NEWS
2019/11/21
Historically, the Best Metal Performance GRAMMY is kind of a joke. When the award was first introduced as the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal in 1988, and was given to Jethro Tull over Metallica, it was an announcement to the world that the GRAMMYs didn’t understand the world of heavy music other than that it was enough of a money-maker that it had to be acknowledged. Since then, Best Metal Performance has continued to honor heavy musicians decades too late, acting as a lifetime achievement award of sorts — Sabbath won in 2000 for a live version of Iron Man, Motörhead won their first in 2005 for covering Metallica, Slayer won the award in 2007 and 2008 for two songs from the same album, and as recently as 2015 Tenacious D won the award for covering Dio. Fuck...
