All the winners in the fourteen categories of FemMetal Awards 2024 have been announced!

Here’s a full list of the winners per category.

CategoryWinner
Best Metal Act (Minerva Award)Infected Rain
Best Rock and Alternative Act (Diana Award)Poppy
Best Album (Ceres Award)Infected Rain – “TIME”
Best Release Artwork (Vesta Award)Infected Rain – “TIME”
Best Music Video (Luna Award)Visions of Atlantis – “Armada”
Best Vocals (Venus Award)Elize Ryd (Amaranthe)
Best Brutal Vocals (Bellona Award)Lena Scissorhands (Infected Rain)
Best Instrument Player (Proserpina Award)Alice Lane (Infected Rain)
Best Breakthrough Act (Fauna Award)Valkyrie’s Fire
Best Release by a Breakthrough Act (Aurora Award)Crimson Veil – “HEX”
Best Metal and Rock Influencer (Fortuna Award)Nyva Zarbano
Best Write-In Act (Libertas Award)Illumishade
Best Breakthrough Write-In Act (Lucina Award)ANA
Woman of the Year (Terra Award)Gisèle Pelicot

Congratulations to all the winners!

Before revealing the Top 25, who will win the advertisement spaces on the FemMetal website, we will list the top 5 nominees from each category.

Best Metal Act

Infected Rain36.20%
Amaranthe13.96%
Nightwish10.02%
Visions of Atlantis8.40%
Kälad8.21%

Best Rock / Alternative Act

Poppy25.72%
Linkin Park19.63%
Halestorm10.77%
Arctis8.92%
Kittie7.20%

Best Album

Infected Rain – “Time”29.16%
Poppy – “Negative Spaces”11.70%
Amaranthe – “The Catalyst”11.46%
Visions of Atlantis – “Pirates II – Armada”10.22%
Kälad – “Arkamine”7.62%

Best Music Video

Visions of Atlantis – “Armada”24.06%
Infected Rain – “PANDEMONIUM”23.72%
Amaranthe – “The Catalyst”9.28%
Erisu – “Eris”8.83%
Lacuna Coil – “Oxygen”8.33%

Best Release Artwork

Infected Rain – “Time”32.04%
Kälad – “Arkamine”27.93%
Nightwish – “Yesterwynde”11.22%
Crimson Veil – “HEX”8.35%
Anette Olzon – “Rapture”5.55%

Best Vocals

Elize Ryd (Amaranthe)18.08%
Emily Armstrong (Linkin Park)14.18%
Floor Jansen (Nightwish)12.12%
Anette Olzon10.00%
Julieta Ruiseco (Kälad)8.90%

Best Brutal Vocals

Lena Scissorhands (Infected Rain)42.89%
Poppy16.48%
Krista Shipperbottom (Lutharo)15.06%
Emily Armstrong (Linkin Park)14.02%
Erika Ferraris (Holy Shire)3.83%

Best Instrument Player

Alice Lane (Infected Rain)43.05%
Maria Vynohradska (Mental Torment, First To Die)16.81%
Jassy J (All For Metal)10.22%
Mandy Rockt (Full Stop)6.00%
Tara McLeod (Kittie)5.54%

Best Metal/Rock Influencer

Nyva Zarbano28.00%
Alex Deam23.83%
Jassy J15.30%
Tori Kravitz14.48%
Jenny Olyster7.59%

Best Breakthrough Act

Valkyrie’s Fire18.03%
Forgotten Dream12.44%
Pirate Queen12.07%
Kälad11.62%
Disconnected Souls10.95%

Best Release by a Breakthrough Act

Crimson Veil – “HEX”24.14%
Kälad – “Arkamine”15.17%
Pirate Queen – Ghosts12.97%
Valkyrie’s Fire – “Ascension”12.42%
Arctis – “Arctis”7.55%

The Top 25

The top 25 acts and personalities who will receive a year-long advertisement space on FemMetal are listed below. The ranks are determined through a process which you can learn more about here.

1Valkyrie’s Fire
2Infected Rain
3Poppy
4Amaranthe
5Crimson Veil
6Visions of Atlantis
7Nyva Zarbano
8Illumishade
9ANA
10Forgotten Dream
11Linkin Park
12Maria Vynohradska
13Kälad
14Alex Deam
15Pirate Queen
16Halestorm
17Nightwish
18Lutharo
19Jassy J
20Arctis
21Anette Olzon
22Full Stop
23Erisu
24Tori Kravitz
25Disconnected Souls

Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics which some of are useless but fun to calculate and read anyway.

Total Votes: 2,205

Voters came from 75 different countries.

Top 10 countries from where voters came from

  1. Italy
  2. Germany
  3. United States
  4. United Kingdom
  5. France
  6. Mexico
  7. Canada
  8. Australia
  9. Ukraine
  10. Brazil

Interesting Facts:

  • “Emma” and “Juan/John/Johann” are the most repeated feminine and masculine names among voters.
  • “Hernandez” is the most common surname among voters
  • Not a single person voted for all the winners in each category.
  • The first vote was cast 13 minutes after the polls were open; The final vote was cast 3 minutes before the polls closed.
  • Visions of Atlantis winning Best Music Video makes their tally 7 wins in FemMetal Awards, They remain the most decorated act.
  • 58 people voted for both Elize Ryd and Lena Scissorhands
  • We received one vote from Syria. FemMetal used to be banned in Syria under the former regime. We are very happy about this one vote.
  • Kamala Harris, former vice president and the Democratic Party’s nominee for the 2024 US Presidential Elections was the second most repeated name under Woman of the Year. Kamala Harris lost the elections to the husband of the fifth most repeated name for Woman of the Year, Melania Trump.

A huge thank you to everyone who made this event as interesting and as entertaining.

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