Slipknot Lead Kerrang Award Nominations

Ananova reports, Slipknot are up for four Kerrang! Awards at this year's ceremony. Close behind with three chances each are The Darkness - the only band to win two awards last year - plus Muse, Blink 182, Lostprophets and HIM.

Nominees will fight it out for titles including best single, best album, best newcomer and a new icon award for artists felt to have legendary status. Ex-Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable will present the awards on Thursday. Seven of this year's awards have been voted for by the public, with the remainder judged by the Kerrang! team.

The nine members of US-based Slipknot face competition in the best album category from Muse, Lostprophets, Blink 182, Killswitch Engage and The Distillers. Blink 182 are again among their rivals in the best video section, alongside The Offspring, New Found Glory and HIM.

Meanwhile, The Darkness will attempt to win best live act for the second year running, battling against Slipknot, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Welsh group Funeral For A Friend, last year's best UK newcomer.

Nominations for the newcomer title this year go to Amplifier, Yourcodenameis:milo, Reuben, Oceansize and The Glitterati. Finnish band The Rasmus - also put forward for best single - will be up against bands including Velvet Revolver and My Chemical Romance for the best international newcomer prize.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose Californication was voted best album of the last 10 years in July, are among the contenders for the best band on the planet award, won last year by nu-metal act Linkin Park.

In other Slipknot news, Corey Taylor recently did a phone interview with Steve Black of Detroit's WRIF 101.1 FM. Listen to the five-minute conversation at this location (Windows Media).

Also, the track listing has been released for the forthcoming Slipknot single, "Vermilion", due in the U.K. on October 18 through Roadrunner Records. Released in two formats, the single will contain the following cuts:

7" Picture Disc:

A. Vermilion
B. Scream*

CD:

01. Vermilion
02. Scream*
03. Danger, Keep Away (Full-Length Version)*
Plus "Vermilion" video*

* Previously unreleased.

The version of "Danger, Keep Away" included on the single is the full eight-minute version (as it was originally intended to be). It was edited down at the last minute to end the "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" album.

Comments

[thebassmaster]

how did linkin park win best band last year?

[griff1987]

To unkownalone... the reason why they get more airtime is because they are a hundred times better (except slipknot) than any of the bands you listed who i expect virtually no1 except for you have heard of. As for the live music bit, no band comes close to being as good live as Poison, Kiss, Motley Crue etc.

[Wounded Hamster]

Go Chilis!

[hekainu]

the chilis should win cos they deserve it more than any of the other bands. how the hell did linkin park win it!

[<<< Frantic >>>]

Slipknot... go boys!

[skatersic666]

Slipknot are gunna come away with a few awards atleast

[Lick_Soloist]

That Slipknot album was brilliant, Just purly because the instrumentals were great. More playing less chonking!!

[unknownalone]

u people do not understand awards at all...anybody should know that the only bands nominated are bands played on the radio..yes i think bands like TBS, thursday, as i lay dying, atreyu, etc. should be recognized, but, as all awards go, only the bands with a lot of airtime are nominated. and yes that is complete bullshit, but thats just how it is. what a world we live in today, where the darkness can win best live band, yet i doubt they are half as good as the bands i listed are live..corporate america, woo hoo!!

[andrewbiles]

Kerrang is the worst magazine around, I don't know why it's running anymore, it was decent about 6 years ago, now it's just a load of crap, and it shows with their awards!

[Danny7]

Reuben should win best newcomer.

They've been around ages though, so it just shows that they really are talking about mainstreem bands, they are newcomers despite being 3/4 years old because they've only just started getting radio play... which is all the Kerrang awards are about.

Linkin Park best band on the planet? Hmm... *rolls eyes*.

[M3T4L H34D]

Never even heard of Kerrang! so i guess andrewbiles is rite but i'm jus sayin kuz i've never heard bout that magazine

[redoverblack]

the magazine is not even close to a little bit of a centimeter of having any good publicity to any band accept maybe a two man coffee shop cover band

[unknownalone]

ok...what about ashlee simpson? is she better than most bands, or is it because her sister is jessica? i mean hell she is on the radio all the time...is creed that great of band? or how about nickelback? did ya ever to stop to think that maybe the reason they get airtime is because they're "radio friendly"? and you also need to understand that bands on big named labels will always get airtime, no matter how good or bad. i bet most of you have never heard of victory, but if they were as big as epic records, then you would be hearing taking back sunday, thursday, atreyu, glasseater, hawthorne heights, the hurt process, and many many more on the radio, but, in the world we live in, if you aint got money, u dont get squat, every band on the radio pretty much has to pay to be on there, and thats a fact, because hundreds of songs a month are released, but on a select few make it, mainly because they are the highest bidders. bitch

