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EIL.COM'S KERRANG 2002 AWARDS PAGE

Kerrang is the UKs premier metal magazine. It has more readers than most daily newspapers and it has forced the UK to rock like never before.

Kerrang held it's annual awards ceremony in London on 27th August, 2002. Here at EIL.COM we like a bit of a head-bang and so here is our celebration of the winners and losers on the night.

EIL.COM chart choices:
· Best Band · Best Album · Best British Band · Best NEW British Band
· Best Single · Best International Live · Best Video · Hall Of Fame
· British Live Act · NEW International · Classic Songwriter · Spirit Of Independence
· Metal @ EIL.COM


BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

The US funky-punksters Red Hot Chili Peppers were voted as the The Best Band In The World at the awards. With a career into it's third decade they are among the elder statesmen of rock. But with a recent number album, By The Way and a loyal fanbase of young and old they easily beat off the challenge of Slipknot, Linkin Park, Nickelback and Sum 41.

 
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS   By The Way
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS By The Way (2002 UK 16-track CD album - the Chili Peppers are among the elder statesmen in US rock circles now. This is their 8th album and shows a band comfortable with their sound. Mixing their trademark rap/rock/funksoundwith newer elements of soul and even latino! Includes the single 'By The Way', sealed picture sleeve)
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS catalogue | more info | only £12.99
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Limited Edition Hits - 2002 US Limited Edition Introductory Hits Selection - IN STOCK
Californication 2-disc CD/Video-CD set - 2000 Korean Limited Edition Set - IN STOCK
Live From The Pit - US promo only double CD radio show 1996 concert - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for the Red Hot Chili Peppers


BEST ALBUM

The Brits were out in force at the Kerrang Awards. Not just among the nominees and liggers but they were prize winners too !!

The first act to fly the flag for home-grown talents were Hundred Reasons, who won the The Best Album award. Idea's Above Our Station is the bands debut album and comes just two years after they were winners of the British Newcomer award.

 
HUNDRED REASONS   Idea's Above Out Station
HUNDRED REASONS Ideas Above Our Station (2002 UK 12-track enhanced CD album, a strong British challenge to the US Nu-Metal onslaught, this album brings their live energy to your front room! Featuring the singles, 'If I Could' and 'Silver', plus CD-Rom videos for both tracks, photo gallery and exclusive area of the band's website, picture sleeve plus fold-out booklet)
HUNDRED REASONS catalogue | more info | only £13.99
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EP One - 2002 Reissue of the bands debut single - IN STOCK
If I Could - 2002 UK 8-track enhanced 2-CD set - IN STOCK
Silver - 2002 UK 8-track enhanced 2-CD set - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Hundred Reasons


BEST BRITISH BAND

The voting must have been tight for this section. Trying to seperate Hundred Reasons, Muse, Idlewild, LostProphets and A was the task for the readers of Kerrang.

Votes counted and any fixing checked for ... the winners were A. This too was a surprise as the band have had a topsy turvy career, but recent album Hi-Fi Serious spawned Top 20 hit singles.

 
A   Hi-Fi Serious
A Hi-Fi Serious (2002 UK 12-track CD album including the singles 'Nothing' and 'Starbucks', picture sleeve)
A catalogue | more info | only £9.99
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Starbucks - 2002 UK 8-track enhanced 2-CD Set - IN STOCK
Starbucks - 2002 UK London Records 1-track PAL promo video - IN STOCK
Nothing - 2002 Australian exclusive 5-track CD - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for A


BEST NEW BRITISH BAND

More hotly contested selections made by the Kerrang readership for Best New British Band .

The winners of the award were The Cooper Temple Clause . The band have been touring heavily in support of their debut album See this Through And Leave and blowing the tiny minds of anyone lucky enough to see their Jesus & Mary Chain meets The Stooges at a party for Spacemen 3 musical mix !

 
THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE   See this Through And Leave
THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE See this Through And Leave (2002 UK Special Limited Edition 19-track promotional enhanced 2-disc set comprising 11-track CD album, including the singles 'Panzer Attack' and 'Film-Maker' plus 8-TRACK BONUS CD featuring exclusive live tracks plus 3 CD-Rom videos, picture sleeve)
THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE catalogue | more info | only £16.99
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See This Through And Leave - 2002 UK Limited Edition numbered 7" box set - IN STOCK
The Hardware EP / The Warfare EP - 2002 Australian 7-track 2-CD set - IN STOCK
Who Needs Enemies - 2002 UK 9-track enhanced TRIPLE CD set - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for The Cooper Temple Clause


BEST SINGLE

One of the surprises on the night was that a 'nice' song won the Best Single award !

The US band Puddle Of Mudd scooped the prize with their anthemic Blurry . As proteges of Limp Bizkit they did have a head start on most but they have created their own waves since then.

 
PUDDLE OF MUDD   Blurry
PUDDLE OF MUDD Blurry (2002 UK limited edition enhanced 7-track 2-CD set including CD-Rom video + fold-out poster, picture sleeve)
PUDDLE OF MUDD catalogue | more info | only £9.99
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Come Clean - 2001 UK 11-track CD album - IN STOCK
She Hates Me - 2002 UK 1-track promo CD - IN STOCK
Control - 2002 UK 4-track enhanced CD - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Puddle Of Mudd


BEST VIDEO

And so the 'feared one' did win an award !

