This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020. Act of Denial Bodom After Midnight Abnormality Absu All Shall Perish Anathema...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

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A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times...

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has...

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2021. The Halo Effect Bodom After Midnight Demons & Wizards Hellyeah (hiatus) Lotus...

heavy metal subgenre. In the late 1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal....

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2011. Ark Dawn of Retribution Devian Dismember Elexorien The Famine Five Star Prison...