Bullet continue on the Jag

No glasses necessary!

The Kerrang! Legend

Voted by a select K! Awards Judging Panel

WINNER:

ANGUS YOUNG
Presented by Paul Brannigan

Kerrang! Hall Of Fame

Sponsored by Island Records

Best Band On The Planet

WINNER:

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

Best British Band

Best British Band (sponsored by Roadrunner Records)
Voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine and Kerrang.com

Kerrang gets 5K award!

Roadrunner Records gives mag award for Services To Metal, presented by Matt Heafy. And ed Paul Brannigan gives props to you, the readers. Hooray for us!

Spirit Of Independence

Sponsored by Cadiz Music)
Voted for by a select K! Awards Judging Panel

Best Video

Classic Songwriter

Voted by a select K! Awards Judging Panel

WINNER:

PLACEBO
Presented by Ugly Phil from Kerrang! 105.2

Best Album

Sponsored by Virgin Megastores)
Voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine and Kerrang.com

Meatloaf preaches

The mighty 'loaf presents the best video and says the crowd make less noise than a christian Bible group in a frankly loony rant

Best Single

Best Live Band

Sponsored by Carling)
Voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine and Kerrang.com

Best International Newcomer

WINNER:

AIDEN
Presented by Nick Oliveri and Sarah Cawood

Best British Newcomer

Sponsored by Myspace.com)
Voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine, Kerrang.com and Myspace.com

Master!

Members of Trivium, Bullet.. and Fightstar (among others) receive gold discs for their contribution to K!'s Master Of Puppets cover CD

Almost forgot Adam TBS

Steady now ladies!

Angus Young

The ACDC guitar legend doesn't feel like posing

Mastadon

The inventive metal masters pose like the best of 'em

Panic! At the Kerrang Awards

No really they are!

Bullet and shots

Shots on the red carpet! Yeah, jagermeister

The Automatic

Whats that coming over the carpet? Hmm, might need to rephrase that

Deadly beauties!

Arch Enemy's Angela Gossow and Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia get pulses racing!

Hundred Reasons

Surrey's finest join the festivities

Dragonforce

The impossible metal troopers unleash fire on the press (possibly)

Morat

K scribe and all round party fiend Morat arrives

Carnival!

Only at the kerrang! Awards

See Aiden's big day out at the Kerrang! Awards

See AIDEN on their big day out at the Kerrang Awards, exclusively in the next K! Podcast available at www.kerrang.com/podcast from this weekend! We'll be following the band as they get ready for the show, travel in style up the red carpet and watch the most debauched awards ceremony in the world while hanging out with rock's hottest stars!

Plus, you can see snippets of the band's video diary on Kerrang! TV  as part of their K! AWARDS: BACKSTAGE BEDLAM show, which will feature all the news and action from the awards, plus exclusive interviews with the winners for your viewing pleasure! Catch it on Kerrang! TV at 10pm on Friday August 25 and on The Hits at 8pm Sunday 27.

Tune into Kerrang! TV, exclusively on Sky Digital 354, Telewest 332 and NTL 819. The Hits is available on Freeview 18, Sky Digital 358, NTL 910 and Telewest 320.

Are you ready for the Kerrang! Awards?

The clock is ticking down... The Kerrang! Awards kicks off this evening at 7.30, so stay tuned from 5 onwards as we'll be sending you all the latest updates on the winners, the red carpet and the gossip from the most debauched party of the year. See the celebs and what they're wearing! Share in the joy of the winners! Commiserate with the losers! And flinch at the uncontrollable rock star behaviour that inevitably occurs at the Kerrang! Awards...

Young at heart, rock at the core

"It's not metal anymore!" says one band member when we go and nick some of their booze. Just to even the balance, here's Angus Young to pick up his Legend award. But dude, where's the schoolboy uniform? Dry cleaners? Nobody cares, they're screaming a standing ovation. "I just want to thank my mum and dad for letting me out," he grins mischievously. We salute you sir.

Stuart Cable gets catty

Announcing the nominees of Best British Band: "Past winners include Funeral For A Friend and The Stereophonics. Back when they were good." Miaow!

Good Yorkshire boys

"Have we thanked our parents?" asks one of Bring Me The Horizon. Yes lads. Yes you have. Bless. "They've spilled beer on my dress!" says Sara Cawood petulantly. Boo hoo love.

Snakes on a Kerrang

Now, if this were a spider, you wouldn't see us for dust.

Prodigious

The Prodigy are on the carpet, Liam Howlett looking weirdly like Ewen Mcgregor. Slayer are coming up...

Meatloaf

The Bat's brought a selection of ladies along with him. Wise, wise man.

Placebo

We bought a t shirt with Place bo on it once. Let this be a warning against buying from the wrong side of Camden. Brian is really tiny. We never realised how tiny until now, but they all look dapper so that's ace.

Who's fitter, Lostprophets or Fightstar?

No really, Ian or Charlie. Aargh, our brain is melting.

Bring Me The Horizon

There's some serious tattoos out in force this evening but BMTH might just beat them all as theirs are a) new and shiny b) clearly obtained under age. Not that we're condoning that. No.

It's Trivium!

Matt and co confront the media. They don't look too bothered, bring on the whisky.

Stretch Armstrong

That's one talent he didn't get in school...

New Found Glory

Wearing the sharpest suits this side of Oxfam. Style!

Sign of the beast

Nah, they're quite nice really.