NOMINATIONS REVEALED FOR THE KERRANG! AWARDS 2015

06 May 2015 - Press release

MUSE, YOU ME AT SIX, BRING ME THE HORIZON AND ENTER SHIKARI ALL NOMINATED IN HUGE SHOW OF HOMEGROWN UK TALENT

UK BREAKOUT BANDS ROYAL BLOOD, MARMOZETS, MALLORY KNOX AND YOUNG GUNS NOMINATED

ROCK LEGENDS AC/DC UP AGAINST MASKED METALLERS SLIPKNOT FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND

NEW CATEGORIES FOR THIS YEAR INCLUDE: BEST FANBASE AND BEST COMIC

Kerrang! are pleased to announce the contenders of rock’n’roll royalty in the nominations for the Relentless Kerrang! Awards 2015. London’s iconic Troxy will play host on Thursday11 June 2015 to the rock’n’roll mayhem, which will be hosted by none other than Andrew W.K. and Skindred’s Benji Webbe. To add to the excitement, tickets for the event have been made available to the public for the first time, allowing Kerrang! fans to be part of the most badass awards ceremony in town.

Muse are nominated for Best British Band after their spontaneous live return this year caused a huge commotion, giving just one week’s notice for their intimate live dates. Enter Shikari join the list after their latest album of politically charged electronic rock, The Mindsweep, shot into the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart. Previous winners You Me At Six are also nominated.

It’s been an incredible year for Royal Blood – whose Number One self-titled album was verified as the fastest-selling British rock debut album in the UK in three years, and are now picking up a nomination for Best British Newcomer.  Marmozets, Mallory Knox and Lonely The Brave all receive nominations across the board, too; each of whom have had significant mainstream success flying the flag for British rock.

Never to be outdone by new talent, AC/DC are out in force with their nomination for Best International Act, alongside Slipknot, Fall Out Boy, All Time Low and Sleeping With Sirens.

After an astonishing year, UK Albums Chart-toppers All Time Low have racked up an impressive four nominations; Best Single, Best International Band, Best Fanbase and Best Event (which they share with UK pop-rockers You Me At Six for their joint arena tour earlier this year). 

The Best Event category is hotly contested, with Foo Fighters nominated for their secret intimate The Holy Shits shows, which saw the stadium act pack fans into two clubs in London and Brighton. Though this will be challenged by the insane masked metallers Slipknot, who, along with Korn and King 810, took their explosive (literally) arena spectacular around the UK with more pyro than you could shake a baseball bat at!

It’s a transatlantic showdown for Best Single, with U.S. acts outnumbered by British talent. Sheffield’s metal heroes Bring Me The Horizon are nominated alongside Enter Shikari and Young Guns – who have been busy taking the U.S. by storm. In the American corner we have chart-stormers Fall Out Boy alongside their younger peers All Time Low. 

From homegrown talent to international rockstars, zombie-fuelled madness and fans in the room for the first time, this year’s Relentless Kerrang! Awards will surely be the most entertaining yet. Voting starts in this week’s Kerrang! magazine and on the website, Awards.kerrang.com. Voting closes Thursday 4 June.

Sponsors for the Relentless Kerrang! Awards include Troxy, Kerrang! TV, Kerrang! Radio and, of course, Relentless Energy Drink. Jack Daniel’s is the official whisky partner. 

Kerrang! Editor James McMahon says,"I am massively excited about 2015's iteration of Kerrang!'s yearly celebration of all that's rocked – mainly because there's going to be actual zombies there! Not so much The Walking Dead as The Walking Shred, and what other awards ceremony can you say that about? I am currently advising everyone attending to bring a baseball bat, a golf club, or something else to protect their brains from the ghoulish, but that's enough about Marilyn Manson…

"The thing is, it's been an absolutely amazing year for rock – the diversity of the nominations, I believe, is testament to that. We've got breakthrough bands. We've got women in bands where often (embarrassingly) there has been none. We've got weirdo, outsider bands. We've got stadium-filling bands. It's proof that rock is still the music of the masses, the passionate and the brave. Rock is still the most exciting thing you can put in your ears. If the zombies haven't bitten them off, that is…"

 

FULL NOMINATIONS FOR THE RELENTLESS KERRANG! AWARDS 2015 

BEST EVENT

You Me At Six / All Time Low – co-headline tour

Slipknot / Korn / King 810 – Prepare For Hell Tour

Foo Fighters – ‘The Holy Shits’ shows  

Black Veil Brides – London club shows

Pop Punk’s Not Dead Tour
 

BEST BRITISH NEWCOMER

Royal Blood

Moose Blood

As It Is

Fort Hope

Ashestoangels
 

BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWCOMER

PVRIS

Beartooth

Hellions

Nothing More

Against The Current
 

BEST SINGLE

Bring Me The Horizon – Drown

All Time Low – Kids In The Dark

Fall Out Boy – Centuries

Young Guns – Speaking In Tongues

Enter Shikari – Anaesthetist
 

BEST VIDEO

New Years Day – Angel Eyes (ft. Chris Motionless)

Lonely The Brave – The Blue, The Green

Body Count – Institutionalized 2014 

frnkiero andthe cellabration – She’s The Prettiest Girl At The Party, And She Can Prove It With A Solid Right Hook

Gerard Way – No Shows
 

BEST LIVE BAND

Black Veil Brides

A Day To Remember

Architects

Slipknot

In This Moment
 

BEST ALBUM

Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets

Mallory Knox – Asymmetry

We Are Harlot – We Are Harlot

Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien

Black Veil Brides – Black Veil Brides (IV)
 

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND

Slipknot 

Sleeping With Sirens

Fall Out Boy

All Time Low

AC/DC
 

BEST BRITISH BAND

Muse

Bring Me The Horizon

Enter Shikari

You Me At Six

Architects
 

BEST FANBASE

Pierce The Veil

Black Veil Brides

Asking Alexandria

All Time Low

My Chemical Romance
 

BEST FILM

Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck

The Inbetweeners 2

Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Sharknado 2: The Second One
 

BEST TV SHOW

Game Of Thrones

American Horror Story

Adventure Time

Gotham

The Walking Dead

BEST RADIO SHOW

The Alex Baker Show, Kerrang! Radio

BBC Radio 1 Rock Show with Daniel P Carter

BBC Radio 1 – Dan and Phil

Nights With Alice Cooper – Planet Rock

Full Frontal with Jack Barakat and Alex Gaskarth (All Time Low)
 

BEST VIDEO GAME

Grand Theft Auto V

The Walking Dead

Minecraft

Alien: Isolation

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
 

BEST COMIC BOOK

Descender – Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen

The Walking Dead – Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard

The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys – Gerard Way, Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan

2000 AD

The Wicked + The Divine – Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
 

BEST FESTIVAL

Download

Slam Dunk

Sonisphere

Bloodstock

Reading & Leeds
 

BEST COMEDIAN

Greg Davies

Frankie Boyle

Jack Whitehall

Noel Fielding

Russell Howard
 

TWEETER OF THE YEAR

Mark Hoppus, blink-182

Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides

Gerard Way

Hayley Williams, Paramore

Jono Yates, Blitz Kids