TURISAS have issued the following press release:

Metal Hammer have announced that Turisas will be playing live at this year's Golden Gods Awards Show. This year's Awards will be held at London's Koko on June 11th. Warlord Nygard from Turisas is super hyped to be on the bill:

"We just got back from the UK after playing Hammer's Get In The Ring show where we had a great time, as always and apparently you guys can't get enough of us - we have been invited back again! It feels good to be coming back for this year's Golden Gods. It was a great party last year, and we are very excited to be playing the event in June. I hope the Golden Gods will be as hot and sweaty as last year!".

Also playing this year's Golden Gods Awards are MACHINE HEAD, LAMB OF GOD and DIMMU BORGIR.

Not only are Turisas playing at the show but the have been nominated for an Award for Best Underground Band – and they WANT your vote!! You can vote for Turisas for best underground band by text or you can go and vote on metal hammers website: The text code for Turisas for best underground band is *MHUND A*

And while you're voting for Turisas .. vote for Century Media who have been nominated in the Best Metal Label Category The text code is *MHLABEL E* You can text all those codes to *87103* Or you can also vote on the Metal Hammer website.

As with last years awards there will be tickets made available to be in the audience – as soon as we have the details of how to apply for these tickets we'll announce it VOTE TURISAS!!!!