Royal Blood will be looking to repeat their Brits success and pick up another gong after being nominated for a Kerrang! award.
The duo, who beat One Direction to be named best British group at the Brits, are shortlisted for the best British newcomer award by the rock magazine.
Other nominees include Muse, in the running alongside You Me At Six to be named best British band, and AC/DC who are shortlisted for best international act with Slipknot and Fall Out Boy.
The contest for the best event award sees the Foo Fighters nominated for a pair of intimate club shows along with American rockers Slipknot.
Kerrang! editor James McMahon says: “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…”
The winners will be unveiled at the event, formally known as the Relentless Kerrang! Awards, at the Troxy in east London on Thursday June 11.
Nominations for the main categories at the Relentless Kerrang! Awards
Best Event
You Me At Six / All Time Low – co-headline tour
Slipknot / Korn / King 810 – Prepare For Hell Tour
Foo Fighters – Club 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 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
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