Fall Out Boy & Bring Me The Horizon lead Kerrang! Awards
Fall Out Boy, Bring Me The Horizon and Pierce The Veil lead the nominations for this year’s Kerrang! Awards.
The bands are each up for four prizes this year.
Black Veil Brides are nominated for three awards including best album and best live band with lead singer Andy Biersack up for hottest male.
US bands dominate this year with Green Day, Paramore and All Time Low up against UK talent including Bullet For My Valentine and You Me At Six.
Download goes up against Slam Dunk Festival, Reading and Leeds, Hit The Deck and the Vans Warped Tour UK for the top festival prize.
A reunited Fall Out Boy are up twice in the best single category while Biffy Clyro, All Time Low, Bring Me The Horizon, Don Broco and Pierce The Veil will battle it out in the best album category. Paramore singer Hayley Williams is nominated along with Lzzy Hale for hottest female while comedians Frankie Boyle and Louis CK are up for best comedian. The awards will be held in east London on 13 June and will be hosted by blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian.
The nominations in full are as follows
Best British newcomer: Mallory Knox; Fearless Vampire Killers; Marmozets; Lower Than Atlantis and Heaven’s Basement
Best international newcomer: Sleeping With Sirens; Set It Off; Pierce The Veil; Of Mice & Men and Tonight Alive
Best single: Fall Out Boy – The Phoenix; Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up); Paramore – Now; Bring Me The Horizon – Shadow Moses and Pierce The Veil – King For A Day (feat. Kellin Quinn)
Best album: Biffy Clyro – Opposites; All Time Low – Don’t Panic; Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal; Don Broco – Priorities and Black Veil Brides – Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones
Best live band: Black Veil Brides; Of Mice & Men; Enter Shikari; Bullet For My Valentine and The Blackout
Best video: Paramore – Now; Pierce The Veil – King For A Day (feat. Kellin Quinn); Bring Me The Horizon – Shadow Moses; 30 Seconds To Mars – Up In The Air and Cancer Bats – Bricks & Mortar
Best international band: Green Day; Black Veil Brides; All Time Low; Fall Out Boy and Pierce The Veil
Best British band: Young Guns; Asking Alexandria; Bring Me The Horizon; You Me At Six and Enter Shikari
Best TV show: The Walking Dead; The Big Bang Theory; Doctor Who; Supernatural and Game Of Thrones
Best video game: BioShock Infinite; Far Cry 3; Tomb Raider; Halo 4 and Minecraft
Best film: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Django Unchained; The Dark Knight Rises; Avengers Assemble and Sinister
Best comedian: Russell Howard; Frankie Boyle; Stewart Lee; Louis CK and Chris Ramsey
Tweeter of the year: Jack Barakat, All Time Low; Jono Yates, Blitz Kids; Laurence Beveridge, Fearless Vampire Killers; Mark Hoppus, blink-182 and Gerard Way
Hottest female: Hayley Williams, Paramore; Jack Barakat, All Time Low; Lzzy Hale, Halestorm; Tay Jardine, We Are The In Crowd and Jenna McDougall, Tonight Alive
Hottest male: Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides; Ben Bruce, Asking Alexandria; Gerard Way; Kellin Quinn, Sleeping With Sirens and Jack Barakat, All Time Low
Best festival: Download; Vans Warped Tour UK; Slam Dunk Festival; Reading and Leeds and Hit The Deck
Best event: You Me At Six: The Final Night Of Sin; The Kerrang! Tour 2013; Green Day’s ‘secret’ show at Reading; Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players at London Kentish Town Forum and Fall Out Boy at London Camden Underworld
Source: BBC
