Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
To call I a Norwegian supergroup would be nothing short of an understatement: featuring members of mighty IMMORTAL, GORGOROTH, SAHG and ENSLAVED in their ranks, it comes as no surprise that the debut album Between Two Worlds takes us to the very roots of high-class metal and further. With IMMORTAL having disbanded a few years back, the metal... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
The band was created in Medellín as a project at the end of February of 2002 under the name of "Střrmblast", our main lyrical structure are Celtic, Viking and pagan mythologies with a touch of Norse black metal creating a different kind of metal never done in Colombia, by that time we began with the rehearsals and creation of hymns following the... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
If Celtic Frost's first three albums served as the musical Lord of the Rings for hundreds of European kids who later wound up in black metal bands of their own, then Frost's main man Tom Warrior's first band -- the ultra-primitive Hellhammer -- surely represented The Hobbit. With Warrior on vocals and guitar, Steve Warrior (no relation) on bass,... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Fashion trends may come and go, but Florida's Iced Earth has remained steadfastly committed to championing the cause of heavy metal through thick and thin. After years of laboring in obscurity and undergoing countless lineup changes, they have slowly emerged as one of the greatest hopes for classic metal in America.
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Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Nick Holmes - Vocals
Greg Mackintosh - Lead Guitar
Aaron Aedy - Rhythm Guitar
Steve Edmondson - Bass
Jeff Singer - Drums
Band Biography
Gothic metal pioneers and arguably one of the best and most influential rock bands Britain has ever produced, 2007 marks Yorkshire's kings of gloom Paradise Lost's nineteenth year,...
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Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Slayer was one of the most distinctive, influential, and extreme thrash metal bands of the 1980s. Their graphic lyrics deal with everything from death and dismemberment to war and the horrors of hell. Their full-throttle velocity, wildly chaotic guitar solos, and powerful musical chops paint an effectively chilling sonic background for their... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Slayer was one of the most distinctive, influential, and extreme thrash metal bands of the 1980s. Their graphic lyrics deal with everything from death and dismemberment to war and the horrors of hell. Their full-throttle velocity, wildly chaotic guitar solos, and powerful musical chops paint an effectively chilling sonic background for their... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s
One of countless speed metal bands to emerge from the thrash-friendly state of New Jersey during the 1980s, Bayonne's Blood Feast were formed as Blood Lust in 1985, and actually submitted a few songs from their "Suicidal Mission" demo to New Renaissance Records' Thrash Metal Attack and Speed Metal Hell, Vol. 3 compilations before changing their... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Controversy has plagued Florida-based quartet Deicide. Their first tour, in 1992, suffered from severe criticism for the band's statements in favor of animal sacrifices. Their Stockholm, Sweden, concert was canceled after four songs when a bomb was discovered on-stage. Led by vocalist/bass player Glen Benton, Deicide has delivered some of the... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Diet ov Worms was founded in 1996 as Fetid Scum. The original members of the band were M (guitars & bass), Yanthor (vocals) and Wargecko (drums & guitars). The band originally played punk- and noise-influenced grindcore before switching over to blackened death metal. In 1997, the band changed its name to Primeval Dusk. The band recorded raw... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Conceived during the late '80s when death metal did everything it could to gain credibility as a substantial niche, Entombed instantly championed the eerie variation of brutal heavy metal, giving it credibility before quickly abandoning the style in the early '90s. In their post-death metal years, the band retained the niche genre's most... [+] Read More
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
If Celtic Frost's first three albums served as the musical Lord of the Rings for hundreds of European kids who later wound up in black metal bands of their own, then Frost's main man Tom Warrior's first band -- the ultra-primitive Hellhammer -- surely represented The Hobbit. With Warrior on vocals and guitar, Steve Warrior (no relation) on bass,... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
We are a symphonic black metal band from South London. We formed around mid 2006 (with only 2 members, Andy and Charlie), but only started recording around september. There are 3 current members:
Andrew Land - Lead Guitars, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Joe Rainer - Harmonising Guitar
Charlie Tuckey - Drums
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
MORDRED has been reinvented many times over the last 24 years with a host of different musicians and two distinctive styles, Thrash/Death Metal and Thrash/Funk Metal.
The band was formed in San Francisco in 1984 by Steve Scates, Alex Gerould, Art Liboon, Josh Juska and Brian Douglas Gilbert "Heavy Metal Drummer" - Lee Altus (Angel Witch,...
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Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s
Morgoth is a German heavy metal quintet featuring vocalist Marc Grewe, guitarists Carsten Otterbach and Harald Busse, bassist Sebastian Swart, and drummer Rudiger Hennecke. They debuted with a pair of EPs, The Eternal Fall and Resurrection Absurd, which were later collected on a two-fer in 1991, the same year their first full-length album,... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Muspelheimr formed in late 2002 under the name of Saxon September or Gimpknot (later changed to Saxon September). it was formed by the bands frontman Dan Harrington and the bands guitarist David Petrella. Harrington and Petrella originally did not take the notion of a band seriously, they would make crude comedic lyrics and they would call... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
Long before the endless stream of grindcore bands emerged in the '90s, N.Y.C.'s Nausea was delivering a relentless, ear-splitting, and politically charged fury that none of them ever equaled. Formed in the squats of the Lower East Side in 1987 by bassist John John Jesse, they would go on to influence countless numbers of anarcho-crust bands... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
English band formed in 1986, with Martin Walkyier (vocals), Andy Sneap (guitar), Frazer Craske (bass), and Simon Negus (drums). Sabbat distinguished themselves with both their blazing speed and their fascination with witchcraft, black magic, paganism, and the Dark Ages. Their music was complex and their stage show was highly theatrical. After... [+] Read More