This is a list of bands that pertain to the heavy metal genre of music.
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[] Original movement: 1967-1979
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]
- Jeff Beck [5][6]
- Alice Cooper[7][8]
- Black Sabbath
- Black Widow
- Bloodrock
- Blue Cheer
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Budgie
- Buffalo
- Cactus
- Cream[9]
- Cue To Eclipse
- Deep Purple[10][11][12]
- Flower Travellin' Band
- Hawkwind
- Humble Pie
- Iron Butterfly
- Judas Priest
- Kiss[13]
- Led Zeppelin[14]
- Lucifer's Friend [15]
- Montrose
- Mountain[16]
- Pentagram
- [[Motorhead (band)
- Queen[17][18]
- Rainbow
- Rush
- Scorpions
- Sir Lord Baltimore
- Steppenwolf
- Thin Lizzy
- UFO
- Uriah Heep
- Van Halen[19]
- Vanilla Fudge[20]
[] By subgenre
See also, Heavy metal subgenresSince 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; Bathory, Burzum and Mayhem 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 Korpiklaani Examples; Fear Factory, Rammstein and Ministry Examples; Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and Caliban Examples; Slipknot, KoRn, and Limp Bizkit Examples; Iron Maiden, Saxon and Def Leppard Examples; Helloween, Blind Guardian and Sonata Arctica Examples; Dream Theater, Fates Warning and Queensrÿche Examples; Motörhead, Venom and Cacophony Examples; Nightwish, Emperor and Rhapsody of Fire Examples; Slayer, Metallica and Anthrax Examples; Bathory, Amon Amarth and Enslaved[] See also
