The 2024 Grammy Awards nominees were announced Friday morning (November 10th), and Metallica lead the way among metal acts with three nods.
In the Best Metal Performance category, Metallica’s “72 Seasons” will compete against Disturbed’s “Bad Man,” Ghost’s cover of Iron Maiden’s “Phantom of the Opera,” Slipknot’s “Hive Mind,” and Spiritbox’s “Jaded.”
Metallica’s 72 Seasons LP is up against Foo Fighters’ But Here We Are, Greta Van Fleet’s Starcatcher, Paramore’s This Is Why, and Queens of the Stone Age’s In Time New Roman… in the Best Rock Album category.
And in the Best Performance Song field, Metallica’s “Lux Æterna” will vie with tunes by Arctic Monkeys (“Sculptures of Anything Goes”), Black Pumas (“More Than a Love Song”), boygenius (“Not Strong Enough”), and Foo Fighters (“Rescued”).
The only rock category Metallica won’t compete in is Best Rock Song, where the nods went to The Rolling Stones (“Angry”), Olivia Rodrigo (“Ballad of a Homeschool Girl”), Queens of the Stone Age (“Emotion Sickness”), boygenius (“Not Strong Enough”), and Foo Fighters (“Rescued”).
After infamously losing out to Jethro Tull in the very first Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category in 1989, Metallica have gone on to win eight Grammys since then.
Upon the release of 72 Seasons, Consequence chatted with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo for our April cover story, Full Speed or Nothin’: How Metallica’s Metal Machine Keeps Raging. The legendary metal band is wrapping up their 2023 tour dates with two shows in Detroit tonight and Sunday, but will be back on the road in 2024 for more shows. Pick up tickets here.
The 66th Grammy Awards will take place February 4th, and air live on CBS. See the metal and rock nominations below, and peek all the key nominees here.
Best Metal Performance:
Disturbed – “Bad Man”
Ghost – “Phantom of the Opera”
Metallica – “72 Seasons”
Slipknot – “Hive Mind”
Spiritbox – “Jaded”
Best Rock Performance:
Arctic Monkeys – “Sculptures of Anything Goes”
Black Pumas – “More Than a Love Song”
boygenius – “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters – “Rescued”
Metallica – “Lux Æterna”
Best Rock Album:
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher
Metallica – 72 Seasons
Paramore – This Is Why
Queens of the Stone Age – …In Times New Roman
Best Rock Song:
The Rolling Stones – “Angry”
Olivia Rodrigo – “Ballad of a Homeschool Girl”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Emotion Sickness”
boygenius – “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters – “Rescued”
