Metallica is looking forward to another Grammy Awards with multiple nominations. The quartet is up for three at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, taking place this Sunday, February 4th, in Los Angeles: Best Rock Album for last year’s “72 Seasons;” Best Metal Performance for the title track; and Best Rock Performance for the single Lux Aeterna.” Guitarist Kirk Hammett tells us those are the categories Metallica is used to being nominated in after all these years:

“It’s very natural for us to sound like we do. It’s just like, it flows like water. There’s never any shortage of really aggressive, edgy, energetic music from us. We never have a shortage of that because that’s part of who we are as people. It’s not a put-on. I guess that’s the easiest way to put it, it’s not a put-on. It’s not an affectation. It’s who we really are.” :34

Metallica has won nine Grammys from 23 previous nominations.
The group most famously lost the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category back in 1989 to Jethro Tull’s “Crest of a Knave.”
“72 Seasons,” Metallica’s first new album in seven years, was released last April 14 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It’s been certified gold. “Lux Aeterna” and the “72 Seasons” song hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart, along with “Too Far Gone?”

Metallica begins a European tour on May 24th in Munich, German, which runs through mid-July. New North American dates begin August 2nd in Foxborough, Massachusetts, running through September 1st with four additional shows in Mexico City during September.