Huntress ), Cristina Scabbia ( Lacuna Coil ), Chrigel Glanzmann ( Eluveitie ), Joakim Broden ( Sabaton ) and Alex Webster ( Cannibal Corpse ) together.

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best live band Best International Band
Best album God of riffs Legend

2014

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 12, 2014 in the sold-out Kesselhaus in Berlin. The event was moderated by Doro Pesch and Martin Kesici . Blind Guardian , Paradise Lost , Deadlock and Reactory played as live bands . The jury consists of Scott Lewis ( Carnifex ), Simone Simons ( Epica ), Floor Jansen ( Nightwish ), Kai Hansen ( Gamma Ray ), Andreas Kisser ( Sepultura ), Jacoby Shaddix ( Papa Roach ), Tosin Abasi ( Animals as Leaders ), Zoltan Bathory ( Five Finger Death Punch ) and Marcel Neumann ( We Butter the Bread with Butter ).

All award winners were present, only Rammstein guitarist Richard Kruspe was unable to attend. METAL HAMMER editor-in-chief Thorsten Zahn was surprised by the editorial team with the "Maximum Z" award: In October 2014 he will celebrate 15 years of METAL HAMMER membership.

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best live band Best International Band
Best album God of riffs Legend

2015

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 18, 2015 in the Kesselhaus in Berlin. The event will be moderated by Liv Kristine , Alexander Krull and Kate Kaputto. Within Temptation , Soilwork , Insomnium and Delain played as live bands .

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best live band Best International Band
Best album God of riffs Legend
  • no nominations

2016

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 16, 2016 in the Berlin Kesselhaus. The event was moderated by Alexander Wesselsky . Heaven Shall Burn , Sodom and Bombus performed as a live band .

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best International Band Legend
Best album Best live band God of riffs

2017

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 15, 2017 in the Berlin Kesselhaus. In Extremo , Orden Ogan and the newcomer voting winner Oversense performed as a live band . As in the previous year, the award ceremony, expanded for the first time to include backstage impressions and interviews with guests and award winners, was broadcast live on the Internet via Facebook . The laudators and guests of honor included musicians from Tankard , Sabaton , Forever Still , Amorphis , Morgoth and Gloryhammer as well as celebrities from the fields of sports and media, and others. a. Paul Biedermann , Andreas Hoppe and Stefan Marquard . All award winners received the award personally at the event, only Metallica were on tour at the same time and sent a video message.

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German
Best debut Best International Band Legend
Best album Best live band God of riffs

2018

Overview

The award ceremony took place on September 14, 2018 in the Kesselhaus in Berlin. Dirkschneider , Night Demon , King Creature and Thunder and Lightning performed as a live band .

Nominees

Metal anthem Up and coming Best German band
Best debut album Best international band Legend
Best album Best live band Reef god

2019

For "organizational reasons", the award ceremony does not take place in the Berlin Kesselhaus. The prizes are to be awarded “on a smaller scale before the end of the year”.

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ axelspringer.de: METAL HAMMER Awards 2010: Awards for the best bands at the Wacken Open Air
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  12. ↑ metal-hammer.de: Winner and first photos of the METAL HAMMER AWARDS 2013
  13. ↑ Sebastian Kessler: Everything about the METAL HAMMER AWARDS 2014: tickets, voting, bands. Metal Hammer. Retrieved April 21, 2014 .
  14. ↑ http://www.metal-hammer.de/news/mektiven/article633849/das-sind-die-gewinner-der-metal-hammer-awards-2014.html
  15. ↑ Vincent Grundke: Metal Hammer Awards 2016: Hard riffs and awesome atmosphere. Berliner Zeitung , accessed on September 18, 2016 .
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  19. ↑ Your Metal Hammer editorial team: On our own behalf: Metal Hammer Awards . In: Metal Hammer, September 2019, page 6

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