[Slasher_Sloth]

ok...what about ashlee simpson? is she better than most bands, or is it because her sister is jessica? i mean hell she is on the radio all the time...is creed that great of band? or how about nickelback? did ya ever to stop to think that maybe the reason they get airtime is because they're "radio friendly"? and you also need to understand that bands on big named labels will always get airtime, no matter how good or bad. i bet most of you have never heard of victory, but if they were as big as epic records, then you would be hearing taking back sunday, thursday, atreyu, glasseater, hawthorne heights, the hurt process, and many many more on the radio, but, in the world we live in, if you aint got money, u dont get squat, every band on the radio pretty much has to pay to be on there, and thats a fact, because hundreds of songs a month are released, but on a select few make it, mainly because they are the highest bidders. bitch

YAY!! somebody FINALLY got it right!!!!!!

[`NeXxuS`]

awards are for pussies

[INDUSTRIALMETAL]

^ Wow want an intelligent reply!

Barely any of those bands listed on that article can even compare to red hot chili peppers.

[harm0n20]

blah linkin park where the best band?!?!?! what the hell has this world come to???

[white_waltz]

what a world we live in today, where the darkness can win best live band, yet i doubt they are half as good as the bands i listed are live

Ya I don't know if the darkness are the best live act but if thye were only half as some of the band live those bands would be famous beyond belief. The darkness sound just like they do ont he albums live (including the sometimes unbearable singing) and they connect well with their fans. It's a very talented band but they probably aren't the best live.

[vinniebeast]

RHCP have got to win best band on the planet or else im gonna flip. And best live act, they were ace at Hyde Park.

[the_astronaut]

yeahhhhh........ My Chemical Romance rock! Also there should be loads more recognition for bands like Taking Back Sunday instead of increased hype for mind-numbingly boring bands, such as the Darkness, Linkin Park........the list just goes on *sighs and shakes head*

[kNoThEaD666]

Slipknot is the shit they will win all 4!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kNoThEaD666]

vinniebeast:
RHCP have got to win best band on the planet or else im gonna flip. And best live act, they were ace at Hyde Park.

Hell no I like RHCP but Slipknot is way better in concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[GuitarMaster41]

Slipknot is horrible.

[im not mental]

Slipknot rules!!!!!!

[theevilwithin]

ok i got some things to say...but im from florida so we may do things a lil different.

first off unknownalone is wrong. "if you dont got money you dont get squat." how do you think most of these bands started out. where i come from we dedicate at least 3 hours of radio airtime to unsigned or unknown bands. and not many bands pay to get airtime unless they suck. and they play half those bands you mentioned that "dont get enough airtime" constantly. and its not exactly the best stuff either. another thing. i have never heard of kerrang magazine. nor have i even seen anyone talk about that before now. also half of those bands that are up for awards are pretty good.

[ilikpie]

RHCP rules!!!!!!

[K-os]

That's badass

[Nirvana_RATM2]

slipknot isnt my thing im not gonna bash them though but rhcp deserves the award.

[ANGERisaGIFT]

Why does it matter? Look who is running the awards. It's Kerrang, the worst out there. All they care about are the radio-friendly mainstream.

[Necronomicon]

who's kerrang?

[SlashJr.90]

Go VR for best single whoo!

slipknot and linkin park suck

[gr33n@tion]

what's so good about metal or heavy kinds of grunge music???

[Dave_Grohl]

californication is a good choice for best album of last 10 yrs but i liked Bloodsugar beteer

[boxcarblink41]

thats the first slipknot mask i like. its not gross

[unknownalone]

theevilwithin, i seriously doubt you have ever heard as i lay dying on the radio, but neverless, your from florida, you have different stations down there, im just saying that where i am from, and the stations in alabama, they only play what you see on mtv, sometimes they play old stuff, but rarely. corey's mask sucks now, his first was the best.

[TwistedLogic]

I want to comment on the point brought up by unknownalone. I agree but would like to qualify this point abit. It is not simply about how is getting on the radio the most but what bands or singers are getting alot of support from the record label in terms of advertizing and publicity. Most of the bands that make it really big on the radio and video stations do cause the record label's that that they have potential to rake in the big bucks and can draw in a good size audience. Ashley simpson is hot and probably not all that talented but she is related to the equally hot and unbelievably untalented Jessica Simpson. Good point about Ashley's success. Point being getting on the radio is one thing but having the record label's money behind you to finance advertizing and touring can make or brake a band. My opinion......feel free to comment, and now back to you!

[ilikpie]

good point