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This is a list of occult rock bands. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Thrash metal was an inspiration for later extreme genres such as death metal and black metal. This list also includes certain bands which belong to the first wave of black metal. These bands essentially played thrash metal with a heavy emphasis on Satanic and occult themes in the lyrics and imagery. [12]
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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.
The genre has been described as being influenced by hard rock, [6] proto-metal, [7] psychedelic rock, [1] progressive rock, [8] and blues, [9] as well as commonly incorporating lyrics referencing the occult, [3] but is not inherently or invariably gloomy or dark. [8] AXS noted that Tony Iommi's doom rock style of riffing defined the genre of ...
This is a list of war metal bands. War metal (also known as war black metal or bestial black metal) is an aggressive, cacophonous and chaotic subgenre of blackened death metal. List of bands
Tobias Forge, the masked Ghost leader known as Papa Emeritus, on the 'circularity' of evil, his empathy for metal purists and his love of '70s 'divorce rock.'
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 ...