Empire

Por fín termina. un 2021 en el que se quiso volver a la normalidad y no se pudo. Por fín termina el año con más, posiblemente, de la historia.
Y si hacemos balance a las listas de Empire debo decir, como editor de la web, que es la vez que más sorprendido estoy con los resultados del Top anual, y no porque no esté de acuerdo sino porque es la primera vez que una banda nacional y una banda novel ganan el premio al disco del año. ‘Ultracrepidarian’ de Todomal ha pasado por delante de tótems como Iron Maiden, que es la banda del año, Helloween o Dream Theater. Premio más que merecido para un disco esencial.
Por si no fuera suficiente, Todomal se llevan el premio a la banda revelación para hacer un doblete histórico y siendo la banda votada en un mayor número de listas de colaboradores.
El mejor directo cae en manos de los ingleses Dvne que, a su paso por Barcelona, dejaron un concierto memorable.
Y ahora, sin más dilación, los ganadores son:

BANDA DEL AÑO: IRON MAIDEN
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DISCO DEL AÑO: TODOMAL ‘ULTRACREPIDARIAN’
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BANDA REVELACIÓN: TODOMAL
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MEJOR DIRECTO: DVNE
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Votos – Banda – Título del disco
63 Todomal – Ultracrepidarian

62 Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
55 Helloween – Helloween
49 Evergrey – Escape Of The Phoenix
44 Empyrium – Über den Sternen
44 Dream Theater – A View from the top of the World
36 Thunder – All the right noises
35 Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
34 Hypocrisy – Worship
33 Cannibal Corpse – Violence unimagined
30 Be’Lakor – Coherence
30 Obscura – A Valediction
27 Steven Wilson – The Future Bites
27 Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum
26 Subterranean Masquerade – Mountain Fever
26 Accept – To Mean To Die
25 MØL – Diorama
24 Asphyx – Necroceros
22 Liquid Tension Experiment – 3
22 Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice
22 Carcass – Torn Arteries
21 Eternity’s End – Embers of War
21 Soen – Imperial
20 North of South – The tides in our veins
20 Balmog – Eve
19 Smith / Kotzen – Smith / Kotzen
18 Rhapsody of fire – Glory for salvation
18 Harakiri for the Sky – Maere
18 Epica – Omega
18 Iotunn – Access all worlds
18 Exodus – Persona non grata
17 Hardline – Heart, Mind and Soul
17 Temple Balls – Pyromide
16 Dold Vorde Ens Navn – Morkere
16 Amenra – De Doorn
16 Northtale – Eternal flame
15 Unto Others – Strength
15 Nervosa – Perpetual Chaos
15 Ex Deo – Thirteen years of Nero
15 Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox
15 TransAtlantic – The Absolute Universe
15 Crowne – Kings in the North
15 Mentalist – A journey into the unknown
14 Cradle of Filth – Existence is futile
14 Negura Bunget – Zâu
14 Mortiferum – Preserved in torment
14 The Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger
14 Mercury Circle – Killing moons
14 Abominable Putridity – Parasitic Metamorfosis Manifestation
13 Evil – Possessed by evil
13 Yoth iria – As the flames withers
13 Dordeduh – Har
13 Monolord – Your Time To Shine
13 Heavy Water – Red brick city
13 Opera Diabolicus – Death on a Pale Horse
13 Creye – II
13 Witherfall – Curse of autumm
13 WET – Retransmission
13 Michael Schenker – Immortal
13 Gutalax – Shitpendables
12 Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH
12 Therion – Leviathan
12 Houston – IV
12 Bocc – Santa Eulalia
12 Dvne – Etemen Aenka
12 Swallow the Sun – Moonflowers
12 Unanimated – Victory in blood
12 In Mourning – The Bleeding Veil
12 Golgotha – Remembering the past… writing the future
12 Evile – Unleashed
12 Altesia – Embryo
12 Phlebotomized – Pain, resistence, suffering
12 Gojira – Fortitude
12 Dust in Mind – Ctrl
