Architects, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica & More Announced For Metal Hammer Golden Gods

The nominees for the 15th annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods are in and they’re looking fine as wine! Each year since 15 years ago, Metal Hammer has their own award and awardceremony knows as the Golden Gods which celebrates the best metal has had to offer the year before.

The nominees are the following:

Best New Band
Zeal & Ardor
Venom Prison
Brutai
Puppy
Ocean Grove

Best Underground Band
Perturbator
Neurosis
Royal Thunder
Pallbearer
Anaal Nathrakh

Best UK Band
Bury Tomorrow
Architects
While She Sleeps
Tesseract
Orange Goblin

Best International Band presented by Nuclear Blast
Metallica
Opeth
Alter Bridge
Avenged Sevenfold
Korn

Breakthrough
Code Orange
Creeper
Oathbreaker
Ho99o9
Avatar

Best Live Band
Steel Panther
Letlive
Killswitch Engage
Mastodon
Ghost

Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’
Joel O’ Keeffe (Airbourne)
Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth)
Phil Manansala (Of Mice & Men)
Ben Bruce (Asking Alexandria)
Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan)

Best Independent Label
Nuclear Blast
Cooking Vinyl
Deathwish
Season Of Mist
Basick

Game Of The Year
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Overwatch
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Iron Maiden: The Legacy Of The Beast
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
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