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Last Updated: November 25, 2009 11:05 PM

AUSTRALIAN METAL AWARDS: Winners Announced - Nov. 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.

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	COMMENT \| posted by : Ofazz 11/8/2009 4:34:47 PM

	Not surprised to see C.D dominated, great band, and Avalon is an amazing album... How bout some performance footage from the night?

	COMMENT \| posted by : HighSpeedDirt 11/8/2009 4:49:58 PM

	Cool...so the same 3 bands won all of the awards. Now i remember why i didnt go

	COMMENT \| MINDSNARE!!!! posted by : frehley78 11/8/2009 6:17:32 PM

	MINDSNARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

	COMMENT \| posted by : The Space Lord 11/8/2009 6:23:03 PM

	So who'd be the closest to Full Metal Jackie or Teresa Roncon that Australia has as a hot-looking metal babe?

	COMMENT \| posted by : RiotAct666 11/8/2009 8:09:46 PM

	No AC/DC? i know they ain't metal. but they should of been a winner on this event.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Vestigial 11/8/2009 8:53:49 PM

	Where the fuck is belphegor? Pyscroptic is badass though!

	COMMENT \| bang! posted by : youcunt 11/8/2009 9:01:56 PM

	all the chicks are hot in Australia @The Space Lord.

	COMMENT \| Vesigial posted by : Sepultallica9 11/8/2009 9:21:03 PM

	Belphegor are Austrian, not Australian.

	COMMENT \| ^ That would be Vestigial posted by : Sepultallica9 11/8/2009 9:22:24 PM

	But good on Psycroptic for their awards. Can't say I've heard anything of Chaos Divine though. And where is the love for bands like Double Dragon, Truth Corroded and Frankenbok?

	COMMENT \| posted by : Rav3n 11/8/2009 10:50:29 PM

	frankenbok, double dragon and truth corroded are horrid.

	COMMENT \| posted by : william_murderface 11/9/2009 12:53:09 AM

	Bloodduster?

	COMMENT \| posted by : raGneG 11/9/2009 3:09:59 AM

	helps to release an album in the same year as the rewards i guess .:P

	COMMENT \| posted by : ManImSore 11/9/2009 3:14:18 AM

	Fuck all the other bands, how did Sad Ex go playing live again? Actually..............forget about it. Theyre a shit band anyway.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Mr_Damage 11/9/2009 4:01:08 AM

	Where is LORD? Easily the best metal band in Aus.....

	COMMENT \| SADEX vids are here posted by : Dancesux 11/9/2009 6:38:45 AM

	http://www.bravewords.com/news/125880 Well done to all the bands hopefully next year will be bigger and better.

	COMMENT \| NAZXUL MAYBE posted by : burzumfanboy 11/9/2009 7:24:25 AM

	Where the fuck is Nazxul? This award ceremony is even worse than the ARIAs!

	COMMENT \| posted by : youaintgottheballsson 11/9/2009 7:25:24 PM

	was at this show, Sad Ex playing an awards night was pretty strange, but it was well worth it. It seemed a weird bunch of winners though, almost like it was a certain 'crew' who were patting themselves on the arse. No Daysend, No Alarum, No Malignant Monster, No Dyscord, No Black Asylum / Universum ( one of these should have taken best new band ) No Nazxul, No Parkway Drive mentions ( we all know what they have achieved as a 'heavy' australian act ) No mention of the Dragons from Adelaide who are chosen by every touring artist to support them in Oz, No Truth Corroded who are actually touring Asia as we speak and are one of the only bands in here actually going overseas, and NO AC/DC mention / award / anything!! There should have been a ROSE TATTOO award too for the best Road Warriors. Good effort to begin with, but next year there needs a panel of judges Australia wide across all metal genre's, no online voting popularity bullshit, and I think we have an awards night for our bands to be proud of! FUKK YOU!!!! SAD EX!!!

	COMMENT \| posted by : Dancesux 11/9/2009 9:48:33 PM

	Black Asylum were up for an award

	COMMENT \| posted by : goddessofglam 11/10/2009 5:13:20 PM

	If people bothered to look at the website and followed what these awards were all about you would know that firstly bands needed to be nominated (you can't surely expect the people running the show to know every single band out there in Australia???). Parkway Drive didn't even enter and neither did double dragon, Naxzul didn't have an album out at the time.. a few other bands that have been raised here didn't even bother to enter. Most of them mentioned DID enter and most of them made it to the top 3 finalists or close to. Most of the psycroptic awards were from public nominations, the rest from judges from throughout australia (metal and NON METAL so there was no bias). As for all genres - some genres were approached but didn't want to even take part in it. check out who the finalists were, and the winners www.australianmetal.com.au I think the promoters did a bloody good job considering this was their first event, and for all the shit they get from you so called fans out there. People complain that there's nothing like this going on, and then someone has the guts to do it and they just get put down. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!?? Do it yourselves if you think you can do a better job or give the support these people deserve to make the next one bigger and better and help get Australian bands the recognition they deserve.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Dancesux 11/13/2009 10:10:56 AM

	Couldn't have said it better Goddess

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