The 2017 ‘Alternative Press Music Awards‘ were handed out today (July 17th) in a ceremony held at the Keybank State Theater in Cleveland, OH. Korn were awarded the ‘Vanguard Award’ at the event, while Against Me!‘s Laura Jane Grace was presented with the ‘Icon Award’. Furthermore, producer (and member of Goldfinger, etc.) John Feldmann took home the ‘Influencer Award’.
Numerous other awards were also handed out for fan-voted categories, here’s the rundown:
Best Vocalist:
Winner: Lynn Gunn (PVRIS)
Other nominees:
Ben Barlow (Neck Deep)
Cody Carson (Set It Off)
Derek DiScanio (State Champs)
John O’Callaghan (The Maine)
Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die)
Best Guitarist Presented By PRS:
Winner: Jordan Buckley (Every Time I Die)
Other nominees:
Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Claudio Sanchez (Coheed And Cambria)
Reba Meyers (Code Orange)
Steve Menoian (I Prevail)
Teppei Teranishi (Thrice)
Best Hard Rock Artist:
Winner: The Pretty Reckless
Other nominees:
Bullet For My Valentine
Halestorm
Highly Suspect
In This Moment
Korn
Best New Artist Music Video Presented By Journeys:
Winner: With Confidence – “Voldemort”
Other nominees:
K.Flay – “Blood In The Cut”
Pup – “Sleep In The Heat”
SWMRS – “Palm Trees”
Tiny Moving Parts – “Common Cold”
Watsky – “Don’t Be Nice”
Best Music Video Presented By Journeys:
Winner: State Champs – “Losing Myself”
Other nominees:
Highly Suspect – “Bloodfeather”
I See Stars – “Calm Snow”
Korn – “Insane”
Memphis May Fire – “This Light I Hold” (feat. Jacoby Shaddix)
Sum 41 – “Fake My Own Death”
Best Underground Band:
Winner: Silent Planet
Other nominees:
Broadside
Knocked Loose
Movements
Palaye Royale
With Confidence
Breakthrough Band:
Winner: Waterparks
Other nominees:
Avatar
Creeper
Ice Nine Kills
Moose Blood
One Ok Rock
Best Bassist:
Winner: Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (Korn)
Other nominees:
Alex Dean (Architects)
Chris Hinkley ( The Mighty)
Fat Mike (NOFX)
Ryan Scott Graham (State Champs)
Sergio Vega (Deftones)
Best Drummer:
Winner: Frank Zummo (Sum 41)
Other nominees:
Arejay Hale (Halestorm)
Aric Improta (Night Verses)
Dean Butterworth (Good Charlotte)
Matt Mingus (Dance Gavin Dance)
JP “Rook” Cappelletty (Machine Gun Kelly)
Best Live Band:
Winner: Falling In Reverse
Other nominees:
Beartooth
Dance Gavin Dance
In This Moment
Issues
NOFX
Most Dedicated Fanbase Presented By Fearless Records:
Winner: Twenty One Pilots
Other nominees:
Melanie Martinez
Motionless In White
Paramore
PVRIS
Sleeping With Sirens
Song Of The Year Presented By Epitaph Records:
Winner: Andy Black – “We Don’t Have To Dance”
Other nominees:
A Day To Remember – “Paranoia”
Pierce The Veil – “Circles”
Machine Gun Kelly – “Alpha Omega”
Real Friends – “Mess”
Waterparks – “Stupid For You”
Album Of The Year Presented By Journeys:
Winner: Pierce The Veil – “Misadventures”
Other nominees:
Andy Black – “The Shadow Side”
Tonight Alive – “Limitless”
Architects – “All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us”
Attila – “Chaos”
Beartooth – “Aggressive”
Every Time I Die – “Low Teens”
I Prevail – “Lifelines”
Moose Blood – “Blush”
Waterparks – “Double Dare”
Artist Of The Year Presented By Monster Energy:
Winner: Panic! At The Disco
Other nominees:
A Day To Remember
Blink-182
Fall Out Boy
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Machine Gun Kelly
Pierce The Veil
Sum 41
The Pretty Reckless
Below you can watch Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor present Korn with the ‘Vanguard Award’. Korn were originally set to perform at the event, but cancelled over the weekend.
Among some of the musical highlights were Pierce The Veil covering Soundgarden‘s “Black Hole Sun” and Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale joining New Years Day. Life Of Agony‘s Mina Caputo also joined Against Me!. Footage of that can be found below.
Further performances can be found here.
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