Metal Awards

Newcomer - a band who have come onto the 'worldwide' scene in 2003.

Ie, a band who released their first cd/ep/whatever.
 
didn't Belle and Sebastien once win a best newcomer award in some crap awards ceremony like the Brits, despite just releasing their 3rd album?
 
Something like that.

Queens Of The Stone Age won a Kerrang newcomer award in 2000 despite having played with Metallica at Milton Keynes in front of 50,000 people about fifteen months before.

No doubt Evanescence will scoop a few newcomer awards too, despite releasing an album in 1999...