12 Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls, pt. 2
11 Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
11 Suidakra – Wolfbite
11 Thulcandra – A dying wish
11 At The Gates – The Nightmare of Being
11 The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic II
11 Marco Garau’s Magic Opera – The Golden Pentacle
11 Mastodon – Hushed Aand Grim
11 Seventh Crystal – Delirium
10 Annisokay – Aurora
10 Ikarie – Cuerpos en Sombra
10 Kaelan mikla – Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
10 Tommy’s Rocktrip – Beat up by rock and roll
10 Thy Catafalque – Vadak
10 Paradox – Heresy II: End of a Legend
10 Rebellion – We are the people
10 Alice Cooper – Detroit
10 Worm – Foreverglade
10 Greta Van Fleet – The Battle At Garden’s Gate
9 Cynic – Ascension Codes
9 Chez Kane – Chez Kane
9 Pharaoh – The Powers that be
9 Memoriam – To the end
9 Eclipse – Wired
9 NightHearth – El rincón del tiempo y el alma
9 Nitrate – Renegade
9 Vomit Ritual – Callous
9 Skywings – How beautiful
9 Sanguisugabogg – Tortured Whole
8 Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon
8 Ornamentos del miedo – Ecos
8 Bad Wolves – Dear Monsters
8 Diskord – Abnegations
8 Skeletoon – The 1.21 gigawatts club
8 Brainstorm – Wall of skulls
8 Asking Alexandria – See What’s On The Inside
8 Arab Strap – As days get dark
8 Blazon Stone – Damnation
8 Thron – Pilgrim
8 Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
8 Edu Falaschi – Vera Cruz
8 Salduie – Ambaxtos
8 Converge and Chelsea Wolfe – Blood Moon I
7 Hellhound – Warrior of Rising Sun
7 Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
7 Frozen Crown – Winterbane
7 Embersland – The harbour in me
7 Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
7 Portrait – At one with none
7 The Georgia Thunderbolts – Can’t we get a witness
7 KK’s Priest – Sermons of the Sinner
7 Ad Infinitum – Chapter 2: Legacy
6 Hiraes – Solitary
6 Escuela de Odio – … Y nada más que la verdad
6 Enforcer – Live By Fire II
6 Between the Buried and Me – Colors II
6 Sijjin – Summerian promises
6 Skepticism – Companion
6 Incursed – Baskavigin
5 Anette Olzon – Strong
5 Bloodbound – Creatures of the dark realm
5 Cerebral Effusion – Ominous Flesh Discipline
5 Saxon – Inspirations
5 Omission – Workship
5 Perennial Isolation – Portraits
5 Atrae Bilis – Apexapien
5 La Excavadora – La excavadora
5 Saurom – Mester de Juglaría
5 Groundbreaker – Soul To Soul
5 Enigmatic entrance – Becoming daylight
5 The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
4 Robe – Mayéutica
4 Behemoth – In absentia Dei
4 The Vegabonds – Sinners and saints
4 Helslave – From the sulphur depths
4 Endseeker – Mount caress
4 King Woman – Celestial Blues
4 Year of No Light – Consolamentum
4 Nocturnal – Serpent death
4 Kent Hilli – The Rumble
4 Spiritbox – Eternal Blue
3 Architects – For Those that Wish to Exist
3 Inglorious – We Will Ride
3 Archgoat – Worship the eternal darkness
3 Windfaerer – Breaths of Elder Dawns
3 Significant Point – Into the storm
3 Violblast – Lazarus abandoment
3 A day to Remember – You´re Welcome
3 Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime
3 Warkings – Revolution
3 Last Days Of Humanity: Horrific Compositions Of Descomposition
3 Osukaru – Starbound
2 Amon the Sign – Hunger for darkness
2 Anneke Van Giersbergen – The darkest skies are the brightest
2 Wolves In The Throne Room – Primordial Arcana
2 Vermian – All that is holy must be undome
2 Those Damn Crows – Point of no return
2 Portal – Hagbulbia
2 Frozen Shield – Ínia
2 Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspirancy
2 Orden Ogan – Final days
1 Pyrexia – Gravitas Maximus
1 Powerwolf – Call of the wild
1 The Black Keys – Delta kream
1 Moonspell – Hermitage
1 Pestilence – Exitivm
1 Brujo – Anatomía del querer que no se ve
1 Alien Weaponery – Tangaroa
1 Temperance – Diamanti

