The nominees for 2011 Rolling Stone Metal Awards are

Best Metal Band (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Artillerie
Bhayanak Maut
Devoid
Undying Inc
Zygnema

Best Metal Album (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Artillerie – Eradefiled
Devoid – A God’s Lie
Exhumation – Consider This
IAFWAY – Engravings
Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty

Best Metal Song (Open For PUBLIC VOTING)
Bhayanak Maut – Dear name
Devoid – Battle Cry
Noiseware – 23
Undying Inc – Xenophobe
Zygnema – Theory Of Lies and Negation

Best Album Artwork
Artillerie – Eradefiled
Bhayanak Maut – Metastasis
Devoid – A God’s Lie
IAFWAY – Engravings
Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty

Best Metal Drummer
Artillerie – Winter of Silence – Aadhar Malhotra
Bhayanak Maut – Dear Name – Jay Row Kavi
Devoid – A God’s Lie – Shubham Kumar
Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty – Yuvraj Sengupta
Zygnema – Born Of Unity – Mayank Sharma

Best Metal Guitarist
Artillerie – Tormentor – Raul Bellgard & Alvin Jose
Bhayanak Maut – Dear Name – Aditya Gopinathan Nair & Venkat Raman
Exhumation – Absolute Power Now – Prashant Shash
Undying Inc – Xenophobe – Biswarup Gupta
Zygnema – Born Of Unity – Sidharth Kaddadi

Best Metal Bassist
Devoid – Beersong – Frank Pawar
Exhumation – Absolute Power Now – Rohit Pereira
Guillotine – Revisiting Faith – Rohit Bhattacharya
Noiseware – 23 – Robert Alex
Undying Inc – Concept Error – Reuben Bhattacharya

Best Metal Vocalist
Artillerie – Temple of Zeus – Noble Luke
Bhayanak Maut – Dear name – Vinay Venkatesh & Sunneith Revankar
Exhumation – Hell Forbid – Aditya Mehta
Undying Inc – Alloy – Shashank Bhatnagar
Zygnema Theory Of Lies and Negation Jimmy Bhore

Best Metal Keyboardist
Electrokore – Jai Shiv Shankara – Axl Hazarika
Guillotine – Crave – Akshat Taneja
Pitch Black Symphony – Awakening – Johnston D’souza
Silver Tears – Euphonious Odyssey – Raktim Mahanta
Slain – Soldier – Jonathan Wesley

The Award ceremony is scheduled to take place in Mumbai on the 19th of June, more details on that coming soon !!