- Alice in Chains
- Alien Ant Farm
- Biohazard (band)
- Deftones
- Disturbed
- Helmet (band)
- Kittie
- Korn
- Incubus
- Limp Bizkit
- Machine Head (band)
- Marilyn Manson
- Rammstein
- Papa Roach
- Rage Against The Machine
- Rob Zombie
- Sevendust
- Slipknot (band)
- Soundgarden
- Spineshank
- Staind
- Static-x
- Stone Sour
- System of a Down
- Tool
- White Zombie (band)
- Acheron
- Alastor
- Arkhon Infaustus
- Behemoth
- Blood Haven
- Bloodmoon
- Dawn of Dream
- Decayed
- Dimentianon
- Dissection
- Epoch of Unlight
- Equinox
- Funeral Feast
- Hysteria
- In Aeternum
- Incriminated
- Manticore
- Mind Eclipse
- Misanthrope
- Mixomatosis
- Nordor
- Nun Slaughter
- Obscene Eulogy
- Obsecration
- Portal
- Rotting Flesh
- Sauron
- Saxorior
- Thy Disease
- Tuska
- Vorkreist
- Warkult
- Quantic Never Crashed
- Abaddon Incarnate
- Abominant
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Agiel
- Androphagous
- Antropofagus
- Askalon
- Azarath
- Beheaded
- Blockheads
- Bodies Lay Broken
- Bound and Gagged
- Burialmound
- Caedere
- Carnal
- Cephalectomy
- Cephalic
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Chaotic Humanity Choice (C.H.C.)
- Ciribus
- Cirrhosis
- Commit Suicide
- Crucifixion
- Damnation
- Demonicon
- Difer Nom Basta
- Disgorge
- Dissenter
- Downthroat
- Embolism
- Engorge
- Entety
- Entorturement
- Eternal Bleeding
- Failed Humanity
- Flesh Grinder
- Fleshart
- Fleshless
- Fornication
- Funeral Inception
- Genital Grinder
- Gorehog
- Gorelord
- Goretorture
- Goretrade
- Harmony Dies
- Homoiratus
- Immemorial
- Impaled
- Imperious
- Incinerate
- Infernal Hate
- Ingrowing
- Insision
- Inveracity
- Kabbal
- Kadath
- Kalibas
- Kataplexia
- Lacerate
- Luna Field
- Lykathea Aflame
- Mess Age
- Molested Senses
- Morgue
- Moulded Flesh
- Myopia
- Natron
- Neural Booster
- Pandemia
- Perverse
- Perversity
- Prion
- Prophecy
- Psychrist
- Psycroptic
- Rotting
- Sanatorium
- Saproffago
- Sarcasmo
- Scrambled Defuncts
- Severe Torture
- Severed Savior
- Sheolgeenna
- Side Effects
- Siksakubur
- Soils of Fate
- Suffocation
- Tears of Decay
- Terminal Descent
- Terrorist
- The Dead
- The Forensic
- The Monolith Deathcult
- Thorium
- Tomorrow's Victim
- Torn
- Torture Killer
- Veneral Disease
- Wasteform
- Zubrowska
- As I Lay Dying
- Believer
- Bloodgood
- Bloodlined Calligraphy
- Demon Hunter
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- Extol
- Jerusalem
- King of King's
- Kissing the Hands of Wrath
- Living Sacrifice
- Mortal Treason
- Mortification (band)
- Narnia
- Paramaecium
- Pillar
- Project 86
- Stryper
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- The Crucified
- Tourniquet
- Whiteheart
- Whitecross
- Underoath
- Zao
(Except for Black Sabbath & Alice Cooper, none of these bands are truly heavy metal.)
- 24-7 Spyz
- 311
- Big Chief
- Catfish
- Codename
- Chronic Future
- Dink
- F.F.F.
- Faith No More
- Fishbone
- Heads Up! (band)
- I Mother Earth
- Incubus
- In-Cyde
- Infectious Grooves
- Jane's Addiction
- Jimmie's Chicken Shack
- Lenny Kravitz maybe
- Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
- Living Colour
- Mind Funk
- Mr. Bungle
- Mucky Pup
- M.V.P.
