Megadeth
Wins
1
Nominations
13
Category
Biography
"It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name." — Dave Mustaine
- Members: David Ellefson, Kiko Loureiro, Dave Mustaine, Dirk Verbeuren
- Formed 1983 in Los Angeles
- The group's first album to break the Top 40 was 1988's So Far, So Good … So What!, which peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200. Their 1992 album, Countdown To Extinction, reached No. 2 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 hit "Symphony Of Destruction."
- Megadeth received their first career GRAMMY nomination for 1990 for Best Metal Performance for Rust In Peace. The group won their first GRAMMY for 2016 in the same category for "Dystopia."
- Did you know? Following his exit from Metallica, Dave Mustaine formed Megadeth. Six songs that Mustaine co-wrote with Metallica appear on their first two studio albums, Kill Em All (1983) and Ride The Lightning (1984).
- In 2016 Mustaine performed a special acoustic concert in Boston with all proceeds benefiting Music Drives Us, a New England-based nonprofit organization supplying grants to music programs designed to effect positive change for people of all ages.
All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Megadeth
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Best Metal Performance
We'll Be Back
Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, Kiko Loureiro, Dirk Verbeuren
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Best Metal Performance Winner
Dystopia
Chris Adler, David Ellefson, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, Kiko Loureiro
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Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, David Ellefson, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Public Enemy No. 1
Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, David Ellefson, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Sudden Death
Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, David Ellefson, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Head Crusher
Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, Megadeth, James Lomenzo, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Trust (Track)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Paranoid (Track)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
99 Ways To Die (Single)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Angry Again (Track)
Marty Friedman, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Countdown To Extinction (Album)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Hangar 18 (LP Version) (Single)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
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Best Metal Performance
Rust In Peace (Album)
Marty Friedman, David Ellefson, Nick Menza, Megadeth, Dave Mustaine
