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
- Arcturus
- Corrosion Of Conformity
- Crotchduster
- Darth Vegas
- Dodheimsgard
- Dog Fashion Disco
- Fantômas
- Headkase
- Kayo Dot
- Maudlin of the Well
- Mr. Bungle
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Sigh
- Vicious Hairy Mary
- Quantic Never Crashed
Black death metal
- Acheron
- Alastor
- Arkhon Infaustus
- Behemoth
- Blood Haven
- Bloodmoon
- Dawn of Dream
- Decayed
- Dimentianon
- Dissection
- Epoch of Unlight
- Equinox
- Funeral Feast
- Hysteria
- In Aeternum
- Incriminated
- Isacaarum
- Manticore
- Mind Eclipse
- Misanthrope
- Mixomatosis
- Nordor
- Nun Slaughter
- Obscene Eulogy
- Obsecration
- Portal
- Rotting Flesh
- Sauron
- Saxorior
- Thy Disease
- Tuska
- Vorkreist
- Warkult
- Quantic Never Crashed
Black metal
See also List of Black Metal bands
- Abyssos
- Adrienne Bathory
- Ancient
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Ajattara
- Alghazanth
- Arckanum
- Averse Sefira
- Azaghal
- Bal-Sagoth
- Barathrum
- Beherit
- Behexen
- Bestia
- Borknagar
- Burzum
- Calvarium
- Carpathian Forest
- Catamenia
- Celtic Frost
- Dark Funeral
- Darkthrone
- Darkwoods My Betrothed
- Dimmu Borgir
- Emperor
- Enslaved
- Ezurate
- Finntroll
- Frozen Shadows
- Gorgoroth
- Gotmoor
- Horna
- Immortal
- Impaled Nazarene
- Impaled Northern Moonforest
- Impiety
- Judas Iscariot
- Kostogher
- Limbonic Art
- Marduk
- Mayhem
- Mercyful Fate
- Mortiis
- Mustan kuun lapset
- Nokturnal Mortum
- Old Man's Child
- Ragnarok
- Sacramentum
- Samael
- Satyricon
- Soulgrind
- Symbiotic Order
- Theatres des Vampires
- Thorns
- Thy Serpent
- Troll
- Trollheim's Grott
- Tvangeste
- Uhrilehto
- Ulver
- Wind of the Black Mountain
- Venom
Brutal death metal
- Abaddon Incarnate
- Abominant
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Agiel
- Alienation mental
- Androphagous
- Antropofagus
- Askalon
- Azarath
- Beheaded
- Blockheads
- Bodies Lay Broken
- Bound and Gagged
- Burialmound
- Caedere
- Carnal
- Cephalectomy
- Cephalic
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Chaotic Humanity Choice (C.H.C.)
- Ciribus
- Cirrhosis
- Commit Suicide
- Cripple Bastards
- Crucifixion
- Cryptopsy
- Damnation
- Debauchery
- Demonicon
- Difer Nom Basta
- Disgorge
- Dissenter
- Downthroat
- Embolism
- Engorge
- Entety
- Entorturement
- Failed Humanity
- Flesh Grinder
- Fleshart
- Fleshless
- Fornication
- Funeral Inception
- Genital Grinder
- Gorehog
- Gorelord
- Goretorture
- Goretrade
- Harmony Dies
- Homoiratus
- Immemorial
- Impaled
- Imperious
- Incinerate
- Infernal Hate
- Ingrowing
- Iniquity
- INRI
- Insision
- Inveracity
- Kabbal
- Kadath
- Kalibas
- Kataplexia
- Lacerate
- Luna Field
- Lykathea Aflame
- Mess Age
- Misery Index
- Molested Senses
- Morgue
- Mortician
- Moulded Flesh
- Myopia
- Natron
- Neural Booster
- Pandemia
- Perverse
- Perversity
- Prion
- Prophecy
- Psychrist
- Psycroptic
- Rotting
- Sanatorium
- Saproffago