- New Kingdom
- O'funk'illo
- Orange 9mm
- Porno for Pyros
- Primus
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Sausage
- Senser
- Shootyz Groove
- Skunk Anansie
- Smokin' Suckaz wit' Logic
- Snot
- Sugar Ray
- Zebrahead
- Bad English
- Bella Bestia
- Bon Jovi
- Bulletboys
- Cinderella
- Damn Yankees
- Danger Danger
- Dangerous Toys
- David Lee Roth
- Def Leppard
- Europe
- Extreme
- Firehouse
- Faster Pussycat
- Great White
- Sammy Hagar
- Hanoi Rocks
- KISS
- L.A. Guns
- Lita Ford
- Montrose
- Mötley Crüe
- Mr. Big
- Nelson
- Nitro
- Ozzy Osbourne (No More Tears)
- Poison
- Quiet Riot
- Ratt
- Rock City Angels
- Saigon Kick
- Skid Row
- Slaughter
- Steel Heart
- Tesla
- Twisted Sister
- Van Halen
- Vinnie Vincent Invasion
- Vixen
- Warrant
- W.A.S.P.
- White Lion
- Whitecross
- Whitesnake
- Winger
- Adrienne Bathory
- After Forever
- Anathema
- AraPacis
- Ashes You Leave
- Beseech
- Cradle of Filth
- Evanescence
- Entwine
- Haggard
- Killing Miranda
- Korova
- Lacrimas Profundere
- Lacrimosa
- Lacuna Coil
- Lake of Tears
- Leaves' Eyes
- Moonspell
- My Dying Bride
- Nightwish
- On Thorns I Lay
- Paradise Lost
- Sins of Thy Beloved
- Sirenia
- The 69 Eyes
- The Gathering
- Theatre of Tragedy
- Tristania
- Type O Negative
- Willow Wisp
- Within Temptation
- Xandria
- Amoebic Dysentery
- Anal Cunt
- Animal Foreskin
- Brutal Truth
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- Daughters
- Electrocutionerdz
- Exit 13
- Extreme Noise Terror
- Inferia
- Jogane Munno
- Leng Tch'e
- MIncing fury and guttural clamour of queer decay
- Napalm Death
- Narcosis
- Nasum
- Phobia
- Pig Destroyer
- Reinfection
- Repulsion
- ROT
- Rotten Sound
- Rytmihäiriö
- Sonic Ear Destruction
- The Berzerker
- Anger
- Apartment 26
- Bile
- Deathstars
- Eisenbrecher
- Genitorturers
- Godflesh
- Hanzel und Gretyl
- Klank
- KMFDM
- Malmonde
- Ministry
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
- P.I.G
- Pigface
- Pitbull Daycare
- Prong
- Rammstein
- SiNDADDY
- Skrew
- Strapping Young Lad
- The Kovenant
- The Mike Dorsett Project
- The Shizit
- Turmion kätilöt
- Velcra
- Violent Work of Art
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)
- 40 Below Summer
- Adema
- American Head Charge
- Coal Chamber
- Darwin's Waiting Room
- Deftones
- Demon Hunter
- Disturbed
- Dope
- Downset
- Drowning Pool
- Dry Kill Logic
- E.Town Concrete
- Endo
- Flaw
- From Zero
- Grade 8
- (Həd) P.E.
- Ill Niño
- KoЯn
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Lostprophets
- Memento
- Motograter
- Mudvayne
- Nonpoint
- Nothingface
- No One
- Noise Therapy
- One Minute Silence
- Otep
- Papa Roach
- P.O.D.
