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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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Slipknot Announces “Knotfest Iowa” One-Night Only Festival Event

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The Press Release:
KNOTFEST Iowa is upon us. Today the globally renowned event has revealed its 2024 lineup including the hometown return of Slipknot, the festival’s headliner and founders. With a unique set drawing heavily from their 1999 debut, Slipknot will celebrate 25 years of the self-titled album along with their fans, in the band’s birthplace of Iowa.

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Slipknot are bigger than ever. Those who witnessed those early days could justifiably have thought the band would never last this long – most artists that debut with such a burning intensity and a complete disregard for the existing paradigm, cannot last. But Slipknot’s unapologetic ferocity spoke to an entire generation, and quicker than anyone outside the band expected, they were also speaking FOR that generation. Now generations in, Slipknot’s message, songs and art resonate even more powerfully. This is where it all began.
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Bring Me The Horizon Announces North American Fall Tour

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The Press Release:
BRIT and Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling quintet Bring Me The Horizon is one of the most electrifying and successful rock bands to emerge from the UK and today, the band have announced today North American headline tour dates, produced by Live Nation, with shows kicking off late September through October, including arena shows at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (Sept. 24) and Los Angeles’s Kia Forum (Oct. 6). Support for the dates includes Knocked Loose, grandson, and Siiickbrain. The band will also make appearances at Louisville’s Louder Than Life Festival, Emo Nite New Orleans Vacation, Sacramento’s Aftershock Festival and Las Vegas’s When We Were Young Festival. Tickets for the headlining shows go on sale Friday, May 20th at 10:00AM local time — for purchase links, more info and updates please visit: https://www.bmthofficial.com
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Live Nation Announces “When We Were Young” Festival In October

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The fine folks over at Live Nation have just announced a massive Emo-themed festival that will take place in October in Las Vegas. It also features more bands than you can shake a stick at but why would you do that to some talented musicians anyway. Here is their brief press copy along with the poster. I’ve taken the time to type up the whole list for you in case the poster is a little hard to see on the website.

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The Press Release:
Festival to feature epic lineup of emo and rock artists from the past two decades, including My Chemical Romance, Paramore, A Day To Remember, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, The All American Rejects and dozens more. Special presale starts Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 am PT for fans who sign up for early access to passes online at whenwewereyoungfestival.com (linked below)
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