The nominees are in for the 61st annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 10th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Depending on how you look at it, this year’s list have a few surprising choices such as High On Fire and Deafheaven as well as being predictable with Ghost, Alice In Chains, and Greta Van Fleet.
Check out the metal/rock categories below:
Best Metal Performance
Between the Buried and Me – “Condemned To The Gallows”
Deafheaven – “Honeycomb”
High On Fire – “Electric Messiah”
Trivium – “Betrayer”
Underoath – “On My Teeth”
Best Rock Song
Greta Van Fleet – “Black Smoke Rising”
Twenty One Pilots – “Jumpsuit”
Bring Me The Horizon – “Mantra”
St. Vincent – “Masseduction”
Ghost – “Rats”
Best Rock Album
Alice In Chains – “Rainier Fog”
Fall Out Boy – “Mania”
Ghost – “Prequelle”
Greta Van Fleet – “From The Fires”
Weezer – “Pacific Daydream”
Best Rock Performance
Arctic Monkeys – “Four Out of Five”
Chris Cornell – “When Bad Does Good”
Fever 333 – “Made An America”
Greta Van Fleet – “Highway Tune”
Halestorm – “Uncomfortable”
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
Guns N’ Roses – “Appetite For Destruction: Locked N’ Loaded”
The Decemberists – “I’ll Be Your Girl”
Grateful Dead – “Pacific Northwest ’73-74′: The Complete Recordings”
Weird Al Yankovic – “Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic”
Johnny Nicholas – “Too Many Bad Habits”