South African Metal Music Awards

09/11/2021

Best Live Photo 2020

07/11/2021

07/11/2021

Best Extreme Metal Band

07/11/2021

Best Design 2020

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Best Old School Metal Band

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Best Alternative Metal Band

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Best Progressive Metal Band

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Best Press Photo 2020

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Best New Comer 2020

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Best Album 2020

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Best Single 2020

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Best Festival 2020

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Best Concert 2020

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Best EP 2020

07/11/2021

Best Music Video 2020

07/11/2021

The Winners of the 2020 South African Metal Music Awards are:
*Best Metal Music Video - Facing the Gallows - Blackening
*Best Metal Single - Sunken State - This is the End
*Best Metal EP - Facing the Gallows - MMXX
*Best Metal Album - Ruff Majik - The Devil's Cattle
*Best New Comer - Sundergeist
*Best Live Act - Sunken State
*Best Concert featuring Metal - Emalyth Arts Expo 10: Decadence
*Best Festival featuring Metal - RAMFest2020 PTA
*Best Extreme Metal Band - Vulvodynia
*Best Alternative Metal Band - Ruff Majik
*Best Old-school Metal Band - Deadline HMC
*Best Progressive Metal band - Ohgod
*Best Metal Design - A Nameless Dread - The First Nothing by Barend Chamberlain
*Best Live photo - Facing the Gallows by Laura McCullagh @ RAMfest 2020 - CT
*Best Press Photo - Robyn Ferguson by Robyn Ferguson

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

07/09/2021

The last category to be announced is the best Extreme Metal Band of 2020.

This category is packed with the Titans of South African metal music!

Congratulations yo the following bands:

06/09/2021

Nominees for Best Progressive Metal band of 2020.






Congratulations!

04/09/2021

Nominees for Best Alternative Metal Bands are:






Congratulations!

03/09/2021

We're heading into our genre categories. Well done to the top 5 nominees for Best Old School Metal Bands

02/09/2021

In keeping with our momentum to acknowledge content creators within the South African metal music scene, we're super excited to reveal our new category honoring illustrators.
Well done to the following bands and artists for creating some sick designs in 2020.

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No End in Sight

Barend Chamberlin -
The First Nothing

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The Hog

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Aeonain

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Pariah Attestant

01/09/2021

It's no small achievement in having made enough 'gig points' to qualify for Best Live Band during a pandemic.
Congratulations to the following bands for being the best live metal acts of 2020:






Tough choice for a winner! Good luck to the panel!

30/08/2021

With such an incredibly short year of club shows, we'd like to give a special congratulations to the promotors who somehow still managed to put on a show.

Your top 5 concerts for 2020 are:
Arts Expo 10 by Emalyth
Gore Slamdemic by Jarr•bar
Halloween Horror by Emalyth
Metalfeast by Metalhead
Yas Hey! Feat. Vulvodynia by Sognage

25/08/2021

In a year where live shows were few and far between, it's quite an honor to announce the top 5 nominees for Best Live Photo

engelbrecht
mcc_za

24/08/2021

Well done to the top 5 New Comer Nominees for 2019-2020

20/08/2021

Putting out an album during a pandemic is no small feat.
Well done to the top 5 nominees for Best Album of 2020

- The First Nothing
- The Bitter End
- Cathedral Point
- The Devils Cattle
- Relentless Killing Motivation

Congratulations

18/08/2021

Too 5 nominees for Best EP of 2020 are:

- Never Saw it Coming
- MMXX
- Aeonain
- Falling Forward
- Modern Day Illusion.

Well done and Congratulations!

16/08/2021

Your nominees for best music video of 2020 are:
- Never Saw it Coming
- Father Grigori
- Shapeshifter
- The Blackening
- Andromeda
Well done and Congratulations!

15/08/2021

The top 5 nominations for the Best Single of 2020 are:
- Father Grigori
- The Blackening
- Andromeda
- The Hog
- This is the End
Well done!

11/06/2021

Today is the last day to cast your votes in the South African Metal Music Awards.
You can vote for more than 1 act in each category, and your vote will narrow down the Nominations and help the Panel decide on the winners.
https://forms.gle/15Mwsn8iZL6Sdgbu5

Thank you for coming to share your opinion on South African Metal for the year of 2020. Please go through the different category sections and select your TOP 5 nominees per category. You are allowed to vote for less than 5 nominees per category and you may also choose to skip a category if you are n...