A heavy sounding and aggressive subgenre of Rock music.

Emerged from the 1970s with the bands like UFO, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Cheap Trick and Motörhead.
and evolved from 1980s from bands like Venom, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio and Metallica.

Subgenres

• Black Metal
• Power Metal

Notable bands

• Angra
• Anthrax
• Bathory
• Black Sabbath
• Cannibal Corpse
• Death
• Dio
• DragonForce
• Ghost
• Immortal
• Iron Maiden
• Judas Priest
• Korn
• Mayhem
• Megadeth
• Metallica
• Motörhead
• Opeth
• Pantera
• Rammstein
• Sabaton
• Slayer
• Sodom
• Tool
• Type O Negative
• Venom
• X Japan

Notable Artists

• Abbath
• James Hetfield
• Lemmy Kilmister
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Rob Halford
• Ronnie James Dio
• Peter Steele
• Yngwie Malmsteen

Related Tags

• Sign of the Horns
• Corpse Paint

Notable bands (Anime)

• Ave Mujica (BanG Dream!)
• Death Devil (K-ON!)
• Yamanaka Sawako
• Detroit Metal City
• Johannes Krauser II

See also

• Rock