NWOBHM
1979–1983·4 bands
The British eruption that reinvented metal in the late 1970s and set the sound of the decade that followed.
Bay Area Thrash
1982–1990·4 bands
The San Francisco Bay Area scene that turned thrash metal into a worldwide phenomenon in the 1980s.
German Power Metal Scene
1984–2005·11 bands
The school that made Germany power metal's second homeland, from Helloween to the late-1990s revival.
Finnish Power-Symphonic Metal Scene
1987–2005·8 bands
Second Wave of Norwegian Black Metal
1991–1996·3 bands
The early-1990s Norwegian scene that redefined black metal — and whose extra-musical history still trails it.
NWOAHM
1995–2005·5 bands
The American generation that, from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, rebuilt heavy metal after nu metal.
Dutch Symphonic Metal
1996–2010·5 bands
The Dutch scene that, at the turn of the 2000s, made symphonic metal an export genre.
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