Anthrax Nearly as much as Metallica or Megadeth, Anthrax was responsible for the emergence of speed and thrash metal. Combining the speed and fury of hardcore punk with the prominent guitars and vocals of heavy metal, they helped create a new subgenre of heavy metal on their early albums...
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Anthrax Anthrax is an American, New York City-based thrash metal band, who released their first full-length album in 1984. Anthrax was one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene and are notable for combining metal with rap (although only used in 2 songs) and hardcore music early on.
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AC/DC AC/DC are a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The band are considered pioneers of heavy metal, alongside bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. Its members, however, have always classified their music as "rock 'n' roll".
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Queensrche Although they were initially grouped in with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s, Queensr'che were one of the most distinctive bands of the era...
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Napalm Death The fathers of grindcore, Napalm Death pushed the envelope of metal to new extremes of ear-splitting intensity, rejecting all notions of melody, subtlety, and good taste to forge a brand of sonic assault almost frightening in its merciless brutality...
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Motorhead After being fired from Hawkwind, Lemmy Kilmister decides to form a band called bastard. When his manager informs him that a band by that name will never get a slot on "Top of the Pops," he changes it to Motorhead...
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Motley Crue They've been widely successful, frequently controversial and extremely influential. They're one of the most celebrated American hard-rock bands of all-time, and they've constantly forged forward with new sounds, new looks and new attitudes...
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Mayhem There can only be one true original. Getting their start in 1984, Norway's MAYHEM is single-handedly responsible for creating and fostering the global Black Metal scene...
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Savatage Somewhere in the Midst of the Hall of the Mountain King Tour Jon Oliva and I had spoken in jest about one day putting together the heaviest band we could and calling it "Butcher"...
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W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 which gained notoriety for its "shock rock" image, music and live performances. The band, formed in Los Angeles, California, initially consisted of Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards...
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Tool Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art-rock. Or maybe it was introducing the self-absorbed pretention of art-rock to the wearing grind of post-thrash metal -- the order really doesn't matter...
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Symphony X Symphony X from New Jersey, USA were founded in April 1994. Guitarist Michael Romeo received a lot of praise and interest for his self produced solo-tape "The Dark Chapter", which eventually led to the birth of Symphony X...
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Soundgarden Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock. Their fellow Seattle rockers Green River may have spearheaded the grunge sound, but they relied on noise rock in the vein of the Stooges...
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Skid Row Skid Row was one of the last hair metal bands to hit the mainstream before grunge took over in the early '90s. They were also arguably the last of such bands to have any originality...
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Sepultura From their humble beginnings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Sepultura went on to become the most successful Brazilian heavy metal band in history. Over a ten-year period, the band grew from strength to strength, transforming itself from a primitive death metal ensemble into one of the leading creative trendsetters of the international aggressive music scene...
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Rainbow Rainbow quickly developed into one of the '70s most successful heavy metal bands behind charismatic front man Ronnie James Dio. Together, the duo would produce a string of acclaimed albums which are still considered classics of the genre...
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Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine earned acclaim from disenfranchised fans (and not insignificant derision from critics) for their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash...
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Ozzy Osbourne John Michael Osbourne was born on December 3rd, 1948 in an industrial town in England where he and his five siblings, mother and father, lived in a 2 bedroom house. To say money was tight would be an understatement...
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Megadeth After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic blueprint of Metallica's relentless attack, Mustaine's group distinguished themselves from his earlier band by lessening the progressive rock influences...
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Metallica Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. Instead of playing the usual rock star games of metal stars of the early '80s, the band looked and talked like they were from the street...
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Manowar Manowar is a classic heavy metal band that features mythology, metal and attitude in their songs. Though each member is from USA, the band was founded in England. The name "Manowar" comes from "Man-of-War", which is a type of war ship in the English fleet...
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Judas Priest Judas Priest was one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the '70s, spearheading the New Wave of British Heavy Metal late in the decade. Decked out in leather and chains, the band fused the gothic doom of Black Sabbath with the riffs and speed of Led Zeppelin, as well as adding a vicious two-lead guitar attack...
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King Diamond Widely regarded as the finest vocalist in all of death metal (who possesses a multi-octave range), theatrical rocker King Diamond first rose to prominence as a member of Mercyful Fate, before launching a solo career on his own...
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Van Halen Alexander Arthur Van Halen was born to Jan and Eugenia van Halen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on May 8, 1953. On February 22, 1962, the Van Halen family left Holland for California at the "request" of several relatives...
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Mercyful Fate Widely regarded as the finest vocalist in all of death metal (who possesses a multi-octave range), theatrical rocker King Diamond first rose to prominence as a member of Mercyful Fate, before launching a solo career on his own...
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Alice in Chains In many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early '90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers...
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Opeth Brought together in Stockholm by guitarists Peter Lindgren and Mikael ?kerfeldt in 1990, Opeth added progressive influences and acoustic instrumentation to their brand of Swedish death metal...
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