Metallica will lay affirmation to addition bend of the abundant metal cosmos on May 2nd, if the multi-platinum bandage closes this year's Revolver Golden Gods Awards commemoration with a reside achievement in Los Angeles. It will be Metallica's aboriginal actualization at the five-year-old metal and hard-rock show, area they are set to accept the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award.
"It would be actual simple to anticipate of a bandage like Metallica – accepting one of the better bands on the planet – to not absolutely accord a bits about this blazon of stuff," Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian told Rolling Stone afterward a Golden Gods columnist appointment in Hollywood yesterday. "I've accepted those guys forever. This will appearance the apple in a big way that these guys never forgot who they are. They're still the aforementioned dudes."
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Sitting amid metal guitar heroes Zakk Wylde and John 5, Ian was one of 16 headbanging players onstage at the Harder Bedrock Café in Hollywood as data on the appearance were announced. Other honorees set to arise on the affairs cover Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi (being accustomed the Riff Lord prize) and Rob Zombie (picking up the Golden God statue).
Besides Metallica, bands assuming on the appearance at Club Nokia will be Anthrax, Stone Sour, Five Finger Death Punch, Dillinger Escape Plan and Halestorm.
"Fuck the Grammys. Our appearance is sexier, it's cooler," declared accompanist and WWF wrestler Chris Jericho, abiding as this year's host, as he stood at the podium. He again performed a absolute Danish-accented clothing of Metallica bagman Lars Ulrich as he apprehend a account from Metallica, which said of he honor, "We are above psyched to be at the accepting end of this shout-out and in the acclaimed aggregation of Rush, Lemmy, Ozzy and Mötley Crüe."
The commemoration will be advertisement on the AXS television network, Xbox LIVE and on the Facebook pages of Revolver annual and Xbox. Awards categories cover Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Comeback of the Year, forth with statues for best guitarist, vocalist, bassist, bagman and more. Anthrax are nominated in the Best Reside Bandage category.
"Zakk and I were badinage onstage – every year, of advance they say it's the better and best Golden Gods you anytime had. This year they accept Metallica, so in a faculty they're cogent the accuracy this year," Ian said of his "Big 4" batter brethren. "Unless they get Zeppelin to ameliorate and do it next year, maybe this is the endure Golden Gods. How are they traveling to top Metallica?"
As Ian batten backstage, a abbreviate reside set by Halestorm roared from the capital room. They were abutting by Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach as they did his band's 1991 canticle "Slave to the Grind," which appears on Halestorm's 2011 covers EP. "He's freakin' amazing," Halestorm accompanist Lzzy Hale told Rolling Stone of the arrogant hair-metal veteran. "He walks the bandage between, OK, are you accepting arrogant or sarcastic? It's apparently a little of both."
Halestorm were a part of the youngest artists at the columnist conference. This year will not be their aboriginal time at the Golden Gods, but the Pennsylvanian harder bedrock act are still accepting acclimated to accepting about their agreeable heroes. "Today was a little nerve-wracking, because they are alone some of the best vocalists, guitarists, bass-players, drummers ever," Hale said.
In a awash division of awards programs, Halestorm is aswell up for a Grammy next anniversary in the Best Harder Rock/Metal achievement for their individual "Love Bites (So Do I)." Nominated in the aforementioned class is Anthrax for "I'm Alive," which agency Ian will anon be walking the red carpeting alfresco L.A.'s Staples Center. He hopes to accommodated some new humans there.
"It would be air-conditioned to accommodated Bruno Mars and acquaint him I anticipate he's cool," said Ian, his down-covered Tutankhamun bristles continued and graying, "and him apparently attending at me like, 'I don't accept a fucking clue who or – what are you?'"
Wylde and his Black Label Society are nominated for Most Dedicated Fans, which didn't abruptness the guitarist. "It's like the Deadheads – the Grateful Dead on steroids," he said of the acute afterward he alleged "the Black Label berserkers. It's bigger than the band. We're just the abode bandage for the Black Label community."
Win or lose, Wylde already has a British adaptation of the Golden God. "I admonish the wife affluence of times and backpack the bays around," he said proudly, "and explain to her how advantageous she is to beddy-bye next to a Golden God."
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