Revolver's Golden Gods Awards announced for Club Nokia on April 20th

Alice Cooper, Wendy Dio, Chris Jericho, 

Sebastian Bach, Mike Vallely

Photo: Jesse Seilhan

The third annual Golden Gods awards is coming to L.A. on April 20th and the host, guests, performers, and fans were on-hand for the press conference on February 24. Club Nokia hosted the announcement and will also host the event on April 20th. This year, the show is open to the public and tickets are already on sale. Revolver and Epiphone are teaming up to shine some light on the best in hard rock and metal around the globe. This year, the fans have the power and can vote for their favorite acts. If you can’t make the show on April 20th, VH1 Classic will broadcast the show on May 28.
On-hand was Revolver editor-in-chief Brandon Geist, who introduced the stars of the show, including Wendy Dio, Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, Mike Vallely, host Chris Jericho, and Mick Mars. Mars and his Motley Crue bandmates will be presented with this year’s Lifetime Achievement award which has been redubbed the “Ronnie James Dio Award” in honor of the legendary frontman who lost his battle with cancer last year.
Performing live this year will be the original Alice Cooper lineup (for the first time in Los Angeles in 37 years!), Duff McKagan's Loaded, Devildriver (leading an All-Star tribute to Black Flag), Asking Alexandria with Sebastian Bach, Volbeat, and Chris Jericho’s Fozzy.
The nominees are:
Epiphone Best Guitarist
• John 5 (for his work with Rob Zombie)
• Dan Donegan (Disturbed)
• Gus G. (Ozzy Osbourne)
• Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold)
• Janick Gers, Dave Murray and Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden)
• Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom)
Drum Workshop® Best Drummer
• Tommy Clufetos (Ozzy Osbourne)
• Abe Cunningham (Deftones)
• Joey Jordison (for his work with Rob Zombie)
• Roy Mayorga (Stone Sour)
• Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden)
• Mike Portnoy (Avenged Sevenfold)
Best Vocalist
• Glenn Danzig (Danzig)
• Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
• Chino Moreno (Deftones)
• Ozzy Osbourne (Ozzy Osbourne)
• M. Shadows (Avenged Sevenfold)
• Corey Taylor (Stone Sour)
Affliction Album of the Year
• Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare
• Black Label Society, Order of the Black
• Deftones, Diamond Eyes
• Ozzy Osbourne, Scream
• Stone Sour, Audio Secrecy
• Volbeat, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
Samson/Zoom Best Live Band
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Gwar
• Iron Maiden
• Megadeth
• Rammstein
• Sevendust
Most Metal Athlete
• Chris Cole (pro skateboarding)
• Dan Hardy (MMA)
• Toni Lydman (NHL)
• The Miz (WWE)
• Jeremy Shockey (NFL)
• Mike Vallely (pro skateboarding)
Best New Band• Asking Alexandria
• Black Veil Brides
• The Damned Things
• The Pretty Reckless
• Times of Grace
• We Are the Fallen
Eagle Rock Comeback of the Year
• Accept
• Faith No More
• Murderdolls
• A Perfect Circle
• Soundgarden
• System of a Down

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