Green Day Head Up Kerrang Award Nominations

The nominations for this year’s Kerrang Awards have been announced and unsurprisingly Green Day are leading the pack with five nominations.

Trailing behind them are My Chemical Romance with four nominations and Foo Fighters with three.

The Awards Ceremony will take place on August 25 and will be hosted by actress turned rock star Juliette Lewis and the former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable.

The full list of nominations is as follows:

Best British Newcomer
Bullet For My Valentine
Fightstar
Towers Of London
Nine Black Alps
THE GA* GA*S

Best International Newcomer
Trivium
Eighteen Visions
Emanuel
Lordi
Still Remains

Best Single
Green Day 'American Idiot'
System Of A Down 'Bring Your Own Bomb'
My Chemical Romance 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)...'
Foo Fighters 'Best of You'
Nightwish 'Nemo'

Best Video
My Chemical Romance 'Helena'
Green Day 'Holiday'
System of A Down 'Bring Your Own Bomb'
Good Charlotte 'Chronicles of Life and Death'
Weezer 'Beverly Hills'

Best Album
Green Day 'American Idiot'
System Of A Down 'Mezmerize'
My Chemical Romance 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge'
Foo Fighters 'In Your Honour'
Trivium 'Ascendancy'

Best Live Band
Rammstein
Green Day
System Of A Down
Slipknot
Avenge Sevenfold

Best British Band
Feeder
Stereophonics
Funeral For A Friend
Placebo
Cradle Of Filth

Best Band On The Planet
Green Day
My Chemical Romance
System Of A Down
HIM
Foo Fighters