- Powerman 5000
- Pressure 4-5
- Primer 55
- Project 86
- Reach 454
- Reveille
- Saliva (band)
- Shuvel
- Skrape
- Slaves On Dope
- Slipknot
- Snot
- Soil
- Spineshank
- Static-X
- System of a Down
- Twisted Method
- Aina
- Accept
- Agora
- Angel Dust
- Angra
- Avalanch
- Avantasia
- Axenstar
- Blind Guardian
- Calvaria
- Children of Bodom
- Concerto Moon
- Cryonic Temple
- Cydonia
- Dark Moor
- Demons and Wizards
- DragonForce
- Dream Evil
- Edenbridge
- Edguy
- Elvenking
- Fairyland
- Freedom Call
- Freternia
- Gamma Ray
- Gothic Knights
- Grave Digger
- HammerFall
- Heaven's Gate
- Helloween
- Heavenly
- Highland Glory
- Iced Earth
- Iron Maiden
- Iron Savior
- Ivory Tower
- Jag Panzer
- Judas Priest
- Kaledon
- Kamelot
- Kotipelto
- Labyrinth
- Lipstick Liontigers
- Lost Horizon
- Luca Turilli
- Mägo de Oz
- Manowar
- Masterplan
- Mob Rules
- Nightwish
- Oratory
- Persuader
- Rage
- Rhapsody
- Running Wild
- S.D.I.
- Shadowkeep
- Shadowlord
- Sinergy
- Sonata Arctica
- Steel Attack
- Stratovarius
- Symphony X
- Teräsbetoni
- Thunderstone
- Tierra Santa Claus
- Total Eclipse
- Vardis
- Virginity Stealer
- X-Japan
- X-Piral
- Zandelle
- Zonata
- 2 Skinnee J's
- Anthrax
- Biohazard
- Brougham
- Charm Farm
- Deftones
- Disturbed
- (hed) pe
- Incubus
- Insane Clown Posse
- Kid Rock
- Korn
- Kottonmouth Kings
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Maximum Penalty
- Methods of Mayhem
- New Kingdom
- Orange 9mm
- Otep
- Papa Roach
- Pimpadelic
- POD
- Project 86
- Rage Against the Machine
- Saliva (band)
- Shootyz Groove
- Slipknot
- Smokin' Suckaz Wit Logic
- Taproot
- Trapt
- Trust Company
- Vanilla Ice
- Weapon of Choice
- Zebrahead
See also List of Thrash Metal bands
- Arch Enemy
- As it Burns
- At the Gates
- Atrophia Red Sun
- Baal
- Battlesword
- Beyond the Embrace
- Cenotaph
- Children of Bodom
- Compos Mentis
- Cromlech
- Dark Tranquillity
- Demons of Dirt
- Dimmu Borgir
- Ebony Tears
- Embracing
- Enter My Silence
- Hatesphere
- Imperial Domain
- In Flames
- Infliction
- Mors Principium Est
- Mourning Caress
- Neotruth
- Norther
- Noumena
- Obscurant
- Opeth
- Shadow
- Sins of Omission
- Soilwork
- Utopia Banished
- Votur
- Accused, The
- Bones Brigade
- Boston X
- Burn Your Bridges
- Capitalist Casualties
- Caustic Christ
- Charles Bronson
- Code 13
- Corrosion of Conformity (earlier records)
- Crossed Out
- Crucial Unit
- Cryptic Slaughter
- Cut the Shit
- Damage Deposit
- Das Oath (formerly The Oath)
- Demon System 13
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (DRI; earlier records)
- Down in Flames
- Dropdead
- Epileptic Terror Attack (ExTxA)
- Excel
- Fuck On The Beach
- Guyana Punch Line
- Heresy
- Holier Than Thou
- Infestation of Ass
- Kill the Man Who Questions
- Larm
- Life's Halt
- Limp Wrist
- Los Crudos
- Mukeka di Rato
- Municipal Waste
- No Time Left
- Nine Shocks Terror
- Plutocracy
- Ripcord
- Ratos De Porao
- Scholastic Deth
- Sin Dios
- Stormtroopers of Death on some songs
- Spazz
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Tear It Up
- Think I Care
- Uzi Suicide
- Vitamin X (later stuff)
- What Happens Next?
- XFilesX
- Youth Attack