Feb 172010
 

We announce this breaking news: Billed as “America’s first-ever hard rock and heavy metal music awards show,” the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards will take place Thursday, April 8, in downtown Los Angeles. The nominees in nine different categories — plus the recipients of this year’s Golden God Award and the Revolver Golden Gods Lifetime Achievement Award — were revealed today at a press conference.  (trying to stifle a yawn . . .)

New for this year, fans everywhere can cast their vote beginning today to choose who will take home the awards for “Best Guitarist,” “Best Drummer,” “Best Vocalist,” “Album of the Year,” “Best Live Band,” “Best Underground Band,” “Most Metal Athlete,” “Hottest Chick(s) in Metal” and “Comeback Of The Year.” Voting starts today at: http://www.revolvermag.com/goldengods and ends on Wednesday, March 31. You can see the complete list of nominees after the jump.

Looking at the list of nominees, we’re really trying to figure out why we should care. For the most part, the only nominees of any interest to your NCS Authors are those nominated for “Best Underground Band.” We wonder, what does that make the nominees in the other categories, if they’re not “underground”? Mainstream metal? Radio-friendly metal? Yesterday’s metal?

Yeah, pretty much. Really, with a few exceptions, the other nominees look like the kind of metal you’d find on a list of Grammy nominations.

Our mood?  Basically, bored shitless.  (but, because you may care more about this than we do, we’ll report the list of nominees after the jump . . .)

The nominees for the 2010 Revolver Golden Gods Awards presented by Epiphone are:

Best Guitarist:

* Kirk Hammett (METALLICA)
* Tony Iommi (HEAVEN & HELL)
* Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB)
* Dave Mustaine (MEGADETH)
* Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N’ ROSES)
* Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY)

Best Drummer:

* Chris Adler (LAMB OF GOD)
* Brann Dailor (MASTODON)
* Dave Grohl (THEM CROOKED VULTURES)
* Gene Hoglan (DETHKLOK, FEAR FACTORY)
* Dave Lombardo (SLAYER)
* Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan (AVENGED SEVENFOLD)

Best Vocalist:

* Jonathan Davis (KORN)
* Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN & HELL)
* Neil Fallon (CLUTCH)
* Lzzy Hale (HALESTORM)
* Serj Tankian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN)
* Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR)

Album Of The Year:

* ALICE IN CHAINS – Black Gives Way to Blue
* HEAVEN & HELL – The Devil You Know
* MASTODON – Crack the Skye
* MEGADETH – Endgame
* SLAYER – World Painted Blood
* THEM CROOKED VULTURES – Them Crooked Vultures

Best Live Band:

* THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
* LAMB OF GOD
* METALLICA
* MOTÖRHEAD
* ROB ZOMBIE
* SLAYER

Best Underground Band:

* BEHEMOTH
* BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
* THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
* CONVERGE
* THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
* OBITUARY

Most Metal Athlete:

* Josh Barnett (MMA fighting)
* Marc Colombo, Cory Procter, and Leonard Davis (NFL football)
* Chris Jericho (WWE wrestling)
* Mike Piazza (MLB baseball)
* Jason Ellis (Pro skateboarding)
* Jolene Van Vugt (Pro motocrosser)

Hottest Chick(s) In Metal:

* Pearl Aday (PEARL)
* Maria Brink (IN THIS MOMENT)
* Lzzy Hale (HALESTORM)
* Lacey Mosley (FLYLEAF)
* Alexia & Anissa Rodriguez (EYES SET TO KILL)
* Cristina Scabbia (LACUNA COIL)

Comeback Of The Year:

* AC/DC
* ALICE IN CHAINS
* ANVIL
* FEAR FACTORY
* HEAVEN & HELL
* KISS

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