Metal Academy Awards for 2020 Announcement

My apologies for the delay in putting these awards up. Work is insane at the moment, so I've had very little time to devote to the site. My intention is to build some functionality around award winners, but that will have to wait until we announce the 2021 awards. For now, here are the winners for 2020!

METAL ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS FOR BEST RELEASE OF 2020 (minimum of 5 site ratings)

• THE FALLEN...... Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
• THE GATEWAY...... Deftones - Ohms
• THE GUARDIANS...... Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
• THE HORDE...... Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
• THE INFINITE...... Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
• THE NORTH...... Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald
• THE PIT...... Testament - Titans of Creation
• THE REVOLUTION...... Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
• THE SPHERE...... Code Orange - Underneath

METAL ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS FOR BEST COVER OF 2020 (minimum of 3 site ratings)

• THE FALLEN...... Atramentus - Stygian
• THE GATEWAY...... In Flames - Clayman
• THE GUARDIANS...... Powerwolf - Best of the Blessed
• THE HORDE...... Inferi - Of Sunless Realms
• THE INFINITE...... Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
• THE NORTH...... Aara - En Ergô Einai
• THE PIT...... Macbeth - Gedankenwächter
• THE REVOLUTION...... Amaranthe - Manifest
• THE SPHERE...... Uniform - Shame

Yes! Finally a year in which I can honestly say I stayed in touch with the hottest metal from the year! 

Pleasing to see the high praise for Ulcerate and Oranssi Pazuzu in the album section.  I do need to pick up on that Cirith Ungol album actually as never got around to it.  Like Ben, I have very little time for online presence currently (although some of this is a conscious effort to be spending less time in front of a screen outside of work hours) so my contribution levels are dropping here sadly.