Johannesburg, South Africa: As the year comes racing to an end, so does the SAMMA 2020: recognizing the achievements of 2019. The panelists made their nominations, and the public vote has narrowed each category down to the five most popular picks. There were 745 total participants in the voting.
Please remember that this list applies to the date range of 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 only. The SAMMA 2021 will deal with achievements attached to more recent memory.
The top 5 selections for each category are listed below and goes back to the panelists for a final evaluation. The SAMMA Ceremony, where top achievers will be announced for the first time, is being sponsored by Fokof Bar, Pretoria, on Sunday 13 December.
If you’d like to know more about how this final phase of the SAMMA works, please refer to the 2020 Operations Manual. Top 5 nominees are listed in alphabetical order (A-Z), since no further evaluation has taken place yet at the time of publishing:
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
All We’ve Known – ‘Burn’
Deadline – ‘Break The Silence’
Hiraeth – ‘Lucid’
Soms Wen Die Wolf – ‘Wolf, Wolf hoe laat is dit?’
Vulvodynia – ‘Nyaope’
BEST ALBUM
All We’ve Known – Dissidence
Ruff Majik – Tårn
The Burning – Headed To Hell
Woltemade – Siele Vir Die See
Vulvodynia – Mob Justice
BEST EP
All This For Nothing – Reverence
Bulletscript – Enemy
Robyn Ferguson – Alizarin
Sunken State – Enter The Grey
Vulvodynia – Anthropophagus
BEST SINGLE
All This For Nothing – ‘Existence’
Deadline – ‘High Tops & Bullet Belts’
Hiraeth – ‘Lucid’
Truth And Its Burden – ‘Surfacing’
Vulvodynia – ‘Nyoape’
BEST NEWCOMER
Human Nebula
Last of the Daggers
Soms Wen Die Wolf
Sunken State
Woltemade
BEST FESTIVAL
Halloween 2019
Pirate Fest 2019
Ramfest 2019
SummerFest’19
WinterFest’19
BEST CLUB EVENT
Brochella presents Attila
Jinjer Live At Platteland
SPAWN FEST
Wacken Metal Battle South Africa THE FINAL
Weird Boner 3
BEST LIVE ACT
Deadline
Facing the Gallows
Hiraeth
Ruff Majik
The Color Blew
BEST ALTERNATIVE BAND
All This for Nothing
Bulletscript
Deity’s Muse
Far From Who We Are
The Color Blew
BEST OLD SCHOOL METAL BAND
Deadline
Ruff Majik
Soms Wen Die Wolf
Sunken State
The Burning
BEST EXTREME METAL BAND
Bleeding Spawn
Facing the Gallows
Imperious Vision
Rhakshah
Vulvodynia
BEST PROGRESSIVE BAND
Hiraeth
Human Nebula
Ohgod
Riddlebreak
Robyn Ferguson
BEST PRESS PHOTOGRAPH
Black Pistol, by Dievetman
DevilSpeak, by Killkenny
Facing the Gallows, by Wayde Flowerday
Hiraeth, by Christelle Duvenage
Thread Of Omen, by Killkenny
BEST DESIGN
Deadline / Donovan Sloan – Hi-tops and bullet belts
Forsaking Fate / Ongky Widyanto
Hiraeth / Marty Du Plessis
Ruff Majik / Annemarie Buchner
Vulvodynia / Jakub N Ruse
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