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| Commonly accepted as the first metal band ever | Heavy metal | Iron Man, Paranoid | Black Sabbath | 93%
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| An influential solo project of former Mayhem member, Varg Vikernes, focusing on dark ambient black metal and norwegian folk influences | Black metal, Neofolk, Dark Ambient, Folk metal | Dunkelheit, Lost Wisdom | Burzum | 69%
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| Named after an incident of the frontman breaking a microphone, frontman is named Ben, wchich is short for… | Alternative metal/post-grunde | So Cold, The Diary Of Jane | Breaking Benjamin | 67%
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| One of the earliest black metal bands, sometimes attributed the title of first real black metal, named after the bloodthirsty countess | First wave Black metal | Necromansy, Raise The Dead | Bathory | 64%
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| One of the leading contemporary metal bands, in terms of popularity, spawning from the myspacecore era, later known for their genre fluidity | Metalcore, Deathcore, Alternative Metal, Post-hardcore, electronic rock | Can You Feel My Heart, Kool Aid | Bring Me The Horizon/BMTH | 57%
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| Polish extreme metal band, with both death metal and black metal influences, though mostly accepting the black metal identity and presence | Black metal, Death metal | Ov Fire And The Void, Once Upon A Pale Horse | Behemoth | 50%
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| Named after the unsolved murder case, nickname of the long unidentified corpse of a young woman, consisting of three words with the first being the same as the band above | Melodic Death Metal | What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse, Funeral Thirst | Black Dahlia Murder | 40%
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| Formed in the late 90s, groovy metal with southern influences, featuring guitarist Zakk Wylde, has a skull for their logo, name consists of three words, first identical to the one above | Groove Metal, Southern rock | In This River, Funeral Bell | Black Label Society | 36%
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| One of calssic death metal bands, associated with the gaming series Warhammer 40 000 | Death metal, Thrash metal, Grind | Cenotaph, The Killchain | Bolt Thrower | 26%
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| one of the first rap metal bands, predating the nü metal craze of the late 90s, fronted by the rapper Ice T | Rap Metal | Cop Killer, Institutionalized | Body Count | 21%
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| There are actually 8 bands with the name on metal encyclopedia. Most think of austrian death metal band. The name is taken from God of the Moabites. Both variants with “ph” and “f” exist. | Death metal/Black Metal | Virtus Asinaria, Conjuring The Dead | Belphegor/Belfegor | 19%
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| Extreme metal band from Los Angles, with strong latino/chicano roots, with lyrics in spanish | Grindcore, Death metal, Groove metal | La Migra, Don Quijote Marijuana | Brujeria | 17%
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| Finnish black metal, the name is claimed to be the Syriac word for Satan, but this word does not exist in the language and the claim is false. | Black metal | Salomon’s Gate, Gate Of Nanna | Beherit | 10%
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| Formed by Øystein Garnes Brun in 1994 as an outlet to create more melodic music and to push the boundaries of "traditional" black metal after growing tired of the simple brutality of his previous band Molested. The name is completely made up, though it sounds like a slur for black robot. | Progressive/folk/black metal | Winter Thrice, Up North | Borknagar | 7%
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| Spinoff of bands Prayer For Cleansing and From Here On. In 2019 nominated for grammy for best metal performance with their song Condemned To The Gallows | Progressive metalcore/technical metal | Astral Body, Extremophile Elite | Between The Buried And Me | 5%
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