(compiled
by Herr Stalhammar)
TOP 50 ALBUMS
OF THE ISSUE
1) MEPHISTOPHELES "Modern Instinct's
Purity"
2) SHAPE OF DESPAIR "Angels Of Distress"
3) ENSOPH "Bleeding Womb Of Ananke"
4) SINISTER "Creative Killings"
5) DARK LUNACY "Devoid"
6) SIRIUS "Spectral Transition - Dimension
Sirius"
7) JACOBS DREAM "Theater Of War"
8) ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW "A Virgin
And A Whore"
9) EDGUY "Mandrake"
10) DARKTHRONE "Plaguewielder"
11) EMPEROR "Prometheus - The Discipline
Of Fire And Demise"
12) DARKNESS ETERNAL "Satanchrist"
13) AJATTARA "Itse"
14) SILENTIUM "SI. VM E.T A.V.V.VM
/ Infinita Plango Vulnera"
15) KOROZY "From The Cradle To The
Grave"
16) VON THRONSTAHL "E Pluribus Unum"
17) NEBULAR MOON "Metamorphosis"
18) DEICIDE "In Torment In Hell"
19) THE BLACK LEAGUE "Utopia A.D."
20) IMPALED NAZARENE "Absence Of War
Does Not Mean Peace"
21) PERVERSIST "Necrophilharmony"
22) GRAND BELIAL'S KEY "Judeobeast
Assassination"
23) RAS.AL.GHUL "Sonic Yonic"
24) ABSU "Tara"
25) DUAL "Keimar Sty"
26) TROLL "Universal"
27) THYRANE / THE DEAD BEGINNERS
28) TRISTANIA "World Of Glass"
29) SLEEPING GODS "A New Sensation"
30) ZYKLON "World OV Worms"
31) MY DYING BRIDE "The Dreadful Hours"
32) ABIGOR "Satanized"
33) AEBA "Rebellion - Edens Asche"
34) OLIGARQUIA "Nechropolis"
35) DECAYED "Nockthurnaal"
36) ANCIENT "Proxima Centauri"
37) DEADMARSH "Harmony Prevails"
38) SUNSETH SPHERE "Storm Before Silence"
39) DILUVIUM "Aurora"
40) CADAVEROUS CONDITION "The Lesser
Travelled Seas"
41) DECAPITATED "Nihility"
42) UNPURE "Trinity In Black"
43) ABADDON INCARNATE "Nadir"
44) THERION "Secret Of The Runes"
45) TORTURE SQUAD "The Unholy Spell"
46) CASUS BELLI "Kalos Kai Agathos"
47) FAUST "… And Finally Faust!"
48) BOLT THROWER "Honour - Valour -
Pride"
49) MAY RESULT "Tmina"
50) MANIPULATED SLAVES "The Legendary
Black Jade"
BEST CD
(black metal genre)
1) MEPHISTOPHELES "Modern Instinct's
Purity"
2) SIRIUS "Spectral Transition - Dimension
Sirius
3) ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW "A Virgin
And A Whore"
4) DARKTHRONE "Plaguewielder"
5) EMPEROR "Prometheus - The Discipline
Of Fire And Demise"
BEST CD
(dark ambient / rhythm noise / minimal electro / tribal)
1) ENSOPH "Bleeding Womb Of Ananke"
2) VON THRONSTAHL "E Pluribus Unum"
3) RAS.AL.GHUL "Sonic Yonic"
4) DUAL "Keimar Sty"
5) - - -
BEST CD
(doom / gothic / dark wave)
1) SHAPE OF DESPAIR "Angels Of Distress"
2) THE BLACK LEAGUE "Utopia A.D."
