Inside the 15th anniversary Slammie Awards

A total of 86 bands are represented on the South Florida Slammie Awards' 15th anniversary ballot. With 15 categories featuring 15 nominees each, the awards offer a comprehensive look back at the modern era of of the South Florida punk/metal/alternative/indie scene.

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Receiving the most nominations are:

• 7 - Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, New Found Glory, Nonpoint, Shai Hulud

Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, Nonpoint and Shai Hulud continue to record and tour the world. New Found Glory relocated to California and Shai Hulud to New York but Dashboard Confessional and Nonpoint still call South Florida home. Further Seems Forever recently called it quits after an influential career as torch-bearers of the area's indie scene.

• 6 - The Agency, The Groovenics, The Holy Terrors, Load, Marilyn Manson, Raped Ape, Strongarm

Marilyn Manson, who long ago moved on to bigger and better environs, is perhaps the area's most recognizable homegrown rock star. A supergroup featuring Dashboard Confessional's Mike Marsh, The Agency remains active with a recently released album. Longtime indie band The Holy Terrors are still alive with a recently released CD featuring old tracks with drummer Sam Fogarino (Interpol). After a long hiatus, Load recently reunited for a 16-year reunion. Strongarm, which morphed into Further Seems Forever after making its mark on the Christian hardcore scene, is reportedly organizing a reunion. The Groovenics and Raped Ape (who long dominated the local scene but disbanded shortly after their first indie label efforts) both called it quits over the past decade.

• 5 - Against All Authority, Amboog-A-Lard, Irish Car Bomb, Malevolent Creation, Poison the Well, Puya, Radiobaghdad, The Vacant Andys, Where Fear & Weapons Meet

Still going strong after 15+ years, punk's Against All Authority and metal's Malevolent Creation exemplify the underground scene with a long string of indie albums and worldwide tours. Harcore band Poison the Well is back on an indie label after a stint on a major. Punk stalwarts Irish Car Bomb continue to record and tour while sister band Radiobaghdad, now nearly 20 years old, still regroups for occasional shows. Latin rockers Puya, who signed a major-label deal after moving from Puerto Rico, released several albums and toured the world before splitting to form other projects. Falling short of major success but producing members who went on to national stardom were Amboog-A-Lard (long defunct) and The Vacant Andys (long dormant but rumored to have a reunion in the works). Where Fear & Weapons Meet were leaders of the hardcore scene for years before its members recently split after numerous albums and tours.

Other notable nominations:

• Drummers Jason Lederman (Against All Authority, Brethren, Cavity, Machine, Shai Hulud, Until the End, Where Fear & Weapons Meet) and Chris Goldbach (Against All Authority, Collapsing Lungs, Irish Car Bomb, Malt Liquor Riot, Middle Finger Mob, Radiobaghdad) lead the parade of musicians who played in multiple bands.

• Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever), Chad Gilbert (New Found Glory, Shai Hulud), Goldbach and Chad Neptune (Strongarm, Further Seems Forever) each played in two of the Most Important Band nominees while Lederman played in three.

• Unsung hero John Owens holds the distinction of fronting three bands that "should have made it big, but didn't" - Anchorman, Seville and The Vacant Andys.

Of the 15 nominees for Best Live Music Club, only five remain: Churchill's, Culture Room, Ray's Downtown, Respectable Street and Revolution.

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Following is the full band list with links. (*) Indicates bands known to be non-active. Not including special one-off reunions, 40 of the nominated bands remain active. Please e-mail with any link or status corrections.

Against All Authority (5) - Most Important Band, Local/indie release ("Destroy What Destroys You"), Punk band, Guitarist, Bassist

The Agency (6) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Rock to the Apocalypse"), Indie rock band, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist

* Amboog-A-Lard (5) - Unsung Hero, Metal band, Drummer, Bassist, Best Band Name

* Anchorman (4) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Seasoned Smart Ass"), Indie rock band, Vocalist

Band Number 12 - Vocalist

* Bird of Ill Omen - Best Band Name

* Brethren - Hardcore band

* Brutal Mastication (2) - Metal band, Best Band Name

* Bum Ruckus - Punk band

* Cavity (2) - Metal band, Guitarist

* Collapsing Lungs / L.U.N.G.S. (4) - Most Important Band, National release ("Colorblind"), Vocalist, Drummer

Cru Jones (2) - Unsung Hero, Punk band

The Crumbs (2) - Local/indie release ("The Crumbs Get All Tangled Up"), Punk band

* Culture - Hardcore band

Cynic (4) - Unsung Hero, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist

* Darwin's Waiting Room (2) - National release ("Orphan"), Metal band

Dashboard Confessional (7) - Most Important Band, National release ("The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most"), Indie rock band, Vocalist, Drummer, Bassist, Scene pioneer

