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Metal Hammer Award Nominations Announced

added 09 April 2008 at 11.25

Get ready for one of the world's biggest rock knees-up as the nominations for the sixth annual Golden Gods ceremony are revealed, with Gallows, Slipknot and Nine Inch Nails all up for awards.

This year’s Golden Gods Metal Hammer Awards will take place on June 16 at London’s 02 complex and will be watched by an audience spattered with some of the biggest names in rock.  

There will also be a second stage aboard Thames' vessel, the Dixie Queen, featuring live performances from - among others - rising metal talent Bring Me The Horizon and Job For A Cowboy.

Leading the nominations are Slipknot, Gallows and Nine Inch Nails battling it out to take home the 'Inspiration Award'.

Frank Carter and his boys Gallows have been nominated for the 'Best Live Band' gong up against a might clash of titans Machine Head, Megadeth, Turasis and the female fronted Swedes Arch Enemy.

Heavyweight Slash currently holds the crown for 'Riff Lord' and he's been nominated again this year.  The question is, can any of the other contenders - (ex-Kiss) aceman Ace Frehley, Megadeth’s Dave Musaine, Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt and Iced Earth’s Jon Shaffer - bring him down from this pedestal.

The full nominations list for the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2008 is as follows:

Best UK Band
· Iron Maiden
· Bullet For My Valentine
· Paradise Lost
· Saxon
· Judas Priest

Breakthrough Artist
· Still Remains
· Apocalyptica
· Devildriver
· Every Time I Die
· Bloodsimple

Best International Band
· Nightwish
· Avenged Sevenfold
· In Flames
· Down
· Dir En Grey

Best Live Band
· Gallows
· Machine Head
· Megadeth
· Arch Enemy
· Turisas

Best Video
· Himsa 'Unleash Carnage'
· Goat The Head 'Darwinian Minions'
· Bullet For My Valentine 'Scream Aim Fire'
· As I Lay Dying 'Nothing Left'
· Dimmu Borgir 'The Serpentine Offering'

Riff Lord
· Ace Frehley (Kiss)
· Slash (Velvet Revolver)
· Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
· Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)
· Jon Shaffer (Iced Earth)

Shredder
· Alexi Laiho (Children Of Bodom)
· Dan Donegan (Disturbed)
· Jesper Stromblad (In Flames)
· Dino Cazares (Divine Heresy)
· Mike Amott (Arch Enemy)

Best Underground Band
· Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster
· Black Dhalia Murder
· Municipal Waste
· Gallhammer
· Trigger The Bloodshed

Best Metal Label
· Roadrunner
· Metal Blade
· Century Media
· Nuclear Blast
· SPV
. Spinefarm

Best Album 
· Avenged Sevenfold 'self-titled'
· Down 'lll: Over The Under'
· Children Of Bodom 'Blooddrunk'
· Atreyu 'Leads Sails Paper Anchor'
· Testament 'The Formation Of Damnation'

Incoming! Best New Band
· Baroness 'The Red Album'
· Evile 'Enter The Grave'
· Engel 'Absolute Design'
· Airbourne 'Runnin' Wild'
· Suicide Silence 'The Cleansing'

Inspiration Award
· Carcass
· Nine Inch Nails
· Kiss
· Meshuggah
· Slipknot

Tagged as Bring Me the Horizon, Awards

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