Early metal (1966 - 1971)

- Cream - Jimi Hendrix - Blue Cheer - Deep Purple - Led Zeppelin - MC5 - Mountain -
The Stooges - Blac Sa!!ath
Original hard rock (1974 - 1979)
- Thin Li""# - Blue $#ster Cult - %erosmith - %C&DC - Ted 'ugent
Shock rock (1968 - 1983)
- %rthur Bro(n - %lice Cooper - 'e( )or Dolls - *iss - +""# +s!ourne - ,-%-S-P-
Early pnk (1976 - 1979)
- The .amones - The Damned - The Sex Pistols - The Clash - The Dead Bo#s
!o"er metal (1976 - !re#ent)
- Scorpions - Judas Priest - .ain!o( - %ccept - Mano(ar - Dio - )ng(ie J- Malmsteen -
Hello(een - Blind /uardian - Hammer0all - Primal 0ear
$e" %a&e o' (riti#h )ea&y *etal (1979 - 1983)
- Mot1rhead - Saxon - 2ron Maiden - %ngel ,itch - /irlschool - T#gers o3 Pan Tang -
Diamond Head
!rogre##i&e metal (197+ - !re#ent)
- 4riah Heep - .ush - 5ueensr6che - Sa7atage - 0ates ,arning - 8oi7od - Dream
Theater - Meshuggah - S#mphon# 9 - :7ergre#
,lam metal (1973 - 199+)
- Slade - S(eet - Hanoi .ocs - M1tle# Cr;e - T(isted Sister - Poison - Cinderella -
Sid .o(
!op metal (1978 - !re#ent)
- 5uiet .iot - 8an Halen - ,hitesnae - De3 Leppard - :urope - Doen - Lita 0ord -
.att - /uns '< .oses - ,inger - ,arrant - Doro - The Darness
Stoner metal (198- - !re#ent)
- ,itch3inder /eneral - Trou!le - Candlemass - *#uss - Toda# is the Da# - Cathedral
Original hardcore (198+ - 1986)
- %gnostic 0ront - D-+-%- - :xploited - Blac 0lag - Bad Brains - The Mis3its - /BH -
Dead *enned#s - Minor Threat
.hra#h metal (1983 - !re#ent)
- Metallica - Sla#er - %nthrax - Megadeth - Sodom - :xodus - +7erill - *reator -
Destruction - Testament - Sepultura - 'uclear %ssault - Death %ngel - Pantera -
Children o3 Bodom
/ir#t "a&e o' 0lack metal (1981 - 1986)
- 8enom - Merc#3ul 0ate - Bathor# - Celtic 0rost
$or"egian 0lack metal (199+ - !re#ent)
- Ma#hem - /orgoroth - Darthrone - :mperor - Sat#ricon - :nsla7ed - Dimmu Borgir -
Cradle +3 0ilth =4*>
,rindcore (1987 - !re#ent)
- 'apalm Death - Carcass - .epulsion - Brutal Truth - Cephalic Carnage
1eath metal (1982 - !re#ent)
- Possessed - Death - Mor!id %ngel - +!ituar# - Deicide - Canni!al Corpse -
2mmolation - %utops# - 'ile - D#ing 0etus
S"edi#h death metal (199+ - !re#ent)
- /ra7e - :ntom!ed - %t the /ates - Dismem!er - %rch :nem# - Soil(or - 2n 0lames -
Dar Tran?uilit# - The Haunted
*etalcore (1982 - !re#ent)
- Corrosion o3 Con3ormit# - Suicidal Tendencies - Dirt# .otten 2m!eciles - Machine
Head - Stormtroopers o3 Death - Hate!reed - The Dillinger :scape Plan
,rnge (1988 - 1993)
- /reen .i7er - The Mel7ins - Soundgarden - Mudhone# - 'ir7ana - %lice in Chains -
Mother Lo7e Bone - Pearl Jam - Stone Temple Pilots
,oth metal (aca 1oom metal on the 131) (199+ - !re#ent)
- Paradise Lost - Tiamat - Therion - T#pe + 'egati7e - M# D#ing Bride - %nathema -
Theatre +3 Traged# - +peth
4nd#trial metal (1988 - !re#ent)
- Ministr# - ,hite Zom!ie - /od3lesh - 'ine 2nch 'ails - 0ear 0actor# - Maril#n
Manson - Static-9
)ard alternati&e (1989 - !re#ent)
- 0aith 'o More - Jane<s %ddiction - Prong - Li7ing Colour - The Smashing Pumpins -
Tool - .age %gainst the Machine
$ metal (1994 - !re#ent)
- Bioha"ard - *o@n - Slipnot - Limp Bi"it - /odsmac - Coal Cham!er - Distur!ed -
*ittie - S#stem o3 a Do(n
$e" %a&e o' 5merican *etal (-+++ - !re#ent)
- Shado(s 0all - Lam! o3 /od - Darest Hour - Chimaira - *ills(itch :ngage - 4nearth
- /od 0or!id