Just when you were thinking that metal was getting kind of lame, the JUNO Awards take a stand and make it cool again (kind of).
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the academy that put on the JUNOs) recently announced the addition of a new “metal” category to be recognized in the awards show.
The release said “Eligible albums include metal, metalcore, hardcore, heavy rock, thrash metal, death metal and their respective sub-genres including (but not limited to) nu-metal, power metal, grindcore, extreme metal, industrial metal, Viking metal, folk metal, doom metal, gothic metal, speed metal, and sludge metal.” Finally, someone’s recognizing good, old fashioned, Scandinavian-inspired Viking Metal! We assume Canada has many of those.
Perhaps they added the extra category so the total number of categories would come out to 41, as this year also marks the 41’s show…interesting…
The show will take place on April 1st, 2012 in Ottawa, ON.