​Nokturnal Mortum, White Ward, Ignea, Karna, etc.: BUMA’s nominees for "Best Metal Album" and "Best Metal Video" announced

The organizers of The Best Ukrainian Metal Act, the annual award instituted by ІnshaMuzyka label, announced a list of nominees for "Best Metal Album" and "Best Metal Video".

The nominees in these categories were selected from the bands which presented their releases (including EPs) and music videos from December 1, 2016, to December 1, 2017. The winners in these categories are determined by the jury of BUMA, which last year featured Noizr Zine's chief editor — read her article "Editor's choice: 5 albums for BUMA".

"Best Metal Album":

Bojevilla – "Блуд"

Ignea – "The Sign Of Faith"

Nokturnal Mortum – "Істина"

VelikhanBand – "Oh Lord!"

White Ward – "Futility Report"

"Best Metal Video":

Bojevilla – "Реальність"

Detach – "Lock and load"

Karna – "Party на Прикарпатті"

Septa – "The Seducer"

Space Of Variations – "Where Are You Tonight?"

Awarding of The Best Ukrainian Metal Act will take place on December 23 at the "Bingo" club, kyiv, Ukraine. Special guests of the event will be the winners of 2016 Jinjer.

In late November, the names of the seven nominees, which will compete for The Best Ukrainian Metal Act's main award "Best Metal Band", became known. Among them are progressive metalheads Azathoth Circle (Kyiv), hardcore band Bojevilla (Kyiv), death metal band Beyond the Pleasure (Kyiv), oriental metal act Ignea (Kyiv), last year’s nominees hardcore band The Nietzsche (Odesa), formed by Megamass, Tol, and Psionic Arc members — deathcore band Velikhan (Kyiv), and the owner of 2015’s main award hardcore band Space of Variations (Vinnytsia).