The Best Debut Album - Metal Storm Awards 2009
The Best Debut Album

  • Griftegård - Solemn, Sacred, Severe
  • Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
  • Ironwood - :Fire:Water:Ash:
  • Kalisia - Cybion
  • My Lament - Broken Leaf
  • Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
  • Tenet - Sovereign
  • The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief
  • Unsilence - Under A Torn Sky
  • Whyzdom - From The Brink Of Infinity
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    Griftegård - Solemn, Sacred, Severe

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    A lumbering platter of doom defined by the pained, yet soulful, vocals of Thomas Eriksson. His accusations and rebuke of all things religious and pondering of eternal torment really help this release stand out amongst the others in the 2009 doom crowd.



    Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day

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    Every once in a while Arjen Anthony Lucassen decides to do something that isn't Ayreon and a new side-project is born. With the fantastic Jasper Steverlinck providing the vocals, Guilt Machine might well be the deepest and most emotional of Arjens side-projects. On This Perfect Day is a complex and beautiful album, a shame that a follow-up is unlikely to happen.

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    Ironwood - :Fire:Water:Ash:

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    A somewhat multi-sided album from this Australian quartet, Ironwood have made a rather lengthy release full of mellow acoustic passages mixed with a kind of Heathenish Progressive/Folk Metal. Their contrast with melodic and atmospheric acoustics and a sort of Viking/Folk/Black style with quite good harsh vocals makes :Fire:Water:Ash: a most interesting release. Not something to throw on at parties but Ironwood have shown a promising debut of very nice to listen to and absorbing tracks.

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    Kalisia - Cybion

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    Fourteen years after their demo, the Frenchies from Kalisia finally released their first album. And what an epic album it is. Cybion is a whole musical universe in itself. Totally progressive, extreme yet often very melodic, it features death growls, female vocals, keyboards, guitars solos, a saxophone, and then some... Kalisia, with this little gem, tells us a whole science-fiction story. Epic. Definitively!

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    My Lament - Broken Leaf

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    My Lament seems to go largely unnoticed in the (romantic) Doom/Death scene. Which is a shame, because their My Dying Bride-inspired laments are everything but bad. My Lament's Broken Leaf manages to stay close to the roots of the genre and all it's sorrowful guidelines, yet at the same time remaining fresh and inviting. Fragile is the keyword for the softer passages, while grieving anger is the defining element for the faster, aggressive parts. Do this band justice and check it out.



    Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

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    Oranssi Pazuzu are perhaps one of the most laidback and relaxed Black metal bands ever. With their fresh mix of krautrock, psychedelica and raging Second Wave Black metal they outshine everybody in the 'weird department'. Every second of their debut Muukalainen Puhuu drips with playful and skillful cosmic adventures. Put your sunglasses on, toss back a couple of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters and surf through the Universe on their wavering riffs, catchy pinch-harmonics and ballsy tripping dissonance.

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    Tenet - Sovereign

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    Tenet is more than your average Thrash metal band - this is an all-star band like you wouldn't believe! It would take twice the space in this little box to mention all the bands each individual member has been involved with, but allow me to let you in on a little secret: they're all bands you spend half your day listening to. Steve "Zetro" Souza returns with his ripping vocals, Jed Simon and Glen Alvelais spew out one killer riff after another and Gene Hoglan... well, if you don't know what Gene Hoglan does, time to leave the hall!

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    The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief

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    The surpise of last year must surely have been that master drummer extra-ordinaire Ed Warby (of Gorefest, Ayreon, Hail Of Bullets and many others) delivered an epic doom masterpiece where he shows not only to be a great drummer but also an inventive guitarist, bassplayer and very proficient vocalist. Centred around a person's dying moments this album sure feels like a burden of grief. So, doom to the bone: heart wrenching and emotionally draining.



    Unsilence - Under A Torn Sky

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    After battling away for sixteen years Unsilence have finally managed to release their full-length debut onto the world. Hopefully this will be the turning point for this much plagued band. Under A Torn Sky possesses all the ingredients to become a favourite amongst the crowd that loves epic song structures which are topped off by fragile and highly emotional vocals. Yes, the album title epitomizes it all. Listening to this little gem surely does feel like being under a torn sky.



    Whyzdom - From The Brink Of Infinity

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    With their debut album this French band has delivered a great symphonic metal album right off the bat. Offering us a wide selection of fantastic orchestration paired with soaring female vocals, creative drumming, some heavy guitar riffs and a slight progressive touch in the songwriting department, From The Brink Of Infinity packs almost everything fans of female-fronted metal could ask for. Such a strong debut can only leave us wondering what the band's future might look like.

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    Write-in votes

    Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
    Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
    Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
    As You Drown - Reflection
    Astra - The Weirding
    Black Math Horseman - Wyllt
    Blazing Dog - Metallic Beast
    Bleed From Within - Humanity
    Blood-Stained - Infected
    Broadcast the Nightmare - Twenty Twelve
    Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful
    Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds...
    Culted - below the thunders of the upper deep
    Elysion - Silent Scream
    Eryn Non Dae. - Hydra Lernaia
    Ex Deo - Romulus
    Exivious - Exivious
    Faust - From Glory To Infinity
    Fen - The Malediction Fields
    Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
    Fool's Game - Reality Divine
    Free Spirit - Pale Sister of Light
    Goat Funeral - Bastion Lucifer
    Graveyard - One With The Dead
    Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
    Hammer Horde - Under the Mighty Oath
    Havok - Burn
    HDK - System Overload
    Heathen Foray - The Passage
    Heaven and hell - the devil you know
    Hellfire - Warnings
    HolyHell - HolyHell
    Illusion Suite - Final Hour
    Ingested - Surpassing The Boundaries of Human Suffering
    Irminsul - Irminsul
    Ironwood - :Fire:Water:Ash:
    Kadavar - Kadavar
    Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
    Mantic Ritual - Executioner
    Metalforce - Metalforce
    Mistur - Attende
    Omega Lithium - Dreams in formaline
    Onheil - Razor
    Parity Boot - Into Nothing
    Pensées Nocturnes - Vacuum
    Raubtier - Det finns bara krig
    Seawolves - Dragonships Set Sail
    Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
    Status Minor - Dialog
    Subhuman - Profondo Rozzo
    Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader
    Survivors Zero - CMXCIX
    Svarttjern - Misanthropic Path of Madness
    Svarttjern - Misanthropic Paths Of Madness
    The Crimson Armada - Guardians
    The Eyes Of A Traitor - A Clear Perception
    The Few Against Many - Sot
    The Howling Void - Megaliths of the Abyss
    Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
    Tribulation - The Horror
    Villieläin - Julma Satu
    W.E.T. - W.E.T.
    Wardruna - Runaljod
    Wilde Starr - Arrival
    Wilds Forlorn - An Ode
    Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad
    Wodensthrone - Loss
    Wretched - The Exodus of Autonomy
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