Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards 2012

Metal Hammer is an English metal magazine… yes, folks, they still exist. And every year they have an awards ceremony and every year we print them, but usually it is our metal writer who posts and is damned but since we've run out of metal pros, here is a non fan but not a hata with his opinion.

Here are the winners:

Best New Band – THE DAMNED THINGS

Metal As F*ck – Nergal (BEHEMOTH) 

Best Underground – PRIMORDIAL

Dimebag Darrell Shredder(s) – Gus G. (FIREWIND, Ozzy Osbourne)

Breakthrough Artist – SABATON

Best UK Band – IRON MAIDEN

Best Live Band – SKINDRED 

Inspiration Award – TWISTED SISTER

Best International Band – AVENGED SEVENFOLD 

Best Album – "Absolute Dissent" by KILLING JOKE

Event of the Year – "Big 4" coming together for first time ever in the U.K. 

Riff Lord(s) – Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein (DOWN)

Spirit of Hammer – DIAMOND HEAD

Icons – JUDAS PRIEST

Golden God – Rob Zombie

All a little obvious, right? I guess Alice is there because Iron Maiden (who he's opening for). Behemoth are pretty ferocious, Killing Joke got best album so that's all good, Helen will be happy about Avenged Sevenfold. So I guess things change so slowly it ain't that difficult to keep track. Plus? Hot chicks at the awards ceremony!