Best band (that had a release this year):

Dark Tranquillity

Best Operatic Metal Release:

Nightwish - Wishmaster

Best Folk Metal Release:

In Extremo - Verehrt und Angespien

Best prog metal release:

Symphony X - V

Best Power Metal release:

Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards

Best Melodic Death Metal release:

In Flames - Clayman

Best Brutal Death Metal release:

Nile - Black Seeds of Vengence

Best Grindcore release:

Nasum - Human 2.0

Best Black Metal release:

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

Best Gothic Metal Release:

Lacuna Coil - Halflife EP

Best Thrash:

The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It

Best Heavy Metal release:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Best Sleeve:

Demons and Wizards

Best Stage Performance:

In Flames

Best Newcomers in 2000:

Sonata Arctica

Best Demo:

Chastisement - ...But Lost We Are

Best comeback:

Halford - Resurrection

Best Song:

Nightwish - Dead boy's poem

Best lyrics:

Nightwish

Cheesiest Lyrics:

Rhapsody

Biggest Disappointment:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Worst album:

Iron Maiden - Brave New World