VOTACIONES INDIVIDUALES
En este apartado figuran las valoraciones individuales de parte del equipo que formamos parte de Empire y se dividen en tres bloques: 10 mejores discos, mejor directo / streaming, banda del año y banda revelación.

MARC GUTIÉRREZ
Helloween – Helloween
Dold Vorde Ens Navn – Morkere
Hypocrisy – Worship
Unanimated – Victory in blood
Thulcandra – A dying wish
North of South – The tides in our veins
Chez Kane – Chez Kane
Harakiri for the Sky – Maere
Portrait – At one with none
Todomal – Ultracrepidarian
Cannibal Corpse – Violence unimagined
Endseeker – Mount caress
Significant Point – Into the storm
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Anneke Van Giersbergen – The darkest skies are the brightest

Concierto del año: Dvne
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Banda revelación: Todomal

JERO GARCIA
Balmog – Eve
TodoMal – Ultracrepidarian
Monolord – Your Time To Shine
Empyrium – Über den Sternen
Amenra – De Doorn
Thy Catafalque – Vadak
Harakiri for the Sky – Maere
Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Soen – Imperial
Swallow the Sun – Moonflowers
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
Unto Others – Strength
Amenra – De Doorn
Perennial Isolation – Portraits
Wolves In The Throne Room – Primordial Arcana

Mejor concierto: Leprous, Barcelona
Banda del año: Balmog
Banda revelación: TodoMal

JUAN ESPINOZA
Empyrium – Über den Sternen
Negura Bunget – Zâu
Dordeduh – Har
Dvne – Etemen Aenka
At The Gates – The Nightmare of Being
Paradox – Heresy II: End of a Legend
Cynic – Ascension Codes
Thron – Pilgrim
Be’Lakor – Coherence
Swallow The Sun – Moonflowers
Amenra – De Doorn
King Woman – Celestial Blues
In Mourning – The Bleeding Veil
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
Pestilence – Exitivm

Mejor concierto: Dvne, Barcelona
Banda del Año: Iron Maiden
Banda Revelación: Mordkaul

KIKE MOLLA
Ex Deo – Thirteen years of Nero
Belakor – Coherence
Cradle of Filth – Existence is futile
Golgotha – Remembering the past… writing the future
Suidakra – Wolfbite
Rebellion – We are the people
Pharaoh – The Powers that be
Blazon Stone – Damnation
Yoth iria – As the flames withers
Escuela de Odio – … Y nada más que la verdad
Omission – Workship
Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
Violblast – Lazarus abandoment
Amon the Sign – Hunger for darkness
Brujo – Anatomía del querer que no se ve

Mejor concierto: Golgotha live streaming
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Revelación: Among the sign

JUAN SANZ
Nervosa – Perpetual Chaos
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Accept – To Mean To Die
Evile – Unleashed
Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
Gojira – Fortitude
Exodus – Persona Non Grata
Carcass – Turn Arteries
Evergrey – Escape of thr Phoenix
Enforcer – Live By Fire II
Saxon – Inspirations
Epica – Omega
A day to Remember – You´re Welcome
Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories
Alien Weaponery – Tangaroa

Banda del año: Angelus Apatrida
Mejor concierto: Kreator, Alcatraz Festival
Banda revelación: NS/NC

JOAQUIM VALLS
Asphyx – Necroceros
Steven Wilson – Future bites
Heavy Water – Red brick city
Thunder – All the right noises
The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic II
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH
Tommy’s Rocktrip – Beat up by rock and roll
Memoriam – To the end
Arab Strap – As days get dark
The Georgia Thunderbolts – Can’t we get a witness
La Excavadora – La excavadora
The Vegabonds – Sinners and saints
Cannibal Corpse – Violence unimagined
Those Damn Crows – Point of no return
The Black Keys – Delta kream

