Best First Release:
High Flight Society, High Flight Society (Melodic Rock/Rock)
Best Second Release:
The Wedding, Polarity (Emocore Rock/Rock)
Best Third Release:
tobyMac, Portable Sounds (Rock with a little Hip-Hop (Rap) flavor)
Best Fourth Release:
Thousand Foot Krutch, The Flame In All Of Us (Rock)
Best Fifth Release:
John Reuben, Word Of Mouth (Hip-Hop (Rap)/Experimental/Rock)
Best Sixth Release:
NONE CHOSEN THIS YEAR.
Notable 7th-Or-Higher Release:
NONE CHOSEN THIS YEAR.
Best Live Show:
Best Festival:
Runners-Up:
Group 1 Crew, Group 1 Crew (Hip-Hop (Rap)/Urban/Rock)
Deas Vail, All The Houses Look The Same (Piano-Driven Rock/Rock)
Wavorly, Conquering The Fear Of Flight (Rock)
The Send, Cosmos (Rock)
Half Past Forever, Take A Chance On Something Beautiful (Slightly Light Rock)
The Almost, Southern Weather (Emocore Rock/Rock)
The Glorious Unseen, Tonight The Stars Speak (Atmospheric Rock/Rock Worship)
Lost Ocean, Lost Ocean (Experimental Piano-Driven Rock)
Runner-Up:
Manic Drive, Reset & Rewind (Rock)
Honorable Mention:
Eleventyseven, Galactic Conquest (Pop/Punk/Dance/Rock)
Runners-Up:
NONE.
Honorable Mentions:
Falling Up, Captiva (Rock)
Kevin Max, The Blood (Rock/Gospel)
Runner-Up:
Flatfoot 56, Jungle Of The Midwest Sea (Celtic Punk)
Runner-Up:
Relient K, Five Score And Seven Years Ago
(Rock with some Pop/Punk/Rock elements)
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Honorable Mentions:
Project 86, Rival Factions (Experimental Hard-Edged Rock/Hardcore)
Spoken, Spoken (Rock/Hardcore)
Runners-Up:
Leeland (Long set)
Flatfoot 56 (Cornerstone Festival IL. set)
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