Bring Me The Horizon have been amongst a list of winners for the third annual Heavy Music Awards, at 02 Forum Kentish Town, which took place yesterday. The event begun in 2017, set up by the Heavy Group, (an unrelated venture), by it’s co-organisers Dave Bradley and Andy Pritchard. This year’s 2019 gig was hosted by Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, including live performances by Nova Twins, Loathe, Delaire the Liar and Cancer Bats. Nominees for the event included Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Bring Me The Horizon, Idles and Architects.

Architects came away again with the award for Best Album, Holy Hell, released through Epitaph Records in November 2018, a third successive victory at the awards show for the Brighton band. The ‘Doomsday’ rockers also won Best Live Band. Bring Me The Horizon were crowned Best UK Band, with Best International Band going to Parkway Drive, and Bloodstock Open Air taking Best Festival. The full list can be found below.

Best Album

Architects – Holy Hell
Epitaph Records, Produced by Josh Middleton and Dan Searle

Best UK Band 
Bring Me The Horizon
RCA Records

Best International Band
Parkway Drive
Epitaph Records

Best Live Band 
Architects
Epitaph Records

Best UK Breakthrough Band 
Dream State
UNFD

Best International Breakthrough Band 
Fever 333
Roadrunner Records

Best Festival
Bloodstock Open Air

Best Photographer
Paul Harries

Best Producer
Dan Weller

The H – Awarded for exceptional positive contribution to the heavy music scene
The Dixon Family

The ceremony has been supported by groups including EMP, Ticketmaster, Spotify, Allianz, BIMM and The Pit. Music charity Nordoff Robbins served as HMA’s key partner. Andy Pritchard acclaimed the HMA in an interview, saying, “Curated by a collective of music industry professionals – all of them without exception fans of music first and foremost – the Heavy Music Awards will provide an entirely independent vehicle to democratically crown the best of the year in heavy music.” 

Recently, Bring Me The Horizon released their new single, ‘sugar honey ice & tea’, from their sixth album, ‘amo’. The album received a five star review on NME, “15 years into their career and light years from their deathcore beginnings, Bring Me The Horizon have embarked on an odyssey of diversity in sound, proof that they can do what they want and get away with it”