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Presenting The 67th Grammy Award Winners For Rock and Metal

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The 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be airing soon on CBS and while there will be a wealth of awards being given out for numerous categories on the live broadcast, it seems as though the Rock, Metal & Alternative Fields are announced beforehand and not be given out live. With that being the case I’m sharing these winners of these categories with our PiercingMetal readership so they can relax themselves and not worry about needing to tune in to the live show. May I have the envelope please…

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 [fr] & Victor Le Masne
“Crown of Horns” – Judas Priest
“Suffocate” – Knocked Loose featuring Poppy
“Screaming Suicide” – Metallica
“Cellar Door” – Spiritbox
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Presenting The 67th Grammy Award Nominations For Rock and Metal

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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
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Presenting The 65th Annual Grammy Awards Winners For Rock and Metal

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The 65th Grammy Awards ceremony is underway and believe it or not, the Rock and Alternative category winners have already been announced so we are sharing them with you down below.

Best Rock Performance:
So Happy It Hurts – Bryan Adams
Old Man – Beck
Wild Child – The Black Keys
WINNER – Broken Horses – Brandi Carlile
Crawl! – Idles
Patient Number 9 – Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck
Holiday – Turnstile

Best Metal Performance:
Call Me Little Sunshine – Ghost
We’ll Be Back – Megadeth
Kill Or Be Killed – Muse
WINNER – Degradation Rules – Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Tony Iommi
Blackout – Turnstile
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Presenting The 65th Annual Grammy Nominations For Rock and Metal

The Grammy Awards nominations were revealed earlier today and while this is an extremely lengthy list we are only going to laud the noms for the Rock, Metal and Alternative categories here on the website. A full rundown will be on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website after some considerable editing. When we look at this in Word its more than thirty pages but I digress, here now are the nominations of the categories we focus on at the PiercingMetal Media Command HQ.

** Rock **

Best Rock Performance (For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings).
“So Happy It Hurts” by Bryan Adams
“Old Man” by Beck
“Wild Child” by The Black Keys
“Broken Horses” by Brandi Carlile
“Crawl!” by Idles
“Patient Number 9” by Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck
“Holiday” by Turnstile
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