- Sarcasmo
- Scrambled Defuncts
- Sepsism
- Severe Torture
- Severed Savior
- Sheolgeenna
- Side Effects
- Siksakubur
- Soils of Fate
- Sotajumala
- Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
- Suffocation
- Tears of Decay
- Terminal Descent
- Terrorist
- The Dead
- The Forensic
- The Monolith Deathcult
- Thorium
- Tomorrow's Victim
- Torn
- Torture Killer
- Veneral Disease
- Wasteform
- Zubrowska
Celtic metal
- Aisling
- Bran Barr
- Belinus
- Beltaine
- Cruachan
- Cryptical Realm
- Geasa
- Mael Mķrdha
- Ogmias
- Primordial
- Waylander
Christian metal
- As I Lay Dying
- Believer
- Bloodgood
- Demon Hunter
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- Extol
- Jerusalem
- King's X
- King of King's
- Kissing the Hands of Wrath
- Living Sacrifice
- Narnia
- Pillar
- Project 86
- Stryper
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- The Crucified
- Tourniquet
- Whiteheart
- Whitecross
- Underoath
- Zao
Classic metal
- Accept
- At Vance
- Black Sabbath
- Dio
- Dokken
- Dream Evil
- Europe
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- Lynch/Pilson
- Mercyful Fate
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Quiet Riot
- Saxon
- The Scorpions
- Sebastian Bach
- Skid Row
- Twisted Sister
- W.A.S.P.
Dark ambiental metal
Death doom
- Hedon Cries
- Hidden
- Poema Arcanus
- Psicorragia
- Runemagick
Death metal
(see also List of Death Metal bands)
- Abramelin
- Abscess
- Amon Amarth
- Amorphis
- Anal Bleeding
- Ancient
- Ancient Gods
- Angmar
- Antares
- Arch Enemy
- At the Gates
- Atheist
- Atropos
- ATS
- Aurora Borealis
- Autopsy
- Avenger
- Avulsed
- Benediction
- Bestial Warlust
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Bloodbath
- Bloodhammer
- Bloodreaping
- Bluttaufe
- Bolt Thrower
- Brujeria
- Brutality
- Brutus
- Cadaverous Condition
- Cannibal Corpse
- Carcass
- Cattle Decapitation
- Children of Bodom
- Coroner
- Crucifier
- Cynic
- Daemonlord
- Daemusinem
- Dark Tranquility
- Dead Emotions
- Death
- Death Reality
- Decapitated
- Deceased
- Decomposing Serenity
- Deflorace
- Deformity
- Deicide
- Depraved
- Deströyer 666
- Dhamer
- Diablo
- Dissection
- Division Alpha
- Dying Fetus
- Edge of Sanity
- Entombed
- Fleshcrawl
- Flesh Feast
- Fleshtized
- Germen
- God Dethroned
- Gorguts
- Gospel of the Horns
- Grotesqueuphoria
- Gulu Locus
- Harakiri
- Hell-born
- Hermaphrodit
- Herriot
- Human Mincer
- Hypocrisy
- Immolation
- In Flames
- Incantation
- Incriminated
- Infernal Legion
- Inner War
- Intestinal Disgorge
- Lymphatic Phlegm
- Kataklysm
- Khert-neter
- Krisiun
- Legal Butchery
- Machetazo
- Malevolent Creation
- Meat Shits
- Meatknife
- Merlin (band)
- Microphallus
- Midnight Dream
- Misery Index
- Mistweaver
- Monasterium
- Monstrosity
- Morbid Angel
- Mortal Decay
- Mortal Intention
- Mortem
- Mortician
- Mortification
- Mutala
- Mykorrhiza
- Myrkskog
- Mystifier
- Napalm Death
- Necrophagia
- Netas
- Neuraxis
- Nile
- Nomenmortis
- Norther
- Obituary
- Ominous
- Opeth
- Paganizer
- Painstruck
- Pan.thy.monium
- Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
- Pentagram
- Pestilence
- Possessed
- Primitive Symphony
- Pungent Stench
- Purgatory
- Pustulated
- Quo Vadis
- Rancid Angel of Auschwitz
- Regurgitate
- Reprobation
- Requiem
- Rotting Christ
- Rupture Christ
- Sacriversum
- Sadistic Blood Massacre
- Salem
- Sargatanas
- Scattered Remnants
- Semen Datura
- Shadow Season
- Sikfuk
- Sinister
- Sinoath
- Slow Agony
- Solar Dawn
- Soul Devourer
- Substance for God
- Suffocation
- Syllogism
- Taetre
- Thalarion
- The Crown
- Therion
- Throneaeon
- Tiamat
- Torsofuck
- Tu Carne
- Ugrakarma
- Vader
- Vehemence
- Velocidad Absurda
- Veneral Disease
- Verminous
- Vii Arcano
- Zeni Geva
- Zombie Vomit
Deathgrind
- Bloody Anal Yeast Infection
- Cerebral Turbulency
- Circle of Dead Children
- Corpsefucking Art
- Cumchrist
- Dead Infection
- Decrypt
- Extreme Decay
- Fleshgrind
- Foetopsy
- Gruesome Malady
- Impetigo
- Impure
- Inveracity
- Koldborn
- Mastic Scum
- Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay
- Necroterio
- Negligent collateral collapse
- Nuclear Death
- Organ Harvest
- Patologicum
- Reek of Shits
- Repulsion
- Undevoured
- Vomit Remnants
- Vomitorial Corpulence
Deathrash
- Arghoslent
- Bloodsick
- Crustacean
- Dazakrate
- Deathchain
- Hatework
- Hypokras
- Invasion
- Katafalk
- Never
- Num Skull
- Soulless
- Spawn of Satan
- Unholy Archangel
Doom metal
See also List of Doom Metal bands.
- Aarni
- Anathema
- Black Sabbath
- Candlemass
- Cathedral
- Celestial Season
- Cemetery
- Corrupted
- Crowbar
- Danzig
- Esoteric
- Evoken
- Eyehategod
- Katatonia
- Lacrimas Profundere
- Lake of Tears
- Memento Mori
- Morgion
- Mournful Congregation
- Mourning Beloveth
- My Dying Bride
- October
- Officium Triste
- Paradise Lost
- Pentagram
- Reverend Bizarre
- Saattue
- Saint Vitus
- Samhain
- Saturnus
- Shape Of Despair
- Skepticism
- Solitude Aeturnus
- Substance For God
- Tristitia
- Trouble
- Virgin Black
- Wasara
- Winter
Early heavy metal
(Except for Black Sabbath & Alice Cooper, none of these bands are truly heavy metal.)
Epic metal
- Cirith Ungol
- DoomSword
- Manilla Road
- Medieval Steel
- Omen
Folk metal
- Cruachan
- Ensiferum
- Finntroll
- Korpiklaani
- Mägo De Oz
- Metsatöll
- Moonsorrow
- Skyclad
- Skyforger
- Turisas
- Valgrind
- Waylander
- XIV Dark Centuries
Glam metal / Hair metal
- Aerosmith
- Bad English
- Bella Bestia
- Bon Jovi
- Bulletboys
- Cinderella
- Alice Cooper
- Damn Yankees
- Danger Danger
- Dangerous Toys
- Def Leppard
- Europe
- Extreme
- Firehouse
- Faster Pussycat
- Great White
- Grim Reaper
- Guns N' Roses
- Hanoi Rocks
- KISS
- L.A. Guns
- Lita Ford
- Mötley Crüe
- Mr. Big
- Nelson
- Nitro
- Poison
- Quiet Riot
- Ratt
- Rock City Angels
- Saigon Kick
- Skid Row
- Slaughter
- Steel Heart
- Tesla
- Van Halen
- Vinnie Vincent Invasion
- Vixen
- Warrant
- W.A.S.P.
