Nik, you're such an important part of the greater metal community - I discover so many new (and old!) artists thanks to your channel. Congrats on the first of many award shows to come, and thank you so much consistently showing up to do what you love doing 🙌🤘
Having been thumbs up NUMBER SIX SIX SIX.. I have to say, this shit was incredible, well done and we'll see you at the next Nik Nocturnal Awards in 2023.
Dude imagine 5 years from now if this event gains enough traction. U could rent out ur own arena and have actual trophies and do an actual metal awards ceremony. That would be EPIC!! 🤘🤘🤘
We saw them when they headlined in Scranton for the first time in Sept, he's such a great guy, very humble. No way were we missing that, my son got us some epic seats. Then we went to see LoG the next day with KSE. Best weekend ever 🤘🏻 we lost our voices for a week 😄 idk how Randy does it every night.
We all know that the real winners here are all of us viewers/listeners. Thank you to Nik for putting this together, and thank you to all of the musicians bringing us more metal.
@@cyathoris7530 Yeah, it isn't. Just that the trilogy to close the album was the only memorable part for me. Everything before it just sound like a watered down version of an Immortal song. Just one of those things where you know a band can do more, but choose to stick with the status quo. Why would they when 90% (brushing broadly, obviously) of the genre's fans think they do no wrong and can't be criticized?
Bro.. Nik.. I’ve been asking why there’s no metal awards shows. These musicians are SO deserving and they never get any recognition in the music industry (Grammys). But you might be the start of something new. Something that needs to happen. Nik, as time goes on, you’re going to get this down packed and I have a feeling that this is going to be a legit, televised, amazing event that has been needed for a very long time. I appreciate you and all you do for this community. I really hope that this award show blows up to the point where we actually get these bands to come to an arena and Nik does all his goofiness on stage. Love the work bro❤
Can we just appreciate that at 8:00 he's talking about how many clays there are and he says Clay from Polyphia, but if you don't know the bassist is also named Clay lol
This was the best video I’ve seen come out of “metal TH-cam” in a long time. You’re killing it Nik. Keep doing you. The genre does need people like you.
The year isn't even over, you gotta host these at the beginning of the next year. Brand of Sacrafice, In Flames, and I'm sure many others are releasing more music to cap off 2022.
Hyped to see Slaughterhouse take #2 for song of the year, almost a perfect metalcore track that I actually thought people were gonna sleep on this year.
Freaking LOVE MIW, we saw them early on in their career and have been rooting for them ever since, we just saw them headline for the 1st time in Scranton, it was epic. Love to see them get some recognition, everyone went nuts for Slaughterhouse. The Grammys are a joke, metal deserves better. 🤘🏻💥
This would be so much better if you had a short 5 second clip for each artist in the categories there like you do at the end with the winner, especially because I don't know every single song. Definitely look forward to this being more refined when you do it again next year!!
Lorna Shore deserves all of this. Absolutely phenomenal band & people. Pain Remains is a fantastic album. Also stoked to see The Halo Effect getting well deserved praise!
This was literally the best award show ever I honestly hope this eventually becomes "Nik Noctunals heavy grammys" and is a replacement for the real grammys
woah. Nic Hepa's graphic was amazing!!! I have such a big hope for next years awards! I hope this kick starts something that'll become a fun and community inspire awards show!
I always was hesitant to listen to Deathcore but Pain Remains was so good on first listen I found myself lost in the music and just blown away with the beauty and intensity of it. Normally it takes multiple listens for me to enjoy an album but right off the bat Pain Remains did it for me and yeah not a big Deathcore fan so it really speaks to the quality of the music Lorna Shore puts out. Deserving of all the praise and credit they get!
Nik, dude you aren't just some TH-camr that I watch for the memes. I may not have gotten into you back when you were doing all the covers, but the cover you put out with Will Ramos, of Chelsea Grin Recreant... Is forever on the playlist my dude. I like it moreso than the original, and it ain't just Will Ramos fucking disgustingly beautiful vocal performance, I can legitimately hear the guitar in my head right now as Will is screaming "Don't You See..." Just straight fucking fire dude, Never stop Playing, and never stop producing content. Your awesome!
