Best UK Band

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As ever, the UK is still smashing the competition when it comes to amazing bands. Here are five of the very best over the past year.

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Bring Me The Horizon

Sheffield’s finest continued to make their peers look like mugs with this year’s blindingly epic Sempiternal.

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Motörhead

They are Motörhead and they play rock ‘n’ roll. Do we really need to say any more? Lemmy and co still look unstoppable over 35 years in.

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Bullet For My Valentine

Another massive year for BFMV sees them drop a new album, tour the UK and play their biggest Download set yet. Huge.

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Black Sabbath

The band that birthed a genre and are the reason that these very awards can even exist. Their return is a true British triumph.

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Paradise Lost

2013 marks a humongous year for the UK’s kings of gloom – its their 25th anniversary! Here’s to another quarter-century of gothic anthemia.

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