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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. 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]
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 ...
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.
[228] 1980 saw several other entries by hard rock and heavy metal bands in the top 10 of the British charts: MSG's first album peaked at No. 8, [229] Whitesnake's Ready an' Willing at No. 6, [230] Judas Priest's best-seller British Steel [30] and Motörhead's Ace of Spades at No. 4, [44] while Back in Black by AC/DC reached number one. [37]
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 ...
Priest showed the range of their influences by giving heavy metal makeovers to Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust” and Fleetwood Mac’s “The Green Manalishi.” 32. Elton John – 17-11-70 (1971)
The N.W.O.T.H.M. initially started in the mid-2000s with a number of bands, such as Cauldron, Skull Fist, and Enforcer, who began to write and record music that reflected the style and sound of classic heavy metal. These bands combined elements of the metal genres from the '70s and '80s, especially those of the N.W.O.B.H.M., although some bands ...
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. It is described by AllMusic as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music.