“Enter Sandman” from Metallica's The Black Album won the 1992 MTV award for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video.
The award recognized the song’s music video, which premiered shortly before the album’s release. Directed by Wayne Isham, the video combines performance footage with unsettling dream imagery involving a child, an old man, and the song’s nightmare themes. Its heavy rotation helped make the track Metallica’s breakthrough visual and radio hit.
The category’s name can cause confusion because MTV used different genre labels over time. In 1992, the relevant award was called Best Metal/Hard Rock Video; it was not the later, more general Best Rock Video wording often used in retrospective summaries.
“Enter Sandman” was also the album’s lead single and first track. The other wrong answers were all prominent Black Album songs, but none was the video that received this particular 1992 MTV honor.