The archive organised by style. Each genre with its own page gathers its bands, its history and its internal strands.
40 bands
Fast-paced metal built on soaring choruses and high vocals, born in 1980s Germany and turned into a global phenomenon.
26 bands
The trunk everything else grew from: distorted guitars, heavy riffing and the structure that defined the genre from the 1970s onward.
17 bands
Metal that abandons the short form: odd time signatures, long tracks and a compositional ambition inherited from progressive rock.
15 bands
Metal written on an orchestral scale: choirs, symphonic arrangements and operatic vocals folded into the band.
12 bands
Speed, aggression and palm-muted riffing: the American answer to the metal of the early 1980s.
12 bands
Metal's technical extreme: guttural vocals, blast beats and dissonant riffing of high complexity.
12 bands
Where hardcore meets extreme metal: breakdowns, the alternation of screaming and singing, and a strong hold on younger generations.
6 bands
Raw production, glacial atmosphere and shrieked vocals: metal's most radical and most contested subgenre.
Styles with few bands do not have their own page yet — they remain in the general directory.