Best band (that had a release this year):

Children of Bodom 2 votes
Cradle of Filth 1 vote
Cryptopsy 1 vote
Dark Tranquillity 3 votes
Extol 1 vote
Haggard 2 votes
In Flames 2 votes
Insomnium 1 vote
Nevermore 1 vote
Nightwish 1 vote
Opeth 1 vote
Rhapsody 1 vote
Skinless 1 vote
Sonata Arctica 1 vote
Symphony X 2 votes
Transatlantic 1 vote

Best Operatic Metal Release:

Apocalyptica - Cult 1 vote
Haggard - Awaking the Centuries 4 votes
Nightwish - Wishmaster 13 votes

Best Folk Metal Release:

In Extremo - Verehrt und Angespien 2 votes
Tuatha de Danann - Tuatha de Danann 1 vote

Best prog metal release:

Ayreon - Universal Migrator Pt.1: The Dream Sequencer 4 votes
Dali's Dilema - Manifesto for Futurism 1 vote
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World 2 votes
Oratory - Illusion Dimensions 1 vote
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I 1 vote
Pyramid - The Immaculate Lie 1 vote
Silent Field - A New Day 1 vote
Symphony X - V 11 votes
The Gathering 1 vote

Best Power Metal release:

Dark Moor- Hall Of The Olden Dreams 1 vote
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards 6 votes
Gamma Ray - Blast From The Past 5 votes
Helloween - The Dark Ride 1 vote
Kamelot - Expedition 1 vote
Kamelot - Fourth Legacy 3 vote
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World 2 votes
Nightwish - Wishmaster 1 vote
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory 4 votes
Skylark - Divine Gates Part 2: Gate of Heaven 2 votes
Sonata Arctica - Successor MCD 1 vote
Stratovarius - Infinite 1 vote

Best Melodic Death Metal release:

Children of Bodom-Follow the Reaper 4 votes
Dark Tranquillity - Haven 5 votes
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beaty 1 vote
Extol - Undeceived 1 vote
Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss 1 vote
In Flames - Clayman 13 votes
Insomnium - Underneath the Moonlit Waves 1 vote
Opeth - Still Life 3 votes
Shadows Fall - Of One Blood 1 vote
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine 2 votes

Best Brutal Death Metal release:

Decapitated - Winds of Creation 1 vote
Cryptopsy - ...And Then You'll Beg 1 vote
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition 1 vote
Extol - Undeceived 1 vote
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihaliation 2 votes
Nasum - Human2.0 1 vote
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengence 5 votes
Skinless - Progression Towards Evil 1 vote

Best Grindcore release:

Nasum - Human 2.0 1 vote

Best Black Metal release:

Borknagar - Quintessence 1 vote
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper 7 votes
Cradle of Filth - Midian 6 votes
Enslaved 1 vote
Immortal - Damned in Black 1 vote
Opeth - Still Life 1 vote
Soilwork-Chainheart Machine 1 vote
Thyrfing - Urkraft 3 votes

Best Gothic Metal Release:

Lacuna Coil - Halflife EP 2 votes

Best Thrash:

The Crown - Deathrace King 1 vote
The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It 2 votes

Best Heavy Metal release:

Blaze - Silicon Messiah 1 vote
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards 4 votes
Dio - Magica 1 vote
Entombed - Uprising 1 vote
G3 - Live in Concert 1 vote
Halford - Ressurection 2 votes
Iron Maiden - Brave New World 7 votes
Jacob's Dream - Jacob's Dream 1 vote
Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne 1 vote
Nevermore - Dead Heart, In A Dead World 2 votes
Nightwish - Wishmaster 1 vote
Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife 1 vote
Running Wild - Victory 2 votes
Sentenced - Crimson 3 votes
The Black League - Ichor 2 votes
Virgin Steele - The House Of Atreus 2 1 vote

Best Sleeve:

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper 1 vote
Children of Bodom-Hate me single 3 votes
Demons and Wizards 8 votes
Edguy - The Savage Poetry 3 votes
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision 1 vote
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (Limited Edition) 1 vote
Skyclad - Folkémon 1 vote
Stratovarius - Infinite 3 votes
The Crown - Deathrace King 1 vote

Best Stage Performance:

