Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance has been awarded since 1990. In 1989 it was presented as Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance until the following year, when the Best Metal Performance category was formed. From 1992 to 1994 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.

Living Colour and The Smashing Pumpkins are the only bands to win the awards for more than one year in a row.

2000s

*Grammy Awards of 2008
**Foo Fighters for "The Pretender"
***Evanescence for "Sweet Sacrifice"
***Ozzy Osbourne for "I Don't Wanna Stop"
***Queens of the Stone Age for "Sick, Sick, Sick"
***Tool for "The Pot"

*Grammy Awards of 2007
**Wolfmother for "Woman"
***Buckcherry for "Crazy Bitch"
***Nine Inch Nails for "Every Day Is Exactly the Same"
***System of a Down for "Lonely Day"
***Tool for "Vicarious"

*Grammy Awards of 2006
**System of a Down for "B.Y.O.B."
***Audioslave for "Doesn't Remind Me"
***Nine Inch Nails for "The Hand That Feeds"
***Robert Plant for "Tin Pan Valley"
***Queens of the Stone Age for "Little Sister"

*Grammy Awards of 2005
**Velvet Revolver for "Slither"
***Incubus for "Megalomaniac"
***Metallica for "Some Kind of Monster"
***Nickelback for "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good"
***Slipknot for "Duality"

*Grammy Awards of 2004
**Evanescence (Feat. Paul McCoy) for "Bring Me to Life"
***Audioslave for "Like a Stone"
***Godsmack for "Straight Out of Line"
***Jane's Addiction for "Just Because"
***Queens of the Stone Age for "Go with the Flow"

*Grammy Awards of 2003
**Foo Fighters for "All My Life"
***Godsmack for "I Stand Alone"
***P.O.D. for "Youth of the Nation"
***Queens of the Stone Age for "No One Knows"
***System of a Down for "Aerials"

*Grammy Awards of 2002
**Linkin Park for "Crawling"
***Alien Ant Farm for "Smooth Criminal"
***P.O.D. for "Alive"
***Rage Against the Machine for "Renegades of Funk"
***Saliva for "Your Disease"

*Grammy Awards of 2001
**Rage Against the Machine for "Guerrilla Radio"
***Kid Rock for "American Bad Ass"
***Limp Bizkit for "Take a Look Around"
***Pearl Jam for "Grievance"
***Stone Temple Pilots for "Down"

*Grammy Awards of 2000
**Metallica for "Whiskey in the Jar"
***Alice in Chains for "Get Born Again"
***Buckcherry for "Lit Up"
***Kid Rock for "Bawitdaba"
***Korn for "Freak on a Leash"
***Limp Bizkit for "Nookie"

1990s

*Grammy Awards of 1999
**Jimmy Page & Robert Plant for "Most High"
***Kiss for "Psycho Circus"
***Marilyn Manson for "The Dope Show"
***Metallica for "Fuel"
***Pearl Jam for "Do the Evolution"

*Grammy Awards of 1998
**The Smashing Pumpkins for "The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
***Bush for "Swallowed"
***Foo Fighters for "Monkey Wrench"
***Nine Inch Nails for "The Perfect Drug"
***Rage Against the Machine for "People of the Sun"

*Grammy Awards of 1997
**The Smashing Pumpkins for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
***Alice in Chains for "Again"
***Rage Against the Machine for "Bulls on Parade"
***Soundgarden for "Pretty Noose"
***Stone Temple Pilots for "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"

*Grammy Awards of 1996
**Pearl Jam for "Spin the Black Circle"
***Alice in Chains for "Grind"
***Primus for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"
***Red Hot Chili Peppers for "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
***Van Halen for "The Seventh Seal"

*Grammy Awards of 1995
**Soundgarden for "Black Hole Sun"
***Alice in Chains for "I Stay Away"
***Beastie Boys for "Sabotage"
***Green Day for "Longview"
***Pearl Jam for "Go"

*Grammy Awards of 1994
**Stone Temple Pilots for "Plush"
***AC/DC for "Highway to Hell"
***Living Colour for "Leave It Alone"
***Robert Plant for "Calling to You"
***The Smashing Pumpkins for "Cherub Rock"

*Grammy Awards of 1993
**Red Hot Chili Peppers for "Give It Away"
***Alice in Chains for "Dirt"
***Faith No More for "Angel Dust"
***Guns N' Roses for "Live and Let Die"
***Pearl Jam for "Jeremy"

*Grammy Awards of 1992
**Van Halen for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
***AC/DC for "Moneytalks"
***Alice in Chains for "Man in the Box"
***Guns N' Roses for "Use Your Illusion I"

*Grammy Awards of 1991
**Living Colour for "Time's Up"
***AC/DC for "The Razor's Edge"
***Faith No More for "Epic"
***Jane's Addiction for "Ritual de lo Habitual"
***Mötley Crüe for "Kickstart My Heart"

*Grammy Awards of 1990
**Living Colour for "Cult of Personality"
***Aerosmith for "Love in an Elevator"
***Great White for "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
***Guns N' Roses for "G N' R Lies"
***Mötley Crüe for "Dr. Feelgood"

1980s

*Grammy Awards of 1989
**Jethro Tull for "Crest of a Knave"
***AC/DC for "Blow Up Your Video"
***Jane's Addiction for "Nothing's Shocking"
***Metallica for "...And Justice for All"
***Iggy Pop for "Cold Metal"