/r/Metalcore's Best of 2018 | RESULTS

BEST OF 2018 - META

It's been fun r/Metalcore, 2 weeks of intense voting and we have your results. This year has had the most participation out of any year by far! Special shoutout to Architects for their album Holy Hell!

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###Album of the Year

#1) Ice Nine Kills – The Silver Scream

2) Runner Up: Fit For A King – Dark Skies

Silent Planet - When The End Began
Erra - Neon
Beartooth - Disease
Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame
Vein - Errorzone
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
Shields - Life In Exile
Greyhaven - Empty Black

###Song of the Year

#1) As I Lay Dying - My Own Grave

2) Ice Nine Kills - IT Is The End

Currents - Into Despair
Fit For A King - The Price Of Agony
Silent Planet - Northern Fires
Northlane - Vultures
Crystal Lake - Aeon
Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame
Counterparts - Monument
Vein - Doomtech

###EP of the Year

#1) Currents - I Let the Devil In

2) Counterparts - Private Room

Thornhill - Butterfly
Loathe - This is as One
Converge - Beautiful Ruin
Code Orange - The Hurt Will Go On
Hollow Front - Still Life
Year of the Knife - First State Aggression
Vatican - Spawn of All Pain Taken
Kaonashi - Why Did You Do It

Onomatopoeia of the Year (aka Best BLEGH of the Year) – sponsored by r/corejerk

Fit For a King – Tower of Pain (4:00)

Currents - Into Despair (2:50)

Attila - Pizza (2:27 FUCKING PINEAPPLE EUUUUUGHHHHH)

Metalcore Meme of the Year - sponsored by r/corejerk

^^Bad ^^Omens

What the fuck's up Denny's

JT Cavey eats ass confirmed

Most Anticipated Release of 2019

As I Lay Dying

Make Them Suffer

A Day To Remember

Most Missed Band of the Year

The Ghost Inside

Breakdown of Sanity

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Opening Album Track of the Year

Ice Nine Kills - The American Nightmare

Erra – Breach

Fit For A King – Engraved

Biggest Progression of the Year

Ice Nine Kills: 18,500+ Record sales in first weekend. From 122 on Billboard top 200 (With Every Trick in the Book) to 27 (With The Silver Scream). #5 On Octanes BIGUNS; up there with Shinedown, Disturbed and Asking Alexandria. (from u/xtombstone)

Fit For A King: This was their first album to reach 1 million streams on Spotify within the first week of release. Musically, they pulled out all of the stops and introduced new musical elements within each song. The melodies were catchier, heavier and even some faster ones, breakdowns were stupendously heavy, key changes like in songs Youth|Division were super melodic and different to things they have ever done in their entire discography. There are many statistics I could bring up about this album that won't really make others understand how much they have progressed, stats like the most streamed FFAK album within a month or one of the most streamed Solid State Records albums ever. Just listen to their discography, not only is there change in their sound and lyricism but there is a huge progression in every aspect of their music in this album. (/u/PsychoticOrbit)

Crystal Lake: Signed to SharpTone Records and gained a lot of listeners and exposure outside of Japan (/u/XeRic_22)

Music Video of the Year

Ice Nine Kills - Merry Axe-mas

Attila – Pizza

Crystal Lake – Aeon

Debut Album of the Year

Vein – Errorzone

Shields – Life In Exile

Time, the Valuator – How Fleeting, How Fragile

Producer of the Year

Drew Fulk: Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream Fit For A King - Dark Skies

Will Putney: Vein - Errorzone Harms Way - Posthuman Unearth - Extinction(s) Terror - Total Retaliation Greyhaven - Empty Black Counterparts - Private Room Silent Planet - When The End Began

Adam Nolly: “the forbidden album, Bleed From Within. Only mixing: Northlane, Blood Youth, Haken, etc.”

Comeback of the Year

As I Lay Dying – My Own Grave

Underoath – On My Teeth

Oh, Sleeper – Decimation and Burial

Live Performance of the Year

Bring Me The Horizon - Metalcore/Deathcore Medley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAoelk6gVoM

Polaris - The Remedy @ UNIFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItXjlNwtTY

Knocked Loose @ This Is Hardcore 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHLXzSQoI4c

Non-Metalcore Album of the Year

Dance Gavin Dance – Artificial Selection

Chelsea Grin - Eternal Nightmare

Polyphia – New Levels New Devils

Best band that called it quits this year

Shields

Casey

The Afterimage

Solo of the Year

Ice Nine Kills – Merry Axe-mas https://youtu.be/tPVNl_g5N_I?t=212

ERRA – Unify

Fit For A King – Anthem of the Defeated (1:12-1:25)

Breakdown of the Year

Fit For A King - Shattered Glass https://youtu.be/sT1W5nmiDuA?t=70

Ice Nine Kills - Merry Axe-mas https://youtu.be/fjOt1evpKPM (1:56-2:45)

Currents - Into Despair https://youtu.be/Uv0F6RMCNdI (2:49)

Non-Metalcore song on a Metalcore Album of the Year

Silent Planet – In Absence

Ice Nine Kills – A Grave Mistake

Beartooth – Believe

Album Artwork of the Year

Erra – Neon

Silent Planet – When The End Began

Ice Nine Kills – The Silver Scream

Single of the Year (With no EP/LP released in 2018)

