Yesterday evening the nominations for the 2005 KERRANG! AWARDS were announced. The event took place at the legendary KERRANG! DAY OF ROCK. This, in essence, is an opportunity for KERRANG! to get their peers extremely drunk and make them dance to BON JOVI, but hey who needs an excuse. The tipples for the evening included a somewhat spurious cocktail, which apparently contained í¢ä‰åñGinger & Rumí¢ä‰åŒ, which left me a little bewildered as I was under the assumption that he had a solo album in the pipeline, poor man. Anyway the important part of the evening was the nominations, and the above was merely a suspense building mechanism. So here they are the nominations for 2005 KERRANG! AWARDS BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWCOMER (2004 winner Velvet Revolver) TRIVIUM Eighteen Visions Emanuel Lordi STILL REMAINS BEST ALBUM (2004 winner í¢ä‰åäóì Muse í¢ä‰åäóì Absolution) 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 ACT (2004 winner í¢ä‰åäóì The Darkness) Rammstein Green Day System Of A Down SLIPKNOT Avenge Sevenfold BEST BRITISH BAND (2004 winner í¢ä‰åäóì The Darkness) Feeder Stereophonics Funeral For A Friend Placebo CRADLE OF FILTH On hearing the great Paulo from Trivium is quoted as saying í¢ä‰åñExpletive, expletive, that’s expletive bad-assí¢ä‰åŒ. Roadrunner would like to thank all those fans that voted for our artists on the KERRANG! site. ROCK n’ FUCKIN’ ROLL