Nevermore 1 vote
Nightwish 3 votes
Running Wild 1 vote
Dark Tranquillity 2 votes
In Flames 8 votes
Dream Theater 2 votes
Symphony X 1 vote
Iron Maiden 3 votes
Grave Digger 1 vote
Stratovarius 1 vote
Sentenced 1 vote
Children of Bodom 1 vote
Cryptopsy 1 vote
Deep Purple 1 vote
Skinless 1 vote
Stratovaruis 1 vote
Opeth 1 vote

Best Newcomers in 2000:

Heavenly 2 votes
Freternia 1 vote
DreamsFear 1 vote
Sonata Arctica 3 votes
Pyramid 1 vote
Iron Fire 1 vote
Doomsword 1 vote
Shadows Fall 2 votes
The Storyteller 1 vote
Dali's Dilema 1 vote
Funeris Nocturnum 1 vote
Cryptocephalis 1 vote
Soilwork 1 vote
T666 1 vote
Thy Majesty 1 vote
To/Die/For - All eternity 1 vote

Best Demo:

Chastisement - ...But Lost We Are 3 votes
Sad Theory - Demo CD 1 vote
Dark Supremacy - Extreme Brutalism 1 vote
Chunk - Egg In An Ashtray 1 vote
Insomnium - Demo '99 1 vote
Dominion - The Innocent's Song 1 vote

Best comeback:

Axxis - Back to the Kingdom 1 vote
Halford - Resurrection 2 votes
Venom 1 vote

Best Song:

Ayreon - Dawn of a Million Souls 1 vote
Children of Bodom - follow the Reaper 1 vote
Children of Bodom - Hate Me 1 vote
Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost in The Fog 1 vote
Dark Tranquillity - Indifferent suns 1 vote
Demons & Wizards - Fiddler On The Green 2 votes
Haggard - Awaking The Centuries 2 votes
Halford - Twist 1 vote
Helloween - If I Could Fly 1 vote
Insomnium - The Bitter End 1 vote
Iron Fire - Metal Victory 1 vote
Jag Panzer - Thane Of Cowdor 1 vote
Nevermore - The Heart Collector 1 vote
Nightwish - Dead boy's poem 3 votes
Nightwish - She Is My Sin 1 vote
Pandemonium-War of races 1 vote
Sentenced - Killing Me Killing You 1 vote
Skinless - Bobbing For Heads 1 vote
Skylark - Belzebu 1 vote
Sonata Arctica - Replica 2 votes
Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian 1 vote
Symphony X - Evolution 1 vote
Symphony X - Fallen 1 vote
Therion - Seven Secrets of Sphinx 2 votes

Best lyrics:

Cradle Of Filth 1 vote
Cryptopsy 1 vote
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Shattered Soul 1 vote
Haven 1 vote
Insomnium - Unmourned 1 vote
Nightwish 3 votes
Opeth 1 vote
Pain of Salvation 2 votes
Rhapsody 1 vote
Sentenced - Killing me, killing you 2 votes
Sentenced - No More Beating As One 1 vote
Skyclad - Folkemon 2 votes
The Crown-Total Satan 1 vote
Therion-Enter Vril-ya (Deggial) 1 vote
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 1 vote

Cheesiest Lyrics:

Cannibal Corpse 1 vote
Control Denied 1 vote
Hammerfall 1 vote
Manowar 2 votes
Morifade 1 vote
Pegazus 3 votes
Rhapsody 7 votes
Stratovarius 2 votes

Biggest Disappointment:

Rhapsody 1 vote
Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife 3 vote
In Flames - Clayman 1 vote
Iron Maiden - Brave New World 6 votes
Hammerfall-Renegade 2 votes
Cradle of Filth - Midian 1 vote
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards 1 vote
Theatre of Tragedy - Musique 2 votes
Dying Fetus - Destroy The Oppostion 1 vote
Heavenly 1 vote
Nevermore 1 vote
Katatonia 1 vote

Worst album:

Cradle Of Filth - Midian 1 vote
Hammerfall - Renegade 1 vote
Iron Maiden - Brave New World 2 votes
Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife 1 vote
Origin 1 vote
Power Symphony 1 vote
Pegazus 1 vote
Six Feet Under-Graveyard Classics 1 vote
Stratovarius - Infinite 1 vote