Best Hard Rock Performance

• Inside the fire: Disturbed
• Visions: Judas Priest
• Wax Simulacra: The Mars Voltra
• Saints Of Los Angeles: Motley Crue
• Lords Of Salem: Rob Zombie

My pick for this category would be Judas Priest simply for the reason that this is a great song and everything else on this list is bovine excrement.

Best Metal Performance

• Heroes Of Our Time: DragonForce
• Nostradamus: Judas Priest
• My Apocalypse: Metallica
• Under My Thumb: Ministry
• Psychosocial: Slipknot

My Pick would be Slipknot because this is probably the best heavy song off of All Hope Is Gone. Dragonforce annoys the hell out of me, Nostradamus is the most redundant song from that album sheerly because of the number of time he sings “Nostradamus” in the song and My Apocalypse is not a great song from Death Magnetic not to mention it’s one of the songs that sound terrible production wise. Concerning Ministry, I don’t think anyone should be nominated for a cover song.

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

• Castellorizon: David Gilmour from Live At Dansk
• Suicide & Redemption: Metallica
• 34 Ghosts I-IV: Nine Inch Nails
• Hope (Live For The Art Of Peace): Rush
• Peaches En Regalia: Zappa On Zappa

My pick is David Gilmour. Although the song is mostly ambient and some orchestration until about 2:11 into the song, it just has that David Gilmour/Pink Floyd feel to it. I like Suicide & Redemption but it’s not the most creative Metallica instrumental and is far too long clocking in at nearly 10 minutes long. I haven’t heard the other three so I don’t have anything to comment on those.

Metallica is nominated for Best Rock Album but they are up against Coldplay, so as we all know Coldplay will most likely win it. Anyone else have a hard time saying “Coldplay” without vomiting just a little? Death Magnetic is also nominated for Best Recording Package and Rick Ruben is up for Producer Of The Year as usual.

AC/DC Rock N Roll Train is up for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. Once again they are up against Coldplay so their chances of winning that silly category is highly unlikely.

You can read the entire list of nominees from every category at Chicago Sun Time Blog.

Post from: Metal Martyr

You know, this song that they were nominated for (Final Six) was on the re-release and a lot of people think perhaps that should not have qualified them for it. I can agree, but there is just something you have to look at. These awards and nominations are brought about by people in the music business that don’t actually listen to the bands as fans. We all know there was a great amount of metal that was released last year and if you feel it necessary to argue about all this crap then whatever. I didn’t think Christ Illusion was a great record and I made an effort not to buy the re-release. It wasn’t a bad record though.

Shadows Fall, Threads of Life wasn’t an epic album to me either. It was a good album, but yet just another Shadows Fall Album.

Can’t say much about Machinhead’s The Blackening or King Diamond’s Give Me Your Soul. I just never got around to checking out either but I heard that The Blackening was great and Give Me Your Soul was just O.K.

As I Lay Dying’s An Ocean Between Us was a great album. A hell of a step up whether you like them or not. Perhaps it wasn’t “evil” enough for some people. I think Within Destruction was a far better track than Nothing Left but that was just me.

So argue what you want about this metal Grammy award. Tomorrow morning you’re not going to wake up and think Christ Illusion is better or worse than it was yesterday just because they won a Grammy. You’re not going to have any less respect for Slayer because they won a mainstream award…twice. And if you do you’re just as retarded as the rest of the “underground” turds. If it was some European Black Metal band everyone would be saying the same shit. So Slayer won a Grammy. Congrats, I hope none of you are going to lose sleep over King Diamond or Machinehead losing out. It’s not that big of a deal.

Look at the bright side, Amy Winehouse can go pawn her Grammy’s when she hits rock bottom and needs a fix. Bitch makes me sick!

Post from: Metal Martyr