Heavy Music Awards 2020
The fourth annual Heavy Music Awards headed online in light of the global pandemic, streaming exclusively online via the Amazon Music UK Twitch channel on 3 September 2020, hosted live from the Heavy Music Awards’ London offices by Sophie K and Jon Mahon, with exclusive full band performances recorded at AfterLive Music by The Hunna, Holding Absence, Heart of a Coward, Wargasm, Coldbones and Hawxx.
The show received over 177,000 live viewers.
HMA20 Winners
Best Album
Slipknot ‘We Are Not Your Kind’
Roadrunner Records • Produced by Greg Fidelman
Category presented by Amazon Music
Best UK Band
Bring Me The Horizon
RCA
Category presented by Amazon Music
Best Live Band
Rammstein
Universal
Category presented by O2 Forum Kentish Town
Best International Band
Slipknot
Roadrunner Records
Category presented by eOne
Best Photographer
Ester Segarra
Best UK Breakthrough Band
Nova Twins
333 Wreckords
Category presented by Primordial Radio
Best Video
Don Broco ‘Action’
Directed by Benjamin Roberds • Sharptone Records
Category presented by Moshhh
Best Album Artwork
Baroness ‘Gold & Grey’
Abraxan Hymns • Artwork by John Dyer Baizley
Best International
Breakthrough Band
Polaris
Sharptone Records
Category presented by Subfrantic
Best Festival
Download Festival
Category presented by Ticketmaster
Best Producer
Catherine Marks
Category presented by AfterLive Music
The H
Dom Fraser & Space
Awarded for exceptional positive contribution to the heavy music scene
Video
Recorded by Moshhh at AfterLive Music exclusively for the Heavy Music Awards. Thumbnail photos by Tom Russell
Photos
Taken on behalf of Afterlive Music by Tom Russell
