Interview | Revolver Magazine’s Brandon Geist
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America’s first-ever hard rock and heavy metal music awards show is back! The second annual REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS presented by Epiphone will take place Thursday, April 8, returning to Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. The show will later be televised on VH1 Classic Saturday, May 22 (air time TBA). Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 19 via Ticketmaster.
This year, hosting duties for the Golden Gods will be shared between musician, activist and entrepreneur Andrew W.K. and lead singer of FOZZY, professional WWE wrestling superstar, actor and author Chris Jericho.
Rob Halford
Hear what Revolver Magazine’s Editor in Chief Brandon Geist had to say about Revolver, The Golden Gods Awards and more in my interview with him below.
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New for this year, fans everywhere can cast their vote beginning today to choose who will take home the awards for ‘Best Guitarist,’ ‘Best Drummer,’ ‘Best Vocalist,’ ‘Album of the Year,’ ‘Best Live Band,’ ‘Best Underground Band,’ ‘Most Metal Athlete,’ ‘Hottest Chick(s) in Metal’ and ‘Comeback Of The Year.’ Vote today at Revolver Golden Gods Awards, voting ends on Wednesday, March 31. The complete list of nominees in each category are listed below.
The Metal Blade Golden God Award is given to one special honoree a year who embodies all that is metal. This year, the accolade will go to Judas Priest front man and Metal God Rob Halford, and it will be presented to him by last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner, the legendary Ozzy Osbourne. (Last year Revolver honored metal legend Dave Mustaine of Megadeth with the Golden God Award.) This year’s recipient of the Splatterhouse Lifetime Achievement Award is none other than hard rock icon Lemmy Kilmister. Lemmy has fronted Motörhead, the loudest band on the planet, for 35 years, and his background includes being Jimi Hendrix’s roadie in the ’60s before joining Hawkwind. Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Them Crooked Vultures) will do the honor of presenting Lemmy with his Splatterhouse Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Lemmy
Adding to the celebration of all that is best in metal this year, the GOLDEN GODS AWARDS will also include hard rocking musical numbers by Rob Zombie, Fear Factory (who will make their first LA appearance ever with their new line-up), As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada and last year’s host Brian Posehn’s all-star band featuring Scott Ian, Brendon Small, John Tempesta and Joey Vera, with a special performance by Zakk Wylde. And just announced, Slash will perform his new solo material with Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother) Myles Kennedy (Alterbridge) and perform a song with Lemmy. Also, Slash and Dave Grohl will join Lemmy on stage to perform the Motorhead classic ‘Ace Of Spades.’ More performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
“As a diehard fan of hard rock and metal who still can’t quite figure out how he ended up as the editor-in-chief of Revolver magazine, I am beyond stoked to attend the 2010 Golden Gods, let alone work on it behind the scenes,” states Revolver ’s Editor in Chief Brandon Geist. “An award show celebrating the true power and artistry of this most overlooked, vilified, and misunderstood form of music has been long overdue. But award shows can be lame, self-congratulating affairs, which is why I’m particularly excited that most of this year’s winners will be picked not by some mysterious panel of snotty critics or the incestuous members of whatever ‘academy,’ but by the fans. Metal has always been all about the fans; it’s music for die hard fans by die hard fans. So power to the people, and may the best maniacs win!”
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Awesome post, many thanks for the info – I don’t normally add comments in these things but enjoyed this post. Please post more usefull stuff like this, I bookmarked you!
Thanks Mike,
I do enjoy doing these interviews, and I’m glad someone else is enjoying them also. There’s more to come, stay tuned.
Very cool interview. Alot of interesting questions and answers. Some new insights that were brought to the publics attention. And thanks for the mention..
Keep up the good work!!!