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Welcome to Insanity Remains Awards 2015 (IRA 2015) after a very meticulous review of some albums released during the last year, I can finally come up with my conclusions, I can tell you it wasn't an easy task, because certainly 2015 brought us infinite choices to listen to for everyone's taste, no matter what you had been craving I'm very sure there was something for you, this year I have decided to add some others categories, ending up with twenty eight categories and eighty five nominees.

Please feel free to check and add at your convenience whatever you believe have the right to be nominated to each category, your participation will be very well appreciated, be prepared to listen and carve your vote to choose the Best Metal Albums IRA 2015.

Let the Apocalypse begin, starting now February 6, until March 15, 2016 all results will be posted in March 27, 2016. meanwhile enjoy our Spotify playlist.

Finally the time has arrived and without further ado, I am glad to present you the best albums of 2015 by gender, chosen by you, thank you for your participation and hope to see you here next year.

 •Best Alternative Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. 36 Crazyfists - Time and Trauma (47)

2. Five Finger Death Punch - Got Your Six (22)

3. Disturbed - Immortalized (20)

 •Best Heavy Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (114)

2. Motörhead - Bad Magic (66)
3. Satan - Atom by Atom (18)

 •Best Thrash Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Slayer - Repentless (145)

2. Annihilator - Suicide Society (30)

3. Angelus Apatrida - Hidden Evolution (17)

 •Best Speed Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Venom - From the Very Depths (56)

2. Evil Invaders - Pulses of Pleasure (39)

3. Enforcer - From Beyond (26)

 •Best Groove Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang (92)

2. Soulfly - Archangel (77)

3. Ektomorf - Aggressor (29)

 •Best Death Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed (89)

2. Krisiun - Forged in Fury (71)

3. Dalkhu - Descend... Into Nothingness (68)

 •Best Melodic Death Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal (122)

2. Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos (108)

3. Sylosis - Dormant Heart (49)

 •Best Technical / Brutal Death Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction (114)

2. Kronos - Arisen New Era (44)

3. Kraanium - Chronicles of Perversion (27)

 •Best Black Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Marduk – Frontschwein (96)

2. Kampfar - Profan (86)

3. Leviathan - Scar Sighted (68)

 •Best Melodic Black Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Cradle Of Filth - Hammer Of The Witches (118)

2. Melechesh - Enki (70)

3. Thulcandra - Ascension Lost (47)

 •Best Modern Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud (92)

2. Soilwork - The Ride Majestic (78)

3. Rise to Fall - End vs. Beginning (38)

 •Best Doom Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within (127)

2. Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields (62)

3. Doomraiser - Reverse (Passaggio Inverso) (49)

 •Best Traditional Doom Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Hooded Menace - Darkness Drips Forth (119)

2. Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III (110)

3. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms (65)

 •Best Sludge / Stoner Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. High On Fire - Luminiferous (97)

2. Slugdge - Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms (63)

3. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (52)

 •Best Power Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed (107)

2. Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror (88)

3. Drakkar - Run with the Wolf (57)

 •Best Grindcore Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (105)

2. Extreme Noise Terror - Extreme Noise Terror (69)

3. Maruta - Remain Dystopian (46)

 •Best Deathcore / Metalcore Album IRA 2015 

1. Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War (68)

2. All That Remains - The Order of Things (42)

3. Born of Osiris - Soul Sphere (19)

 •Best Industrial Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Fear Factory - Genexus (102)

2. Bizarra Locomotiva - Mortuário (40)

3. Mechina - Acheron (28)

 •Best Gothic Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Moonspell - Extinct (124)

2. Draconian - Sovran (90)

3. Tearless - Step into Darkness (27)

 •Best Symphonic Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (103)

2. Leaves' Eyes - King of Kings (87)

3. Kamelot - Haven (78)

 •Best Sympho Black/Death/Doom Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Carach Angren - This is Not Fairytale (82)

2. Carnival Of Flesh - Stories From A Fallen World (37)
3. Ethereal - Opus Aethereum (29)

 •Best Folk / Viking Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Ensiferum - One Man Army (91)

2. Korpiklaani - Noita (85)
3. Forefather - Curse Of The Cwelled (34)

 •Best Atmospheric / Depressive Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Arcturus - Arcturian (72)

2. Vallendusk - Homeward Path (39)

3. Mountains Crave - Mountains Crave [EP] (16)

 •Best Progressive Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Enslaved - In Times (112)

2. Tribulation - The Children of the Night (71)

3. Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers (52)

 •Best Post-Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Deafheaven - New Bermuda (47)

2. Lauxnos - The Last Pier (24)

3. Funeral Oppression - The Prisoners of Life [EP] (12)

 •Best Avant-garde Album IRA 2015 

1. Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega (44)

2. Solefald - World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud (23)

3. Sigh - Graveward (17)

 •Best Debut Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Gruesome - Savage Land (77)

2. Berserker - Dark World Collide - Profan (42)

3. Sorcerer - In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross (21)

 •Best Independent Metal Album IRA 2015 

1. Voices of Ruin - Born from the Dark (62)

2. Shemhamforash - Aeter (33)

3. Bucovina - Nestrămutat (26)

4. Ashes of Dagoth - The Awakening [EP] (9)



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