The 60th Annual Grammy Awards will be taking place on January 28th at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Today the organizers have unveiled all of the nominees, and unlike previous years, they’ve actually done pretty well with the rock and metal categories. Check out a breakdown of the nominations below!
Best Metal Performance:
August Burns Red, “Invisible Enemy”
Body Count, “Black Hoodie”
Code Orange, “Forever”
Mastodon, “Sultan’s Curse”
Meshuggah, “Clockworks”
Best Rock Performance:
Leonard Cohen, “You Want It Darker”
Chris Cornell, “The Promise”
Foo Fighters, “Run”
Kaleo, “No Good”
Nothing More, “Go to War”
Best Rock Song:
Metallica, “Atlas, Rise!”
K. Flay, “Blood in the Cut”
Nothing More, “Go to War”
Foo Fighters, “Run”
Avenged Sevenfold, “The Stage”
Best Rock Album:
Mastodon, Emperor of Sand
Metallica, Hardwired … to Self-Destruct
Nothing More, The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Queens of the Stone Age, Villains
The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding
A full listing of all of the Grammy categories can be found here.