The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards aired tonight and here are the winners in the Rock & Metal categories (in bold below)! Congrats to all the winners.

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: Bob Dylan
Change In The Weather: John Fogerty
Dreamer: Prince
Working On A Dream: Bruce Springsteen
Fork In The Road: Neil Young

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Can’t Find My Way Home: Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Life In Technicolor II: Coldplay
21 Guns: Green Day
Use Somebody: Kings Of Leon
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight: U2

Best Hard Rock Performance
War Machine: AC/DC
Check My Brain: Alice In Chains
What I’ve Done: Linkin Park
The Unforgiven III: Metallica
Burn It To The Ground: Nickelback

Best Metal Performance
Dissident Aggressor: Judas Priest
Set To Fail: Lamb Of God
Head Crusher: Megadeth
Señor Peligro: Ministry
Hate Worldwide: Slayer

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
A Day In The Life: Jeff Beck
Warped Sister: Booker T. Jones
Playing With Fire: Brad Paisley
Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin’: Brian Setzer Orchestra
Now We Run: Steve Vai

Best Rock Song
The Fixer: Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready & Eddie Vedder, songwriters (Pearl Jam)
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight: Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr., songwriters (U2)
21 Guns: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, songwriters (Green Day)
Use Somebody: Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
Working On A Dream: Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

Best Rock Album
Black Ice: AC/DC
Live From Madison Square Garden: Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
21st Century Breakdown: Green Day
Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King: Dave Matthews Band
No Line On The Horizon: U2

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards air Sunday night (January 31st) at 8:00 pm with several great performances. The classic “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” will be sung by Mary J. Blige and opera’s Andrea Bocelli to help with the Haiti relief efforts (you can purchase the song on iTunes and all proceeds will go to Haiti). Also performing are the Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, P!nk, and the Zac Brown Band.

Of course there are several awards/groups up for Heavy Metal & Rock Music awards! Here are some of the hightlights:

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: Bob Dylan
Change In The Weather: John Fogerty
Dreamer: Prince
Working On A Dream: Bruce Springsteen
Fork In The Road: Neil Young

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Can’t Find My Way Home: Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Life In Technicolor II: Coldplay
21 Guns: Green Day
Use Somebody: Kings Of Leon
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight: U2

Best Hard Rock Performance
War Machine: AC/DC
Check My Brain: Alice In Chains
What I’ve Done: Linkin Park
The Unforgiven III: Metallica
Burn It To The Ground: Nickelback

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A Metallica concert in Chili turned ugly this week (January 27th) as fans rioted at the venue. During the riots a policeman was injured and 120 people were arrested.

Police said that the arrests took place because hundreds of fans without tickets rushed the venue and tried to force their way in. The detainees were arrested for a variety of counts – including disorderly conduct, drug possession and drinking in public, police said.

This isn’t a great week for news regarding Metallica. News came out earlier this week that the remains of a girl who had gone missing from their October concert were found (At the time Metallica asked fans for support in finding her). Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who disappeared from a Metallica concert, was discovered in a remote hayfield just 10 miles south of where she was last seen.

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Led Zeppelin is considered one of the first heavy metal bands, along with Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Do you consider them heavy metal? Check out one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs: Kashmir.

With their first album not yet released, Led Zeppelin made their live debut at the University of Surrey, Guildford on 15 October 1968.. The album was then released on 12 January 1969, during their first US tour. The album’s blend of blues, folk and eastern influences with distorted amplification made it one of the pivotal records in the creation of heavy metal music!

The Scorpions have decided to break up after the release of their next album (Sting in the Tail) and three year tour, according to their official website:

“It was always our pleasure, our purpose in life, our passion and we were fortunate enough to make music for you – whether it was live on stage or in the studio, creating new songs.

