In product placement terms, there are few better places to find yourself in the metal realms, than grasped firmly in the fist of Kerry King, of US thrash legends Slayer. So with a welcome little twinge of reflected glory, we watched Mr King raise his Golden God Award at last week’s annual metal event, held [...]

With metal heads currently all turned in the direction of Dowload, it can be easy to overlook other upcoming dates on the rock calendar. For the Golden Gods are almost upon us, Metal Hammer magazine’s annual award show, where the good, the bad, not to mention the ugly, of the metal realms are acknowledged in [...]