Here are the nominations for the main categories at the Kerrang! Awards 2016, to be held on June 9 at east London’s Troxy venue.

Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden (Yui Mok/PA)

Best event – Presented by Kerrang! TV

Guns N’ Roses – Las Vegas Reunion Shows
5 Seconds Of Summer – Sounds Live Feels Live tour
Slipknot – Alexandra Palace shows
You Me At Six – The Ghost Inside Benefit Show
Biffy Clyro – Edinburgh’s Hogmanay

Best British band

Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon (Lewis Stickley/PA Archive/Press Association Images)
Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon (Lewis Stickley/PA)

Bring Me The Horizon
Iron Maiden
Enter Shikari
Biffy Clyro
Asking Alexandria

Best International band

A picture of Metallica on stage
Metallica (Yui Mok/PA)

All Time Low
Metallica
PVRIS
A Day To Remember
Fall Out Boy

Best track – Presented by Kerrang! Radio

Iron Maiden on stage in 1985 (Anonymous/AP/Press Association Images)
Iron Maiden on stage in 1985 (AP/PA)

Moose Blood – Honey
Against The Current – Running With The Wild Things
Panic! At The Disco – Emperor’s New Clothes
Architects – A Match Made In Heaven
All Time Low – Missing You

Best album – Presented by Zippo

Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls
Neck Deep – Life’s Not Out To Get You
Asking Alexandria – The Black
No Devotion – Permanence
Baroness – Purple

Best live band – Presented by Red Stripe

Black Veil Brides
BABYMETAL
twenty one pilots
Nightwish
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Best British newcomer – Presented by Help Musicians

Luke Spiller of The Struts (Jay Janner/AP/Press Association Images)
Luke Spiller of The Struts (Jay Janner/AP/PA)

Counterfeit
Creeper
Milk Teeth
Muncie Girls
The Struts