Heavy Music Awards 2025 Finalists Announced

It’s that time of the year again where the finalists of the Heavy Music Awards have been announced and its time to vote for your favourite finalists! The ninth annual Heavy Music Awards will take place at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London on Thursday 21 August 2025.

BEST ALBUM

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

BEST BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM

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

BEST UK ARTIST

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)
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

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

To Vote for your favourite artist to win this year click the link here Heavy Music Awards: Voting