Who took home the trophy and who left empty handed?
The 2019 Grammy Awards were a disappointment for rock music, which is no surprise, but it still hurts year after year when an entire genre of music is set to the side and ignored. Despite the lack of rock on the televised portion of the night, there were some awards handed out to rock acts earlier in the afternoon and several of the bands that were nominated were able to make it to the ceremony. I’ll stop complaining about the Academy for a minute and focus on the awards. Greta Van Fleet, unsurprisingly, took home Rock Album of the Year for their ep Through the Fires. That was the only category that they won and they were nominated for three rock awards and Best New Artist. Full rock noms are as follows:
Best Rock Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings.
- FOUR OUT OF FIVE
Arctic Monkeys - WHEN BAD DOES GOOD – WINNER
Chris Cornell - MADE AN AMERICA
THE FEVER 333 - HIGHWAY TUNE
Greta Van Fleet - UNCOMFORTABLE
Halestorm
Best Metal Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative metal recordings.
- CONDEMNED TO THE GALLOWS
Between The Buried And Me - HONEYCOMB
Deafheaven - ELECTRIC MESSIAH – WINNER
High On Fire - BETRAYER
Trivium - ON MY TEETH
Underoath
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.
- BLACK SMOKE RISING
Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka & Daniel Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet) - JUMPSUIT
Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots) - MANTRA
Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls & Oliver Sykes, songwriters (Bring Me The Horizon) - MASSEDUCTION – WINNER
Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent) - RATS
Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)
Best Rock Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new rock, hard rock or metal recordings.
- RAINIER FOG
Alice In Chains - M A N I A
Fall Out Boy - PREQUELLE
Ghost - FROM THE FIRES – WINNER
Greta Van Fleet - PACIFIC DAYDREAM
Weezer
Overall, not a bad year for the rock noms, but it didn’t go the way I thought it might go and there were some serious snubs. I expected Ghost to win AT LEAST one of the two nominations and was really disappointed with the outcome. I also would’ve given Best Metal Performance to Underoath. They killed it this year. I wasn’t the only radio personality furious with the Academy last night either. Check out some other opinions below:
Dear @RecordingAcad: This is a picture of Vinnie Paul. Though you did not think he and other prominent Rock musicians worthy of your memorial segment, there are millions of us who disagree. Shame on the #Grammys for their vile disrespect to so many talented human beings. pic.twitter.com/YvKhcFT0zw
— Lou Brutus (@LouBrutus) February 11, 2019
The motherless pigs at the @RecordingAcad also left Oli Herbert and Kyle Pavone off the memorial segment. The #Grammys can go fuck themselves.
— Lou Brutus (@LouBrutus) February 11, 2019
Dear Grammy Awards: Judging from this year’s broadcast, you are not aware of the existence of the ROCK genre of music. Why the prejudice against it? I’m a voting member of the academy and this is a fucking embarrassment. #GRAMMYs #Grammy2019 #GrammyAwards @RecordingAcad
— Lou Brutus (@LouBrutus) February 11, 2019
This year, all Rock categories at the Grammy Awards were given away three days prior to the TV broadcast at the In N Out Burger on Sunset Boulevard. 🙄 #Grammys pic.twitter.com/J429dhTaI8
— Lou Brutus (@LouBrutus) February 11, 2019
The most rock moment on the entire #GRAMMMYs broadcast was the commercial for @BoRhapMovie coming out on DVD … I walked out of the room and heard a loud guitar and came running back into the room.. only to see it was a commercial ..
— Eddie Trunk (@EddieTrunk) February 11, 2019
Say what you want about @PostMalone , but if he didn’t like rock we would never have had @Aerosmith on @MTV VMA’s or @ChiliPeppers on #GRAMMMYs . So both shows would have literally no rock. So thanks Post. Sad that’s what it takes to have token rock moment
— Eddie Trunk (@EddieTrunk) February 11, 2019
I’m with Eddie. I actually enjoyed the Post Malone and red Hot Chili Peppers performance, but we’ve got a long way to go before the Academy gets it right.
Ethan.