3) SLEEPING GODS "A New Sensation"
4) MY DYING BRIDE "The Dreadful Hours"
5) DEADMARSH "Harmony Prevails"
BEST CD
(death / grind)
1) SINISTER "Creative Killings"
2) DARK LUNACY "Devoid"
3) DEICIDE "In Torment In Hell"
4) PERVERSIST "Necrophilharmony"
5) OLIGARQUIA "Nechropolis"
BEST CD
(heavy / power / prog)
1) JACOBS DREAM "Theater Of War"
2) EDGUY "Mandrake"
3) VOICE "Golden Signs"
4) - - -
5) - - -
BEST SELF-RELEASED
CD
DARKNESS ETERNAL "Satanchrist"
BEST WORK
IN THE SHAPE OF DEMO
1) GLIS "Advanced Promo"
2) KHARON "The Fullmoon Curse"
3) HOLOCAUST "Friday The 13th"
4) NECROPLASMA "Necroplasma"
5) THERM.EYE.FLAME "Spherical"
6) ASTRA KHAN "Black Dust"
7) VINTERRIKET "Sturme Der Letzten
Stille"
8) SLAVIA "Gloria In Excelsis Sathan"
9) SCAVENGER "Keeper Of The Knowledge"
10) CELESTIA "Promo Tape 2001"
BEST UNSIGNED
BAND
DARKNESS ETERNAL
BEST NEWCOMER
Russia and CIS
countries
1) THERM.EYE.FLAME
2) DEADMARSH
3) - - -
4) - - -
5) - - -
Abroad
1) ENSOPH
2) DARK LUNACY
3) AJATTARA
4) GLIS
5) KHARON
BEST NON-METAL
BAND / PROJECT
ENSOPH
MOST INNOVATIVE
EFFORT (metal acts only)
DARK LUNACY "Devoid"
NOSTALGIA
AWARD
OLIGARQUIA
MOST WEIRD
PROJECT
THE SCARR
MOST VIOLENT
WORK
1) SINISTER "Creative Killings"
2) GRAND BELIAL'S KEY "Judeobeast Assassination"
3) ABADDON INCARNATE "Nadir"
4) DECAYED "Nockthurnaal"
5) ZYKLON "World OV Worms"
MOST PATHETIC
WANNABES
ALAS
CLICHE AWARD
SONATA ARCTICA
MOST IMPRESSIVE
LYRICAL CANVAS
1) THE BLACK LEAGUE "Utopia A.D."
2) MY DYING BRIDE "The Dreadful Hours"
3) TROLL "Universal"
4) EDGUY "Mandrake"
5) GRAND BELIAL'S KEY "Judeobeast Assassination"
6) ABSU "Tara"
7) EMPEROR "Prometheus - The Discipline
Of Fire And Demise"
8) ZYKLON "World Ov Worms"
9) CADAVEROUS CONDITION "The Lesser
Travelled Seas"
10) JACOBS DREAM "Theater Of War"
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
ALAS
MOST SUCCESSFUL
"COMEBACK"
1) SINISTER
2) NEBULAR MOON
3) CADAVEROUS CONDITION
4) DARKTHRONE
5) ABSU
MOST PLEASANT
SURPRISE
Pasi Koskinen (AJATTARA / SHAPE OF
DESPAIR)
BEST UNDERGROUND
'ZINE (printed)
Gaze Into A Gloom (Latvia)
BEST SONG
FOR A HANGOVER
1) EDGUY - any song off "Mandrake"
2) KOROZY "The Garden Of Black Flowers"
3) THERION "Summernight City"
4) THE BLACK LEAGUE "To Suffer And
To Smile"
5) SINISTER "Bleeding Towards The Wendigo"
BEST CD /
MC APPEARANCE
(excluding the CDs I've received in
the shape of "promos" due to the fact they lack inlay and the back cover)
1) ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW "A Virgin
And A Whore"
2) THE BLACK LEAGUE "Utopia A.D."
3) EDGUY "Mandrake"
4) ABSU "Tara"
5) SHAPE OF DESPAIR "Angels Of Distress"
6) TROLL "Universal"
7) THERION "Secret Of The Runes"
8) ENSOPH "Bleeding Womb Of Ananke"
9) TUATHA DE DANANN "Tingaralatingadun"
10) VON THRONSTAHL "E Pluribus Unum"