• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

AUSTRALIAN METAL AWARDS: Winners Announced

November 8, 2009

The 2009 Australian Metal Awards were held last night (Saturday, November 7) at The Forum in Sydney.

The winners were as follows:

* Most Popular Merch: PSYCROPTIC
* Best Album Cover: PSYCROPTIC - "(Ob)Servant"
* Best Band Name: PSYCROPTIC
* Best Film Clip: PSYCROPTIC - "Initiate"
* Best Producer / Recording Engineer: Jarrad Hearman (Sing Sing Studios) (CHAOS DIVINE - "Avalon")
* Best Drummer: David Horgan (OUROBOROS)
* Best Bass Player: Michael Conti (OUROBOROS)
* Best Regional Band: ALCHEMIST
* Best Youth Band: ASPHYXIA
* Best Export: PSYCROPTIC
* Best Live Band: PSYCROPTIC
* Best Guitarist: Jimmy Lardner-Brown (KILLRAZER)
* Best Vocalist: Dave Anderton (CHAOS DIVINE
* Best Keyboard Player: Chris Stevenson (THE ETERNAL
* Best New Band: DEATH AUDIO
* Song of the Year: "Refuse The Sickness" (CHAOS DIVINE)
* Best Unsigned Band: OUROBOROS
* Best Album: "Avalon" (CHAOS DIVINE)
* Best Metal Fan/ Web/ Magazine: MetalObession.net
* Overall Best Band 2009: CHAOS DIVINE

The Association for Australian Heavy Metal (AAHM) and the Australian Metal Awards (AMA) were formed to give heavy metal in Australia the support and backing it has lacked since it began to flourish during the 1980s.

AAHM and AMA is governed and operated by dedicated individuals who are passionate about this genre of music and have been heavily involved in the organizing and running of events for both Australian and international heavy metal acts for a number of years.

AAHM and AMA's objectives are to:

* Provide support and backing to all Australian heavy metal bands/artists
* Actively promote Australian heavy metal nationally
* Reward and recognize the bands that have made a significant contribution to the heavy metal genre of Australian music

For more information, visit www.australianmetal.com.au.

Find more on
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).