Best Metal Performance

1996 • 38th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1994 and Aug 30, 1995

1996 Winner is Nine Inch Nails with "Happiness In Slavery"

Happiness In Slavery

Year	Winner	Nomination	Actions
2026	Turnstile	BIRDS	All Nominees
2025	Gojira, Marina Viotti, Victor Le Masne	Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)	All Nominees
2024	Metallica	72 Seasons	All Nominees
2023	Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi	Degradation Rules	All Nominees
2022	Dream Theater	The Alien	All Nominees
2021	Body Count	Bum-Rush	All Nominees
2020	Tool	7empest	All Nominees
2019	High On Fire	Electric Messiah	All Nominees
2018	Mastodon	Sultan’s Curse	All Nominees
2017	Megadeth	Dystopia	All Nominees
2016	Ghost	Cirice	All Nominees
2015	Tenacious D	The Last In Line	All Nominees
2014	Black Sabbath	God Is Dead?	All Nominees
2011	Iron Maiden	El Dorado	All Nominees
2010	Judas Priest	Dissident Aggressor	All Nominees
2009	Metallica	My Apocalypse	All Nominees
2008	Slayer	Final Six	All Nominees
2007	Slayer	Eyes Of The Insane	All Nominees
2006	Slipknot	Before I Forget	All Nominees
2005	Motorhead	Whiplash	All Nominees
2004	Metallica	St. Anger	All Nominees
2003	Korn	Here To Stay	All Nominees
2002	Tool	Schism	All Nominees
2001	Deftones	Elite	All Nominees
2000	Black Sabbath	Iron Man	All Nominees
1999	Metallica	Better Than You	All Nominees
1998	Tool	Aenema	All Nominees
1997	Rage Against The Machine	Tire Me	All Nominees
1996	Nine Inch Nails	Happiness In Slavery	All Nominees
1995	Soundgarden	Spoonman	All Nominees
1994	Ozzy Osbourne	I Don't Want To Change The World	All Nominees
1993	Nine Inch Nails	Wish	All Nominees
1992	Metallica	Metallica	All Nominees
1991	Metallica	Stone Cold Crazy	All Nominees
1990	Metallica	One	All Nominees

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