Hard Rock and heavy metal didn't do to bad in nominations this year 2006 Grammy Award Show . Then again most of these bands could careless about a Grammy. Here are the nominations........

Best Metal Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
Lamb Of God - Redneck (Track from: Sacrament)
Mastodon - Colony Of Birchmen (Track from: Blood Mountain)
Ministry - Lies, Lies, Lies (Track from: Rio Grande Blood)
Slayer - Eyes Of The Insane (Track from: Christ Illusion)
Stone Sour - 30/30-150
Best Hard Rock Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Track from: With Teeth)
System Of A Down - Lonely Day (Track from: Hypnotize)
Tool - Vicarious (Track from: 10,000 Days)
Wolfmother - Woman (Track from: Wolfmother)

Wolfmother! Wolfmother is hard rock?????? I must of missed that memo.

Wolfmother is a great band, and not to take anything away from them, but I'm missing how they fall in this category!

Then again we are talking about the award show that a bunch of suit and ties sit around and decide who is nominated.

In addition, Joe Satriani was nominated for Super Colossal in the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance (for solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal. Singles or Tracks only). Underoath was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video (For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.) for their video of "Writing On The Walls." Howard Benson (Every Man For Himself (Hoobastank); Flyleaf (Flyleaf); In With The Out Crowd (Less Than Jake); One-X (Three Days Grace); The Paramour Sessions (Papa Roach); Popaganda (aHead Automatic); Saosin (Saosin) (A)) was nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parenthesis.).