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Disclaimer: Listed below are a lot of nu-metal bands which are not widely considered true Metal by the majority of the Metal Community. Some are Awsome, some suck (escape the fate).

A day to remember .

Escape the fate .

Alesana .

Bullet for my valentine .

Atreyu .

SENSES FAIL .

Hawthorne heights .

Killswitch engage.

Scary kids scaring kids .

Avenged sevenfold .

AFI .

BRING ME THE HORIZON .

PARK WAY DRIVE .

DISTURBED.(the best)

System of a down .

Metallica.

Death.

8 foot sativa.

sinate.

Legacy of disorder.

Tainted.

Human.

Second gear grind.

World war 4.

DDD.

Arch enemy.

COB.

Turmoil.

Megadeth.

Slayer.

Testament.

Pantera.

Possessed.

Venom.

Emperor.

Immortal.

Divine Heresy.

Dawn of Azazel

Five finger death punch.

Dyers Eve.

Dimmu Borgir.

Opeth.

Gojira.

Trivium.

Machine Head.

Carnifex.

as blood runs black.

Slipknot

GodsmackJudas Priest

Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath

Dio

Rainbow

Helloween

Overkill

Motorhead

Diamond Head

Anthrax

Manowar

Ozzy Osbourne

Warlock

Motley Crue

Poison

Vixen

Tesla

KISS

Guns n Roses

Quiet Riot

Whitesnake

Scorpions

Def Leppard

Dokken

Cinderella

W.A.S.P.

Bon Jovi

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Heavy metal is a much too broad of a genre to name many Specific bands. Also these are some of the more popular bands, not necessarily the talented ones.

These are a few sub-genre's that are within Heavy Metal:

Nu-Metal:

  • Slipknot
  • Rammstein
  • Korn
  • System of a Down
  • Linkin Park
  • Staind
  • Disturbed (the best)
  • Papa Roach
  • Breaking Benjamin
  • Mushroom Head

Thrash Metal:

  • Megadeth
  • Metallica
  • Anthrax
  • Slayer
  • Testament
  • Exodus
  • Slayer

Death Metal:

(includes sub-genre's: melodic, technical, brutal, grind, gothenburg, and blackened)

  • Amon Amarth
  • At the Gates
  • Cryptopsy
  • Nile
  • Hate Eternal
  • Deicide
  • Necrophagist
  • Gorguts
  • Cattle Decapitation
  • Cephalic Carnage
  • Pig Destroyer
  • In Flames
  • Dark Tranquility
  • The Haunted
  • Arch Enemy
  • Soilwork

Heavy Metal:

  • Metallica (again)
  • Iron Maiden
  • Manowar
  • Dragonforce
  • Iced Earth
  • Sonata Arctica
  • Rhapsody of Fire
  • Blind Guardian
  • Hammer Fall
  • Kamelot

Metalcore:

(Includes sub-genre's: math, melodic, and death)

Mathcore-

  • The Dillinger Escape Plan
  • Ion Dissonance
  • Behold... the Arctopus
  • Into the Moat
  • Fear Before the March of Flames
  • The Number 12 Looks Like You

Melodic Metalcore-

  • Trivium
  • Bullet for my Valentine
  • Still Remains
  • Killswitch Engaged
  • UnderOATH
  • Poison the Well
  • Atreyu
  • As I Lay Dying

DeathCore-

  • Job for a Cowboy
  • Despised Icon
  • As Blood Runs Black
  • Bring Me the Horizon
  • All Shall Perish
  • Through the Eyes of the Dead
  • Suicide Silence
  • Animosity

Glam Metal-

(Also Known as "hair metal" and Pop Metal".Popularized during the late 70's and early 80's)

  • Bon Jovi
  • Skid Row
  • Guns n Roses
  • Poison
  • Van Halen
  • Kiss
  • Aerosmith
  • Quiet Riot
  • Motley Crue
  • Twisted Sister

Classic metal

  • Judas Priest
  • Iron Maiden
  • Saxon
  • Motorhead

Heavy rock

Progressive Metal-

  • Liquid Tension Experiment
  • Rush
  • Porcupine Tree
  • Queen
  • Dream Theater
  • Meshuggah
  • Between the Buried and Me
  • Opeth
  • Pain of Salvation
  • Symphony X
  • Into Eternity

Doom metal

Stoner

  • Eyehategod
  • Monster Magnet

Grunge

  • Nirvana
  • Pearl Jam
  • Soundgarden
  • Alice in Chains
  • Jane's Addiction

Symphonic Metal-

  • Dimmu Borgir
  • Nightwish
  • Therion
  • Cradle of Filth
  • Epica
  • Within Temptation
  • Infernaeon

Alternative Metal-

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You need to be more specific. I can name a couple of hundred. but I'm not going to.

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Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Isen Torr, Twisted Tower Dire, Chrome Division, Brocas Helm, Blitkrieg, Witchfynde, Chateaux, Avenger, Tank....

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avenged sven fold is reall heavy metal.........

a7x is metalcore. if you want heavy metal you should check out NWOBHM bands like maiden and diamond head

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ACDC

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