I have always loved that in the music community you could use every literal curse word in a sentence, and it mean all the love in the world to the person you were saying to. ❤
really happy to see Tim Henson smile when Niks complimenting him, he seems really happy about it! thankful to have people like him on top of the guitar world today
I loved this, having other personalities involved and in particular the artists jump in to say a few words of appreciation was amazing. You don't need a big fancy stage or production, just Nik hanging out with the homies. Hope to see this continue for years to come and can't wait to vote again next year!
I love this soo fucking much !! This is the first time I've been excited to watch a award show !! ! Epic job Nik !!! U killed it !! & the appearances from fellow metal heads , artists & musicians was so sick !! Pleaseeee make this a yearly thing ! Keep doing ur thing man !! I love ur vids , Always makes my day better!
I’m sure this will grow to be something big and we’ll look back at this some years in the future and know that when the metal community comes together we can make stuff happen. This was a great initiative and fun to watch. Thanks, Nik! 🤘🏾
Nik Nocturnal! Greatest award show ever!! No Will Smith slap needed! Lorna Shore Hell Ya, much props to them and Matt Heafy (hardest worker in metal). Love it. Please make it every year!!
Thanks Nick! Fantastic show! Much better than whatever TV can come up with. :D And yes. Lorna Shore. I woke up this morning with the Pain Remains III refrain playing in my head, so yeah, no surprises here. Loving it.
I just started watching Niks yt and i regret not finding it sooner so i could of taken part in the metal awards voting, hopefully there will be another one this year so i can part take, thank you for all that u do and wish u the best
this is so fucking amazing Nik and everyone involved, amazing to see people come together for such a community driven event haha great work guys and congrats all the winners lol
I've been wanting to watch this for a while. Haven't really listened to new metal music this year, but I'm excited that you did this award show, hope it becomes something greater every year. And now I'll be sure to check-out most of the songs mentioned here. Congratulations!!!
Been watching you for many years mate. Very well done! That was super cool to watch, honestly enjoyed every minute. Good on you Nik! Much love From Tassie, Aus!
Was surprised none of these were on my list (well, maybe Tim was) at first but then remembered that this is a core channel, at the end of the day ^^ Still would have expected to at least hear of a Slaughter to Prevail breakdown or anything from Animals as Leaders.
lol its now here on YT,i actually watch the whole show last night on Twitch...worth the sub ..i hope this continues,there's so much more room for new categories metal genre being so vast we could just come up with any other categories and there'd thousands votes, competition and a winner for each ...its so exciting just thinking about a category lol
Metal music, metal scene it's still alive just for people like You Nik.. congrats to all the winners and for the very first o too many others NIK NOCTURNAL HEAVY MUSIC AWARDS!! 🔥🔥
*HUGE THANKS to everyone that voted and took part!* ❤
This was pretty official. Nuclear Blast circa 1987?! Geez..so dope 🤘🏾.
Nik, you're such an important part of the greater metal community - I discover so many new (and old!) artists thanks to your channel. Congrats on the first of many award shows to come, and thank you so much consistently showing up to do what you love doing 🙌🤘
Check out Grand theft audio my the lone wolf. My favorite album of 2022.
Nik we need you to do a reaction to "Core Theater" from Jared Dines. Epic AF.
Having been thumbs up NUMBER SIX SIX SIX.. I have to say, this shit was incredible, well done and we'll see you at the next Nik Nocturnal Awards in 2023.
Stoked to be considered for this! The only award show that REALLY matters 😘
Finn, you won in my heart ❤️
if there was a category of worst takes ever you would win
Atleast you won the category of being the most gorgeous looking brutal technical death metal enjoyer
Gatekeeper hypocrite
@@Blandok agreed
I really hope this becomes a yearly thing
same, cause I want to be on the list HA!
Please
✊💢
This aged very well
I'm the 1000th like of this comment and happily for us YES, it did!
Nik saying I’m a „great musician“ is both highly flattering and highly inaccurate at the same time. 😂
He's making up for forgetting to include the "Bassist of the year" category 🤣
'Phrost
@@NikNocturnalTwitchClips Forgetting bass is a capital crime in Italy. Well, to some Italians.
