The nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards have been announced. The ceremony will be airing on CBS at 8 PM, ET on January 26. A few of the categories that may be of interest to BraveWords readers are listed below.

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

- Bones UK - Pretty Waste
- Gary Clark Jr. - This Land
- Brittany Howard - History Repeats
- Karen O & Danger Mouse - Woman
- Rival Sons - Too Bad

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

- Candlemass featuring Tony Iommi - "Astorolus: The Great Octopus"     
- Death Angel - "Humanicide"
- I Prevail - "Bow Down"
- Killswitch Engage - "Unleashed"
- Tool - "7empest"

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):

- "Fear Inoculum" - Tool, songwriters (Tool)
- "Give Yourself A Try" - George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy & Ross MacDonald, songwriters (The 1975)
- "Harmony Hall" - Ezra Koenig, songwriter (Vampire Weekend)
- "History Repeats" - Brittany Howard, songwriter (Brittany Howard)
- "This Land" - Gary Clark Jr., songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.)

Best Rock Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new rock, hard rock or metal recordings):

- Amo - Bring Me The Horizon
- Social Cues - Cage The Elephant
- In The End - The Cranberries
- Trauma - I Prevail
- Feral Roots - Rival Sons

Elsewhere, Rodrigo y Gabriela are nominated in the "Best Contemporary Instrumental Album" category for Mettavolution,

Find a complete list of nominees here.