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There is only one AC/DC.
They play rock 'n' roll that's
more punk than punk and
more metal than metal.
They rule. AC/DC formed i...
Seminal death metal Swedes
At the Gates were among
the first bands to
incorporate heavy amounts
of melody into their attac...
Sweden's Bathory were
instrumental in forming both
the black and Viking metal
genres. Quorthon formed
Bathory in 1983 at age 17....
From the early '70s on,
British sludge-masters Black
Sabbath defined heavy
metal with satanic imagery
and massive guitars. Black...
One of the most extreme
death metal bands ever. We
aren't even allowed to print
most of their best song
titles. Formed in Buffalo,...
Celtic Frost are among of a
handful of bands
responsible for the
formation of death metal.
Their influence is incalcul...
Former Misfits frontman
Glenn Danzig carries out his
legacy of brutality with this
blackened, gothic metal
outfit.
Proto-Metal Hard Rock band
formed in the '60s and
continued on into the '80s.
Fronted by singer Ian Gillan.
After leaving Deep Purple...
Ronnie James Dio perfected
the heavy metal bleat as the
singer for three seminal
bands: Elf, Rainbow and
post-Ozzy Sabbath. His re...
The preeminent Hard Rock
band from the '80s, GNR
played as hard as they
partied, from 1985 till they
called it quits in 1996. The...
With their aggressive riffs
and throaty vocals, these
Swedish death metalers go
down well with the Ozzfest
types. Jesper Stromblad,...
Bruce Dickinson's
high-flying vocals and an
army of guitars made Iron
Maiden THE new wave of
British heavy metal band....
Judas Priest popularized the
sound of NWOBHM through
Rob Halford's operatic
vocals and the spastic
guitars of K.K. Downing....
Highly theatrical face
painters and metal mongers
KISS played cheez-whizz
rock 'n' roll and made no
apologies. Glam power lic...
Mastodon play a constantly
shape-shifting hybrid of
prog metal and sludge metal
-- complex and heavy. The
quartet formed in Atlanta,...
Thrash pioneers Megadeth
dispelled the myth that
Metal was stupid with
political lyrics and
numerical riffs. Megadeth...
The very definition of
Heavy Freaking Metal, the
Melvins resurrected
Sabbath, spawned Grunge
and midwifed Stoner Roc...
This mother of all Metal
bands introduced the world
to the intracacies of Speed
Metal and Thrash. Megadeth
frontman Dave Mustaine w...
British Metal kingpins led by
Lemmy Kilmister and best
known for the song "Ace of
Spades." Before forming
Motorhead in 1975, Lemm...
These inventors of the
"blast beat" made such a
brutal anti-everything noise
it was hard to believe
humans were responsible...
The kings of Florida's
incredibly prolific metal
scene, Obituary produce
some of the most inhuman
noises you will ever hear....
Ozzy Osbourne is to metal
what Michael Jackson is to
nose jobs. He was the
psychotic frontman for
Black Sabbath. 'Nuff said....
Heavier than heavy, Pantera
looms large in the metal
arena, playing brutal thrash
that stops just short of
death metal. Vinnie Paul a...
Athens, Greece's Rotting
Christ pound out a more
baroque version of the
black metal that Venom and
Celtic Frost pioneered.
During the 1980s and
early-'90s, this Brazilian
metal band was a seminal
influence on the speed
metal genre. Sepultura fo...
Slayer picked up where
Venom left off and went
straight to hell, taking the
next couple generations of
metal with them. Slayer's...
True heirs to the Sabbath
throne of heaviness, Sleep
played incredibly
awesome, totally
purple-budded stoner ro...
Venom were largely
responsible for the
formation of not just the
genre of Black Metal, but
also the term itself.
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