Nominees for the 2013 Rolling Stone Metal Awards announced!

The Rolling Stone Metal Awards are back with their forth edition. A wonderful evening, celebrating and honoring the best from the Indian metal scene, will feature awards under various categories. And the nominees are:

Best Band
1833 AD
Devoid
Heretic 

Orion
Skyharbor

Best  Album
Skyharbor – Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos
1833 AD – My Dark Symphony
Orion – On The Banks Of Rubicon
Heretic – Words To Epilogues
Devoid – The Invasion

Best Song
Skyharbor – ‘Illusion: Dots’
Noiseware – ‘Flicker’
Devoid – ‘Brahma Weapon’
1833 AD – ‘Wiser Than The Wisest’  
Alien Sky Cult – ‘We Are The Damned’
Heretic – ‘Ring Of Colours’

Best Vocalist
Akhil Unnikrishnan – Heretic
Aman Virdi – Noiseware
Arun Iyer – Devoid
Nishant Abraham – 1833 AD
Rainjong Lepcha – Rectified Spirit

Best Guitarist
Abhijit Namboodiripad & Hareesh Kumar – Heretic
Aniket Patni & Adhiraj Singh – Noiseware
Arun Iyer & Sanju Aguiar – Devoid
Keshav Dhar – Skyharbor
Vigneshkumar Venkatraman & Ashwin Kulkarni – Orion

Best Drummer
Gautam Deb – Noiseware
Nishant Hagjer – Rectified Spirit
Pritesh Prabhune – Orion
Pritpal Singh – Jehovah
Raghav Sehgal – 1833 AD
Shubham Kumar – Devoid

Best Bassist
Adwait Jadhav- Nihilanth
Benjamin Thomas – Heretic
Bob Alex – Noiseware
Himangshu Borah – Rectified Spirit
Nikhil Rufus Raj – Skyharbor

Best Keyboardist
Taz James – Chaotic Years
Vivin Kuruvilla – Wolf’s Lair
Pretom Boro – Tick’s Talk