Last Saturday, January 26, the Swedish Metal Awards 2008 took place at the Grand Hotel in Falkenberg, Sweden. Winners were selected from more than 58,000 fan votes submitted via an Internet-based poll here, and the list of medal bearers goes like this:
- Hard Rock: Hardcore Superstar (“Dreamin’ in a Casket”)
- Death Metal: Arch Enemy (“Rise of the Tyrant”)
- Heavy/Power Metal: Sabaton (“Metalizer”)
- Glam/Sleaze: Crashdiet (“Unattractive Revolution”)
- Punk/Hardcore: Dia Psalma (“Djupa Skogen”)
- Metal: Pain (“Psalms of Extinction”)
- Alternative Metal: Dark Tranquillity (“Fiction”)
- Newcomer: Sonic Syndicate
- Live Act: Europe
- Internantional Hard Rock: Nightwish (“Dark Passion Play”)
- International Metal: Machine Head (“The Blackening”)
- International Live Act: W.A.S.P.