Mejor concierto: Asphyx, Alcatraz Festival
Banda del año: Rat-Zinger
Banda revelación: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

TONI LÓPEZ
Dream Theater – A View from the top of the World
Subterranean Masquerade – Mountain Fever
Obscura – A Valediction
Altesia – Embryo
Eternity’s End – Embers of War
Liquid Tension Experiment – 3
TodoMal – Ultracrepidarian
Edu Falaschi – Vera Cruz
Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox
Between the Buried and Me – Colors II
TransAtlantic – The Absolute Universe
Helloween – Helloween
Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime
Perennial Isolation – Portraits
Cradle of Filth – Existence is Futile

Concierto: Jelusick, Barcelona
Banda del año: Dream Theater
Banda revelación: Steelforce

FERNANDO GALICIA POBLET
Halloween – Helloween
Dream Theater – A view from the top of the World
Accept – Too mean to die
Thunder – All the right noises
Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
W.E.T. – Retransmission
Greta Van Fleet – The battle at the garden’s gate
Alice Cooper – Detroit
KK’s Priest – Sermons of the Sinner
Liquid Tension Experiment – 3
Saurom – Mester de Juglaría
Behemoth – In absentia Dei
Eclipse – Wired
Exodus – Persona non grata
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu

Concierto del año: Obús, Madrid
Banda del año: Helloween
Banda revelación: NS/NC

EDUARD TUSET
Iron Maiden – S enjutsu
Mortiferum – Preserved in torment
Evil – Possessed by evil
Bocc – Santa Eulalia
Unto Others – Strenght
Kaelan mikla – Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
Asphyx – Necroceros
Converge and Chelsea Wolfe – Blood Moon I
Smith / Kotzen – Smith / Kotzen
Sijjin – Summerian promises
Balmog – Eve
Nocturnal – Serpent death
Archgoat – Worship the eternal darkness
Dold Vorde Ens Navn – Morkere
TodoMal – Ultracrepidarian

Mejor concierto: Front 242, Barcelona
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Banda revelación: Mortiferum

XÈNIA VON ERETICY
Todomal – Ultracrepidarian
Empyrium – Über den Sternen
Opera Diabolicus – Death on a Pale Horse
Subterranean Masquerade – Mountain Fever
Hypocrisy – Worship
Ikarie – Cuerpos en Sombra
In Mourning – The Bleeding Veil
Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox – The Great Escape
Lingua Ignota – Sinner Get Ready
Skepticism – Companion
Iotunn – Access All Worlds
Year of No Light – Consolamentum
Windfaerer – Breaths of Elder Dawns
Portal – Hagbulbia
Harakiri for the Sky – Maere

Mejor concierto: Oratorio War Requiem de Benjamin Britten, Barcelona
Banda del año: TodoMal
Banda revelación: Ikarie

YMIR PEIRÓ
Crowne – Kings in the North
Soen – Imperial
Creye – II
Houston – IV
Seventh Crystal – Delirium
Annisokay – Aurora
Nitrate – Renegade
Asking Alexandria – See What’s On The Inside
Frozen Crown – Winterbane
Eclipse – Wired
Groundbreaker – Soul To Soul
Kent Hilli – The Rumble
Inglorious – We Will Ride
Temple Balls – Pyromide
Evergrey – Escape of the Phoenix

Mejor concierto: Soen, Barcelona
Banda del año: Chez Kane
Banda revelación: Fans of the Dark

ENRIQUE SOBRINO
Mentalist – A journey into the unknown
Helloween – Helloween
Witherfall – Curse of autumm
Therion – Leviathan
Northtale – Eternal flame
North of south – The tides in our veins
NightHearth – El rincón del tiempo y el alma
Skeletoon – The 1.21 gigawatts club
Embersland – The harbour in me
Brainstorm – Wall of skulls
Enigmatic entrance – Becoming daylight
Rhapsody of fire – Glory for salvation
Warkings – Revolution
Orden Ogan – Final days
Powerwolf – Call of the wild

