Which Grammy Award did Metallica’s 1991 album Metallica win at the 1992 ceremony?

Metallica’s 1991 album Metallica won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 1992 ceremony.

The award recognized the album’s impact and confirmed Metallica’s position at the center of mainstream heavy metal. The Grammy category was performance-based, so the official honor did not use “Best Metal Album” as its title.

The 1992 ceremony was the 34th Annual Grammy Awards. Metallica’s win came during a period when the group was expanding beyond its thrash-metal origins and reaching a much larger international audience through songs such as “Enter Sandman” and “The Unforgiven.”

The band later returned to the Grammy stage many times. It won additional awards for later work, including “My Apocalypse” from Death Magnetic and “Hardwired” from Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. Those later victories should not be confused with the Black Album’s 1992 honor.