Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2012 Nominations Announced

Bhayanak Maut, Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2011

It’s bigger, it’s meaner and it’s three times as loud! The 3^rd Rolling Stone Metal Awards are a little more than a month away and we have our final list of nominees.

 After over a month of brutal deliberation, we’ve counted your votes, crunched the numbers and present to you the nominees for India’s only metal awards.

 Leading the nominations are Mumbai’s Goddess Gagged and Providence with seven nods each. Bangalore’s Eccentric Pendulum is close behind with six, followed by Pangea, Dark Helm and Skyharbor.

Aman Virdi of Noiseware

 Skyharbor, who will open for Lamb of God this weekend, are nominated for Best Song (‘Maeva’), Best Guitarist (Keshav Dhar) and Best Vocalist (Sunneith Revankar).

 In fact, Revankar is nominated twice as Best Vocalist for his work on the Skyharbor album as well as his vocals on the Providence record Vanguard.

 The Rolling Stone Metal Awards will be held on July 1st, 2012 at the Blue Frog and will also feature performances by some of the best metal bands in the country.

 Fans can vote for their favorite bands in three categories ”“ Best Song, Best Album and Best Band ”“ starting May 25th, 2012 right up to June 25th, 2012.

 Check out the full list of nominees:

 

Best Band

 Dark Helm

Eccentric Pendulum

Goddess Gagged

Pangea

Providence

 Best Album

 Persepolis ”“ Dark Helm

Winding the Optics ”“ Eccentric Pendulum

Resurfaces ”“ Goddess Gagged

Snails Are When I Was Young ”“ Pangea

Vanguard ”“ Providence

 Best Song

”˜The Axioms of Aphotic Expressions’ ”“ Eccentric Pendulum

”˜Visionary’ ”“ Goddess Gagged

”˜Every Photo Doesn’t Have A Ghost’ ”“ Pangea

”˜Watch Them Fall’ ”“ Providence

”˜Maeva’ ”“ Skyharbor

 Best Vocalist

 Nikhil Vastarey ”“ Eccentric Pendulum

Siddharth Basrur ”“ Goddess Gagged

Aman Virdi ”“ Noiseware

Sunneith Revankar ”“ Providence

Sunneith Revankar ”“ Skyharbor

 Best Guitarist

 Devesh Dayal & Arman Menzies ”“ Goddess Gagged

Adhiraj Singh & Aniket Patni ”“ Noiseware

Akshay Rajpurohit ”“ Pangea

Shezan Shaikh & Charan Singh Pathania ”“ Providence

Keshav Dhar ”“ Skyharbor

 Best Drummer

 Vibhas Venkatraman ”“ Eccentric Pendulum

Jeremy D’Souza ”“ Goddess Gagged

Ifty Sarwar ”“ Insane Prophecy

Gautam Deb ”“ Noiseware

Aaron Pinto ”“ Providence

 Best Bassist

 Shubhrayu De ”“ Dark Helm

Arun Natarajan ”“ Eccentric Pendulum

Krishna Jhaveri ”“ Goddess Gagged

Xulfi Nawaz ”“ Insane Prophecy

Srikanth Rao ”“ Providence

 Best Keyboardist

 Vivek Arun ”“ Amethysts

Taz James ”“ Chaotic Years

Aniketh Shankar ”“ Dark Helm

Antriksh Bali ”“ Ebonix

Shadaab Kadri”“ Pangea

Photographs by Monisha Ajgaonkar