METALLICA To Headline 5th Annual Golden Gods Awards; To Receive RONNIE JAMES DIO Lifetime Achievement Award
METALLICA will be headlining Revolver's 5th Annual Golden Gods Awards,
on May 2nd in Los Angeles, and will be the recipients of the
RONNIE
JAMES DIO Lifetime Achievement Award.
Says
Metallica: "Wow... a Lifetime Achievement award? Are we worthy?
So say our friends over at Revolver Magazine and we are beyond honored
that we will be the recipients of the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime
Achievement Award at the fifth annual Golden Gods Awards Show on
Thursday, May 2nd at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA. We are about to join
some incredible stellar company with previous winners
RUSH, LEMMY
KILMISTER, OZZY OSBOURNE and
MÖTLEY CRÜE.
The night will be quite the party as
Chris Jericho (FOZZY) hosts
America’s only hard rock awards show that will be broadcast live for the
first time ever on AXS TV in North America and globally through Xbox
LIVE and Facebook. We’ll be playing a couple of songs live as will many
of our touring buddies including
ANTHRAX, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, STONE
SOUR, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, and others.
ROB ZOMBIE and
Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH) will be on hand to receive awards of their own... the
Golden God and Riff Lord awards, respectively.
Fans everywhere will be able to vote for their favs for a number of
awards to be presented that night (see the complete list in the official
press release). Voting is currently open at www.GoldenGodsAwards.com and
ends on April 15th.
A full press release and ticket info can be found at this location.