Die Stinkin - Best Band Name

Dirty DNA - Drummer

Divine Empire (2) - Metal band, Guitarist

Don King Lives in My Back Yard - Best Band Name

* Dore Soul - Indie rock band

Endo (3) - National release ("Evolve"), Metal band, Bassist

Fallen From the Sky - Indie rock band

The Freakin' Hott - Indie rock band

* Freaks With Beaks - Best Band Name

* Further Seems Forever (7) - Most Important Band, National release ("How to Start a Fire"), Indie rock band, Vocalist, Drummer, Bassist, Scene pioneer

* Glasseater (3) - Most Important Band, National release ("Everything Is Beautiful When You Don't Look Down"), Punk band

* Gonemad - Drummer

* The Groovenics (6) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Wedgie Fever"), Metal band, Vocalist, Drummer, Bassist

Guajiro - Punk band

The Holy Terrors (6) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Lolitaville"), Indie rock band, Vocalist, Drummer, Bassist

Humbert - Indie rock band

* Hudson - Punk band

Into the Moat (2) - Local/indie release ("Means by Which the End is Justified"), Metal band

Irish Car Bomb (5) - Local/indie release ("Tacos & Pornos"), Punk band, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist

* Jack Off Jill (4) - Most Important Band, National release ("Sexless Demons And Scars"), Vocalist, Best Band Name

* Jive Step Bunch - Indie rock band

* Keepsake - Indie rock band

Know the Score (2) - Hardcore band, Drummer

* Legends of Rodeo (4) - Unsung Hero, Indie rock band, Vocalist, Drummer

The Livid Kittens - Vocalist

* Load (6) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Feel the Power"), Punk band, Vocalist, Guitarist, Drummer

* Machine - Hardcore band

Malevolent Creation (5) - Most Important Band, National release ("Retribution"), Metal band, Vocalist, Guitarist

Malt Liquor Riot - Best Band Name

Marilyn Manson (6) - Most Important Band, National release ("Antichrist Superstar"), Vocalist, Guitarist, Bassist, Scene pioneer

* Mary Tyler Whores (3) - Punk band, Vocalist, Best Band Name

Middle Finger Mob - Guitarist

* Morning Again (4) - Unsung Hero, National release ("As Tradition Dies Slowly"), Hardcore band, Guitarist

New Found Glory (7) - Most Important Band, National release ("New Found Glory"), Punk band, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist, Scene pioneer

Nonpoint (7) - Most Important Band, National release ("Statement"), Metal band, Vocalist, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist

* The Numb Ones - Vocalist

One (2) - Local/indie release ("One"), Metal band

* Pank Shovel - Best Band Name

* Plutonium Pie - Best Band Name

Poison the Well (5) - Most Important Band, Local/indie release ("Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder"), Hardcore band, Vocalist, Guitarist

Protagonist (2) - Punk band, Drummer

* Puya (5) - Most Important Band, Local/indie release ("Puya"), Metal band, Guitarist, Bassist

* Quit (3) - Unsung Hero, Indie rock band, Bassist

Radiobaghdad (5) - Local/indie release ("120 Years of Bakin'"), Punk band, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist

* Raped Ape (6) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Terminal Reality"), Metal band, Guitarist, Drummer, Best Band Name

The Red Baron - Hardcore band

Remembering Never - Hardcore band

* Secret French Kissing Society - Best Band Name

* Seville (4) - Unsung Hero, Local/indie release ("Waiting in Seville"), Indie rock band, Bassist

Shai Hulud (7) - Most Important Band, National release ("Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion"), Hardcore band, Guitarist, Drummer, Bassist, Scene pioneer

* Sinful Lust - Vocalist

* Sloppy High Fives - Bassist

Solstice - Bassist

* Southern Flaw - Vocalist

* Standstill - Punk band

Stillkept - Metal band

* Strongarm (6) - Most Important Band, National release ("Trials"), Hardcore band, Drummer, Bassist, Scene pioneer

* Tension - Hardcore band

Three Ton Gate - Guitarist

* Timescape Zero - Hardcore band

Tongues of the Heartworm - Drummer

Torche (3) - Local/indie release ("Torche"), Metal band, Guitarist

Trapped By Mormons - Best Band Name

* Unsung Zeros - Punk band

* Until the End (2) - Unsung Hero, Hardcore band

* The Vacant Andys (5) - Unsung Hero, Indie rock band, Vocalist, Bassist, Scene pioneer

* What Wishes Can't Mend - Hardcore band

* Where Fear & Weapons Meet (5) - Most Important Band, National release ("Control"), Hardcore band, Guitarist, Drummer

* The Young and the Useless (2) - Punk band, Best Band Name