Rolling Stone Metal Awards Nominations Announced

The nominees for the second annual Rolling Stone Metal Awards which will be held on 19th June, 2011 have been announced. Voting for specific categories has also opened on Facebook, while the other categories will be considered by a panel of judges yet to be announced and the winners will only be revealed on June 19th. Leading the nominees list are Bhayanak Maut, Devoid, Undying Inc. and Artillerie.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Metal Band (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Artillerie
Bhayanak Maut
Devoid
Undying Inc
Zygnema

Best Metal Album (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Artillerie – Eradefiled
Devoid – A God’s Lie
Exhumation – Consider This
IAFWAY – Engravings
Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty

Best Metal Song (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Bhayanak Maut – Dear name
Devoid – Battle Cry
Noiseware – 23
Undying Inc – Xenophobe
Zygnema – Theory Of Lies and Negation

Best Album Artwork
Artillerie – Eradefiled
Bhayanak Maut – Metastasis
Devoid – A God’s Lie
IAFWAY – Engravings
Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty

Best Metal Drummer
Artillerie – Aadhar Malhotra
Bhayanak Maut – Jay Row Kavi
Devoid – Shubham Kumar
Undying Inc – Yuvraj Sengupta
Zygnema – Mayank Sharma

Best Metal Guitarist
Artillerie – Raul Bellgard & Alvin Jose
Bhayanak Maut – Aditya Gopinathan Nair & Venkat Raman
Exhumation – Prashant Shash
Undying Inc – Biswarup Gupta
Zygnema – Sidharth Kaddadi

Best Metal Bassist
Devoid – Frank Pawar
Exhumation – Rohit Pereira
Guillotine – Rohit Bhattacharya
Noiseware – Robert Alex
Undying Inc – Reuben Bhattacharya

Best Metal Vocalist
Artillerie – Noble Luke
Bhayanak Maut – Vinay Venkatesh & Sunneith Revankar
Exhumation – Aditya Mehta
Undying Inc – Shashank Bhatnagar
Zygnema – Jimmy Bhore

Best Metal Keyboardist
Electrokore – Axl Hazarika
Guillotine – Akshat Taneja
Pitch Black Symphony – Johnston D’souza
Silver Tears – Raktim Mahanta
Slain – Jonathan Wesley