The nominees for the 2017 edition of the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards have just been announced! You can scope out the list below and…

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The awards show itself will be taking place in London, England on June 12th. The proceedings will be hosted by Chris Jericho.

Best New Band:
Zeal & Ardor
Venom Prison
Brutai
Puppy
Ocean Grove

Best Underground Band:
Perturbator
Neurosis
Royal Thunder
Pallbearer
Anaal Nathrakh

Best UK Band:
Bury Tomorrow
Architects
While She Sleeps
Tesseract
Orange Goblin

Best International Band presented by Nuclear Blast:
Metallica
Opeth
Alter Bridge
Avenged Sevenfold
Korn

Breakthrough:
Code Orange
Creeper
Oathbreaker
Ho99o9
Avatar

Best Live Band:
Steel Panther
letlive.
Killswitch Engage
Mastodon
Ghost

Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’:
Joel O’ Keeffe (Airbourne)
Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth)
Phil Manansala (Of Mice & Men)
Ben Bruce (Asking Alexandria)
Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan)

Best Independent Label:
Nuclear Blast
Cooking Vinyl
Deathwish
Season Of Mist
Basick

Game Of The Year:
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Overwatch
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Iron Maiden: The Legacy Of The Beast
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

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