@@NikNocturnalTwitchClips bUt ThErE's No BaSs In MeTaL
@@LPyxel blackened is the end...
@@VoltSlash 🅱️ass
Dude imagine 5 years from now if this event gains enough traction. U could rent out ur own arena and have actual trophies and do an actual metal awards ceremony. That would be EPIC!! 🤘🤘🤘
I would buy tickets for this every year
would be good if he actually considered other genres besides core-variants and melodeath
@@SirLukHipolito I agree but with as many metal genres as there are, it would be a 5 hour award show if he covered all of them 🤣
@@SirLukHipolito i know, Rammstein should have won with best music video with Zeit
Yes!
Man you've genuinely built the nicest and most hype metal community. It's so wholesome
This has to be an annual thing, absolute awesomeness. I promise to participate and vote next time.
We'll see 😉
'Phrost
Agreed!!!
Same
WHEN CHRIS MOTIONLESS GOES "for being voted this year's best bLeGh?" HAD ME DYING. I love this man lmao.
We saw them when they headlined in Scranton for the first time in Sept, he's such a great guy, very humble. No way were we missing that, my son got us some epic seats. Then we went to see LoG the next day with KSE. Best weekend ever 🤘🏻 we lost our voices for a week 😄 idk how Randy does it every night.
“blEAgh”
Can't wait for Craig to find out there's 2 Clay's in Polyphia
absurd
We all know that the real winners here are all of us viewers/listeners.
Thank you to Nik for putting this together, and thank you to all of the musicians bringing us more metal.
I really hope this will grow into an actual event 😂
SAME
Hell yeah
It is, that is just "episode 1"
Thanks Nik for putting this on. Hopefully it continues to grow and become an annual thing.
I'm so happy for Lorna Shore. November 5th was the best birthday ever since i got to see them live.
hell yeah brother! Got to see them on the 1st, my favorite concert experience's so far!
Aye happy birthday twin Scorpio ♏
11-05-1990 here.
I’ll see them the 12th for my bday so excited!
It's weird too see Nik using his feets and moving around on stream 😂
Who knew Nik had legs 🤯.
'Phrost
@@NikNocturnalTwitchClips Absolutely no one 🥹🤯
proof that the hype is real, lorna is killing it this year. super stoked for those guys.
All the talent is there, but it's hard to argue that Pain Remains is basically Immortal pt. II.
@@icanmakeeverythingilovedie9861 I would say that’s a good thing. But yeah the symphonic stuff in pain remains III was similar to immortal
Rory from Dayseeker got shafted in vocalist of the year imo :/
@@cyathoris7530 Yeah, it isn't. Just that the trilogy to close the album was the only memorable part for me. Everything before it just sound like a watered down version of an Immortal song.
Just one of those things where you know a band can do more, but choose to stick with the status quo. Why would they when 90% (brushing broadly, obviously) of the genre's fans think they do no wrong and can't be criticized?
They should win some mainstream awards too, just absolutely blew everything out of the water this year.
Seeing so many big names come together to create this. The metal community is so badass. Nik has to be the best content creator.
Bro.. Nik.. I’ve been asking why there’s no metal awards shows. These musicians are SO deserving and they never get any recognition in the music industry (Grammys). But you might be the start of something new. Something that needs to happen. Nik, as time goes on, you’re going to get this down packed and I have a feeling that this is going to be a legit, televised, amazing event that has been needed for a very long time. I appreciate you and all you do for this community. I really hope that this award show blows up to the point where we actually get these bands to come to an arena and Nik does all his goofiness on stage. Love the work bro❤
you know its bout to be good when the video quality isnt
No idea why Nik used his potato cam 😂.
'Phrost
Can we just appreciate that at 8:00 he's talking about how many clays there are and he says Clay from Polyphia, but if you don't know the bassist is also named Clay lol
This was the best video I’ve seen come out of “metal TH-cam” in a long time. You’re killing it Nik. Keep doing you. The genre does need people like you.
This is the only award show im ever going to care about. please never change the production value. this was 10/10
I love how they are all playing along.
lorna shore is killing it this year man
This Award Show >>>> Grammy's
Tim's internet is definitely dial up. Edit: Will Ramos is probably the nicest most positive dude in the scene right now.
