New Jersey quintet My Chemical Romance - whose third album (we can't tell you what it's called, even though we know and have heard it) is released in October - have been named 'Best Band On The Planet' at the annual Kerrang! Awards.
The popular rockers, playing Reading and Leeds this weekend, weren't the only winners at yesterday's ceremony - Muse won the 'Best Live Band' gong, and the honour of 'Best British Band' went the way of Welsh outfit Lostprophets. They also scooped the 'Best Album' award for their 'Liberation Transmission' long-player.
Slayer were inducted into the Kerrang! Hall Of Fame, and the yearly 'Legend' award went the way of AC/DC's Angus Young.
Winners in full as follows...
Best Band On The Planet - My Chemical Romance
Best British Band - Lostprophets
Best Live Band - Muse
Best Album - Lostprophets ‘Liberation Transmission’
Best Single - Bullet For My Valentine ‘Tears Don't Fall’
Best Video - Fall Out Boy ‘Sugar, We're Going Down’
Best British Newcomer - Bring Me The Horizon
Best International Newcomer - Aiden
Classic Songwriter - Placebo
Spirit Of Independence - Prodigy
Kerrang! Hall Of Fame - Slayer
Kerrang! Legend - Angus Young
Why can't you say...
The Black Parade?
The website is even up.
was
just gona say that.
also interesting how the BBC say that the lost phropets were the "big winners". meh.
Is it now?
Okay, cool.
The record's called... yeah, that.
the mainstream metal scene
has never been shitter
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what a surprising and adventurous list of winners........
its about time
sum1 reckognsed that mcr r, like, totally awsome. b4 i heard mcr i thougt i was alone withmy pain, but, since i 1st hrd im not ok(i promise0) i knew that i wasnt alone with my pain.plus,they right the best tunes eva!not2mention that ther all wel fit!gerard,u rock!urs 4eva xXx
pS
lostprofets RULE! Lol xXx
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you forgot the Z at the end of Lol.
I'll demonstrate: Lolz XxX. See, much better.
Dang,
and there was me thinking I was WAY down with the kidZ.
Indie is just sooo cool
Sorry that the winners aren't all bushy-haired bellends with a 4-chord ability in the vein of all your indie superstars. Real music is about passion and emotion, not singing in a scouse accent and wearing ill fitting suits. Indie sucks, metal rules, so suck my b**ls.
but
most of those bands aren't metal, and if they are, are an absoloutely terrible representation of metal. there's no way you're a metal fan and think that's the best that's out there. come on, bring me the horizon!? their old stuff is just breakdowns one after the other, and their new stuff just sounds like they're ripping off The Number Twelve Looks Like You completely.
Incorrect
These bands are the commercial end of metal, that's correct, but what isn't right is that they're a terrible representation - they're the only representation of metal in an otherwise dull and lifeless popular music industry. And when you say "they're not metal", what is that based on? Metal isn't just about a musical sound, it's about an entire attitude.
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Metal is not about having an attitude, its how the music sounds you mindless fool. Otherwise you could describe any sort of music as metal. Indie included.
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That makes no sense. Music is about an attitude - clothing, playing style, general persona. Now go and listen to your Kooks album and stop being silly.
As opposed to
listening to your MCR albums, like a good little boy? And being MAD? Like, CRAZY and ZANY and, like, totally zany and IN YOUR FACE, so take that, indie kidz and parentz and teecherz, awright! Metal! Yeah! You can all SUCK MY C*CK, 'cause I bought ALL my clothes from the adverts in the back of Kerrang! Including a T-shirt that says "I'M, LIKE, TOTALLY METAL! SATAN IS MY LORD! F*CK! CR*KEY! I'M, LIKE, TOTALLY AP*SHIT RIGHT HERE!"
METAL! METAL!! MEETAAAAL!!!! UP YOUR ASS!
?
Hmm. MAD are my initials, Seymour. I don't really like MCR, have never bought any clothes out of Kerrang, Satan isn't my lord (interesting concept, you should read Anton Zsander LaVey's Satanic Bible, imbecile) and what exactly is going up my "ass"?
Metal,
silly!
hey mate...
you're a dickhead.
I am the Metal King.
I don't know why I bothered to read this article
but now that I have, can I ask what the "Spirit of Independence" award is for?
I mean, I have an unfair idea that it means "band we like that doesn't just sound exactly like every other band we've given an award to", but I wouldn't like to presume anything...
Oh, and well done MCR. Still never knowingly heard anything by you, but, y'know, you must be doing something right. Mustn't you?! :-s
Hmmm...
Cock.
^^^
Right back atcha big boy.
I met MCR
Ther were nice.
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music is about an attitude and clothes??
What are you talking about?
Really? is that what you think?
and its not my kooks album, i borrowed it from yer mum. After i shagged her. twice.
