Here are the Nominations for the 60th Annual Grammy Nominations

Here I go again, nattering on about the Grammy Awards, the music awards program that we all love to hate. But because I’m a good journalistic lemming, I feel bound to report on the nominations for the 60th annual ceremony.

The least I can do is start by listing the rock and metal categories. They never make the broadcast, so we can offer up a little love, right? This comes directly from Grammy.com. That’s where you can also get the full list of nominees.

Best Rock Performance
(For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings.)

• You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
Track from: You Want It Darker

• The Promise
Chris Cornell

• Run
Foo Fighters
Track from: Concrete And Gold

• No Good
Kaleo
Track from: A/B

• 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
Track from: Bloodlust

• Forever
Code Orange
Track from: Forever

• Sultan’s Curse
Mastodon
Track from: Emperor Of Sand

• Clockworks
Meshuggah
Track from: The Violent Sleep Of Reason

Best Rock Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal songs. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

• Atlas, Rise!
James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)
Track from: Hardwired…To Self-Destruct

• Blood In The Cut
JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, songwriters (K.Flay)
Track from: Every Where Is Some Where

• Go To War
Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, songwriters (Nothing More)

• Run
Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
Track from: Concrete And Gold

• The Stage
Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold)
Track from: The Stage

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

Best Alternative Music Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Everything Now
Arcade Fire

• Humanz
Gorillaz

• American Dream
LCD Soundsystem

• Pure Comedy
Father John Misty

• Sleep Well Beast
The National