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Black Metal
- Forerunners (Pioneers)
- Venom
- Bathory
- Mercyful Fate
- Sodom (In the Sign of Evil)
- Von
- Forerunners (More Extreme Black Metal):
- Mayhem
- Burzum
- Darkthrone
- Immortal
- Emperor
- Blasphemy
- Gorgoroth
- Second Comers (Modern Black Metal):
- Deathspell Omega
- Arcturus - Aspera
- Dimmu Borgir - early work

Death Metal
- Forerunners (Early Innovators and Successes):
- Possessed
- Death
- Morbid Angel
- Master
- Deicide
- Cannibal Corpse
- Second-Comers (Smarter Death):
- Bolt Thrower
- Suffocation
- Death's Human
- Stockholm Death Metal:
- Entombed
- Dismember
- Technical Death Metal:
- Gorguts
- Necrophagist
- Cryptopsy
- Progressive Death Metal:
- Edge of Sanity
- Atheist
- Opeth
- Melodic Death Metal:
- Amon Amarth
- Dark Tranquillity
- At the Gates

Doom Metal
- Forerunners (Early Doom 70s, 80s):
- Black Sabbath
- Saint Vitus
- Candlemass
- Trouble
- Second Comers (90s Doom):
- Cathedral
- Solitude Aeturnus
- Sleep
- My Dying Bride
- Third Comers (00s Doom, Modern Resurgence):
- Dolorian
- Electric Wizard
- Reverend Bizarre
- While Heaven Wept

Folk/Viking Metal
- Forerunners (Early Innovators):
- Skyclad
- Bathory
- Second Comers (Modern):
- Finntroll
- Korpiklaani
- Ensiferum
- Moonsorrow

Gothic Metal
- Forerunners (Early Innovators):
- Paradise Lost - Icon and Draconian Times
- Tristania
- Theatre of Tragedy (Early Work)
- Second Comers (Modern, Gothic Black):
- Moonspell
- Tiamat (Later Work)
- Within Temptation

Grindcore
- Napalm Death
- Carcass (1988-1991)
- Repulsion
- Cryptic Slaughter
- Extreme Noise Terror

Industrial Metal
- Forerunners (Early Innovators, harsher):
- Ministry
- KMFDM (Angst onward until Tohuvabohu)
- Godflesh
- Malhavoc
- Second Comers (Later, New German Sound, Sampling, cleaner):
- OOMPH!
- Fear Factory
- Strapping Young Lad
- Front Line Assembly (Millenium, Hard Wired)

Metalcore
- Forerunners (Very early):
- Liar
- Converge
- Zao
- Botch
- Second Comers (Modern):
- Dillinger Escape Plan
- Between the Buried and Me
- The Red Chord
- Misery Signals
- Third Comers (Melodic):
- Killswitch Engage
- Shadows Fall
- Atreyu
- Bleeding Through

Post-Metal
- Genre Formers:
- Isis
- Neurosis
- Pelican
- Cult of Luna

- Kayo Dot
- Red Sparrowes
- Irreversible
- Battle of Mice

Power Metal
- American
- Manowar
- Jag Panzer
- Kamelot
- Iced Earth
- 3 Inches of Blood
- European
- Helloween
- Rhapsody
- Blind Guardian (Somewhere Far Beyond onwards)
- DragonForce
- Stratovarius

Progressive Metal
- Forerunners:
- Dream Theater
- Queensryche
- Fates Warning
- Second Comers:
- Pain of Salvation
- Ayreon
- Devin Townsend
- Psychotic Waltz
- Shadow Gallery
- Prog Rock/Prog Metal Mixes:
- Porcupine Tree
- Riverside
- Oceansize
- Threshold

Sludge Metal
- Acid Bath
- Eyehategod
- Crowbar
- Down
- Stoner Sludge:
- Bongzilla
- Ufomammut
- Electric Wizard (also Doom)

Speed Metal
- Motorhead, Overkill onward
- Venom
- Accept, 80s onward
- Running Wild
- Judas Priest's Painkiller

Thrash Metal
- Big Four (American):
- Metallica
- Slayer
- Anthrax
- Megadeth
- Big Three (German):
- Sodom
- Kreator
- Destruction
- Unholy Trinity (Proto-Death):
- Dark Angel
- Slayer
- Kreator
-Progressive Thrash:
- Voivod
- Nevermore
- Groove Metal:
- Pantera (Cowboys from Hell)
- Machine Head
- Lamb of God
- Meshuggah
- Sepultura (Chaos A.D.)
- Overkill
- Exodus
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Testament
- Annhilator
- Celtic Frost

CROSS-GENRE SUBGENRES

Avant-Garde Metal
- UneXpect
- Arcturus (Black)
- Celtic Frost (Thrash)
- Kayo Dot (Post-Metal)
- Mr. Bungle
- Diablo Swing Orchestra (Some gothic)

Symphonic Metal
- After Forever (Gothic)
- Nightwish (Power)
- Epica (Death)
- Emperor (Black)
- Orchestral Metal:
- Apocalyptica
- Therion (with Death)
- Haggard
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra

NWOBHM
- Judas Priest
- Iron Maiden
- Venom
- Motorhead
- Quartz
- Diamond Head
- Blitzkrieg