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Oxford Street - The Plaza. Stand outside there in your Oasis T-shirt at 5pm you c**t and then we'll see who get's fucked.
hahaha
pwned!
Wow
Can no one prove their friggin point without bringing up having sex with somebody's mom? Next thing you know, it won't even be a fight about music anymore, which is stupid enough. It'll turn into a fight with quick comebacks about whose balls dropped first.
Good one
Well done sweetie, a very witty reposte.
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i quite liked it.
But really, if you think music is about how you act and what you wear you are really on the wrong site. if you glance at my profile even briefly you will see i like metal but the bands listed in this piece are just the dull, sellable, bland end of the genre. My whole problem with it is that kerrang has become horribly predictable and insular.
Sad really.
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I'm not saying that it's all about what you wear and how you act, numpty, it's about the entire package. Kerrang is a commercial magazine but it gives the lesser known, more hardcore bands exposure that they need alongside the bigger names such as MCR, Bullett, etc. Without the commercial element of metal it would be difficult for the underground to ever generate any awareness, and a lot of awesome bands would slip through the net.
how
can you possibly describe a band like my chemical romance as metal? and what attitude? they're corporate whores on the same level of a band like the kooks, if not more.
Take Mastodon for a decent metal band with pretty decent commerical success.
Mastodon > MCR
True.
Actually...
Mastodon > prettymucheveryone
^^
i really want to hear the new album, wasnt too impressed by the others but its been gettin really good feedback. Just hope the drummer has calmed down a bit.
the drumming is super skill
he is well skill
but he just does too many of those 16 beat flurry fills that seem to grate on me.
its a date.
i'll be the big skinhead in the autechre t-shirt.
see you in a few hours.
Ace.
Date?
Hmm, a skinhead in the West End. Promise you won't touch me anywhere private?
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that costs extra.
.
Tease.
spirit of independence
is the award they give to bands that aren't on a major. Prodigy are on XL.
I think they gave it to ATR one year...
i haven't read kerrang for years - why do i remember all of this?!
I remember when Kerrang had quite a good editor who was into promoting the underground (he instigated the 'spirit of independence' thing and did a huge feature on fugazi - he wasn't re-inventing the wheel, but it was better) but then he left (to run Q, i think) and that was when K! started to become some kind of bizzare lifestyle magazine, suggesting what tv-shows you should watch and all that bollocks.
If metal really is an attitude (and before you can say that you probably need "stay metal" tattooed on your neck) then surely it is a Scott Kelly kind of thing; rather than an MCR thing...
meh, i am well metal - and those bands mostly suck.
There is a lot of chat
about what metal is "all about".
Who gives a fuck??
If you like it then great.
If you hate it then great.
I used to like metal when I about 15.
Now I don't.
Great !
changing
the subject, did anyone here about Panic at the Disco's frontman getting bottled at Reading^_^
as we're on the subject of bad bands i thought i may aswell bring them up...
Did he? Hooray! I mean... oh, how uncouth.
I do think that these winners aren't representative of Metal or even Rock today. They are, however, what the 'kids' (still the majority of Kerrang!'s readership) are listening to and therefore voted for.
I've got to say that they don't all sound the same. Possibly MCR and Aiden are similar, but that's about it. I think the only things they have in common are a general rather emo look and the fact that they're all really unfeasibly short (can't vouch for Slayer as I didn't see them at the afterparty).
YOU MISS THE POINT..
...which is that Kerrang(!) isn't very relevent.
in fact, it's quite shit.
end of story.
The Kerrang awards
is the least relevent award ceremony by a massive margin.
Its results are generally why i tend to stay away from the channel.
Although i do think that are all awards are kind of irrelevent, because lets face its not going to change sensible peoples opinions. I mean just because they think MCR are the best on the planet doesnt mean that they are, far from it
of course
i agree with the bored dude.
i often think to meself: my gosh, kerrang and it's readers/viewers are really 21st century neanderthals terrified of modern music, unable to understand why flannel shirts, shoe-gazing and heroin addiction are no longer popular.
It really is a mystery
Thanks for the validation
ignore the last comment ^
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^^rrrrrrubbbbbbbbbish!
If Kerrang! and the majority of its readership were still fixated in the flannel shirts and smack era, I'd be much happier.
Actually, the TV channel and awards don't reflect the wealth of music written about in the mag, only the current most frequent cover stars. Delve past the features and into the reviews and "where to start with..." and you'll find that the writers' taste is actually quite different to the voting 'kids'.
truth
reviews and introducing section is where the Crunch is
the rest is just adverts.
what
like what the fuck happened to kerrang! I remember when it started turning in like 98, and started featuring shit bands. It was brutal before, and so preferable to Metal Hammer, which was a bit gay.
The My Chemical Romance album.....
....is actually alarmingly good!
No one more surprised than me about that!