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This is a list of heavy metal artists from the formative years of the movement (formed between 1963 and 1981).For bands formed after 1981, please consult the lists for each heavy metal subgenre.
May 18: Peter Criss, drummer of Kiss, leaves the band. Eric Carr takes his place. Sounds Music Paper Editor Dave Lewis, invents the term New Wave Of British Heavy Metal to accompany an article Geoff Barton wrote on three young British Heavy Metal bands touring together, namely Samson, Iron Maiden and Angelwitch.
List of Neue Deutsche Härte bands; List of new wave of American heavy metal bands; List of new wave of British heavy metal bands; List of new wave of traditional heavy metal bands; List of nu metal bands
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which were more or less forcibly identified as heavy ...
Underground scenes produced an array of more extreme, aggressive metal subgenres: thrash metal broke into the mainstream with numerous bands, including the genre's U.S. "Big Four" (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth), as well as Exodus, Testament, Overkill, Brazil's Sepultura and Germany's "Big Teutonic Four": Kreator, Destruction, Sodom ...
This is a list of notable hard rock bands and musicians. 0–9. 3 Doors Down [1] A. AC/DC ... [80] B'z [81] C. Cactus [82] ... Eagles of Death Metal [117] Eloy [118]
The following list of glam metal bands and artists includes bands and artists that have been described as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] hair band, [3] pop metal [1] and lite metal [1] by professional journalists at some stage in their career. Glam metal is a subgenre of heavy metal [4] and is influenced by 1970s ...
This is a list of speed metal bands. Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots.