The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance has been handed out since 1990. A year before the introduction of a separate award for hard rock, in 1989 it was presented as Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. In 1990 a separate award was formed for Best Metal Performance. The title was changed to Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal from 1992 to 1994. Living Colour and The Smashing Pumpkins are the only bands to win the awards for more than one year in a row.

Winners: Grammys Best Hard Rock Performance

Year
Winner/s
Song
2010
AC/DC
"War Machine"
2009
The Mars Volta
"Wax Simulacra"
2008
Foo Fighters
"The Pretender"
2007
Wolfmother
"Woman"
2006
System of a Down
"B.Y.O.B."
2005
Velvet Revolver
"Slither"
2004
Evanescence (Feat. Paul McCoy)
"Bring Me to Life"
2003
Foo Fighters
"All My Life"
2002
Linkin Park
"Crawling"
2001
Rage Against the Machine
"Guerrilla Radio"
2000
Metallica
"Whiskey in the Jar"
1999
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
"Most High"
1998
The Smashing Pumpkins
"The End Is The Beginning Is The End"
1997
The Smashing Pumpkins
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
1996
Pearl Jam
"Spin the Black Circle"
1995
Soundgarden
"Black Hole Sun"
1994
Stone Temple Pilots
"Plush"
1993
Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Give It Away"
1992
Van Halen
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991
Living Colour
Time's Up
1990
Living Colour
"Cult of Personality"
1989
Jethro Tull
“Crest of a Knave”