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1 Alternative metal 2 Black death metal 3 Black metal 4 Brutal death metal 5 Celtic Battle Metal 6 Celtic Doom Metal 7 Celtic metal 8 Celtic Pagan Metal 9 Christian metal 10 Circus metal 11 Classic metal 12 Dark ambiental metal 13 Death doom 14 Death metal 15 Deathgrind 16 Deathrash 17 Doom metal 18 Early heavy metal 19 Epic metal 20 Fashioncore 21 Folk metal 22 Glam metal / Hair metal 23 Goregrind 24 Gothic metal 25 Grindcore 26 Industrial metal 27 Mathcore 28 Metalcore 29 Mincecore 30 Nazi black metal 31 Neo-classical metal 32 New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) 33 Nu metal 34 Oriental metal 35 Pagan metal 36 Power metal 37 Progressive metal 38 Scandinavian death metal 39 Speed / Thrash metal 40 Stoner metal 41 Symphonic / melodic death metal 42 Technical death metal 43 Tolkien metal 44 Unblack metal 45 Viking metal

Alternative metal

• Arcturus
• Corrosion Of Conformity
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Faith No More
• Fantômas
• Fear Factory
• Helmet
• Mezzerschmitt
• Mr. Bungle
• Nine Inch Nails
• Primus
• Rage Against The Machine
• Secret Chief 3
• Soundgarden
• The Melvins
• Tomahawk
• Tool
• Vicious Hairy Mary
• White Zombie

Black death metal

• Acheron
• Alastor
• Arkhon infaustus
• Behemoth
• Bloodmoon
• Dawn of dream
• Decayed
• Dimentianon
• 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

Black metal

• Abyssos
• Adrienne Bathory
• Ancient
• 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
• Finntroll
• Frozen Shadows
• Gorgoroth
• Gotmoor
• Horna
• Immortal
• Impaled Nazarene
• 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
• Theatres des Vampires
• Thorns
• Thy Serpent
• Troll
• Trollheim's Grott
• Tvangeste
• Uhrilehto
• Ulver
• 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 Battle Metal

• Bran Barr
• Belinus

Celtic Doom Metal

• Beltaine
• Cryptical Realm
• Mael Mórdha

Celtic metal

• Cruachan
• Geasa
• Waylander

Celtic Pagan Metal

• Aisling
• Ogmias
• Primordial

Christian metal

• As I Lay Dying
• Believer
• Bloodgood
• Demon Hunter
• Extol
• Jerusalem
• King's X
• King of King's
• Narnia
• Stryper
• The Crucified
• Whiteheart
• Whitecross

Circus metal

• Darth Vegas
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Headkase
• Mr. Bungle
• Secret Chiefs 3
• Vicious Hairy Mary

Classic metal

• Judas Priest
• Dokken
• Twisted Sister
• Iron Maiden
• The Scorpions
• Quiet Riot
• Saxon
• Sebastian Bach
• W.A.S.P.
• Accept
• Lynch/Pilson
• Skid Row
• At Vance
• The Darkness
• Dream Evil
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Dio
• Europe

Dark ambiental metal

• In the woods...

Death doom

• Hedon cries
• Hidden
• Poema arcanus
• Psicorragia
• Runemagick

Death metal

• 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
• Black Dahlia Murder, The
• Bloodbath
• Bloodhammer
• Bloodreaping
• Bluttaufe
• Bolt Thrower
• Brujeria
• 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
• D.R.I.
• Dying Fetus
• Edge of Sanity
• Emperor
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rancid Angel of Auschwitz

Deathgrind

• 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
• 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

• Aarni
• Anathema
• Candlemass
• Cathedral
• Cemetary
• Corrupted
• Crowbar
• Danzig
• Esoteric
• Evoken
• Eyehategod
• Katatonia
• Lacrimas Profundere
• Lake of Tears
• Memento Mori
• Morgion
• My Dying Bride
• October (band)
• Paradise Lost
• Pentagram
• Reverend Bizarre
• Saattue
• Saint Vitus
• Samhain
• Saturnus
• Shape of Despair
• Solitude Aeturnus
• Substance For God
• Tristitia
• Trouble
• Wasara

Early heavy metal

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

• Alice Cooper
• Black Sabbath
• Blue Cheer
• Blue Öyster Cult
• Led Zeppelin
• Deep Purple

Epic metal

• Cirith Ungol
• DoomSword
• Medieval Steel
• Omen

Fashioncore

• Eighteen Visions

Folk metal

• Cruachan
• Ensiferum
• Finntroll
• Korpiklaani
• Metsatöll
• Moonsorrow
• Skyclad
• Skyforger
• Turisas
• Valgrind
• Waylander
• XIV Dark Centuries

Glam metal / Hair metal

• Aerosmith
• Bad English
• 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
• Judas Priest
• KISS
• L.A. Guns
• Lita Ford
• Mötley Crüe
• Mr. Big
• Nelson
• Pantera
• 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
• Oxidised razor
• Squash bowels
• Sublime cadaveric decomposition