As I Lay Dying – My Own Grave

Northlane – Vultures

Make Them Suffer – 27

Cover of the Year

The Devil Wears Prada – Sour Breath

Bad Wolves – Zombie

‘Better Now’ covered by Our Last Night, Fronz, Tillian, and Luke Holland

Newcomer of the Year

Vein

Shields

Greyhaven

Sound Change of the Year

The Plot In You

All That Remains

Blessthefall

Best Guitar Performance

Jesse Cash of ERRA

Jason Richardson – Tendinitis

Mitch Stark of Silent Planet - Lower Empire

Best Bass Performance

Dustin Davidson of August Burns Red - Winter Wilderness

Joe Goldman of Code Orange - The Hunt ft. Corey Taylor

Anthony Marinaro of Jesus Piece – Punish

Best Drum Performance

Gaku Taura of Crystal Lake – Aeon

Alex Camarena of Silent Planet - Firstborn (Ya'aburnee)

Nic Pettersen of Northlane – Vultures

Best Vocal Performance

Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King – Backbreaker

Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills - Merry Axe-mas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPVNl_g5N_I

Brian Wille of Currents - Forever Marked

Riff of the Year

As I Lay Dying - My Own Grave (Chorus riff)

Silent Planet - Northern fires (Guernica) https://youtu.be/fOPXQlXURpY?t=29

ERRA - Expiate (Intro riff)

Chorus of the Year

Ice Nine Kills - IT is The End (1:57-2:18)

Currents - My Disguise (0:50-1:26)

Fit For a King - Youth | Division (1:02-1:25)

Guest Feature of the Year

Ice Nine Kills ft. Less than Jake - IT is the End

JT Cavey live guest vocals for Silent Planet on Northern Fires

Crystal Lake - Aeon ft. AJ

Tour of the Year

Reverence Tour - Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada, Polaris. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d7/d7/62/d7d762d03cc5598d656f57ba10cd5304.jpg

The Phantom Anthem Tour (US) - August Burns Red, Born of Osiris, ERRA, Ocean Grove

After the Burial, The Acacia Strain, Erra, and Make Them Suffer on the Rareform/Continent 10-year anniversary tour https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/02/97/83/17-og.jpg?w=500&h=664

Record Label of the Year

SharpTone Records (Currents - I Let The Devil In, Crystal Lake, Holding Absence, and Loathe)

UNFD (Northlane, Hellions, Thornhill, Ocean Grove, Beartooth, LIMBS)

Solid State Records (FFAK Dark Skies)

Merch of the Year

Bad Omens Tiny Font shirt https://www.badomensmerch.com/collections/products/products/tiny-logo-tee

Silent Planet - Mario Planet Christmas Sweater https://silentplanetmerch.com/collections/all/products/mario-planet-holiday-sweater-black

Ice Nine Kills It Is The End Windbreaker https://absolutemerch.com/collections/iceninekills/products/ink-black-friday-it-windbreaker

Scene Front-Runners of the Year (Future Superstar Award)

Vein

Thornhill

Alpha Wolf

Best New Addition of the Year

Patrick Galante - Ice Nine Kills

Brendon Padjasek - Northlane

Lochie Keogh - Alpha Wolf

/r/Metalcore Submission of the Year

/u/wolverines_rage - Weekly Friday releases

u/OscarRainy's metalcore acronym guide - https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/aa1eq0/the_ultimate_rmetalcore_acronym_guide/

u/SeanMTS's official story for Worlds Apart by Make Them Suffer - https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/7nmw5t/worlds_apart_story_rant_official/

AMA of the Year

Garrett Russell of Silent Planet https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/9pdx00/im_a_homeless_dude_named_garrett_ask_me_anything/

Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/9ss0nq/this_is_spencer_from_ice_nine_kills_ask_me/

Ryan Kirby of Fit For a King https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/7r994j/hey_its_ryan_kirby_from_fit_for_a_king_i_am_bored/

News Story of the Year

Kyle Pavone of WCAR dying of an overdose http://loudwire.com/we-came-as-romans-kyle-pavone-cause-of-death/

Bad Omens and the tiny font scandal https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/11/bad-omens-drop-off-tour-amity-affliction-senses-fail-name-too-small/

Tim Lambesis Returning https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tim-lambesis-reunites-with-as-i-lay-dying-one-year-after-prison-release-665952/

Album from more than 15 years ago that aged like fine whiskey (The OG Award)

Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing

Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen

As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse

People who like pineapple on their pizza vs people who don’t like pineapple on their pizza in 2018 (Sudden Death Tiebreaker Round)

No (doesn’t belong on pizza)

If anyone wants to help us by creating playlists like you did last year, - I'd be willing to edit them into this post! If anyone wants to put together any links in general to edit into the OP, definitely drop a comment.

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edit: [Spotify Playlist from u/TxBeerWorldwide](https://open.spotify.com/user/gerhaje1/playlist/3MiyTswgioUCTDxGEs5Q1V?si=9TcXpxRXQEOMl6Ngj7vkbg) of the top 10 Albums of the Year.

Google Play playlist from u/bicyclingdonkey

u/jrmehle's playlist here

Posted Jan 15, 2019, 1:54 AM UTC · edited

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