Slash, Guns N Roses (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Biffy Clyro have landed two nominations at the 2016 Kerrang! Awards, while the return of Slash and Duff McKagan to Guns N Roses in Las Vegas is up for Best Event.
Biffy Clyro are also competing in the Best Event category thanks to their live comeback at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations on the eve of 2016, while they’re up against Bring Me The Horizon, Iron Maiden, Enter Shikari and Asking Alexandria for Best British Band.
“There’s no category you look at and think, ‘Yup, Guns N’ Roses are going to walk away with that’, and I think that’s testament to just what a strong rock scene – globally, and closer to home – we exist within right now,” Kerrang! editor James McMahon comments.
“It’s going to be a bloodbath. Many brilliant bands are going to go home disappointed.”
Kerrang! Awards 2016, selected nominations:
Best Event
Guns N’ Roses – Las Vegas Reunion Shows
5 Seconds Of Summer – Sounds Live Feels Live Tour
Slipknot – Alexandra Palace Shows
You Me At Six – The Ghost Inside Benefit Show
Biffy Clyro – Edinburgh’s Hogmanay
Best British Newcomer
Counterfeit
Creeper
Milk Teeth
Muncie Girls
The Struts
Best International Newcomer
Cane Hill
The Dirty Nil
Beach Slang
Beautiful Bodies
Biters
Best Track
Moose Blood – ‘Honey’
Against The Current – ‘Running With The Wild Things’
Panic! At The Disco – ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’
Architects – ‘A Match Made In Heaven’
All Time Low – ‘Missing You’
Best Live Band
Black Veil Brides
BABYMETAL
twenty one pilots
Nightwish
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Best Album
Iron Maiden – ‘The Book Of Souls’
Neck Deep – ‘Life’s Not Out To Get You’
Asking Alexandria – ‘The Black’
No Devotion – Permanence’
Baroness – ‘Purple’
Best International Band
All Time Low
Metallica
PVRIS
A Day To Remember
Fall Out Boy
Best British Band
Bring Me The Horizon
Iron Maiden
Enter Shikari
Biffy Clyro
Asking Alexandria
Best Festival
Download
Slam Dunk
Reading & Leeds
Bloodstock
The Great Escape