The finalists for the 2024 Heavy Music Awards have been revealed.
Voting is now live for 10 awards with the nominees as follows:
Best International Breakthrough Artist:
- Games We Play
- Half Me
- Honey Revenge
- Kim Dracula
- KOYO
- Speed
- Thrown
Best Album Artwork:
- Baroness – Stone
- Creeper – Sanguivore
- Empire State Bastard – Rivers of Heresy
- Metallica – 72 Seasons
- Polaris – Fatalism
- Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden
- Svalbard – Weight of the Mask
Best UK Breakthrough Artist:
- ALT BLK ERA
- Graphic Nature
- Knife Bride
- Røry
- Snayx
- Unpeople
- Zetra
Best Breakthrough Live Artist
- Better Lovers
- Kid Bookie
- Knife Bride
- Lake Malice
- The Meffs
- Scene Queen
- Thrown
Best International Live Artist
- Bad Omens
- Electric Callboy
- Ice Nine Kills
- Landmvrks
- Limp Bizkit
- Slipknot
- Spiritbox
Best UK Live Artist
- Bob Vylan
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Enter Shikari
- Holding Absence
- Malevolence
- Sleep Token
- While She Sleeps
Best International Artist
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Bad Omens
- Beartooth
- Electric Callboy
- Landmvrks
- Slaughter To Prevail
- Spiritbox
Best UK Artist
- Architects
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Enter Shikari
- Malevolence
- Nova Twins
- Skindred
- Sleep Token
Best Breakthrough Album
- Empire State Bastard – Rivers of Heresy
- Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting to Die
- Honey Revenge – Retrovision
- Hot Milk – A Call to the Void
- Sophie Lloyd – Impostor Syndrome
- Wargasm – Venom
- Zulu – A New Tomorrow
Best Album
- As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet
- Blink-182 – One More Time…
- Creeper – Sanguivore
- Enter Shikari – A Kiss for the Whole World
- Holding Absence – The Noble Art of Self Destruction
- Militarie Gun – Life Under the Gun
- Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden
Voting is open now by clicking the link here and you can be in with a chance to win two tickets to the awards if you’re over 18! Voting closes at 5pm on June 21.
The winners will be announced at the 2024 Heavy Music Awards ceremony at the O2 Kentish Town Forum in London on Thursday, August 22.