Which award did Metallica win in 1992 for its album, commonly called The Black Album?

Metallica won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1992 for its album, commonly called The Black Album.

The honor was presented at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards, recognizing the album's overall heavy-metal performance rather than one individual song. This was Metallica's third consecutive win in the metal category, following victories for One and the Queen cover Stone Cold Crazy.

The result carried extra historical weight because the band had lost the first Grammy in the combined hard-rock and metal category in 1989. Jethro Tull defeated ...And Justice for All, causing widespread criticism and helping prompt the creation of separate hard-rock and metal categories.

At the 1992 ceremony, drummer Lars Ulrich made a humorous reference to that earlier upset by thanking Jethro Tull for not releasing an album that year. Metallica has since become the category's most successful act by number of wins.