The 67th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced today via a YouTube Video and while we didn’t watch this rundown in person are happy to share with you the nominations for the Rock, Metal & Alternative Field. The full list of nominations will be posted over on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website later on today but that one does take some time to edit and make look nice. We don’t do anything haphazardly after all. Here now are you nominees in those categories.
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 [fr] & Victor Le Masne
“Crown of Horns” – Judas Priest
“Suffocate” – Knocked Loose featuring Poppy
“Screaming Suicide” – Metallica
“Cellar Door” – Spiritbox
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, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt, songwriters (Green Day)
“Gift Horse” – Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernana & Joe Talbot, songwriters (Idles)
Best Rock Album
Happiness Bastards – The Black Crowes
Romance – Fontaines D.C.
Saviors – Green Day
Tangk – Idles
Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
Hackney Diamonds – The Rolling Stones
No Name – Jack White
Best Alternative Music Performance
“Neon Pill” – Cage the Elephant
“Song of the Lake” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Starburster” – Fontaines D.C.
“Bye Bye” – Kim Gordon
“Flea” – St. Vincent
Best Alternative Music Album
Wild God – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Charm – Clairo
The Collective – Kim Gordon
What Now – Brittany Howard
All Born Screaming – St. Vincent
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PiercingMetal Thoughts: Let me know what you all think about these nominations. Did anything in the Rock, Metal and Alternative sound that you were listening to this past year merit inclusion and yet were left out? Chime in down below as its always awesome to hear from you.
Official: https://www.grammy.com/