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Awards
Metal Hammer dishes out some Golden Gods
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 15 June 2011
A busy few days for the metalheads reached a climax on Monday when Alice Cooper and Andrew O’Neill presented Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods awards over their at the O2 dome, in the cushdy (and simply not grimey enough for the average metal fan, I’m sure) indigO2 venue.
Rob Zombie was declared the overall Golden God of the night, while Judas Priest were presented with an Icon Award. Best Event, meanwhile, went to the announcement that ‘The Big Four’ – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax – will on the same bill in the UK for the first time at the upcoming Sonisphere festival. Not the actual event, that hasn’t happen yet. The announcement of the event.
The full list of winners went as follows:
Best New Band: The Damned Things
Best Underground: Primordial
Breakthrough Artist: Sabaton
Best UK Band: Iron Maiden
Best Live Band: Skindred
Best International Band: Avenged Sevenfold
Best Album: Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
Best Event: The Big Four coming together for the first time ever in the UK
Metal As Fuck Award: Nergal (Behemoth)
Dimebag Darrell Shredder Award: Gus G
Inspiration Award: Twisted Sister
Riff Lords: Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein (Down)
Spirit of Hammer: Diamond Head
Icons: Judas Priest
Golden God: Rob Zombie