The year isn't even over, you gotta host these at the beginning of the next year. Brand of Sacrafice, In Flames, and I'm sure many others are releasing more music to cap off 2022.
Thank you very much Nik! What a great award show you did! Can’t wait to see it in the next year )
Glad to see you get more viewers than an 'official' music awards
Pink haired Will Ramos is an absolute icon
This is actually incredible. I don't know how I'm just seeing it.
Hyped to see Slaughterhouse take #2 for song of the year, almost a perfect metalcore track that I actually thought people were gonna sleep on this year.
Freaking LOVE MIW, we saw them early on in their career and have been rooting for them ever since, we just saw them headline for the 1st time in Scranton, it was epic. Love to see them get some recognition, everyone went nuts for Slaughterhouse. The Grammys are a joke, metal deserves better. 🤘🏻💥
That wholesome ending got me man... feels are real. Thank you for what you give to us with your channels and thank fuck for metal!
This is the real Grammy’s for metal.
So glad tallah got in the top 5 of new bands. Love that band
So proud of everyone that won awards you all deserved it 100%
The fact that if it wasn't for me, that number would have said 41,601, makes me feel powerful
I really enjoyed this, you should definitely do an award show every year, and I’ll make sure to vote if it happens next year!
This was awesome. Thanks for all the effort involved!
This would be so much better if you had a short 5 second clip for each artist in the categories there like you do at the end with the winner, especially because I don't know every single song. Definitely look forward to this being more refined when you do it again next year!!
You know seeing this has made my day. I'm love the metal community
I discovered Spiritbox some months ago and I FREAKING LOVE THEM.... great awards Nik.
Congrats Nik, I've only watched
Lorna Shore is not my cup of tea, but damn the audience seems to love them. Good for them :)
Dude!!! I would have totally participated in this had I known! This awesome bro! You should make this a yearly thing
Lorna Shore deserves all of this. Absolutely phenomenal band & people. Pain Remains is a fantastic album. Also stoked to see The Halo Effect getting well deserved praise!
I really wanna agree but its just too repetitive for me.
That was a heartwarming ending bro. Thanks for the award show
I genuinely want this to be a yearly thing
This was literally the best award show ever I honestly hope this eventually becomes "Nik Noctunals heavy grammys" and is a replacement for the real grammys
This is amazing, Thank you Nik! Hope to see this next year
I hope this blows up to a real award show. That would be amazing!
Good on you for doing this bro. When I heard you were giving this a shot I had no idea it was going to be so big! Congrats
this deserves to be on the main channel
Zeal & Ardor and Amenra released great albums this year. I wish they were more recognized.
woah. Nic Hepa's graphic was amazing!!! I have such a big hope for next years awards! I hope this kick starts something that'll become a fun and community inspire awards show!
i want this again next year !!! this was amazing
Amazing of you to organize this all ! Props to you and the community !
i loved this, i hope this becomes a yearly thing!
This makes me happy to see how tight the metal community is
Only reason I missed this was because I was seeing Lorna Shore in Atlanta that night so thank you for uploading this to TH-cam!
2022 was a great year for metal and this award highlights that!
Also love that doom eternal background music!
This is so awesome. :) Also great that Kevin etc. just took their time to call you while Streaming... that's amazing!
I always was hesitant to listen to Deathcore but Pain Remains was so good on first listen I found myself lost in the music and just blown away with the beauty and intensity of it. Normally it takes multiple listens for me to enjoy an album but right off the bat Pain Remains did it for me and yeah not a big Deathcore fan so it really speaks to the quality of the music Lorna Shore puts out. Deserving of all the praise and credit they get!
Absolutely killed it man. This award show and video is monumental. Great work. Congratulations to all the bands and members 🤘🏾🤘🏾
Nik, dude you aren't just some TH-camr that I watch for the memes. I may not have gotten into you back when you were doing all the covers, but the cover you put out with Will Ramos, of Chelsea Grin Recreant... Is forever on the playlist my dude. I like it moreso than the original, and it ain't just Will Ramos fucking disgustingly beautiful vocal performance, I can legitimately hear the guitar in my head right now as Will is screaming "Don't You See..." Just straight fucking fire dude, Never stop Playing, and never stop producing content. Your awesome!