- White Lion
- Whitecross
- Whitesnake
- Winger
Goregrind
- Abosranie Bogom
- Hatchetface
- Oxidised Razor
- Squash Bowels
- Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
Gothic metal
- Adrienne Bathory
- After Forever
- Anathema
- Ashes You Leave
- Beseech
- Entwine
- Evanescence
- Haggard
- Killing Miranda
- Korova
- Lacrimas Profundere
- Lacrimosa
- Lacuna Coil
- Lake of Tears
- Leaves' Eyes
- Moonspell
- My Dying Bride
- Nightwish
- On Thorns I Lay
- Paradise Lost
- Sins of Thy Beloved
- Sirenia
- The 69 Eyes
- The Gathering
- Theatre of Tragedy
- Tristania
- Type O Negative
- Willow Wisp
- Within Temptation
- Xandria
Grindcore
- Amoebic Dysentery
- Anal Cunt
- Animal Foreskin
- Brutal Truth
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- Daughters
- Electrocutionerdz
- Extreme Noise Terror
- Inferia
- Jogane Munno
- Leng Tch'e
- Napalm Death
- Nasum
- Phobia
- Pig Destroyer
- Reinfection
- ROT
- Rotten Sound
- Rytmihäiriö
- Sonic Ear Destuction
Industrial metal
- Anger
- Deathstars
- Fear Factory
- Godflesh
- Malmonde
- Ministry
- Prong
- Rammstein
- Revolting Cocks
- Skinny Puppy
- The Kovenant
- The Mike Dorsett Project
- Turmion kätilöt
- Velcra
Metalcore
- 1992
- Bleeding Through
- Blood Has Been Shed
- Hatebreed
- Killswitch Engage
- Magnum Opus
- Misery Signals
- Poison the Well
- Shadows Fall
- The Tony Danza Tap-Dance Extravaganza
- ThirdWorldSin
- Throwdown
- Unearth
- Zao
Nazi black metal
- Absurd
- Capricornus
- Evil
- GestapoSS
- Graveland
- Nokturnal Mortum
- Sunwheel
- Kataxu
- Thor's Hammer
- War 88
Neo-classical metal
- Adagio
- George Lynch
- Jennifer Batten
- Ritchie Blackmore
- Cacophony
- The Great Kat
- Greg Howe
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Joe Stump's Reign of Terror
- Randy Rhoads
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)
- A II Z
- Angel Witch
- Blitzkrieg
- Charlie Ungry
- Def Leppard
- Diamond Head
- GirlSchool
- Grim Reaper
- Holocaust
- Iron Maiden
- Jaguar
- Lionheart
- Praying Mantis
- Raven
- Samson
- Saxon
- Star One
- Sweet Savage
- Tank
- Tygers of Pan Tang
- Vardis
- Venom
- White Spirit
- Witchfinder General
Nu metal
- 40 Below Summer
- Adema
- American Head Charge
- Coal Chamber
- Darwin's Waiting Room
- Deftones
- Demon Hunter
- Disturbed
- Dope
- Downset
- Drowning Pool
- Dry Kill Logic
- E.Town Concrete
- Endo
- Flaw
- From Zero
- Grade 8
- (Hed) P.E.
- Ill Niņo
- Kid Rock
- Korn
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Lostprophets
- Memento
- Motograter
- Mudvayne
- Nonpoint
- Nothingface
- No One
- Noise Therapy
- One Minute Silence
- Otep
- Papa Roach
- P.O.D.
- Powerman 5000
- Pressure 4-5
- Primer 55
- Project 86
- Reach 454
- Reveille
- Saliva
- Shuvel
- Skrape
- Slaves On Dope
- Slipknot
- Smile Empty Soul
- Snot
- Soil
- Spineshank
- Static-X
- System of a Down
- Taproot
- Trapt
- Trust Company
- Twisted Method
Oriental metal
- Melechesh
- Orphaned Land
- Salem
- Shadow
Power metal
- Aina
- Accept
- Agora
- Angel Dust
- Angra
- Avalanch
- Avantasia
- Axenstar
- Blind Guardian
- Calvaria
- Children of Bodom
- Concerto Moon
- Cryonic Temple
- Cydonia
- Dark Moor
- Demons and Wizards
- DragonForce
- Dream Evil
- Edenbridge
- Edguy
- Elvenking
- Fairyland
- Freedom Call
- Freternia
- Gamma Ray
- Gothic Knights
- Grave Digger
- HammerFall
- Heaven's Gate
- Helloween
- Heavenly
- Highland Glory
- Iced Earth
- Iron Maiden
- Iron Savior
- Ivory Tower
- Jag Panzer
- Kaledon
- Kamelot
- Kotipelto
- Labyrinth
- Lipstick Liontigers
- Lost Horizon
- Luca Turilli
- Mägo de Oz
- Manowar
- Masterplan
- Mob Rules
- Nevermore
- Nightwish
- Oratory
- Persuader
- Rage
- Rhapsody
- Running Wild
- S.D.I.
