Good for Gojira and Baroness. Among those songs, Silvera is definitely the best.

Honestly some great picks here for the Metal Performance category. Nice mix of mainstream acts and lesser known bands. The Periphery song is the only one I don't know on the list. Hoping Gojira wins it, Silvera is a great track!

Agreed. Gojira should win but I have a feeling it might go to either Korn or Megadeath, lets see.

I wonder if Luca Turilli is crying right now because he didn't get nominated for his live album

You holy quantumic scientific freak

I don't know about you guys - best song for me this year is Alea by Disillusion.
What do the rest of you say? Got a favorite?

It will majority of swinging towards Korn/Megadave.

I suspect Megadave will take away the award.

Wow. There are actual metal bands on the metal grammy awards this year

Surprised Square Hammer by Ghost didn't receive a nomination. That song is seriously catchy. But agree that Silvera is a killer track and would get my vote for best song of the year from that list.

Written by Ace Frawley on 06.12.2016 at 23:23

Surprised Square Hammer by Ghost didn't receive a nomination. That song is seriously catchy.

That's from an EP of mostly covers though so not surprisingly they didn't go for that one.

Written by Karlabos on 06.12.2016 at 23:02

Wow. There are actual metal bands on the metal grammy awards this year

that was my reaction too. Anyway, as said above, either Korn or Megadave will get the prize

Holy shit, a not so retarded list

Predicting a Baroness or Gojira win

Has nobody noticed that Purple came out in 2015?

Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 07.12.2016 at 07:06

Has nobody noticed that Purple came out in 2015?

The eligibility period is from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016 as I just googled, and the "Shock Me" single came out in December so it's a valid nomination, even though the album wouldn't be.

Written by Unhealer on 07.12.2016 at 07:56

Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 07.12.2016 at 07:06

Has nobody noticed that Purple came out in 2015?

The eligibility period is from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016 as I just googled, and the "Shock Me" single came out in December so it's a valid nomination, even though the album wouldn't be.

Thanks for clearing that up. What a random and unsatisfying eligibility period, though. Why not just do it by year like any sensible organization?

I see I've answered my own question there, but I'm still displeased with those arbitrary dates.

Written by tea[m]ster on 06.12.2016 at 22:17

Got a favorite?

Yeah, it's Poison In Your Veins from Alter Bridge.

Although "The Price Is Wrong" is certainly not the strongest song in the nominees list, I'm still hoping Periphery will get the award

Metal and Grammy Awards in the same sentence and without a negation between ? That' s a no go for me

None would be in my top 5 picks, but I'm impressed at how not awful this selection is compared to previous years.

As far as teamster's question goes, I've still got quite a few albusm to check out but I've found 2016 slightly underwhelming on the metal front. I'd be tempted to pick Crows by Ortega as my top song, but that already came out as a single a couple of years ago, so I'll probably choose Cygnus by Cult of Luna. Have to say, many of my top songs from this year thus far (Skuggsja title track, Spikes/Hothead - Death Grips, Lighthouse - Iamthemorning, Neo Tokyo - Perturbator) aren't metal, probably more so than usual

Written by musclassia on 08.12.2016 at 02:55

I'd be tempted to pick Crows by Ortega as my top song, but that already came out as a single a couple of years ago...

That's a different version to the one on Sacred States.

From a private discord on October 31:



I'm not surprised at how close my predictions were. I forgot that Slayer's latest album came out in late 2015, but the "classic band that has fallen off" was directed at the Big Four in general since all of them released albums very recently. I got the Opeth one wrong but hey, it wasn't the worst guess. But Korn has made a massive comeback, Gojira is Grammy-bait material that is finally accessible enough, and the Grammies really love their Big Four.

Because the Grammies really really have a hard-on for the classic bands, Megadave will probably win. Not a bad thing since Dystopia was pretty legit and they have 9 nominations with 0 wins, but it would be nice to see a little variety in here that isn't the same Big Four/Sabbath/Maiden. Metal has evolved so much and there isn't enough mainstream exposure to newer bands that aren't metalcore/nu-metal. I'll be happy with any band winning here, although I don't care for Baroness at all. I really, really want Gojira to win though.

About the non-metal categories, "Best Rock Performance" is such a hilarious category. You have Beyonce, Twenty One Pilots, David Bowie, and a Sound of Silence cover. Since this is "best performance" and not "best song" I want Disturbed to get it, but right now people want to give Bowie the world to the point where Billboard is actively complaining he "wasn't nominated enough". Blackstar was a fantastic album apparently (never listened to it fully and it's not remotely my kind of music), but judge it based on the music, not just because he's not with us any more. I'm biased towards Gojira and want them to win "Best Rock Album" but the category isn't bad outside of Blink-182 (who I have a massive hatred for) so I doubt Magma will win among the Radioheads and not-shit Weezers of the world. In the non-metal terms I don't have too much to say: Lots of really big names, Beyonce and Twenty One Pilots are getting a ton of attention, and as long as that godawful excuse for a song "Work" doesn't win I'm not really paying much attention.

Written by musclassia on 08.12.2016 at 02:55

None would be in my top 5 picks, but I'm impressed at how not awful this selection is compared to previous years.

As far as teamster's question goes, I've still got quite a few albusm to check out but I've found 2016 slightly underwhelming on the metal front. I'd be tempted to pick Crows by Ortega as my top song, but that already came out as a single a couple of years ago, so I'll probably choose Cygnus by Cult of Luna. Have to say, many of my top songs from this year thus far (Skuggsja title track, Spikes/Hothead - Death Grips, Lighthouse - Iamthemorning, Neo Tokyo - Perturbator) aren't metal, probably more so than usual

The thing about the Grammies that everyone forgets is that it's a big, mainstream event, and thus big, mainstream bands will get nominated. That, and also metalcore is generally the absolute heaviest the Grammies are willing to go (and even then they stand no chance of winning anything). It's not a bad thing, there are enough metal-specific awards out there and you can't expect a massively popular event with Beyonce-level popular names to pick names that you could not talk to the average person on the street about.