I have always loved that in the music community you could use every literal curse word in a sentence, and it mean all the love in the world to the person you were saying to. ❤
This was so fun to watch! Can't wait for next year's Nik Nocturnal award show
really happy to see Tim Henson smile when Niks complimenting him, he seems really happy about it! thankful to have people like him on top of the guitar world today
I loved this, having other personalities involved and in particular the artists jump in to say a few words of appreciation was amazing. You don't need a big fancy stage or production, just Nik hanging out with the homies. Hope to see this continue for years to come and can't wait to vote again next year!
I love this soo fucking much !! This is the first time I've been excited to watch a award show !! ! Epic job Nik !!! U killed it !! & the appearances from fellow metal heads , artists & musicians was so sick !!
Pleaseeee make this a yearly thing !
Keep doing ur thing man !! I love ur vids , Always makes my day better!
Much love dude, keep up the solid work! ♥️
This was fantastic! Let's get this to 100k votes next year!
I’m sure this will grow to be something big and we’ll look back at this some years in the future and know that when the metal community comes together we can make stuff happen. This was a great initiative and fun to watch. Thanks, Nik! 🤘🏾
Amazing stuff. Hope this becomes a big event in the whole music community
I hope you do this again, this was a lot of fun to be a part of man!
Nik, thank you for this beautiful celebration of metal. Absolutely great job!
Nik Nocturnal! Greatest award show ever!! No Will Smith slap needed! Lorna Shore Hell Ya, much props to them and Matt Heafy (hardest worker in metal). Love it. Please make it every year!!
Nik its awesome u did this man.. The respect u gave back to Metal music..💀🤘
The real winners are the friends we made along the way.
Thanks Nick! Fantastic show! Much better than whatever TV can come up with. :D
And yes. Lorna Shore. I woke up this morning with the Pain Remains III refrain playing in my head, so yeah, no surprises here. Loving it.
thanks for doing this yo. this is really cool.
I just started watching Niks yt and i regret not finding it sooner so i could of taken part in the metal awards voting, hopefully there will be another one this year so i can part take, thank you for all that u do and wish u the best
this is so fucking amazing Nik and everyone involved, amazing to see people come together for such a community driven event haha great work guys and congrats all the winners lol
I hope this becomes a yearly award show 👌 this was pure entertaining and with bands I actually care about! 😂
This is so epic! Well done
Appreciate these awards as I wasn’t familiar with all these bands and their songs. Thank you!
I've been wanting to watch this for a while. Haven't really listened to new metal music this year, but I'm excited that you did this award show, hope it becomes something greater every year. And now I'll be sure to check-out most of the songs mentioned here. Congratulations!!!
Please make this a yearly thing Nik!
Great work Nik! "Body Bang" love u dude🖤
Been watching you for many years mate.
Very well done! That was super cool to watch, honestly enjoyed every minute. Good on you Nik! Much love From Tassie, Aus!
This is more legitimate than any mainstream music award show has ever been.
I love Dan Sugarman's section, that dude is funny af!
Was surprised none of these were on my list (well, maybe Tim was) at first but then remembered that this is a core channel, at the end of the day ^^
Still would have expected to at least hear of a Slaughter to Prevail breakdown or anything from Animals as Leaders.
lol its now here on YT,i actually watch the whole show last night on Twitch...worth the sub ..i hope this continues,there's so much more room for new categories metal genre being so vast we could just come up with any other categories and there'd thousands votes, competition and a winner for each ...its so exciting just thinking about a category lol
What, Bloodywood didn't get album of the year? Damn, but congrats to all the winners! I hope this becomes a yearly thing. 🤘
This year has been the best year for metal music in a long time. I hope the next year will be as much of a joyment as this one!
post this on the main channel ! also make a "bassist of the year" award : )
Can we get this as a Playlist on Spotify
Thanks for giving the bois and gals their due nik. The real metal awards 🤘🤘. Much love brother
Metal music, metal scene it's still alive just for people like You Nik.. congrats to all the winners and for the very first o too many others NIK NOCTURNAL HEAVY MUSIC AWARDS!! 🔥🔥
this should be an actual live physical event