2012 Golden God Awards Nominees

[JRundquist]

Best Guitarist, presented by Epiphone®

• Jinxx and Jake Pitts (Black Veil Brides)
• Zoltan Bathory and Jason Hook (Five Finger Death Punch)
• Willie Adler and Mark Morton (Lamb of God)
• Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel (Machine Head)
• Dave Mustaine and Chris Broderick (Megadeth)
• Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu (Trivium)

Best Drummer, presented by Drum Workshop®

• Charlie Benante (Anthrax)
• Jeremy Spencer (Five Finger Death Punch)
• Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
• Chris Adler (Lamb of God)
• Brann Dailor (Mastodon)
• Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)

Best Vocalist, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink®

• Sebastian Bach
• Andy Biersack (Black Veil Brides)
• James Durbin
• Amy Lee (Evanescence)
• Ivan Moody (Five Finger Death Punch)
• Jonathan Davis (Korn)

Album of the Year, presented by Marshall Amplification®

• Anthrax, Worship Music
• Evanescence, Evanescence
• Five Finger Death Punch, American Capitalist
• Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
• Korn, The Path of Totality
• Lamb of God, Resolution

Best Live Band, presented by Samson/Zoom®

• Avenged Sevenfold
• Foo Fighters
• Guns N’ Roses
• Judas Priest
• Seether
• Tool

Most Metal Athlete

• Gina Carano (MMA fighting)
• Brian Deegan (pro motocross)
• Evan Longoria (MLB baseball)
• Dirk Nowitzki (NBA basketball)
• Mitch Petrus (NFL football)
• CM Punk (WWE wrestling)

Comeback of the Year, presented by Eagle Rock Entertainment®

• Anthrax
• Dream Theater
• Evanescence
• Ministry
• Slipknot
• Van Halen

Riff Lord

• Scott Ian (Anthrax)
• Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society)
• Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
• Munky (Korn)
• Slash
• Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)

Paul Gray Best Bassist, presented by Dean Markley®

• Frank Bello (Anthrax)
• Michael Anthony (Chickenfoot)
• Fieldy (Korn)
• David Ellefson (Megadeth)
• Nikki Sixx (Sixx:A.M.)
• Wolfgang Van Halen (Van Halen)

Best International Band, presented by Musicians Institute®

• Behemoth
• Lacuna Coil
• Rammstein
• Sepultura
• Meshuggah
• X Japan

Most Dedicated Fans

• Asking Alexandria
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Black Veil Brides
• Evanescence
• Falling in Reverse
• HIM





These thoughts come to mind.....

[BlobVanDam]

Don't much care for most of that list, but VH deserves to win everything they're nominated in out of those nominees.

[Cyclopssss]

Best Live band: TOOL?  Have they even played at all last year?? I mean, WHEN they play, they're great, but really???

DT, comeback of the year??? wtf? 

[wolfking]

Most Metal Athlete?!!  Give me a fucking break.

[Gadough]

The amount of times Black Veil Brides and Five Finger Death Punch shows up on that list makes me want to drive my car off a cliff.

[black_biff_stadler]

The amount of times Black Veil Brides and Five Finger Death Punch shows up on that list makes me want to drive my car off a cliff.

  :whenthefuckisDTFgonnagetafellatioemote?: 

[Cyclopssss]

Seriously, this list like it was compiled like this: 'okay, we've got all our favourites in, now we need to put in some other bands to make it look like we've really thougt about this. So who knows any other bands?' 

[black_biff_stadler]

So in conclusion, fuck the body of voters. This shit is jank

[Cyclopssss]

Murked up, for sure! 

[black_biff_stadler]

Word. That shit hella murked.

[Gadough]

I've said this before, but I despise the name of this awards thing. "Golden Gods?" Are you serious? It's so stupid.

[Zook]

Those nominees

[Nekov]

That list is just..... I don't want to start a rant but 

[Sigz]

What are the Golden God Awards and why does anyone care?

[Gadough]

inb4 Dream Theater doesn't win Comeback of the Year and SnakeEyes rages about it.

[Zook]

Doesn't comeback mean a band was gone awhile? OOOOHHH I GET IT!

[chknptpie]

lol @ come back of the year... anyone see the video of Portnoy when they announced that nomination? Funny

[Gadough]

Yeah. Everyone knows Dream Theater's last eight albums have sucked. ADTOE is their triumphant comeback.

[orcus116]

What are the Golden God Awards and why does anyone care?

GOLD FOR THE GOLDEN GOD

[BlobVanDam]

DT, comeback of the year??? wtf? 

