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List of heavy metal bands
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of bands that pertain to the heavy metal genre of music.
In the late 1960s a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues-rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal.[1][2] By the early eighties the heavy metal genre began a slow division into various sub-genre categories to better describe the stylistic differences that were growing out of the original heavy metal movement. And by the end of the 1970s many of the earliest heavy metal bands had long since disbanded. Some of the bands included in the original movement were:
- AC/DC[3]
- Aerosmith[4]
- Alice Cooper[5][6]
- Black Sabbath
- Black Widow
- Bloodrock
- Blue Cheer
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Budgie
- Buffalo
- Cactus
- Cream[7]
- Deep Purple[8][9][10]
- Flower Travellin' Band
- Hawkwind
- Iron Butterfly
- Judas Priest
- Jeff Beck [11]
- Kiss[12]
- Led Zeppelin[13]
- Lucifer's Friend [14]
- Montrose
- Mountain[15]
- Pentagram
- Queen[16][17]
- Rainbow
- Rush
- Scorpions
- Sir Lord Baltimore
- Steppenwolf
- The Stooges
- Thin Lizzy
- Van Halen[18]
- Vanilla Fudge[19]
- UFO
- Uriah Heep
- See also, List of heavy metal genres
Since the 1970s, many subgenres and movements have emerged, playing their own interpretation of "heavy metal", these can vary greatly. Below in alphabetical order, are links to the many heavy metal subgenre lists on Wikipedia, with three notable examples of bands from each genre under them.
- Examples; Faith No More, System of a Down and Primus
- Examples; Stryper, Saviour Machine and Whitecross
- Examples; Death, Entombed and Morbid Angel
- Examples; Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Cathedral
- Examples; Trail of Tears, Lacuna Coil and Sirenia
- Examples; Skyclad, Finntroll and Amon Amarth
- Examples; Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and Ministry
- Examples; Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and Caliban
- Examples; KoRn, Deftones and Limp Bizkit
- Examples; Iron Maiden, Saxon and Motörhead
- Examples; Helloween, Blind Guardian and Hammerfall
- Examples; Dream Theater, Fates Warning and Queensrÿche
- Examples; Nightwish, Emperor and Rhapsody Of Fire
- ^ Weinstein, Deena. Heavy Metal: The Music and its Culture. DaCapo, 2000. ISBN 0-306-80970-2, pg. 14.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 1. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 2, 39-48, 52-57. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Walser, Robert. Running with The Devil. Wesleyan University Press, pgs. 8, 13. ISBN 0819562602.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 2, 16, 18, 19, 39, 56-69, 93, 304, 333. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Walser, Robert. Running with The Devil. Wesleyan University Press, pgs. 11, 16, 78. ISBN 0819562602.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 10-12. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Weinstein, Deena. Heavy Metal: The Music and its Culture. DaCapo, 2000. ISBN 0-306-80970-2, pg. 2.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 2. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Walser, Robert. Running with The Devil. Wesleyan University Press, pgs. 2. ISBN 0819562602.
- ^ AMG review of Jeff Beck's Truth album. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
- ^ Walser, Robert. Running with The Devil. Wesleyan University Press, pgs. 2,10,11,16. ISBN 0819562602.
- ^ BBC.co.uk
- ^ AMG bio of Lucifer's Friend. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
- ^ Ingham, Chris. The Book of Metal. Thunder's Mouth Press, pg. 204. ISBN 978-1560254195.
- ^ Nicholson, Kris (1976-04-08), "A Night at the Opera", Rolling Stone
- ^ http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifpxqr5ldje
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 1, 50-57, 77. ISBN 0749083514.
- ^ Christe, Ian. Sound of the Beast. Allison & Busby, pg. 13. ISBN 0749083514.