 After one month of voting, nearly 6,000 votes cast and countless sharing across all social media platforms by us and nominees alike, the time has come to announce the winners of the GMA Awards 2019. But before that happens, there will be a change to how the nominees are cast. For 10 months of the year we will be running a series of rounds from which the 10 finalists will be recognised for the annual event. The system will work as thus: nominees elected in the month of January are voted for in February... February nominees voted in March, etc and finishes with nominees in October being voted for in November - the finalists will then be voted for across the month of December and into early January 2021; finishing 8th January 2021. Now that's put out into the open, we can finally reveal the winners of the GMA Awards 2019.  Release Of The Year
 Best Live Act
 Breakthrough African Metal Band
 Breakthrough Asian Metal Band
 Breakthrough European Metal Band
 Breakthrough UK Metal Band
 Breakthrough North & Central American Metal Band
 Breakthrough Oceanian Metal Band
 Breakthrough South American Metal Band
 Breakthrough International Metal Band
 Festival Of The Year
Music Video Of The Year
 Global Metal Ambassador 2019
* Later withdrawn by request of nominee.
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 Under the Metal United World Wide banner, we call for support. Dark Phantom is an Iraqi metal band. Metal is forbidden in Iraq which is why they cannot play an official Metal United World Wide show. However, they would like to tour their war-torn neighbours Syria to perform Metal publicly. To be able to tour, the band members are still 1.200 EUR short. If you have some spare dollars, support these guys and the Metal in the Middle East: https://www.leetchi.com/c/trip-murad-mohammed If you don't have spare dollars (or your country's currency), check out their Facebook page and their album Nation of Dogs on Bandcamp. They are quite a rare breed in a region where Metal is between forbidden and restricted by the government. We think they deserve some kind of support for keeping the Metal flag up - a like, a good listen to their album or financial tour support. United We Stand, Divided We Fall \m/ Metal United World Wide is an initiative of the global metal community. The community will come together on 5 May 2018 for around 60 Metal shows in over 50 countries. For more information, visit www.metal-united-world-wide.com or contact events@metal-roos.com.au The 'Releases Of The Year' series are albums chosen by myself as the best release from each country / dependency known to have an official release in the year 2017. These are alphabetized in country order so are easy to navigate. Each award has national flag featured alongside the band name, Release Of The Year' and Facebook link (where provided)
 Who would have thought that Global Metal Apocalypse (GMA) would be celebrating 6 years this year as an international metal music outlet, giving bands worldwide endless coverage through reviews, interviews and everything in and around the edges? Not me. I started GMA 6 years ago with the vision of unearthing, nurturing, promoting and expanding bands coverage across all continents and the islands dotted across planet earth, with the extended view of tapping into nascent metal scenes that were either unbeknownst to the wider metal community e.g. French Polynesia or to those freshly starting out at the hands of one or two bands e.g. Iron Sliver from Gabon. 6 years later and here I am, ready to announce who has won what category(s) at the annual GMA Awards. Voting went on for two weeks and saw thousands upon thousands of votes pouring in since the voting form went live. GMA is run solely by one person, myself. But this has not put me off from continuing the site's progression and this year I started a sister site:- Global Mainstream Arts (http://globalmainstreamarts.weebly.com/) to give non-metal artists / bands coverage. But metal will always be at the forefront. The winners at the 2017 GMA Awards are:- CHOSEN BY EDITOR:-
PUBLIC VOTE:- ALBUM OF THE YEAR  EVANESCENCE - "Synthesis" BEST LIVE ACT  IRON MAIDEN BREAKTHROUGH AFRICAN BAND  SCARAB (Egypt) BREAKTHROUGH ASIAN BAND  NUCLEAR WARFARE (Thailand) BREAKTHROUGH AUSTRALASIAN BAND  SILENT KNIGHT (Australia) BREAKTHROUGH EUROPEAN BAND  JINJER (The Ukraine) BREAKTHROUGH UK BAND  BLOOD OATH (England) BREAKTHROUGH NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICAN BAND  VINTERSEA (USA) BREAKTHROUGH SOUTH AMERICAN BAND  HEAVENLESS (Brazil) BREAKTHROUGH INTERNATIONAL BAND  JINJER (The Ukraine) BREAKTHROUGH NON-METAL |
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