page_title: Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: American band Slayer at the Fields of Rock festival, June 2007
context_page_description: The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works 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". The ceremony was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
  The Recording Academy recognized heavy metal music artists for the first time at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. 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. 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.
context_section_description: Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
caption: Members of the two-time award-winning band, Slayer
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