Best Album
Open to any album released in the UK between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Presented by
Architects
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Epitaph / Producers: Fredrik Nordström + Henrik Udd
Deftones
Gore
Reprise / Producer: Matt Hyde
Every Time I Die
Low Teens
Epitaph / Producer: Will Putney
Gojira
Magma
Roadrunner / Producer: Joe Duplantier
Metallica
Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
Blackened / Producer: Greg Fidelman
Oathbreaker
Rheia
Deathwish / Producer: Jack Shirley
Thrice
To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Vagrant / Producer: Eric Palmquist
Best UK Band
Open to any artist from the UK to have released a single, EP or album in the UK, or played live in the UK, between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Presented by
Architects
Epitaph
Biffy Clyro
Warner
Black Peaks
Easy Life
Black Sabbath
Vertigo
Bring Me The Horizon
Columbia
Creeper
Roadrunner
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
International Death Cult
Best International Band
Open to any artist from outside the UK to have released a single, EP or album in the UK, or played live in the UK, between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
A Day To Remember
ADTR
Beartooth
Red Bull
Deftones
Reprise
Every Time I Die
Epitaph
Ghost
Loma Vista
Gojira
Roadrunner
Metallica
Blackened
Best Live Band
Open to any artist to have played live in the UK, between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Presented by
Architects
Epitaph
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Party Smasher
Enter Shikari
Ambush Reality
Every Time I Die
Epitaph
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
International Death Cult
Ghost
Loma Vista
Gojira
Roadrunner
Best Album Artwork
Open to any album released in the UK between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Architects
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Epitaph
Black Foxxes
I’m Not Well
Universal
Deftones
Gore
Reprise
Ghost
Popestar
Loma Vista
Gojira
Magma
Roadrunner
Meshuggah
The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Nuclear Blast
Opeth
Sorceress
Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast
Best Festival
Open to any UK festival to have played host to live heavy music between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
2000 Trees Festival
Cheltenham
ArcTanGent
Compton Martin
Bloodstock Festival
Derby
Desertfest
London
Download Festival
Donington
Reading & Leeds Festival
Reading / Leeds
Slam Dunk Festival
Birmingham / Hatfield / Leeds
Best Photographer
Open to any photographer to have had live or studio photography published by a UK magazine or website between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Tom Barnes
Corrine Cumming
Ben Gibson
Ross Halfin
Paul Harries
Jennifer McCord
John McMurtrie
Best Venue
Open to any UK venue to have played host to live heavy music between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Black Heart
Camden
The Dome
Tufnell Park
KOKO
Camden
O2 Academy Brixton
Brixton
O2 Forum Kentish Town
Kentish Town
Rock City
Nottingham
The Underworld
Camden
Best Breakthrough Band
Open to any artist from to have made their debut release (single, EP or album) in the UK between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Presented by
Black Peaks
Easy Life
Black Foxxes
Universal
Casey
Hassle
Dead!
Infectious
I Prevail
Fearless
Venom Prison
Prosthetic
Zeal & Ardor
Radicalis / MVKA
Best Producer
Open to the producer of any single, EP or album released in the UK between 1 January 2016 and 31st December 2016
Tom Dalgety
John Feldmann
Greg Fidelman
Matt Hyde
Dan Lancaster
Fredrik Nordström & Henrik Udd
Will Putney
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