2026 Grammy Rock & Metal Winners
The 2026 Grammys took place on Sunday, February 1st, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Here are the Rock/Metal category winners:
Best Rock Performance – Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt & Frank Bello Featuring Adam Wakeman & II
Song: “Changes (Live From Villa Park/Back To The Beginning)”
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative Rock recordings.
Changes
Best Metal Performance – Turnstile: “Birds”
For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative Metal recordings.
Birds
Best Rock Song – Nine Inch Nails
Song: “As Alive as You Need Me To Be” (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, songwriters)
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.)
As Alive as You Need Me To Be
Best Rock Album – Turnstile: “Never Enough”
For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new Rock, Hard Rock or Metal recordings.
Never Enough
The Cure took home the Best Alternative Music Performance honor for “Alone” and Best Alternative Music Album with “Songs Of A Lost World.”
After nominations have been determined and announced, Academy voting members cast their ballots to determine the winners. To ensure the quality of voting, members are directed to vote only in those Fields in which they are peers of the nominees.
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