- Shadowkeep
- Shadowlord
- Sinergy
- Sonata Arctica
- Steel Attack
- Stratovarius
- Symphony X
- Teräsbetoni
- Thunderstone
- Tierra Santa Claus
- Total Eclipse
- Vardis
- Virginity Stealer
- X-Japan
- X-Piral
- Zandelle
- Zonata
Progressive metal
- See also: list of progressive metal artists
- Adagio
- Anacrusis
- Angra
- Balance of Power
- Buckethead
- Crimson Glory
- Cynic
- Dream Theater
- Evergrey
- Fates Warning
- The Gathering
- King Crimson
- King's X
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Look What I Did
- Opeth
- Pagan's Mind
- Pain of Salvation
- Queensr˙che
- Rush
- (Arjen Anthony Lucassen's) Star One
- Symphony X
- Threshold
- Tool
- Vanden Plas
- Voivod
- War And Peace
Scandinavian death metal
- Amon Amarth
- Amorphis
- At The Gates
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dimension Zero
- Dismember
- Ebony Tears
- Entombed
- The Everdawn
- Gates of Ishtar
- The Haunted
- Hypocrisy
- In Flames
- Kalmah
- Mors Principium Est
- Norther
- Skyfire
Speed / Thrash metal
- Annihilator
- Anthrax
- Artillery
- Cacophony
- Celtic Frost
- Coroner
- Corrosion of Conformity
- The Crown
- Dark Angel
- Death Angel
- Destruction
- D.R.I.
- Eudoxis
- Exodus
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Gothic Slam
- Imagika
- Intruder
- King Diamond
- Kreator
- Machine Head
- Megadeth
- Mercyful Fate
- Meshuggah
- Metallica
- Metal Church
- Motörhead
- Night of the Braineaters
- Nocturnal Fear
- Nuclear Assault
- Overkill
- Pantera
- Sabbat
- Sepultura
- Slayer
- Sodom
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Testament
Stoner metal
- Acid King
- The Atomic Bitchwax
- Blended Sky
- Coalesce
- The Eagles of Death Metal
- Fu Manchu
- Hybrid Children
- Kyuss
- Mannhai
- Masters of Reality
- Monster Magnet
- Nebula
- Orange Goblin
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Sixty Watt Shaman
- Sleep
- Smack
- Spirit Caravan
- The Black League
- Unida
- Xysma
Symphonic / melodic death metal
- Arch Enemy
- As it Burns
- At the Gates
- Atrophia Red Sun
- Baal
- Battlesword
- Beyond the Embrace
- Cenotaph
- Children of Bodom
- Compos Mentis
- Cromlech
- Dark Tranquillity
- Demons of Dirt
- Dimmu Borgir
- Ebony Tears
- Embracing
- Enter My Silence
- Hatesphere
- Imperial Domain
- In Flames
- Infliction
- Mors Principium Est
- Mourning Caress
- Neotruth
- Norther
- Noumena
- Obscurant
- Opeth
- Shadow
- Sins of Omission
- Soilwork
- Utopia Banished
- Votur
Technical death metal
- Admortem
- Atheist
- Buried Dreams
- Cynic
- Carcariass
- Death
- Dungortheb
- Eternal Gray
- Garwall
- Golem
- Isle of Man
- Luciferion
- Mithras
- Meshuggah
- Soul Demise
- Spawn of Possession
- Theory in Practice
- Thyrane
Tolkien metal
- Arwen
- Battlelore
- Blind Guardian
- Gandalf
- Isengard
- Rivendell
- Summoning
Unblack metal
- Admonish
- Horde
- Necromanicide
- Parameaecium
Vedic metal
- Advaita
- Dark Riders
- Dementra
- Indian Ocean
- Maha Yadnya
- Rudra
- Symmetry
- The Aryan March
- Warriors Of Peace
- Vayu
Viking metal
Winter metal
- Immortal Souls