Early heavy metal Aerosmith Black Sabbath Blue Cheer Blue Oyster Cult Led Zeppelin The Misfits The Stooges Velvet Underground New Wave of British Heavy Metal(NWOBHM) Angel Witch Def Leppard Diamond Head Iron Maiden Judas Priest Motorhead Praying Mantis Raven Samson Saxon Thrash metal Anthrax Cacophony Celtic Frost Corrosion of Conformity King Diamond Kreator Megadeth Mercyful Fate Metallica Napalm Death Overkill Pantera Rollins Band Sepultura Slayer Suicidal Tendencies Power metal Accept Blind Guardian Demons & Wizards Gamma Ray Hammerfall Helloween Iced Earth Iron Maiden Jag Panzer Judas Priest Nevermore Pantera Rhapsody Stratovarius Stoner metal Acid King Kyuss Monster Magnet Queens of the Stone Age Spirit Caravan Death metal At the Gates Arch Enemy Atheist Benediction Bolt Thrower Cannibal Corpse Carcass Cynic Dark Tranquility Death Deicide Entombed Hypocrisy In Flames Morbid Angel Mortification Napalm Death Obituary Pestilence Rotting Christ Tiamat Venom Industrial metal Godflesh Marilyn Manson Ministry Black metal Burzum Cradle of Filth Borknagar Dimmu Borgir Emperor Finntroll Mayhem Old Man's Child Sacramentum Samael Thorns Ulver Nu metal Drowning Pool Fear Factory Korn Lacrimosa Limp Bizkit Papa Roach Staind System of a Down Theatre of Tragedy Tool Doom metal Anathema Candlemass Cathedral Cemetary Crowbar Danzig Opeth Lake of Tears My Dying Bride Paradise Lost Saint Vitus Trouble Neo-classical metal Jennifer Batten Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple The Great Kat Eddie Van Halen Greg Howe Yngwie Malmsteen Randy Rhoads Progressive metal Anacrusis Buckethead Dream Theater King Crimson King's X Queensryche Symphony X Voivod Glam metal/hair metal Cinderella Alice Cooper Bon Jovi Def Leppard Dokken Extreme Great White Guns 'n' Roses KISS Mötley Crüe Mr. Big Poison Ratt The Scorpions Skid Row Tesla Twisted Sister Van Halen Vixen Warrant W.A.S.P Whitesnake Winger