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 was contending for what.
Long story short now that the winners are in for all the relevant categories, I gotta say – it was a little grim. The Beatles won for Best Rock Performance for a song that was pieced together from some demos, Idles and Pearl Jam lost three times, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross lost twice. But hey – Gojira won a friggin' GRAMMY and that rules.
Here's the list of each category and who was in the running for each.
BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
- WINNER: "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
- WINNER: "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 Bastards – The Black Crowes
- Romance – Fontaines D.C.
- Saviors – Green Day
- TANGK – Idles
- Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
- WINNER: Hackney Diamonds – The Rolling Stones
- No Name – Jack White
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, 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 Fiction – Laura Karpman, composer
- Challengers – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers
- The Color Purple – Kris Bowers, composer
- WINNER: Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer, composer
- Shōgun – Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross, composers
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VIDEO GAMES AND OTHER INTERACTIVE MEDIA
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Pinar Toprak, composer
- God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla – Bear McCreary, composer
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – John Paesano, composer
- Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, composer
- WINNER: Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord – Winifred Phillips, composer
BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
- Half Living Things – Nick Azinas & 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)
- We Blame Chicago – Rebeka Arce & Farbod Kokabi, art directors (90 Day Men)
