Canada's JUNO Awards Add Metal/Hard Music Album Of The Year Category
September 28, 2011, 13 years ago
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today that submissions for the 2012 JUNO Awards open on October 1st, 2011. A new category will be added to the awards roster in 2012: Metal/Hard Music Album Of The Year, making a total of 41 categories up for grabs. The 41st annual JUNO Awards will be held in Ottawa, ON, March 26th - April 1st, 2012.
This new category is an award to honour artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the Canadian recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position. 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.
Submissions for the 2012 JUNO Awards open October 1st, 2011.
