Finalists Announced for the 2025 Heavy Music Awards

The Heavy Music Awards are back for their ninth annual edition and they have officially unveiled this year’s finalists. The winners will be crowned in a massive celebration of all things heavy at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Thursday, 21 August 2025.

Public voting is now open here: https://vote.heavymusicawards.com/

See the full nominations below!

Best Album

Amyl & The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (Produced by Nick Launay, Rough Trade Records)
Bilmuri – American Motor Sports (Produced by Johnny Franck & Will Carlson, Columbia Records)
Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn (Produced by Oliver Sykes, Cynthoni, Lee Malia, Zakk Cervini, Dan Lancaster, DAIDAI, Jordan Fish, Bloodpop, Danny Couture; RCA)
Heriot – Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell (Produced by Jake Packer & Josh Middleton, Century Media Records)
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Produced by Drew Fulk, Pure Noise Records)
Linkin Park – From Zero (Produced by Mike Shinoda, Warner Records)
Poppy – Negative Spaces (Produced by Jordan Fish, Sumerian Records)

Best Breakthrough Album

Allt – From The New World (Produced by Buster Odeholm, Century Media Records)
Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible (Produced by Will Putney, SharpTone Records)
Dead Pony – Ignore This (Produced by Blair Crichton, LAB Records / music is fun)
RØRY – Restoration (Produced by Kingdoms, SADCØRE)
Scene Queen – Hot Singles In Your Area (Produced by Zach Jones, Hopeless Records)
Speed – Only One Mode (Produced by Elliott Gallart, Flatspot Records / Last Ride Records)
Thrown – Excessive Guilt (Produced by Buster Odeholm, Arising Empire)

Best UK Artist (Presented by PRS for Music)

Architects (Epitaph Records)
Bring Me The Horizon (RCA)
Enter Shikari (SO Recordings)
Heriot (Century Media Records)
Malevolence (Nuclear Blast)
Neck Deep (Hopeless Records)
Sleep Token (RCA)

Best International Artist (Presented by Arising Empire)

Bad Omens (Sumerian Records)
Electric Callboy (Sony / Century Media)
Green Day (Reprise Records)
Knocked Loose (Pure Noise Records)
Linkin Park (Warner Records)
Poppy (Sumerian Records)
Spiritbox (Rise Records / Pale Chord)

Best UK Live Artist

Bleed From Within (Nuclear Blast Records)
Boston Manor (SharpTone Records)
Bring Me The Horizon (RCA)
Bury Tomorrow (Music For Nations)
Enter Shikari (SO Recordings)
High Vis (Dais Records)
Sleep Token (RCA)

Best International Live Artist (Presented by Ticketmaster)

Electric Callboy (Sony / Century Media)
Gojira (Roadrunner Records)
Green Day (Reprise Records)
Korn (Loma Vista Recordings)
Motionless In White (Roadrunner Records)
Spiritbox (Rise Records / Pale Chord)
The Warning (Republic Records)

Best Breakthrough Live Artist (Presented by O2 Forum Kentish Town)

ALT BLK ERA (Earache Records)
Better Lovers (SharpTone Records)
House of Protection (Red Bull Records)
LØLØ (Hopeless Records)
RØRY (SADCØRE)
South Arcade (LAB Records / BKM)
unpeople (SharpTone Records)

Best UK Breakthrough Artist (Presented by PRS for Music)

Dead Pony (LAB Records / music is fun)
Lambrini Girls (City Slang)
SNAYX (Independent)
South Arcade (LAB Records / BKM)
Split Chain (Epitaph Records)
unpeople (SharpTone Records)
Vower (Apricity Records)

Best International Breakthrough Artist

Allt (Century Media)
Amira Elfeky (Atlantic Records)
Bambie Thug (Haus of Thug)
GEL (Blue Grape Music)
Gore. (Spinefarm Records)
House of Protection (Red Bull Records)
Sleep Theory (Epitaph Records)

Best Album Artwork

156/Silence – People Watching (Artwork by Mikey Bair, SharpTone Records)
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (Artwork by Steve R Dodd, Century Media)
The Ghost Inside – Searching For Solace (Artwork by Jim Hughes, Epitaph Records)
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Artwork by Brock Fetch, Pure Noise Records)
Laura Jane Grace – Hole in My Head (Artwork by Annie Walter, Polyvinyl)
Linkin Park – From Zero (Artwork by Frank Maddocks, Warner Records)
Neck Deep – Neck Deep (Artwork by Evan Weselmann, Hopeless Records)

Fans can now cast their votes to help decide the winners, with public voting closing at 5pm BST on Friday, 25 April 2025. By voting, participants will be entered into a draw to win a pair of tickets to the Heavy Music Awards 2025.

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