Mejor concierto: Hamlet, Granollers
Mejor banda: Mentalist
Banda revelación: Eyrem

MAESE LEIVA
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
The Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger
Steven Wilson – The Future Bites
Smith / Kotzen – Smith / Kotzen
Mastodon – Hushed Aand Grim
Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe
Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World
Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon
Helloween – Helloween
Liquid Tension Experiment – 3
The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
Robe – Mayéutica
WET – Retransmission
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH
Greta Van Fleet – The Battle At Garden’s Gate

Mejor Concierto: Star Mafia Boy / Lipstick, L’Hospitalet
Banda Del Año: Iron Maiden
Banda Revelación: Mammoth WVH

DANI RUIZ
Temple Balls – Pyromide
Rhapsody of Fire – Glory for Salvation
Michael Schenker – Immortal
Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls, pt. 2
Marco Garau’s Magic Opera – The Golden Pentacle
Eternity’s End – Embers of war
Skywings – How beautiful
Salduie – Ambaxtos
Hellhound – Warrior of Rising Sun
Incursed – Baskavigin
NorthTale – Eternal flame
Bloodbound – Creatures of the dark realm
Osukaru – Starbound
Frozen Shield – Ínia
Temperance – Diamanti

Mejor concierto: NS/NC
Banda del año: Temple Balls
Banda revelación: Frozen Shield

SORAYA MUÑOZ
Evergrey – Escape Of The Phoenix
Abominable Putridity – Parasitic Metamorfosis Manifestation
Gutalax – Shitpendables
Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice
Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
MØL – Diorama
Sanguisugabogg – Tortured Whole
Obscura – A Valediction
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Hardline – Heart, Mind and Soul
Cerebral Effusion – Ominous Flesh Discipline
Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
TodoMal – Ultracrepidarian
Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspirancy
Anneke Van Giesbergen – The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest

Mejor concierto: Gutalax. Deathfeast
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Banda revelación: Stabbing

CARLES OLIVER
MØL – Diorama
Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
Evergrey – Escape Of The Phoenix
Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum
Hardline – Heart, Mind and Soul
Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice
Obscura – A Valediction
Diskord – Abnegations
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World
Angelus Apatrida – Angelus Apatrida
TodoMal – Ultracrepidarian
Last Days Of Humanity: Horrific Compositions Of Descomposition
Gojira – Fortitude
Pyrexia – Gravitas Maximus

Mejor concierto: Implore, Deathfeast
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Banda revelación: Stabbing

CARLOS DE LA PUENTE
Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum
Epica – Omega
Evergrey – Escape of the Phoenix
Dust in Mind – Ctrl
Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
Hypocrisy – Worship
Be’lakor – Coherence
Bad Wolves – Dear Monsters
Ad Infinitum – Chapter 2: Legacy
Hiraes – Solitary
Annete Olzon – Strong
Spiritbox – Eternal Blue
Architects – For Those that Wish to Exist
Brainstorm – Wall of Skull
Bloodbound – Creatures of the Dark Realm

Mejor concierto: Nightwish – Live a Virtual Tour
Banda del Año: Dust in Mind
Banda Revelación: Spiritbox

F.
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Mercury Circle – Killing moons
Iotunn – Access all worlds
Phlebotomized – Pain, resistence, suffering
Todomal – Ultracrepidarian
Worm – Foreverglade
Vomit Ritual – Callous
Ornamentos del miedo – Ecos
Exodus – Persona non grata
Yoth Iria – As the flames withers
Atrae Bilis – Apexapien
Helslave – From the sulphur depths
Empyrium – Über der sternen
Vermian – All that is holy must be undome
Moonspell – Hermitage

Mejor concierto: NS/NC
Banda del año: Iron Maiden
Banda revelación: Todomal