Genre: Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Groove Metal, Tribal-Infused MayhemFormed: 1984 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil 🇧🇷Known For: Evolving metal like mad scientists with riffs, rhythms, and raw rebellion. 🇧🇷 WHO THE HELL ARE SEPULTURA? Formed by teen brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, Sepultura (which means “grave” in Portuguese — tidy name, that!) rose out of 1980s […]

Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Doom Dad-CoreFormed: Ozzy’s solo career began in 1980 after getting the boot from Black SabbathKnown For: Bat heads, reality TV, biting reality and bats, and inventing modern metal vocals 🤘 🧟 WHO THE HELL IS OZZY? Let’s be honest — if you’re reading this, you already know who Ozzy is. […]

Genre: Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Classic MetalFormed: 1982 (after Ronnie James Dio left Black Sabbath)Known For: The devil horns 🤘, epic fantasy lyrics, and one of the greatest voices to ever grace metal. Full stop. 🌈 WHO WAS DIO (THE BAND AND THE MAN)? Ronnie James Dio wasn’t just a singer. He was a mythmaker.A […]

Genre: Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Political Metal FuryFormed: 1983 – Los Angeles, CaliforniaKnown For: Face-melting solos, nuclear lyrics, and Dave Mustaine’s righteous fury 🔥 🤬 WHO THE HELL ARE MEGADETH? Founded by Dave Mustaine – the angriest ginger in metal history – after being booted from Metallica for being too much even for them 😅, […]

Genre: Groove Metal, Heavy Metal, Southern Sludge RageFormed: 1981 – Arlington, TexasKnown For: Riffing like tanks, kicking glam in the face, and redefining 90s metal with pure, pounding aggression. 🤘 WHO THE HELL ARE PANTERA? Once a spandex-loving glam band (no, seriously), Pantera went from hairspray to hellfire in a few savage years – all […]

Genre: Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Satanic Panic FuelFormed: 1981 – Huntington Park, CaliforniaKnown For: Scaring your parents, melting your face, and inventing “murder in musical form” 🗡️ 🔥 WHO ARE SLAYER? Slayer were the most evil of The Big Four – where Metallica got epic, Megadeth got political, and Anthrax got party hats… Slayer just […]

Genre: Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal, Arena-Melting MayhemFormed: 1981 – Los Angeles, California (raised in the Bay Area)Known For: Revolutionising metal, killing hair metal, starting thrash, suing Napster, and writing the heaviest lullaby of all time (Nothing Else Matters 😭) ⚒️ WHO ARE METALLICA? Metallica were ground zero for modern metal.Four angry dudes – one Danish […]

Genre: Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Folk Rock, Swedish SorceryFormed: 1990 – Stockholm, SwedenKnown For: 10-minute epics, genre-hopping madness, and growling like a demon one second and singing like a forest spirit the next 🌿 🧠 WHO THE HELVETE ARE OPETH? Led by the long-haired, soft-spoken, evil-genius Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth started out as a death metal […]

Genre: Progressive Metal, Prog Rock, Shred SymphonyFormed: 1985 – Berklee College of Music (yeah, they’re those guys) 🎓Known For: Ridiculous technical ability, 25-minute epics, and solos that sound like boss fights 💀 🎩 WHO ARE DREAM THEATER? Dream Theater are what happens when metalheads go to music uni and come back with time machines and […]

Genre: Rock ’n’ Roll / Speed Metal / Punk-tinged CarnageFormed: 1975 – London, EnglandKnown For: Loudness, Lemmy, war-themed basslines, and changing everything 🤘 🎩 WHO THE HELL WERE MOTÖRHEAD? Motörhead wasn’t just a band – they were a f**ing religion*.Led by the immortal Lemmy Kilmister – gravel-voiced outlaw, bassist from hell, slot machine enthusiast, and […]

Genre: Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, British Steelcore™Formed: 1969 – Birmingham, EnglandKnown For: Twin guitar attacks, banshee vocals, motorcycles on stage, and more studs than a DIY megastore 💥 🏭 WHO ARE JUDAS PRIEST? From the same gritty, working-class hellfire that gave us Sabbath, came another beast entirely – sleeker, faster, and LOUDER THAN HELL. 🔊 […]