While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was – and how much fun we were still having, in the process. But there was also something else: We want to end the Scorpion’s extraordinary career on a high note. We are extremely grateful for the fact that we still have the same passion for music we’ve always had since the beginning. This is why, especially now, we agree we have reached the end of the road. We finish our career with an album we consider to be one of the best we have ever recorded and with a tour that will start in our home country Germany and take us to five different continents over the next few years

We want you, our fans, to be the first to know about this. Thank you for your never-ending support throughout the years!”

The Scorpions formed in Hanover, Germany in 1965 and have sold over 100 million albums. Their song “Wind of Change” has become an anthem for the fall of the Iron Curtain.

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THROWDOWN debuted two brand new music videos for This Continuum” and “The Scythe” on MTV2 this week.

The videos are from their latest album, “Deathless” and they are more than just traditional music videos. Instead, they are two “scenes” from a shortform feature film inspired by “Deathless” directed by Cale Glendening.

Members of Slipknot, Machine Head, Hellyeah and Walls of Jericho got on stage at the Dean Guitars 2010 NAMM Jam to perform a cover version of Pantera’s classic “Walk”!

The following musicians took part in the “Walk” performance:

Corey Taylor (Slipknot) – Vocals
Robb Flynn (Machine Head) – Guitar
Phil Demmel (Machine Head) – Guitar
Nick Bowcott (Grim Reaper) – Guitar
Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (Hellyeah) – Bass
Dustin Schoenhofer (Walls of Jericho) – Drums

THROWDOWN is set to host an episode of MTV2’s “Headbanger’s Ball” on January 19th at 3:00 a.m.

The group will debut two new music videos for “This Continuum” and “The Scythe” from their latest full-length album, “Deathless“.

Frontman Dave Peters will also chat about their new record and where the band plans to go in 2010.

The clips for the two songs aren’t just traditional music videos, instead they are scenes from a feature film inspired by the album. It was directed by Cale Glendening, who created documentaries for DEMON HUNTER and RELIENT K. “We stepped back and asked ourselves what would we’d appreciate from our favorite bands,” Peters explained. “And we wanted to offer [something unique] to our fans.”

The band SOULFLY, led by Max Cavalera, has just finished recording their seventh album, Omen, and plan to release the record on May 4.

Omen is a follow up to their 2008 album, Conquer and features several notable guest artists, including Greg Puciato and Tommy Victor.

Cavalera reveals “The first one is a song with Tommy Victor from Prong sharing vocals on a song called ‘Lethal Injection.’ The other is ‘Rise of the Fallen,’ with shared vocals from Greg Puciato, Dillinger Escape Plan’s singer. I also recorded two B-sides with both of my sons playing drums. Igor Cavalera plays on Exel’s ‘Your Life, My Life,’ and Zyon Cavalera plays on Sepultura’s ‘Refuse/Resist’ cover.”

Omen Track Listing:

Bloodbath & Beyond
Rise of the Fallen
Counter Sabotage
Jeffrey Dahmer
Lethal Injection
Great Depression
Mega-Doom
Kingdom
Off With Their Heads
Vulture Culture
Soulfly 7

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Ozzy Osbourne is reportedly planning to go on an 18-month tour in support of his new album, “Soul Sucka”.

The album is Ozzy’s first since 2007’s “Black Rain”, and is slated to hit the music world in June. This record will be the first to feature Ozzy’s new guitarist, Greek native Gus G., who replaced longtime axeman Zakk Wylde in Ozzy’s band last year.

Ozzy revealed to The Sun, “Someone recently asked me what I hoped to be doing in ten years — I just hope I’m still alive, you know? I’m 61 now and you get to the age where your friends start dying.

“I don’t know where time goes. Sharon [Ozzy's wife/manager] and I have been married nearly 30 years. We hardly row any more because we’re too knackered.

“The good thing about being in entertainment is you don’t have to retire just because you reach a certain age. Life doesn’t end when you get to 65. I’m just going to keep fucking going, you know?”

In other news, Ozzy has a new book coming out! I AM OZZY is a story told in Ozzy’s hilarious voice, following him through his legendary music days. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Aimee, Kelly, and Jack.

Will you be picking up a copy?

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