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All The Rock & Metal GRAMMYs To Watch For Tonight

Gojira, Knocked Loose, Judas Priest, Knocked Loose, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and more!

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Photo via the GRAMMY website

The GRAMMYs are happening tonight, February 2 and there are quite a few rock and metal artists up for awards!

From the packed Best Metal Performance category to Pearl Jam duking it across the Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song categories, to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross going for a Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media award and Alpha Wolf being up for a Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package award, here's who's contending for what! We'll update this post with the winners tonight as we know 'em.

The GRAMMYs will air tonight 8pm EST (5pm PST) on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE

  • "Now and Then" – The Beatles
  • "Beautiful People (Stay High)" – The Black Keys
  • "The American Dream Is Killing Me" – Green Day
  • "Gift Horse" – Idles
  • "Dark Matter" – Pearl Jam
  • "Broken Man" – St. Vincent

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE

  • "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" – Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne
  • "Crown of Horns" – Judas Priest
  • "Suffocate" – Knocked Loose feat. Poppy
  • "Screaming Suicide" – Metallica
  • "Cellar Door" – Spiritbox

BEST ROCK ALBUM

  • Happiness BastardsThe Black Crowes
  • RomanceFontaines D.C.
  • SaviorsGreen Day
  • TANGKIdles
  • Dark MatterPearl Jam
  • Hackney DiamondsThe Rolling Stones
  • No NameJack White

BEST ROCK SONG

  • "Beautiful People (Stay High)" – Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck Hansen & Daniel Nakamura, songwriters (The Black Keys)
  • "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, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, songwriters (Green Day)
  • "Gift Horse" – Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan & Joe Talbot, songwriters (Idles)

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA

  • American FictionLaura Karpman, composer
  • ChallengersTrent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers
  • The Color PurpleKris Bowers, composer
  • Dune: Part TwoHans Zimmer, composer
  • ShōgunNick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross, composers

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VIDEO GAMES AND OTHER INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  • Avatar: Frontiers of PandoraPinar Toprak, composer
  • God of War Ragnarök: ValhallaBear McCreary, composer
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2John Paesano, composer
  • Star Wars OutlawsWilbert Roget, II, composer
  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Winifred Phillips, composer

BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE

  • Half Living ThingsPatrick Galvin, art director (Alpha Wolf)
  • Hounds Of Love The Boxes Of Lost At SeaKate Bush & Albert McIntosh, art directors (Kate Bush)
  • In UteroDoug Cunningham & Jason Noto, art directors (Nirvana)
  • Mind GamesSimon Hilton & Sean Ono Lennon, art directors (John Lennon)
  • Unsuk ChinTakahiro Kurashima & Marek Polewski, art directors (Unsuk Chin & Berliner Philharmoniker)
  • We Blame ChicagoRebeka Arce & Farbod Kokabi, art directors (90 Day Men)
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