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According to Antenna, MESHUGGAH, MNEMIC, THE BURNING and ARTILLERY are among the acts who will perform at the next installment of the Danish Metal Awards, set to take place January 16, 2010 at Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The awards event will offer the attendees a chance to experience four Danish acts. Once the show comes to an end, the Swedish extreme-metallers MESHUGGAH will deliver a full set; their first performance on Danish soil in more than four years.

Danish Metal Awards nominees:

Best Metal Album

* THE BURNING: Rewakening
* THE PSYKE PROJEKT: Dead Storm
* ARTILLERY: When Death Comes
* ANUBIS GATE: The Detachted
* HATESPHERE: To the Nines

Best Metal Debut

* KELLERMENSCH: Kellermensch
* THE CLEANSING: Poisoned Legacy
* CROCELL: The God We Drowned
* SUPERCHARGER: Handgrenade Blues
* NIGHTLIGHT: Funeral Love

Best International Metal Album

* GOJIRA: The Way of All Flesh
* MASTODON: Crack the Skye
* THE HAUNTED: Versus
* HEAVEN & HELL: The Devil You Know
* SATYRICON: The Age of Nero

Best Metal Production

* Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd for THE PSYKE PROJEKT: Dead Storm
* Jacob Hansen for ANUBIS GATE: The Detachted
* Tue Madsen for HATESPHERE: To the Nines
* EXMORTEM: Funeral Phantoms
* Kristian Kohle Bonifer for THE BURNING: Rewakening

Best Metal Cover

* THE BURNING: Rewakening
* KONKHRA: Nothing Is Sacred
* THE PSYKE PROJEKT: Dead Storm
* ANUBIS GATE: The Detachted
* CROCELL: The God We Drowned

Best Metal Video

* RAUNCHY: "Warriors"
* HATESPHERE: "To the Nines"
* VOLBEAT: "We"
* THE BURNING: "Eight Legged Omen"
* THE PSYKE PROJECT: "Winter"

Best Metal Talent

* SCARRED BY BEAUTY: We Swim
* DØDNING: Dødning
* RISING: Rising
* SEPULCHRUM: A Sepulchral Theme
* VIRA: Re-Design

Tickets for the the Danish Metal Awards are 290 Danish kroner can be purchased at Billetnet.dk.

For more information, visit www.dmea.dk.