Metal Bands - A

Sludge metal

Known for their music being notoriously unavaiable across streaming platforms

Dr. Seuss Is Dead, Dope Fiend

Thrash metal

Part of the Big 4 Of Thrash metal

Got The Time, Madhouse

Grindcore

Known for their frontman’s antics and excensivelly offensive lyrics

You’re a (fucking) Cop, I Lit Your Baby On Fire

Power/ Pirate metal

The flagship (no pun intended) of the microgenre of pirate metal

Drink, Keelhauled

Power/Symphonic metal

Known for their operatic female vocals

Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose, Dying For An Angel

Alternative Metal/ Metalcore

One of few bands that managed to bring together metal and metalcore fans

Nightmare, Hail To The King

Grindcore/ Death/ Black metal

A project of multiinstrumentalist Mick Kenney and vocalist Dave Hunt

Libidious (A Pig With Cocks In Its Eyes), Endarkenment

Metalcore/ Electronicore

Their video for Stick Stickly is recognized as the origin of the microgenre - crabcore

Stick Stickly, Smokahontas

Grindcore

Most of their songs are not even minute long

Built To Grind, A Mosquito Holding Human Cattle Prod

Heavy metal

German heavy metal band wchich spawned the career of Udo Dirkschneider

Balls To The Wall, Teutonic Terror

Death metal

One of the earliest known death metal bands

Disembowel, Hole In The Head

Blackgaze, Post-metal

Their name rhymes with incest, pioneers of the genre of blackgaze

Sapphire, Autre Temps

Metalcore

British metalcore band, earlier stuff influenced by Dillinger Escape plan with its complex and chaotic rythm, later moved into more melodic, accesible style

Animals, Doomsday

Metalcore

They really like to pour water on themselves in music videos

A Prophecy, The Final Episode (Let’s Change The Channel)

Metalcore

Originally Christian metal band, their frontman hired a hitman on his girlfriend and served 3 years in jail, then returned to the band, they later came out as atheists

Burden, My Own Grave

Nü metal

Appeared on the soundtrack for Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, vocalist is half-brother of Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis

Immortal, Everyone

Nü Metal

Early incarnations of the band sported names such as Gestapo Pussy Ranch, and Warsaw Ghetto Pussy. Their current name is also a three word name, albeit less offensive

Loyalty, Just So You Know

Grunge, Alternative metal

Along with Nirvana and Soundgarden crucial to the emergence of grunge

Nutshell, Would?

Melodic Death Metal, Groove metal

Swedish band with lyrics mostly in english, but also in german

Smells Like A Freakshow, Bloody Angel

Melodic Death Metal, Viking metal

Flagship of the mirogenre of viking metal. Their fans pretend to row a viking boat at the concerts

Twilight Of Thunder God, Guardians Of Asgaard