Venom A seminal influence on the evolution of thrash and black metal, (Venom) formed during the late 1970s in Newcastle, England. Originally a five-piece group called Oberon, they eventually trimmed their line-up to a trio comprising singer/bassist Conrad "Cronos" Lant, guitarist Jeff "Mantas" Dunn and drummer Tony "Abaddon" Bray...
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System of a Down Like many late-'90s metal bands, System of a Down struck a balance between '80s underground thrash metal and metallic early-'90s alternative rockers like Jane's Addiction...
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Scorpions Known best for their 1984 anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and the 1990 ballad "Wind of Change," the German rockers the Scorpions have sold over 22-million records, making them one of the most successful rock bands to ever come out of Continental Europe...
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Pantera This Texan heavy metal quartet was formed in 1981. They initially comprised Terry Glaze (guitar/vocals), Darrell Abbott (guitar), Vince Abbott (drums) and Rex Rocker (bass). Drawing musical inspiration from Kiss , Aerosmith and Deep Purple , they debuted with Metal Magic in 1983. This well-received set led to prestigious support slots to Dokken , Stryper , and Quiet Riot...
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Testament Testament were the biggest thrash metal band never to reach the platinum plateau. In fact, the San Francisco quintet seemed on the verge of challenging Metallica (their most obvious influence) in the melodic thrash sweepstakes, but their run toward the top was eventually derailed by inconsistency, bad business decisions, and the genre's dwindling appeal...
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Slayer Slayer was one of the most distinctive, influential, and extreme thrash-metal bands of the 1980s. Their graphic lyrics deal with everything from death and dismemberment to war and the horrors of hell...
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KISS Rooted in the campy theatrics of Alice Cooper and the sleazy hard rock of glam rockers the New York Dolls, Kiss became a favorite of American teenagers in the '70s. Most kids were infatuated with the look of Kiss, not their music...
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In Flames It was the year 1990, Jesper decided to take leave of the band Ceremonial Oath, that he was currently in, together with Anders Fridйn and Anders Iwers( Tiamat) He wanted to make music in a different direction, and he teamed up with Johan Larsson and Glenn Ljungstrцm to form IN FLAMES...
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Corrison of Conformity I joined this site originaly in Feb. of 2004. I was recently booted off here for my warped sense of humor, which has forced me to reinvent myself to a degree. I have always considered myself comparable to a rubix cube, of equal sides that do not always match colors...
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Death Over the course of more than a decade and seven increasingly accomplished albums, Chuck Schuldiner, the architect behind the ubiquitous Death, became a bona fide heavy metal icon. Now widely recognized as the father of death metal...
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Black Sabbath Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style.The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies...
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Blind Guardian Forming in the small German town of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of Gothic- and fantasy-tinged European power metal with the velocity and technical precision of speed metal...
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Bruce Dickinson Bruce Dickinson is for many the face of British heavy metal. As a rock vocalist he has scaled the heights of global commercial success, and is truly a member of the international metal elite...
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Children of Bodom Children of Bodom is a Finnish band from the town of Espoo (now coming from Helsinki) which plays a hybrid of melodic death metal and power metal, combining various elements of the genres in different ways across their discography...
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Def Leppard Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were many bands that rocked harder, and were more dangerous, than the Sheffield quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well...
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Diamond Head Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. They were one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and are acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence...
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Dio Ronald James Padavona was spawned out of the eternal darkness into the coastal city of Portsmouth, a first-generation American from a family of Italian immigrants. Early in his life his parents relocated to Cortland, a rural town in New York, and it was here that Padavona began his musical activity, honing his skills on the trumpet and performing in his high school jazz band...
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Exodus Open your ears, brace yourself and step into a metal time machine. The date is now 1982. Tom Hunting and Kirk Hammet, followed soon after by Gary Holt, form Exodus. They searched in vain for a frontman to complete their band, until the fateful day Rich Burch introduced them to one Paul Baloff...
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Dream Theater Octavarium is not only the eighth studio album from progressive heavy rockers Dream Theater, but it also marks 20 years of existence for this majestic outfit. "It's pretty incredible," says drummer Mike Portnoy, "Especially given the nature of what we do...
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Guns 'N Roses At a time when pop was dominated by dance music and pop-metal, Guns N' Roses brought raw, ugly rock & roll crashing back into the charts. They were not nice boys; nice boys don't play rock & roll...
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Helloween Helloween's history dates back to 1979 when two guitarists named Kai Hansen and Piet Sielck both were in a band called "GENTRY" and through different lineup changes through the years they named their band "IRONFIST" which then featured Ingo Schwichtenberg on drums and Markus Grosskoph on bass...
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Iced Earth Few emotions register as deeply in the human subconscious as fear. Few historical events are meaningful enough to enter the collective memory of a nation. Merging the recollection of your first-known terror with the significance of a sociological phenomenon...
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Iron Maiden In 1999, Iron Maiden is a household-name in every part of the world. After 20 years and almost 50 million album sales, Maiden is now rightly regarded as the 'classic' rock band in every sense: modern masters of that most emotionally extreme and technically dazzling form of rock music - the black sheep they call heavy metal...
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Accept Life - so the saying goes - starts with a birthday doesn't it? But in ACCEPT's case an exact birthday is hard to pinpoint.There had been a band named ACCEPT in existence since the early 1970's. Founded by Udo Dirkschneider, they had been playing on an amateur level in and around their hometown of Solingen, Germany...
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