Gojira, The Rolling Stones, and St. Vincent Take Home The 2025 Grammy Awards for Metal and Rock


The 67th Annual Grammy Awards (aka “music’s biggest night”) celebrating music excellence across all genres was held today in Hollywood. As usual, awards for Rock and Metal (along with many popular music categories) were awarded in a pre-show ceremony. Gojira won the Best Metal Performance Grammy, beating out Metallica, Ghost and Spiritbox, for their global smash hit “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca Ira!)” from the Paris Olympics. Other winners in the Rock categories include Rolling Stones, and St..Vincent. 

 

Best Metal Performance
*winner* Gojira, Marina Viotta & Victor Le Masne – “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca Ira!)”
Judas Priest – “Crown of Horns”
Knocked Loose featuring Poppy – “Suffocate”
Metallica – “Screaming Suicide”
Spiritbox – “Cellar Door”

Best Rock Performance
The Beatles – “Now and Then”
The Black Keys – “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
Green Day – “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
Idles – “Gift Horse”
Pearl Jam – “Dark Matter”
*winner*St. Vincent – “Broken Man”

Best Rock Song
“Beautiful People (Stay High)” — Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)
*winner* “Broken Man” — Annie Clark, songwriter (St. Vincent)
“Dark Matter” — Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Pearl Jam)
“Dilemma” — Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt, songwriters (Green Day)
“Gift Horse” — Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot, songwriters (IDLES)

Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Green Day – Saviors
IDLES – Tangk
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
*winner* The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
Jack White – No Name

 

Best Alternative Music Performance
Cage the Elephant – “Neon Pill”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “Song of the Lake”
Fontaines D.C. – “Starburster”
Kim Gordon – “Bye Bye”
*winner* St. Vincent – “Flea”

Best Alternative Music Album
Brittany Howard – What Now
Clairo – Charm
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God
*winner* St. Vincent – All Born Screaming

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
American Fiction – Laura Karpman
Challengers – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Color Purple – Kris Bowers
*winner* Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer
Shogun – Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross

Best Boxed or Limited Package
Half Living Things —Nick Azinas and Mike Hicks, art director (Alpha Wolf)
Hounds Of Love The Boxes Of Lost At Sea — Kate Bush & Albert McIntosh, art directors (Kate Bush)
In Utero — Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, art directors (Nirvana)
*winner* Mind Games — Simon Hilton & Sean Ono Lennon, art directors (John Lennon)
Unsuk Chin — Takahiro Kurashima & Marek Polewski, art directors (Unsuk Chin & Berliner Philharmoniker)