HMA18 Winners

Best Album

While She Sleeps ‘You Are We’
Produced by While She Sleeps & Carl Bown

Best UK Band

Architects
Epitaph Records

Category presented by PPL

Best Live Band

Gojira
Roadrunner Records

Category presented by Jackson Guitars

Best International Band

Metallica
Blackened Recordings

Category presented by Indie Mixtape

Best Photographer

Ed Mason

Best UK Breakthrough Band

Milk Teeth
Roadrunner Records

Category presented by Pirate Studios

Best Album Artwork

SikTh ‘The Future In Whose Eyes?’
Millennium Night • Artwork by Meats Meier

Category presented by The Pit

Best International
Breakthrough Band

Knocked Loose
Pure Noise Records

Category presented by Awesome Merchandise

Best Festival

Hellfest Open Air

Category presented by Scuzz

Best Producer

Will Putney

Category presented by Roadrunner Records

The H

The Sophie Lancaster Foundation
Awarded for exceptional positive contribution to the heavy music scene