Trivium Clean Up At Golden God Awards
Monday night saw the 2006 Metal Hammer Golden God Awards take place at London’s Koko with American metal rivivalists Trivium dominating the proceedings.
The pint-sized trio, who had just played a stomping set at the weekend’s Download Festival, scooped three awards including Best Live Band and Best Drummer, with lead singer Matt Heafy being crowned 2006’s ‘Golden God ‘
Other big winners included Avenged Sevenfold, who received a Best International Artist gong from Jada Pinkett Smith, accompanied by husband and
Welsh metallers Bullet For My Valentine headlined the event and also scooped the award for Best Uk Band. Meanwhile Finnish Eurovision winners Lordi, who had earlier received the ‘Spirit of Hammer’ gong, removed their signature masks for the after party, offering fellow revellers a rare glimpse of their faces.
Previous winners included Lost Prophets, Slipknot, My Chemical Romance and Black Sabbath.
The ceremony, now in its fourth year, coincided with heavy rock and metal magazine Metal Hammer’s 20th anniversary.
For more information on the awards go to www.metalhammer.co.uk
The full list of winner is as follows:
- Best Underground: Satyricon
- Icon Award: Christina Scabbia, Lacuna Coil
- Best Newcomer: Aiden
- Best Vide Within Temptation
- Best Metal Label: Roadrunner
- Best Drummer: Travis Smith, Trivium
- Best International Artist: Avenged Sevenfold
- Spirit of Hammer: Lordi
- Dimebag/Shredder Award: Synster Gates, Avenged Sevenfold
- Best Live Band: Trivium
- Riff Lord: Jerry Cantrell,
- Best Album: Coheed & Cambria
- Best Album of Last 20 Years: Slayer, ‘Reigning Blood’
- Golden God: Matt Heafy, Trivium
- Best
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