What with the Mercury nominations and now the Kerrang! Award nominations, this is becoming quite an award-y week. I hope everyone's got their back-patting hands at the ready. This year's reader-voted awards sees Lostprophets in line to win Best British Band for the third year in a row.
The awards ceremony takes place in London on 21 Aug. The full nominations are as follows:
Best British Newcomer: Dead Swans, We Are The Ocean, Slaves To Gravity, Elliot Minor, Go:Audio
Best International Newcomer: Kill Hannah, A Day To Remember, Four Year Strong, Black Tide, All Time Low
Best British Band: Lostprophets, Bring Me The Horizon, You Me At Six, Bullet For My Valentine, Biffy Clyro
Best International Band: 30 Seconds To Mars, My Chemical Romance, Madina Lake, Coheed And Cambria, Avenged Sevenfold
Best Single: 30 Seconds To Mars - From Yesterday, Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon, Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie, Kids In Glass Houses - Give Me What I Want, Pendulum - Propane Nightmares
Best Video: Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon, 30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie, Weezer - Pork And Beans, Coheed And Cambria - Feathers, Gallows - Starin' At The Rude Bois
Best Album: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire, Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold, In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose, Mindless Self Indulgence - If, Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Best Live Band: 30 Seconds To Mars, Lostprophets, Machine Head, The Dillinger Escape Plan,
Avenged Sevenfold