Last month, I attended the first ever Alternative Press Music Awards. I have been reading AP for years now and have even had a handful of my photos published in their magazine. I had never been to an awards show within the music industry before, so I was ecstatic that I had been given the opportunity.

The band I was riding with on Warped Tour wasn’t going to be making the trip to the awards. Since I was on Warped Tour working for Epitaph Records, The Ghost Inside were ever so kind to let me hop in their bus so I could come enjoy the festivities. I had such a good time at the event, mainly because I had a lot of freedom with what I could photograph. Like most people, I work much better when there isn’t a ton of pressure.

My goal was to get as much content of the Epitaph bands that were in attendance that I could. A few of the bands on their roster were nominated for different awards:

Artist of the Year: Bring Me The Horizon
Album of the Year: Bring Me The Horizon - “Sempiternal”
Breakthrough Band: letlive.
Song of the Year: Bring Me The Horizon - “Shadow Moses” & Falling In Reverse - “Alone”
Best International Band: Parkway Drive (AUS) & Bring Me The Horizon (U.K.)
Best Vocalist: Oli Sykes - Bring Me The Horizon
Best Guitarist: Jacky Vincent - Falling In Reverse
Best Drummer: Ryan Seaman - Falling In Reverse

Below are some of the photos I captured from the day. I had such an awesome time at the event and it would be awesome to attend in future years to come.

Oli of Bring Me The Horizon with some fans.

Andy and Keith of Every Time I Die on the red carpet

Falling In Reverse on the red carpet

Plague Vendor on the red carpet

Plague Vendor on the red carpet

Jason of letlive. taking a selfie with a press photographer on the red carpet

The Ghost Inside on the red carpet

Spencer of Sleepwave signing a guitar that is now being auctioned off for charity

The Ghost Inside holding a signed guitar being auctioned for charity

Keith from Every Time I Die with Bodycount backstage

Jason of letlive. and Keith of Every Time I Die interviewing Coolio backstage

Jason of letlive. and Keith of Every Time I Die backstage

Ronnie of Falling In Reverse performing with Tyler of ISSUES live

Tyler of ISSUES and Coolio live

Oli of Bring Me The Horizon accepting the “Album of the Year” award from Pierce The Veil

Oli of Bring Me The Horizon accepting the “Album of the Year” award

Oli of Bring Me The Horizon accepting the “Song of the Year” award from We Came As Romans

Oli of Bring Me The Horizon with one of his two Skully awards from the day