Welcome to the 2019 Musicalypse Awards!
We hope you’ve been following along with us during the last few weeks of nominations! 2019 turned out to be a pretty good year musically, with several classics dropping total crap while new bands soared onto the scene. So, without further ado, here are the winners of the Musicalypse 2019 Music Awards for hard rock and heavy metal! A big thank you to A&P Reacts for participating in the nominations and voting this year!
Note: The runner(s) up are essentially the silver medalists, whoever got the second-most votes from the staff. Keep in mind that we’re a small staff so votes are few and far between – winning requires a rare victory of votes and second-place is nearly as rare (hence the frequent many-band ties in the runner-up position)!
[ed.: “Diggy Diggy Hole” was disqualified from Best Party Song because we didn’t realize it was a cover]
Best New Song
“Genesis” by Devin Townsend
Runner(s) Up: “Moonglow” by Avantasia ft. Candice Night
Best New Album
Pantheon with the Nightside Gods by Belzebubs
Runner(s) Up: Winterider by Everfrost, Heart Like a Grave by Insomnium, Veleno by Fleshgod Apocalypse, Below by Leprous
Best New Band/Discovery
Tie: Daimonic and Wheel
Runner(s) Up: Belzebubs
[ed.: going on record saying that this really should’ve been a 3-way tie]
Best Album Art
Tie: The Spell by Cellar Darling and Seven Inches of Satanic Panic by Ghost
Runner(s) Up: “Winterider” by Everfrost and “Veleno” by Fleshgod Apocalypse
Best Music Video
Tie: “Genesis” by Devin Townsend and “Cathedrals of Mourning” by Belzebubs
Runner(s) Up: “Deutschland” by Rammstein
Best Lyric Video
“Divine” by Ember Falls
Runner(s) Up: “Battle from Within” by CyHra, “Winterider” by Everfrost
Best Collaboration
“Moonglow” by Avantasia ft. Candice Night
Runner(s) Up: “100” by Hevisaurus
Best Party Song
“Bacchanalia” by Metal de Facto
Runner(s) Up: “Wall of Silence” by Smackbound
Best Slow Song/Ballad
“Lotus” by Soen
Runner(s) Up: “Spirits Will Collide” by Devin Townsend, “River” by Soen, “Minnets yta” by Opeth, “You and I” by Tarja, “Lost in Time” by CyHra
Most Chilling/Haunting Song
“When a Shadow is Forced into the Light” by Swallow the Sun
Runner(s) Up: “Below” by Leprous
Most Epic Song
“100” by Hevisaurus
Runner(s) Up: “Allting tar slut” by Opeth
Best Cover Song
“Die Young” by Everfrost, originally by Kesha
Runner(s) Up: “Godzilla” by Bear McCreary ft. Serj Tankian
Thanks for listening along with us in 2019. We hope you continue to enjoy our reports, galleries, interviews, and more, long into 2020 and beyond. From Musicalyse and A&P Reacts, we wish you all a Happy New Year!
– Musicalypse HQ
