We don't want to alarm you, but we've already started getting announcements for albums coming in 2025. Yep, already. Still, the horrors of the inexorable march of time aside, that does mean we can officially start getting excited about all the excellent things to come in the year ahead, not to mention the remaining stragglers of 2024.
Speaking of which, here are the results of last week's vote! We had one of the biggest turnouts of the year as heavyweights and newcomers alike went head to head, but ultimately there were some clear-cut champions. Nightwish took a healthy third place with the epic An Ocean Of Strange Islands, but the real battle took place between Finland's Blind Channel - covering Backstreet Boys, no less - and LA newcomers Echosoul, with the latter winning out by an impressive margin. Kudos!
