The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are out.

We’re about to head into award season, that stretch of months where the entertainment industries (including music) try to squeeze as much as they can out of the previous year’s releases. The Grammys are part of this, of course, and on Friday (Nov 7) the nominees were announced. The full list can be found here, but let’s narrow things down to the rock categories.

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

1. U Should Not Be Doing That – Amyl and The Sniffers
2. The Emptiness Machine – Linkin Park
3. NEVER ENOUGH – Turnstile
4. Mirtazapine – Hayley Williams
5. Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning YUNGBLUD Featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman II

Best Metal Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative metal recordings.

1. Night Terror – Dream Theater
2. Lachryma – Ghost
3. Emergence – Sleep Token
4. Soft Spine – Spiritbox
5. BIRDS – Turnstile

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.

1. As Alive As You Need Me To Be – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters (Nine Inch
   Nails)
2. Caramel – Vessel1 & Vessel2, songwriters (Sleep Token)
3. Glum – Daniel James & Hayley Williams, songwriters (Hayley
   Williams)
4. NEVER ENOUGH – Daniel Fang, Franz Lyons, Pat McCrory, Meg Mills &
   Brendan Yates, songwriters (Turnstile)
5. Zombie – Dominic Harrison & Matt Schwartz, songwriters
   (YUNGBLUD)

Best Rock Album
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new rock, hard rock or metal recordings.

1. private music – Deftones
2. I quit – HAIM
3. From Zero – Linkin Park
4. NEVER ENOUGH – Turnstile
5. Idols – YUNGBLUD

Best Alternative Music Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative Alternative music recordings.

1. Everything Is Peaceful Love – Bon Iver
2. Alone – The Cure
3. SEEIN’ STARS – Turnstile
4. mangetout – Wet Leg
5. Parachute – Hayley William

Best Alternative Music Album
Vocal or Instrumental.

1. SABLE, fABLE – Bon Iver
2. Songs Of A Lost World – The Cure
3. DON’T TAP THE GLASS – Tyler, The Creator
4. moisturizer – Wet Leg
5. Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams

One other note: Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is nominated for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for his work on albums by The Black Keys, Miles Kane, The Veleveteers, and more.

The 68th annual Grammys will come from the Crypto.com Arena in LA on February 1. CBS will be in charge of the telecast as usual.