Metallica, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, August Burns Red Nominated for Grammys

Metallica, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, August Burns Red Nominated for Grammys

Metallica, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold and August Burns Red are among the nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on January 28 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Metallica have scored nominations for Best Rock Song (“Atlas, Rise!”) and Best Rock Album (Hardwired… To Self-Destruct), while Foo Fighters picked up nominations for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, both for the Concrete and Gold single, “Run.”

Queens of the Stone Age picked up a Best Rock Album nomination for Villains, while August Burns Red and Mastodon were nominated for Best Metal Performance, for “Invisible Enemy” and “Sultan’s Curse,” respectively.

You can see the full list of rock and metal-related nominees below, and the list of nominees in all 84 categories here.

The ceremony will be broadcast on CBS on January 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Best Metal Performance

August Burns Red – “Invisible Enemy”


Body Count – “Black Hoodie”


Code Orange – “Forever”


Mastodon – “Sultan’s Curse”


Meshuggah – “Clockworks”

Best Rock Performance

Leonard Cohen – “You Want It Darker”


Chris Cornell – “The Promise”


Foo Fighters – “Run”


Kaleo – “No Good”


Nothing More – “Go To War”

Best Rock Song

Metallica – “Atlas, Rise!”


K. Flay – “Blood in the Cut”


Nothing More – “Go To War”


Foo Fighters – “Run”


Avenged Sevenfold – “The Stage”

Best Rock Album

Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand


Metallica – Hardwired… To Self-Destruct


Nothing More – The Stories We Tell Ourselves


Queens of the Stone Age – Villains


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Source: www.guitarworld.com