Foo Fighters React To Grammys Drama, Did They Beat Metallica?

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Despite their Best Rock Song award not being televised, Foo Fighters gave a classy response to winning the Best Rock Song Award, beating out the following the bands and songs.

Foo Fighters – ‘Run’
Avenged Sevenfold – ‘The Stage’
Metallica – ‘Atlas, Rise!’
K.Flay – ‘Blood in the Cut’
Nothing More – ‘Go to War’

The band wrote, “Thank you @recordingacademy! #GRAMMYs #BestRockSong #Run.”

Avenged Sevenfold boycotted the Grammys due to their disrespect of the rock genre by not televising the award.

Greg Kurstin won Producer of the Year for his work, which includes Concrete and Gold (Foo Fighters), Dear Life (Beck) and Wall of Glass (Liam Gallagher). Kurstin won in 2017 for his work on Adele’s 25 album.

Best Metal Performance was awarded Mastodon for “Sultan’s Curse.” Winning Best Alternative Music Album were indie darlings The National for “Sleep Well Beast.” Speaking to reporters backstage, band member Scott Devendorf described the win as “wonderful, special, interesting, surprising and fun.”

The War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding won the Grammy for Best Rock Album

Thank you @recordingacademy! #GRAMMYs #BestRockSong #Run

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We reported earlier:

Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows discussed the band boycotting tonight’s Grammy Awards ceremony after it was revealed that the Best Rock Song category won’t air on television. M. Shadows told Eddie Trunk (transcribed by Ultimate-Guitar):

“Yes [it’s true that we will not be attending]. Not really a protest per se, but fuck ’em.”

“Hotels, planes, flights for the wives, tickets for the event – the whole thing for them to go would cost $150,000.

“And then they go and pull the ‘Rock Song of the Year’ award from TV and put us in some side venue no one gives a fuck about? Fuck that waste of time and money. No respect.

“I mean, how marginalized has rock become when ‘Rock Song of the Year’ can’t get two minutes?

Trunk explained that Matt told him the reason for such high expenses would be the fact that the band is on tour and they would have to take a jet from South Dakota to New York and then to Oklahoma.

The band previously tweeted:

“Honored [to be nominated]. Unfortunately they have taken ‘Best Rock Song’ off the telecast this year so we won’t be attending. Maybe next time.”

As reported, the metal category of the Grammy’s was already out of the telecast, meaning that guitar-driven music will have almost no coverage during the show.