Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works (songs or albums) containing quality performances in the heavy metal music genre. The Grammy Awards is an annual ceremony, where honors in several categories are presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[1] The ceremony was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[2]

Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
Awarded forQuality performances in the heavy metal music genre
CountryUnited States
Presented byThe Recording Academy
First awarded1990
Currently held byTool, "7empest" (2020)
Websitegrammy.com

The Recording Academy recognized heavy metal music artists for the first time at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards (1989). The category was originally presented as Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s.[3] Jethro Tull won that award for the album Crest of a Knave, beating Metallica, which were expected to win with the album ...And Justice for All. This choice led to widespread criticism of The Recording Academy, as journalists suggested that the music of Jethro Tull did not belong in the hard rock or heavy metal genres.[4][5] In response, The Recording Academy created the categories Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance, separating the genres.

The Best Metal Performance category was first presented at the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1990, and was again the subject of controversy when rock musician Chris Cornell (lead vocalist for the band Soundgarden) was perplexed by the organization's nomination of the band Dokken in this category.[6] Metallica won in the first three years. The awards were presented for the song "One", a cover version of Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy", and the album Metallica. During 2012–2013, the award was temporarily discontinued in a major overhaul of Grammy categories; all solo or duo/group performances in the hard rock and metal categories were shifted to the newly formed Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category. However, in 2014, the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category was split, returning the Best Metal Performance category and recognizing quality hard rock performances in the Best Rock Performance category.[7]

Metallica holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of six. Tool has received the award three times. The bands Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, and Slayer have each received the award twice. The band Ministry holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six, while the band Megadeth holds the record for most nominations before their first win, winning on their 10th nomination.

Recipients
Members of the six-time award-winning band, Metallica
Trent Reznor of the two-time award-winning band, Nine Inch Nails
Jonathan Davis of the 2003 award-winning band, Korn
Lemmy of the 2005 award-winning band, Motörhead
Members of the 2006 award-winning band, Slipknot
Members of the two-time award-winning band, Slayer
Members of the 2010 award-winning band, Judas Priest
Members of the 2011 award-winning band, Iron Maiden
Members of the two-time award-winning band, Black Sabbath, including 1994 award winner, Ozzy Osbourne
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1990 Metallica "One"
  • Dokken – Beast from the East
  • Faith No More – The Real Thing
  • Queensrÿche – "I Don't Believe in Love"
  • Soundgarden – Ultramega OK
 [8]
1991 Metallica "Stone Cold Crazy"
  • Anthrax – Persistence of Time
  • Judas Priest – Painkiller
  • Megadeth – "Hangar 18"
  • Suicidal Tendencies – Lights...Camera...Revolution!
 [9]
1992 Metallica Metallica
[10]
1993 Nine Inch Nails "Wish"
[11]
1994 Ozzy Osbourne "I Don't Want to Change the World" (live)
  • Iron Maiden – "Fear of the Dark" (live)
  • Megadeth – "Angry Again"
  • Suicidal Tendencies – "Institutionalized"
  • White Zombie – "Thunder Kiss '65"
 [12]
1995 Soundgarden "Spoonman"
[13]
1996 Nine Inch Nails "Happiness in Slavery" (live)
  • Gwar – "S.F.W."
  • Megadeth – "Paranoid"
  • Metallica – "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (live)
  • White Zombie – "More Human than Human"
 [14]
[15]
1997 Rage Against the Machine "Tire Me"
  • Korn – "Shoots and Ladders"
  • Pantera – "Suicide Note, Pt. II"
  • White Zombie – "I'm Your Boogieman"
  • Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper – "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)"
 [16]
1998 Tool "Ænema"
  • Corrosion of Conformity – "Drowning in a Daydream"
  • Korn – "No Place to Hide"
  • Megadeth – "Trust"
  • Pantera – "Cemetery Gates" (live)
 [17]
1999 Metallica "Better Than You"
[18]
2000 Black Sabbath "Iron Man" (live)
[19]
2001 Deftones "Elite"
[20]
2002 Tool "Schism"
[21]
2003 Korn "Here to Stay"
  • P.O.D. – "Portrait"
  • Slipknot – "My Plague"
  • Stone Sour – "Get Inside"
  • Rob Zombie – "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)"
 [22]
2004 Metallica "St. Anger"
  • Korn – "Did My Time"
  • Marilyn Manson – "Mobscene"
  • Spineshank – "Smothered"
  • Stone Sour – "Inhale"
 [23]
2005 Motörhead "Whiplash"
  • Cradle of Filth – "Nymphetamine (Overdose)" (featuring Liv Kristine)
  • Hatebreed – "Live for This"
  • Killswitch Engage – "The End of Heartache"
  • Slipknot – "Vermilion"
 [24]
2006 Slipknot "Before I Forget"
  • Ministry – "The Great Satan (Remix)"
  • Mudvayne – "Determined"
  • Rammstein – "Mein Teil"
  • Shadows Fall – "What Drives the Weak"
 [25]
2007 Slayer "Eyes of the Insane"
  • Lamb of God – "Redneck"
  • Mastodon – "Colony of Birchmen"
  • Ministry – "LiesLiesLies"
  • Stone Sour – "30/30-150"
 [26]
2008 Slayer "Final Six"
  • As I Lay Dying – "Nothing Left"
  • King Diamond – "Never Ending Hill"
  • Machine Head – "Aesthetics of Hate"
  • Shadows Fall – "Redemption"
 [27]
2009 Metallica "My Apocalypse"
  • DragonForce – "Heroes of Our Time"
  • Judas Priest – "Nostradamus"
  • Ministry – "Under My Thumb"
  • Slipknot – "Psychosocial"
 [28]
2010 Judas Priest "Dissident Aggressor" (live)
[29]
2011 Iron Maiden "El Dorado"
[30]
2014 Black Sabbath "God Is Dead?"
  • Anthrax – "T.N.T."
  • Dream Theater – "The Enemy Inside"
  • Killswitch Engage – "In Due Time"
  • Volbeat – "Room 24" (featuring King Diamond)
 [31]
2015 Tenacious D "The Last in Line"
[32]
2016 Ghost "Cirice"
  • August Burns Red – "Identity"
  • Lamb of God – "512"
  • Sevendust – "Thank You"
  • Slipknot – "Custer"
 [33]
2017 Megadeth "Dystopia"
  • Baroness – "Shock Me"
  • Gojira – "Silvera"
  • Korn – "Rotting in Vain"
  • Periphery – "The Price Is Wrong"
 [34]
2018 Mastodon "Sultan's Curse"
  • August Burns Red – "Invisible Enemy"
  • Body Count – "Black Hoodie"
  • Code Orange – "Forever"
  • Meshuggah – "Clockworks"
 [35]
2019 High on Fire "Electric Messiah"
  • Between the Buried and Me – "Condemned to the Gallows"
  • Deafheaven – "Honeycomb"
  • Trivium – "Betrayer"
  • Underoath – "On My Teeth"
 [36]
2020 Tool "7empest"
  • Candlemass – "Astorolus - The Great Octopus" (featuring Tony Iommi)
  • Death Angel – "Humanicide"
  • I Prevail – "Bow Down"
  • Killswitch Engage – "Unleashed"
 [37]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also
  • List of Grammy Award categories
  • Timeline of heavy metal and hard rock music

References
General
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