Marilyn Manson thanked the "...great taste of his British fans...and the great songwriting of Soft Cell" when he picked up the award for Best Video for his stomping cover of Tainted Love .
 
MARILYN MANSON   Tainted Love
MARILYN MANSON Tainted Love (Deleted 2002 UK 6-track 2-CD single set also featuring tracks by Muse, Mest and Stabbing Westwood, including versions of 'Bizarre Love Triangle' [New Order] and 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want' [The Smiths], complete with their own picture sleeve for each disc)
MARILYN MANSON catalogue | more info | only £13.99
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Sweet Dreams - Rare US promo-only coloured glass night light ! - IN STOCK
Video Collection - 10-track promo only CD-ROM - IN STOCK
Mechanical Animals - 10-piece promo colour hanging mobile - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Marilyn Manson


HALL OF FAME

The royally lauded Foo Fighters were the entrants into the Hall Of Fame .

A new album is due in October and that will be the band's fourth in less than seven years
...productive or what! Since Dave Grohl stepped from the ashes of Nirvana his band of merry men have taken their powerful metallic pop to millions worldwide. The new album has been kept close to their collective chests but expect a belter !

 
FOO FIGHTERS   All My Life
FOO FIGHTERS One By One (2002 UK 11-track CD) The fourth album from metal's finest exponents of hook riddled, melodious, stompy hits. If you enjoyed the previous albums hen you will love this, if you have never given them a thought then it's your loss. One of THE albums of 2002, including the single All My Life.
FOO FIGHTERS catalogue | more info | only £11.99
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Live From The Pit - US promo double CD 1997 radio concert - IN STOCK
There Is Nothing Left To Lose - Australian limited 2-CD set - IN STOCK
The One - 2002 UK 1-track promo PAL video - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for the Foo Fighters


BEST BRITISH LIVE BAND

After losing out to A for the Best British Band the mighty Muse were rightly crowned The Best British Live Band . Anyone who has witnessed Matt and crew in concert will agree with the Kerrang readership.

The other nominees in this category included Raging Speedhorn and Hundred Reasons

 
MUSE   Hullabaloo - Live
MUSE Hullabaloo - Live (2002 UK limited edition 21-track 2-CD album set with CD1 featuring b-sides and rarities from 1999 -2001 plus a new track. CD2 is a live concert recorded at La Zenith Paris 28th/29th October 2001. All housed in a tri-fold digipak picture sleeve MUSH105CD)
MUSE catalogue | more info | only £15.99
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Origin Of Symmetry - 2001 UK 11-track advance promo CD - IN STOCK
Random - 2000 Japanese-only compilation CD - IN STOCK
Exclusive Enhanced Sampler - 2002 UK 4-track promo-only CD - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Muse


BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWCOMER

Another surprise winner was in the Best International Newcomer category. Press darlings The Hives and Jimmy Eat World lost to the fan powered vote for Sum 41 .
 
SUM 41   All Killer No Filler
SUM 41 All Killer No Filler (2001 UK Edition 14-track enhanced CD featuring UK only bonus track 'Makes No Difference' plus the singles 'Fat Lip' and 'In Too Deep', picture sleeve)
SUM 41 catalogue | more info | only £9.99
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All Killer No Filler T-shirt - UK heavy cotton promo-only RED T-shirt - IN STOCK
Introduction To Destruction - 2002 UK region 2 PAL 11-track DVD - IN STOCK
What We're All About - 2002 UK 3-track enhanced CD - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Sum 41


CLASSIC SONGWRITER

This award was not voted for by Kerrang readers, it was a recognition of services to rock music and was decided by the magazines many writers.

Offspring were the winners and they played live at the awards as a thank-you to the magazine.
 
OFFSPRING   Conspiracy of One
OFFSPRING Conspiracy of One (13-track CD album from American punk/pop band featuring the single Original Prankster)
OFFSPRING catalogue | more info | only £11.99
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Original Prankster - UK 1-track advance promo CD - IN STOCK
Pretty Fly For A White Guy - Japanese 1-track DJ promo only CD - IN STOCK
Huck It - UK 40 minute PAL video - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Offspring


SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE

Noise freak Alec Empire was awarded with the Spirit Of Independence . The Atari Teenage Riot frontman is currently attacking those lucky Americans with his brand of sonic destruction.

 
ALEC EMPIRE   Addicted To You
ALEC EMPIRE Addicted To You (Deleted 2002 UK 6-track enhanced 2-CD single set featuring CD-Rom video, each disc is complete with it's own picture sleeve and housed in custom pited cases)
ALEC EMPIRE catalogue | more info | only £8.49
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BEST INTERNATIONAL LIVE ACT

The final award of the night was bestowed on the manic Germanics Rammstein.

Their intense stage shows which features pillars of fire, exploding frontmen and decidely queasy imagery was just ahead of Slipknot in the favoured stakes for Kerrang readers.
 
RAMMSTEIN   Mutter
RAMMSTEIN Mutter (Scarce long deleted 2001 UK limited Tour Edition 15-track 2-CD album set, including a bonus 4-track live CD, embossed digipak picture sleeve which has minor edge scuffs and indentations, but the discs are mint!)
RAMMSTEIN catalogue | more info | only £29.99
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Live Aus Berlin - 1999 German 17-track PAL DVD - IN STOCK
Panties - UK promotional black cotton 'thong' panties ! - IN STOCK
Herzleid - 1995 German 11-track CD album - IN STOCK
Full EIL.COM Discography for Rammstein


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