Kerrang Awards: The shortlist

You've got to love the Kerrang Awards - the shortlist is packed with eyeliner and studded metal, but still manages to find space for The Muppets.

And, wonderfully, there's room on the villain of the year shortlist for Lou Reed. Clearly, Kerrang readers are not big fans of Welsh rugby. (Unless they're all still angry about the Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration, but surely not?)

We're wishing Enter Shikari luck in the best album category, and then going off to snicker that things are so bad in international heavy pop that 30 Seconds To Mars are not just treated seriously, but acclaimed.

The shortlist in full:

BEST BRITISH NEWCOMER
While She Sleeps
Yashin
Fearless Vampire Killers
Don Broco
Hawk Eyes

BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWCOMER
Motionless In White
Tonight Alive
Falling In Reverse
Of Mice & Men
Reckless Love

BEST SINGLE
You Me At Six (featuring Oli Sykes) - Bite My Tongue
You Me At Six - No One Does It Better
Young Guns - Bones
Black Veil Brides - Rebel Love Song
Falling In Reverse - The Drug In Me Is You

BEST VIDEO
Falling In Reverse - The Drug In Me Is You
Mastodon - Curl Of The Burl
Motionless In White - Immaculate Misconception
Paramore - Monster
Bring Me The Horizon - Alligator Blood

BEST ALBUM
You Me At Six - Sinners Never Sleep
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour
Young Guns - Bones
Black Veil Brides - Set The World On Fire
Mastodon - The Hunter

BEST LIVE BAND presented by Rock Of Ages
You Me At Six
Black Veil Brides
Asking Alexandria
Enter Shikari
My Chemical Romance

BEST BRITISH BAND presented by Fender
You Me At Six
Bullet For My Valentine
Asking Alexandria
Lostprophets
Iron Maiden

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND
30 Seconds To Mars
My Chemical Romance
Evanescence
A Day To Remember
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Announced on the day but not presented at the Awards ceremony:

BEST TV SHOW
The Big Bang Theory
The Walking Dead
Game Of Thrones
American Horror Story
Misfits

BEST VIDEO GAME
Skyrim
FIFA 12
Mass Effect 3
Gears Of War 3
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

BEST FILM
The Hunger Games
The Woman In Black
The Inbetweeners
The Muppets
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

BEST COMEDIAN
Greg Davies
Russell Howard
Tim Minchin
Noel Fielding
Bill Bailey

TWEETER OF THE YEAR
Danny Worsnop, Asking Alexandria
Jono Yates, Blitz Kids
Sean Smith, The Blackout
Hayley Williams, Paramore
Mark Hoppus, Blink-182

HOTTEST FEMALE
Hayley Williams, Paramore
Tay Jardine, We Are The In Crowd
Amy Lee, Evanescence
Lzzy Hale, Halestorm
Jenna McDougall, Tonight Alive

HOTTEST MALE
Ben Bruce, Asking Alexandria
Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides
Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides
Alex Gaskarth, All Time Low
Matt Bellamy, Muse

VILLAIN OF THE YEAR
Justin Bieber
Simon Cowell
Ronnie Radke, Falling In Reverse
Lou Reed
One Direction

HERO OF THE YEAR
Ronnie Radke - Falling In Reverse
M. Shadows - Avenged Sevenfold
Jared Leto - 30 Seconds To Mars
Mario Balotelli - Manchester City
Rou Reynolds - Enter Shikari

BEST FESTIVAL
Download
Hevy Music Festival
Reading and Leeds
Slam Dunk
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