All the way since the late 1960s and early 1970s heavy metal has been pissing off old people and conquering various new generations of younger music fans. Like anything else, the genre has evolved in various directions over decades but has always kept its main rebellious, loud, and aggressive core.
And even though the situation seemed kind of hopeless during the 1990s, metal music exploded again at the beginning of the 21st century. And now, 17 years into it, Loudwire has revealed the list of the most important metal bands of this era, which includes both the old ones who are still active and the new ones who will continue to carry the torch. The list in alphabetical order awaits below.
- Agalloch
- Amon Amarth
- As I Lay Dying
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Babymetal
- Baroness
- Behemoth
- Between the Buried and Me
- Children of Bodom
- Converge
- Cradle of Filth
- Dethklok
- Devin Townsend Project
- Dimmu Borgir
- Disturbed
- DragonForce
- Electric Wizard
- Enslaved
- Ghost
- Gojira
- GWAR
- High on Fire
- HIM
- Iron Maiden
- Isis
- Judas Priest
- Killswitch Engage
- Korn
- Lamb of God
- Mastodon
- Meshuggah
- Metallica
- Municipal Waste
- Necrophagist
- Nightwish
- Opeth
- Periphery
- Pig Destroyer
- Rammstein
- Sabaton
- Slayer
- Slipknot
- Suicide Silence
- System of a Down
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Tool
- Trivium
- Watain
- Whitechapel
Reeder, the visionary behind Metal Addicts, has transformed his lifelong passion for metal into a thriving online community for metal aficionados. As a fervent devotee of black metal, Reeder is captivated by its dark, atmospheric, and often unorthodox soundscapes.