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Heavy Metal Bands

1. (NEW!) Annihilator Buy: CDs || DVDs
2. Avenged Sevenfold Buy: CDs || DVDs || Accessories
   
3. Biohazard Buy: CDs || DVDs
4. Black Label Society Buy: CDs || DVDs
5. Black Sabbath Buy: CDs || DVDs
6. Blind Guardian Buy: CDs || DVDs
7. Danzig Buy: CDs || DVDs
8. Dio Buy: CDs || DVDs
   
9. Edguy Buy: CDs || DVDs
10. Guns N' Roses Buy: CDs || DVDs
11. GWAR Buy: CDs || DVDs
12. Hammerfall Buy: CDs || DVDs
13. Iced Earth Buy: CDs || DVDs
14. Iron Maiden Buy: CDs || DVDs
15. Judas Priest Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
16. King Diamond Buy: CDs
17. Kiss Buy: CDs || DVDs
18. Led Zeppelin Buy: CDs || DVDs || Accessories
    
19. Machine Head Buy: CDs || DVDs
20. Manowar Buy: CDs || DVDs
21. Mastodon Buy: CDs || DVDs
22. Megadeth Buy: CDs || DVDs
23. Mercyful Fate Buy: CDs
24. Meshuggah Buy: CDs || DVDs
25. Metallica Buy: CDs || DVDs || Books
26. Motley Crue Buy: CDs || DVDs
27. Nevermore Buy: CDs
28. Ozzy Osbourne Buy CDs || DVDs
29. Pantera Buy: CDs || DVDs
30. Queensryche Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
31. Running Wild Buy: CDs
    
32. Savatage Buy: CDs
    
33. Sonata Arctica Buy: CDs
34. Scorpions Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
35. Soulfly Buy: CDs || DVDs
    
36. Tool Buy: CDs || DVDs
37. Type O Negative Buy: CDs || DVDs
38. White Zombie Buy: CDs
    
39. Yngwie Malmsteen Buy: CDs || DVDs

Heavy Metal Description

Heavy metal is a subgenre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974, mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use of highly-amplified distortion.

Out of heavy metal various subgenres later evolved, many of which are referred to simply as "metal". As a result, "heavy metal" now has two distinct meanings: either the genre and all of its subgenres, or the original heavy metal bands of the 1970s style sometimes dubbed "traditional metal", as exemplified by Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath.

Heavy metal began gaining popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, at which time many of the now existing subgenres first evolved. Heavy metal has a large world-wide following of fans known by terms such as "metalheads" and "headbangers".

Heavy metal is typically characterized by a guitar-and-drum-dominated sound, strong rhythms and classical, bluesy or symphonic styles. However, heavy metal sub-genres have their own stylistic variations on the original form that often omit or alter many of these characteristics. There is a very wide variety of sounds and styles within the genre of Metal.