Dream Theater Win Greatest Steel Efficiency Grammy at 2022 Awards

The winner of the 2022 Grammy Award for Greatest Steel Efficiency has gone to Dream Theater for his or her tune, “The Alien.”

Deftones, Dream Theater, Gojira, Mastodon and Rob Zombie have been all nominated for tracks on new albums that have been launched final yr and, once more, it was a case of the Grammy committee delving into the center of heavy metallic, fairly than nominating some reside model of a tune that was written 40 years in the past or a canopy monitor, as had been all too typical in a long time previous.

Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci accepted the award.

“Wow, that is completely insane,” Petrucci mentioned whereas accepting the award. “On behalf of all the band, I would prefer to thank the Recording Academy and everyone who voted for us. , they used to inform us our songs have been means too lengthy, we used bizarre time signatures and there have been too many guitar solos. The truth is, this tune is in 17/8, so attempt to faucet your foot to it. However, we simply received a Grammy, so I am glad we did not pay attention… All of the Dream Theater followers around the globe, you guys rock! We love you. For followers of prog and prog metallic, keep true to your artwork — it is alive and properly.”

The Greatest Steel Efficiency nominees represented a variety of sounds in metallic, from the genre-bending Deftones to the overt prog of Dream Theater to Gojira’s tribal heft to Mastodon’s heaving psychedelia to Rob Zombie’s industrial and otherworldly pomp.

And, in case you’re questioning what on earth the distinction is between a Greatest Efficiency class and a Greatest Music class, it comes all the way down to a nuance that is not as important or overwhelmingly prevalent in heavy music — the Greatest Efficiency is concerning the musicianship exhibited by the band members and the Greatest Music is oriented towards the songwriters. On the planet of pop music, for instance, the songwriters are sometimes not the people who lay down the music within the recording studio.

Congratulations to Dream Theater on choosing up a Grammy victory!

2022 Greatest Steel Efficiency Grammy Nominees:

Deftones, “Genesis”
WINNER – Dream Theater, “The Alien”
Gojira, “Amazonia”
Mastodon, “Pushing the Tides”
Rob Zombie, “The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)”

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