The 60th annual Grammy Awards will be held January 28th at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Today, the Recording Academy announced the 2018 nominees. Metallica, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Avenged Sevenfold, August Burns Red, Body Count, Code Orange, and Queens of the Stone Age are all up for awards this year. Late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has also been nominated posthumously for "Best Rock Performance" his solo track "The Promise." Check out a list of the rock and metal nominations below, and find the complete list here.
Big Four thrashers Megadeth came out on top at last year's ceremony with "Dystopia," which won the "Best Metal Performance" award.
Best Metal Performance:
"Invisible Enemy" — August Burns Red
"Black Hoodie" — Body Count
"Forever" — Code Orange
"Sultan's Curse" — Mastodon
"Clockworks" — Meshuggah
Best Rock Song:
"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:
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
Best Rock Performance
"You Want It Darker" - Leonard Cohen
"The Promise" - Chris Cornell
"Run" - Foo Fighters
"No Good" - Kaleo
"Go to War" - Nothing More
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