Gothic metal

• After Forever
• Anathema
• Ashes You Leave
• Beseech
• Entwine
• Haggard
• Killing Miranda
• Korova
• Lacrimas Profundere
• Lacrimosa
• Lacuna Coil
• Lake of Tears
• Leaves' Eyes
• Moonspell
• My Dying Bride
• Nightwish
• Paradise Lost
• Sins of Thy Beloved
• Sirenia
• The 69 Eyes
• The Gathering
• Theatre of Tragedy
• Tristania
• Type O Negative
• Within Temptation
• Xandria

Grindcore

• Amoebic Dysentery
• Animal Foreskin
• Dillinger Escape Plan
• Daughters
• Extreme Noise Terror
• Inferia
• Jogane munno
• Leng Tch'e
• Napalm Death
• Nasum
• Phobia
• Pig Destroyer
• ROT
• Rotten Sound
• Rytmihäiriö

Industrial metal

• Marilyn Manson
• Godflesh
• Samael (band)
• KMFDM
• Malmonde
• Ministry
• Nine Inch Nails
• Rammstein
• Revolting Cocks
• Skinny Puppy
• The Kovenant
• Turmion kätilöt
• Velcra

Mathcore

• Botch
• Creation is Crucifixion
• Norma Jean

Metalcore

• Killswitch Engage
• Poison the Well
• Zao
• Unearth
• Hatebreed
• The Tony Danza Tap-Dance Extravaganza
• Misery Signals
• Throwdown
• Shadows Fall
• Malicious Intent
• Bleeding Through
• Blood Has Been Shed

Mincecore

• Agathocles
• Malignant Tumour

Nazi black metal

• Burzum
• Graveland
• Kataxu
• Thor's Hammer

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

• Coal Chamber
• Deftones
• Drowning Pool
• Evanescence
• Fear Factory
• From Zero
• Fyeld
• Godsmack
• Ill Nino
• Jacks of all trades
• K-ma
• Korn
• Limp Bizkit
• Linkin Park
• Lok
• Lostprophets
• Machine Head
• Mudvayne
• Mushroomhead
• Orgy
• Papa Roach
• Puddle Of Mudd
• Seether
• Sevendust
• Slipknot
• Smile Empty Soul
• Spineshank
• Staind
• System of a Down
• Taproot
• Three Days Grace
• Trapt
• Zeromancer

Oriental metal

• Melechesh
• Orphaned Land
• Salem
• Shadow

Pagan metal

• Acid Bath
• Incubus Succubus
• Rockbitch
• Suidakra
• Tuatha de danann

Power metal

• Accept
• Agora
• Angel Dust
• Angra
• Avantasia
• Black Majesty
• Blind Guardian
• Calvaria
• Concerto Moon
• Dark Moor
• Demons and Wizards
• DragonForce
• Dream Evil
• Edenbridge
• Edguy
• Elvenking
• Freedom Call
• Gamma Ray
• Grave Digger
• Hammerfall
• Heaven's Gate
• Helloween
• Heavenly
• Iced Earth
• Iron Maiden
• Iron Savior
• Ivory Tower
• Jag Panzer
• Kamelot
• Kotipelto
• Labyrinth
• Lost Horizon
• Luca Turilli
• Mägo de Oz
• Manowar
• Masterplan
• Mob Rules
• Nevermore
• Nightwish
• Oratory
• Persuader
• Rage
• Rhapsody
• Running Wild
• S.D.I.
• Shadowkeep
• Sinergy
• Sonata Arctica
• Stratovarius
• Symphony X
• Teräsbetoni
• Thunderstone
• Tierra Santa
• Total Eclipse
• Vardis
• Virgin Steele
• Zandelle
• Zonata

Progressive metal

• 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
• Queensrÿche
• 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
• Children of Bodom
• Dark Tranquillity
• Dimension Zero
• Dismember
• Ebony Tears
• Entombed
• The Everdawn
• Gates of Ishtar
• The Haunted
• Hypocrisy
• In Flames
• Kalmah
• Mors Principium Est
• Norther
• Skyfire
• Sonata Arctica

Speed / Thrash metal

• Annihilator
• Anthrax
• Artillery
• Cacophony
• Celtic Frost
• Coroner
• Corrosion of Conformity
• The Crown
• Dark Angel
• Death Angel
• Destruction
• Exodus
• Flotsam and Jetsam
• Gothic Slam
• Imagika
• King Diamond
• Kreator
• Megadeth
• Mercyful Fate
• Meshuggah
• Metallica
• Metal Church
• Motörhead
• Nuclear Assault
• Overkill
• Pantera
• Rollins Band
• Sabbat
• Sepultura
• Slayer
• Sodom
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Testament

Stoner metal

• Acid King
• The Atomic Bitchwax
• 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
• 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
• Votur

Technical death metal

• Admortem
• Atheist
• Buried dreams
• Cynic
• Death
• Dungortheb
• Eternal gray
• Garwall
• Golem
• Luciferion
• Mithras
• Meshuggah
• Soul demise
• Theory in Practice
• Thyrane

Tolkien metal

• Arwen
• Battlelore
• Blind Guardian
• Gandalf
• Isengard
• Rivendell
• Summoning

Unblack metal

• Admonish
• Horde
• Necromanicide
• Parameaecium

Viking metal

• Amon Amarth
• Bathory
• Borknagar
• Einherjer
• Enslaved
• Falkenbach
• Mithotyn
• Månegarm
• Otyg
• Thyrfing
• Týr
• Vintersorg

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