Lists of heavy metal bands by genre

Heavy metal music
Stylistic origins: Psychedelic rock, European classical music and British blues
Cultural origins: Late 1960s United Kingdom
Typical instruments: Guitar - Bass - Drums
Mainstream popularity: Extensively followed by dedicated fans throughout the world.
Derivative forms:
Subgenres
Avant garde metal - Black metal - Celtic Metal - Christian metal - Classic metal - Death metal - Doom metal - Folk metal - Funk metal - Goth metal - Groove metal - Hair metal - Neo-Classical metal - NSBM - Oriental metal - Power metal - Progressive metal - Speed metal - Tech metal - Thrash metal - Vedic metal - Viking metal
Fusion genres
Alternative metal - Grindcore - Industrial metal - Metalcore - Nu metal - Stoner metal - Rap metal
Regional scenes
Gothenburg metal - New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Bay Area thrash metal - Norwegian black metal
Other topics
Fashion - History - Bands - Musicians - Umlaut
Contents

Avant-Garde metal

Black death metal

Black metal

See also List of Black Metal bands

Brutal death metal

Celtic metal

Christian metal

Classic metal

Dark ambiental metal

Death doom

Death metal

(see also List of Death Metal bands)

Deathgrind

Deathrash

Doom metal

See also List of Doom Metal bands.

Early heavy metal

(Except for Black Sabbath & Alice Cooper, none of these bands are truly heavy metal.)

Epic metal

Folk metal

Glam metal / Hair metal

Goregrind

Gothic metal

Grindcore

Industrial metal

Metalcore

Nazi black metal

Neo-classical metal

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)

Nu metal

Oriental metal

Power metal

Progressive metal

See also: list of progressive metal artists

Scandinavian death metal

Speed / Thrash metal

Stoner metal

Symphonic / melodic death metal

Technical death metal

Tolkien metal

Unblack metal

Vedic metal

Viking metal

Winter metal

See also

See also: Lists of heavy metal bands by genre, (Arjen Anthony Lucassen's) Star One, (Hed) P.E., 1960s, Absurd, Accept, Acid King