A heavy sounding and agressive subgenre of [[rock (music)|Rock]] music.

Emerged from the 1970s with the bands like UFO, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, [[Rainbow (Band)|Rainbow]], Cheap Trick and Motörhead.
and evolved from 1980s from bands like Venom, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio and Metallica.

h4. Subgenres

* [[Black Metal]]
* [[Power Metal]]

h4.Notable bands

* [[Angra (band)|]]
* [[Anthrax (band)|]]
* [[Bathory (band)|]]
* [[Black Sabbath]]
* [[Cannibal Corpse]]
* [[Death (band)|]]
* [[Dio (Band)|Dio]]
* [[DragonForce|]]
* [[Ghost (Band)|Ghost]]
* [[Immortal (band)|]]
* [[Iron Maiden (band)|]]
* [[Judas Priest]]
* [[Korn (band)|]]
* [[Mayhem (Band)|]]
* [[Megadeth]]
* [[Metallica]]
* [[Motorhead|Motörhead]]
* [[Opeth (band)|]]
* [[Pantera (band)|]]
* [[Rammstein (band)|]]
* [[Sabaton (band)|]]
* [[Slayer (band)|]]
* [[Sodom (Band)|]]
* [[Tool (band)|]]
* [[Type O Negative]]
* [[Venom (Band)|]]
* [[X Japan]]

h4.Notable Artists
* [[Abbath]]
* [[James Hetfield]]
* [[Lemmy Kilmister]]
* [[Ozzy Osbourne]]
* [[Rob Halford]]
* [[Ronnie James Dio]]
* [[Peter Steele]]
* [[Yngwie Malmsteen]]

h1. Related Tags
* [[\n/|Sign of the Horns]]
* [[Corpse Paint]]

h4.Notable bands (Anime)

* [[Death Devil]] ([[K-ON!]])
** [[Yamanaka Sawako]]
* [[Detroit Metal City]]
** [[Johannes Krauser II]]

h4. See also
* "Pool:Heavy Metal":[/pools/6818]
* [[Rock (Music)|Rock]]
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