Seriously. How do you "comeback" from an album released only two years ago that was their highest charting album ever? How stupid.
That against VH, a band who hadn't released a new album in 14 years, and hadn't released one with DLR in almost 30 years, then releases a great album to great reviews, and debuts at #2.

No contest here.

[Gadough]

What are the Golden God Awards and why does anyone care?

GOLD FOR THE GOLDEN GOD

[Dr. DTVT]

I haven't seen anything that mind boggling in a long time.  I'm waiting for someone to say, "Fooled You!" in the Dark Helmet voice.

Just goes to prove you can't fix stupid.  I mean, how the hell is Chris Jericho not the most metal athelete, he's the frontman for a metal band, I don't think it gets more metal than that, unless you have a shit load of titanium plates in your skull or something.

[7StringedBeast]

I don't give crap what these awards are or whatever, but I was reading this over and was boggled by all the stupid.

1.  Why are the Foo Fighters a metal band all of a sudden?  For fuck's sake they are not metal at all.  I have no idea why they are grouped with any of these bands.

2.  Comeback of the year?  Dream Theater?  What?  Who are these people?  If you are putting on awards, don't you think you should actually know a thing or two about the industry that you are giving awards to?

3.  Korn?  Really?

[AcidLameLTE]

I still don't understand why people say Tool are a great live band. For the most part, they're pretty static and they try and distract you from all the boring parts with lasers (which aren't interesting).

[skydivingninja]

I still don't understand why people say Tool are a great live band. For the most part, they're pretty static and they try and distract you from all the boring parts with lasers (which aren't interesting).

I think the visuals/lights/videos were all very impressive.  I do wish the players were a bit more animated, though Danny Carey was fun to watch.  Maynard is such a diva that I don't care about what he does

Mastodon needs more nominations.  The riffs on the Hunter (and all of their other albums) destroy everything. 

[Dark Castle]

Best Live band: TOOL?  Have they even played at all last year?? I mean, WHEN they play, they're great, but really???

DT, comeback of the year??? wtf? 

Yeah, they were on a tour and had Intronaut as support VERY recently...

[skydivingninja]

This year though, not last year haha.  Maybe they did tour last year.  They seem to tour a lot...

As for DT being called a "comeback," I think it fits.  Lots of fans were disappointed with ToT and Octavarium, plenty were disappointed with Systematic Chaos.  BC&SL was a step in the right direction, but I don't remember it ever being called more than that, and never recalled it reaching Images/Awake/Scenes/6DoiT status.  Plus, with MP gone, ADTOE was DT's new make-or-break album I think and they delivered with an album that got to the top ten on Billboard, a grammy nomination, and lots of fan praise and acceptance of Mangini.  So it kinda fits. 

[7StringedBeast]

Comeback implies they were gone at one point.

[black_biff_stadler]

I still don't understand why people say Tool are a great live band. For the most part, they're pretty static and they try and distract you from all the boring parts with lasers (which aren't interesting).

Couldn't agree more. They were the most expensive of all the shows I've ever been to and easily in the worst 5%. Only way I'd ever consider seeing them again would be for free with a bar tab included.

[Super Dude]

lol

[theseoafs]

inb4 Dream Theater doesn't win Comeback of the Year and SnakeEyes rages about it.

[Super Dude]

 

[Sigz]

So wait, let me get this straight: people complain when awards shows only go for the top-charting bands when DT (or any other 'good' bands) aren't nominated, but when they're nominated for a 'questionable' category they point to the charts as reason for them to not be there?

[DebraKadabra]

inb4 Dream Theater doesn't win Comeback of the Year and SnakeEyes rages about it.

 

[black_biff_stadler]

So wait, let me get this straight: people complain when awards shows only go for the top-charting bands when DT (or any other 'good' bands) aren't nominated, but when they're nominated for a 'questionable' category they point to the charts as reason for them to not be there?

It makes perfect sense in this case since you can only use the Portnoy departure angle so much to try to establish an arguement for DT not being at the top of their game already. This is their track record for peak position on the US Billboard charts for every album dating back to Train of Thought:

Train of Thought:                      53
Octavarium:                             36
Systematic Chaos:                    19
Black Clouds & Silver Linings:      6
A Dramatic Turn of Events:          8

So, as you can clearly see, the only album that didn't chart higher than its predecessor (since Train of Thought anyway) is ADToE which only makes the term "comeback" even more unfitting. Beyond all that. there is zero prestige associated with these awards if you look at how shoddily they were apparently thrown together. You'd think that since this is a metal oriented awards thing, that it wouldn't be so miserably rife with clique-ish voting patterns and, since it obviously is, it's even worse than the Grammy's since it's at least posturing itself as being receptive to metal yet looks like it had a voting body of less than 8 people.