2018 Grammy Award Nominations Announced!

Written by: Ingrid Newton 

It's the 60th year for the Grammy Awards, and 2018 nominations have been announced. Here are the rock/metal nominations: 
Best Rock Performance
(For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings.)
• You Want It Darker
     Leonard Cohen
• The Promise
     Chris Cornell
• Run
     Foo Fighters
• No Good
     Kaleo
• Go To War
     Nothing More
Best Metal Performance
(For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative metal recordings.)
• Invisible Enemy
     August Burns Red
• Black Hoodie
     Body Count
• Forever
     Code Orange
• Sultan’s Curse
     Mastodon
• Clockworks
     Meshuggah
Best Rock Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal songs. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)
• Atlas, Rise!
     James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)
• Blood In The Cut
     JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, songwriters (K.Flay)
• Go To War
     Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, songwriters (Nothing More)
• Run
     Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
• The Stage
     Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold)
Best Rock Album
(For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new rock, hard rock or metal recordings.)
• Emperor Of Sand
     Mastodon
• Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
     Metallica
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves
     Nothing More
• Villains
     Queens Of The Stone Age
• A Deeper Understanding
     The War On Drugs
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To view the entire 2018 nomination list, click HERE.