Every Indian metal band dreams of winning a Rolling Stone Metal Award. Why? Because they're India's only meaningful metal awards and they have critics choice awards as well as popular choice awards for certain categories, which is a great way to do things!

Now in its third year, the Rolling Stone Metal Awards are a little more than a month away and have announced their final list of nominees. After over a month of brutal deliberation, they've counted your votes, crunched the numbers and present to you the nominees for India’s only metal awards.

Leading the nominations are Mumbai’s Goddess Gagged and Providence with seven nods each. Bangalore’s Eccentric Pendulum is close behind with six, followed by Pangea, Dark Helm and Skyharbor.

The Rolling Stone Metal Awards will be held on July 1st, 2012 at the Blue Frog and will also feature performances by some of the best metal bands in the country.

Fans can vote for their favorite bands in three categories – Best Song, Best Album and Best Band – starting May 25th, 2012 right up to June 25th, 2012.

VOTE FOR THE 3 POPULAR CHOICE AWARDS!

BEST BAND (http://www.facebook.com/questions/10150824053026471/)

• Dark Helm
• Eccentric Pendulum
• Goddess Gagged
• Pangea
• Providence

BEST ALBUM (https://www.facebook.com/questions/10150824054516471/)

• Persepolis – Dark Helm
• Winding the Optics – Eccentric Pendulum
• Resurfaces – Goddess Gagged
• Snails Are When I Was Young – Pangea
• Vanguard – Providence

BEST SONG (https://www.facebook.com/questions/10150824056561471/)

• ‘The Axioms of Aphotic Expressions’ – Eccentric Pendulum
• ‘Visionary’ – Goddess Gagged
• ‘Every Photo Doesn’t Have A Ghost’ – Pangea
• ‘Watch Them Fall’ – Providence
• ‘Maeva’ – Skyharbor

BEST VOCALIST

• Nikhil Vastarey – Eccentric Pendulum
• Siddharth Basrur – Goddess Gagged
• Aman Virdi – Noiseware
• Sunneith Revankar – Providence
• Sunneith Revankar – Skyharbor

BEST GUITARIST

• Devesh Dayal & Arman Menzies – Goddess Gagged
• Adhiraj Singh & Aniket Patni – Noiseware
• Akshay Rajpurohit – Pangea
• Shezan Shaikh & Charan Singh Pathania – Providence
• Keshav Dhar – Skyharbor

BEST DRUMMER

• Vibhas Venkatraman – Eccentric Pendulum
• Jeremy D’Souza – Goddess Gagged
• Ifty Sarwar – Insane Prophecy
• Gautam Deb – Noiseware
• Aaron Pinto – Providence

BEST BASSIST

• Shubhrayu De – Dark Helm
• Arun Natarajan – Eccentric Pendulum
• Krishna Jhaveri – Goddess Gagged
• Xulfi Nawaz – Insane Prophecy
• Srikanth Rao – Providence

BEST KEYBOARDIST

• Vivek Arun – Amethysts
• Taz James – Chaotic Years
• Aniketh Shankar – Dark Helm
• Antriksh Bali – Ebonix
• Shadaab Kadri– Pangea