SLAYER Wins 'Best Metal' GRAMMY AWARD[views:3661][posts:8]________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 7:18pm - zyklon ""] SLAYER was honored with a Grammy in the "Best Metal Performance" category in the pre-telecast ceremony at the 50th annual Grammy Awards, which are being held tonight (Sunday, February 10) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. SLAYER was nominated for the track "The Final Six", from the band's 2007 limited-edition "Christ Illusion". The song, written by SLAYER's vocalist/bassist Tom Araya and guitarist Jeff Hanneman and produced by Josh Abraham, is a chilling look at an hypothesized end of the world. The track made its debut last July as the "Single of the Week" on MySpace where it has since accumulated some 750,000 plays, an astounding number for a song that received no commercial airplay. A visibly nervous Araya accepted the award, stating, "Thank you very much. I don't know what to say. This is our second time. I have to thank Sony, first off, for reissuing the record and putting this new song on the album, and now I'm here again — we are here again, actually. Most of all, [I'd like to] thank Rick Rubin [producer and head of American Recordings], who's been with us, been there for us for the past 23 years, 24 years. Thank you. My wife, my two kids; Sandra [wife], Ariel and Tommy. They're here with me. Of course, my manager, who's been with us for a good 20 years now. Well, thank you very much. Thank the Academy. Thank you." SLAYER's two previous Grammy nominations were for 2002's "Disciple" from the album "God Hates Us All", and last year's "Eyes of the Insane", for which they took home the Grammy Award. The nominees in this year's "Metal" category were as follows: AS I LAY DYING - "Nothing Left" KING DIAMOND - "Never Ending Hill" MACHINE HEAD - "Aesthetics Of Hate" SHADOWS FALL - "Redemption" SLAYER - "Final Six" Only albums released between October 1, 2006, and September 30, 2007, could be considered for this year's awards. The Grammys are determined by 12,000 music industry professionals who belong to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences |
| _______________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 8:30pm - thuringwethil ""] Praise of Death Life's a dream Only living to die....... |
| ____________________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 10:29pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] cooool. but i think King Diamond deserves it more. but hey the grammy's are fucking worthless paperweights anyways. |
| _____________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 10:32pm - i_am_lazy ""] Yeah, King Diamond deserves it way more. Especially with the turd Slayer put out. But of course the people at the Grammys are retards, surprised As I Gay Dying didn't get it. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 10,2008 10:45pm - SW ""] zyklon said: The Grammys are determined by 12,000 music industry professionals who belong to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences there's 12,000 people who wouldn't know metal if Chuck Shuldiner came back to life and knocked on their front door. |
| _______________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 11:07pm - Whoremastery ""] im waiting to see this..i seen the screen say slayer soon! |
| ___________________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 11:39pm - thegreatspaldino ""] this the same award commitee that gave jethro tull a metal award over metallica? yeah... |
| _______________________________________ [Feb 10,2008 11:46pm - Whoremastery ""] I like how i saw it coming up...but never saw the award givin...mabye i was busy downing a beer.... but i watched! |
| _______________________________ [Feb 11,2008 12:19am - BSV ""] I wonder if King was there in full getup. |