This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2012. A Plea for Purging Ajattara Anterior Averse Sefira Blind Witness The Carrier...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2024. Amen Botch Destrage Issues Jane's Addiction (indefinite hiatus) Misery Signals...

A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times...

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has...

article by Geoff Barton in a May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds to describe the emergence of new heavy metal bands in the mid to late 1970s...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2022. Angus McSix Elegant Weapons Ibaraki Battlecross (indefinite hiatus) Blessthefall...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2011. Ark Dawn of Retribution Devian Dismember Elexorien The Famine Five Star Prison...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020. Act of Denial Bodom After Midnight Abnormality Absu All Shall Perish Anathema...

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan...

years in heavy metal music, to provide an overview and quick navigation to any year. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013...

heavy metal subgenre. In the late 1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal....

Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2021. The Halo Effect Bodom After Midnight Demons & Wizards Hellyeah (hiatus) Lotus...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2017. Bad Wolves The Dark Element Idle Hands Powerflo Silvertomb Sons of Apollo Amoral...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2010. Abscess Acheron The Autumn Offering Despised Icon Destroy the Runner Detente...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2019. BPMD Nemophila Vexed Black Moth Brain Drill Children of Bodom Continents Dirge...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2005. 5 Star Grave A Plea for Purging Abnormality Acrania Agrimonia AM Conspiracy...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006. 1000mods Abandon All Ships Adelitas Way All Hail the Yeti Almah Altar of Plagues...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2003. A Day to Remember The Abominable Iron Sloth Abysmal Dawn Adler's Appetite Aina...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008. A Sound of Thunder A Storm of Light Aeon Zen Allegaeon Amaranthe Arkaea Austrian...

Indonesian heavy metal or Indonesian metal music are music with the heavy metal genre that developed and emerged from local Indonesian metal bands. In history...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2004. A Dozen Furies A Hero A Fake Abigail Williams Adept After The Burial Age of...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007. Acid Witch Affiance Animals as Leaders Archspire The Atlas Moth Attack Attack...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018. Oceanhoarse Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Adagio (hiatus) Burzum The Charm the Fury...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in 2002. 3,14... Adrift All Ends All Shall Perish Alltheniko Angtoria Arkona Asesino Astral Doors...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2009. Accept Arcturus Ark Autopsy Beherit Beneath the Sky Creed The Crown Decapitated...

Chinese heavy metal (中国重金属, pinyin: Zhōngguó Zhòngjīnshǔ; also 中国重金属音乐, Zhōngguó zhòngjīnshǔ yīnyuè, literally "Chinese heavy metal music") is commonly...

Fans of heavy metal music, commonly referred to as "Metalheads", have created their own subculture that encompasses more than just appreciation of the...

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016. Cellar Darling Invidia Lovebites Memoriam Nothing Left Pillorian Prophets of...