Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance

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The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is a Grammy Award given to musicians for playing very good heavy metal music. It was first given at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990. Metallica was the first band to win the award. Metallica has won the award six times.

Winners

Metallica was the first band to win a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. They have won the award six times.
Tool won the award in 1998. They have been given it three times.
Slayer won the award in 2007 and 2008. It was given to them for songs from the album Christ Illusion.
Megadeth won the award in 2017. They were nominated for it nine times before winning it.
Year[I]Performing artist(s)WorkRef.
1990Metallica"One"[1]
1991Metallica"Stone Cold Crazy"[2]
1992MetallicaMetallica[3]
1993Nine Inch Nails"Wish"[4]
1994Ozzy Osbourne"I Don't Want to Change the World" (live)[5]
1995Soundgarden"Spoonman"[6]
1996Nine Inch Nails"Happiness in Slavery" (live)[7]
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1997Rage Against the Machine"Tire Me"[9]
1998Tool"Ænema"[10]
1999Metallica"Better Than You"[11]
2000Black Sabbath"Iron Man" (live)[12]
2001Deftones"Elite"[13]
2002Tool"Schism"[14]
2003Korn"Here to Stay"[15]
2004Metallica"St. Anger"[16]
2005Motörhead"Whiplash"[17]
2006Slipknot"Before I Forget"[18]
2007Slayer"Eyes of the Insane"[19]
2008Slayer"Final Six"[20]
2009Metallica"My Apocalypse"[21]
2010Judas Priest"Dissident Aggressor" (live)[22]
2011Iron Maiden"El Dorado"[23]
2014Black Sabbath"God Is Dead?"[24]
2015Tenacious D"The Last in Line"[25]
2016Ghost"Cirice"[26]
2017Megadeth"Dystopia"[27]
2018Mastodon"Sultan's Curse"[28]
2019High on Fire"Electric Messiah"[29]
2020Tool"7empest"[30]
2021Body Count"Bum-Rush"[31]
2022Dream Theater"The Alien"[32]
2023Ozzy Osbourne"Degradation Rules" (featuring Tony Iommi)[33]

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