Overview
- Best Metal Performance nominees: Dream Theater (“Night Terror”), Ghost (“Lachryma”), Sleep Token (“Emergence”), Spiritbox (“Soft Spine”) and Turnstile (“Birds”).
- Best Rock Album contenders: Deftones (Private Music), Haim (I Quit), Linkin Park (From Zero), Turnstile (Never Enough) and Yungblud (Idols).
- Best Rock Performance lineup: Amyl And The Sniffers (“U Should Not Be Doing That”), Linkin Park (“The Emptiness Machine”), Turnstile (“Never Enough”), Hayley Williams (“Mirtazapine”) and Yungblud’s live cover of “Changes.”
- Best Rock Song nominees: Nine Inch Nails (“As Alive As You Need Me To Be”), Sleep Token (“Caramel”), Hayley Williams (“Glum”), Turnstile (“Never Enough”) and Yungblud (“Zombie”).
- Eligible releases fall between August 31, 2024 and August 30, 2025, with final-round peer voting from December 12 to January 5 and the February 1 Los Angeles broadcast airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+; the Academy also added Best Album Cover and Best Traditional Country Album and retitled Best Country Album.