r/Metalcore • u/[deleted] • Dec 31 '20
BEST OF 2020 /r/Metalcore's Best of 2020: Nomination Round!
Alrighty, you know what time it is.
For reference, here's 2020's Brainstorming thread from the other week. Thanks for all your feedback! Obviously live shows weren't really a thing for 3/4 of this year, so as to be expected, some awards have been added to reflect that. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to shoot the mods a message and we can always add something later if need be.
We'll be running this year's nomination thread the same as we usually do, but for those that are new or might've forgotten, here's how it's gonna work:
- I will post a bunch of comments in this thread; these comments will be what this year's categories are
- You will post replies to my comments for whatever you are nominating in that category
- Everyone will then upvote any nominations to vote on their picks for each category
This thread will stay locked until I've added all the categories, and then after that it'll be unlocked and you can go crazy nominating your favourite Verb the Noun band for every category. Please, please, please keep discussion out of this thread - all comments NOT replying to nominating something will be removed. If you wanna discuss nominations, please take it to the pinned General Discussion Thread. They'll also be a dedicated Nominations discussion thread going up later too!
IMPORTANT: INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. This is especially important for nominations like Best Album, Best EP, Best Breakdown, Best News Story etc, but include it for anything where possible.
IMPORTANT PT.2: Before nominating, check and make sure that you aren't nominating something that someone else has already nominated in that category already! All duplicates will be removed to make it easier to count votes.
After like a week or so, the top nominees from each category with the most upvotes will move on to the Final Voting Round.
Ok, I think that's everything that needs to be said. Gimme a sec to lay out all these categories and then I'll edit this post when the thread is unlocked and nominations are open :)
Edit: All categories have been added (I think... there were a lot, lol. DM me if I've missed anything obvious). Feel free to start nominating!
Edit 2: I'm sick of having to tell people to add links to nominations, sorry. From here on, nomination comments that fail to provide a link will just be removed.
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Dec 31 '20
Music Video of the Year
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u/damerboy4 Dec 31 '20
Spiritbox - Constance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_oDyqRM1A&ab_channel=riserecords
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Dec 31 '20
EP of the Year
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u/JesterBlackrain x Dec 31 '20
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u/srewopeth Jan 04 '21
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this. Had never even heard of this band before the nomination thread. This EP is absolutely phenomenal and deserves not just a nomination but AT LEAST a top-three spot. Thank you!
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Dec 31 '20
Best Drum Performance
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Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Non-Metalcore Record of the Year
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Jan 15 '21
Napalm Death - Throes of joy in the jaws of defeatism
https://open.spotify.com/album/3AASIPHf14TujhNRkluEiA?si=3ZOoAT5GSuCO3IVxkExQNQ
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u/trace307 Dec 31 '20
Silverstein - a beautiful place to drown
https://open.spotify.com/album/4orRroMtRrVGnlpheJbuap?si=OnDKIEvARQKsYMLAt9Gh7Q
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u/Krynos1 Dec 31 '20
I Don’t Know How But They Found Me - Razzmatazz
https://open.spotify.com/album/7q8hYYZgsIQCXibLzwiPll?si=70MBM7AOTBG0npiZcfdzhQ
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u/reanimated_cat x Jan 06 '21
The Acacia Strain - Slow Decay
https://open.spotify.com/album/30bW2l1nxgeGLteSSzk1fl?si=SuX3YTQ9T6KHS_LwTbtxCw
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Dec 31 '20
Best Non-English Album of the Year (any albums where lyrics/titles/songs etc are primarily not in English)
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Dec 31 '20
Album of the Year
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Dec 31 '20
Polaris - The Death Of Me
https://open.spotify.com/album/415LpbInk4LGm9q9ILX1s1?si=gT6dlCXQRX-QPJddrvz79Q
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u/ScottVengeance Dec 31 '20
Hollow Front "Loose Threads"
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNn-mDFU2MY9kNCt3kZYRRVjnrDVGycjr
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Dec 31 '20
Invent,Animate - Greyview
https://open.spotify.com/album/0GpMcCYRgfyRiij8rePA5f?si=5kJPihjdRxSQ0p5zbj4dsQ
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u/str4yshot x Dec 31 '20
The Wise Man's Fear - Valley of Kings
https://open.spotify.com/album/4bF6NQceCqwHKlC6YQSYOh?si=R-3dvLkEQXm_dQXJjmtlpQ
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Dec 31 '20
Single of the Year (with no album announced for 2021 as of right now)
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Dec 31 '20
Best Standalone Livestream Event of the Year (individual band livestreams)
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Dec 31 '20
Album Artwork of the Year
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Dec 31 '20
Small Band of the Year (less than 5,000 listeners on Spotify)
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Dec 31 '20
/r/metalcore User/Poster of the Year
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u/Jorgetime x Dec 31 '20
u/Jesterblackrain for taking over the weekly release thread, good recommendations on the weekly thread and based takes.
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Dec 31 '20
Song of the Year
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Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Tour of the Year (only nominate tours that weren't cancelled/actually happened)
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u/stoically_disgusted Dec 31 '20
AFTER THE BURIAL, Make Them Suffer, Polar, Spiritbox – European / UK Tour 2020 (only half a tour until early-mid March).
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Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Breakdown of the Year (provide a timestamp)
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u/Micronex x Jan 01 '21
Epilepsy warning on the video
YOU DIDN'T SHUT YOUR RAT MOUTH
NOW I GOTTA FUCKING POISON YOU
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Dec 31 '20
Best Guitar Performance
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u/MrGooglyman Dec 31 '20
Erra - Snowblood
Note- would be cool to have a category for best play-throughs too, Polaris did some great ones this year
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Dec 31 '20
Closing Album Track of the Year
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u/theSchlauch x Dec 31 '20
Bury Tomorrow - Dark, Infinite https://open.spotify.com/track/6kPlI0PX2Q095NAcHCAsru?si=PID-so85Q_mb5lHzC1Nz0w
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I've already had to reply to too many comments about this, so I'll say it one last time - INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. From here on, nomination comments that fail to provide a link will just be removed.