Featured bands

	Band	Style	Country	Formed	Split	Fans
1	Amon Amarth 1988-	Melodic death metal	Sweden	1988	-	3507
2	Ensiferum 1995-	Extreme folk metal	Finland	1995	-	2089
3	Cannibal Corpse 1988-	Death metal	USA	1988	-	1425
4	King Diamond 1985-	Heavy metal	Denmark USA	1985	-	851
5	Bolt Thrower 1986-2016	Grindcore Death metal	United Kingdom	1986	2016	777
6	Primordial 1987-	Black metal Celtic folk metal	Ireland	1987	-	764
7	Mercyful Fate 1981-	Heavy metal First wave of black metal	Denmark USA	1981	-	744
8	Killswitch Engage 1999-	Melodic metalcore	USA	1999	-	608
9	Týr 1998-	Folk metal	Faroe Islands	1998	-	601
10	Anaal Nathrakh 1998-	Black metal Grindcore	United Kingdom	1998	-	518
11	Cult Of Luna 1998-	Post-metal Sludge metal	Sweden	1998	-	476
12	The Black Dahlia Murder 2001-	Melodic death metal Metalcore	USA	2001	-	438
13	Cattle Decapitation 1996-	Deathgrind Death metal Grindcore Goregrind	USA	1996	-	420
14	Allegaeon 2005-	Technical death metal Melodic death metal	USA	2005	-	377
15	Fates Warning 1982-	US power metal Progressive metal	USA	1982	-	336
16	Six Feet Under 1993-	Death metal	USA	1993	-	318
17	Revocation 2006-	Technical death metal Thrash metal	USA	2006	-	317
18	Falconer 1999-2020	Folk metal Power metal	Sweden	1999	2020	304
19	Artillery 1982-	Thrash metal	Denmark	1982	-	303
20	Whitechapel 2006-	Deathcore	USA	2006	-	254
21	Job For A Cowboy 2002-	Deathcore Death metal	USA	2002	-	244
22	Rivers Of Nihil 2009-	Technical death metal	USA	2009	-	230
23	The Foreshadowing 1999-	Doom metal Gothic metal	Italy	1999	-	225
24	Vomitory 1989-	Death metal	Sweden	1989	-	223
25	Batushka 2015-2018	Black metal	Poland	2015	2018	221
26	Goatwhore 1997-	Blackened death metal Blackened thrash metal	USA	1997	-	206
27	Hate 1990-	Death metal	Poland	1990	-	191
28	Sacred Reich 1985-	Thrash metal	USA	1985	-	166
29	The Crown 1998-	Death metal Thrash metal	Sweden	1998	-	158
30	Vio-lence 1985-	Bay Area thrash metal	USA	1985	-	148
31	Gwar 1985-	Alternative metal Thrash metal Hardcore Punk	USA	1985	-	142
32	Angel Witch 1977-	New wave of British heavy metal Heavy metal	United Kingdom	1977	-	140
33	Monstrosity 1990-	Death metal	USA	1990	-	139
34	Intronaut 2004-	Post-metal Atmospheric sludge metal	USA	2004	-	138
35	Aeon 1999-	Death metal	Sweden	1999	-	130
36	OSI 2003-	Progressive metal	USA	2003	-	126
37	Armored Saint 1982-	Heavy metal	USA	1982	-	120
38	Hail Of Bullets 2006-2017	Death metal	The Netherlands	2006	2017	114
39	Aeternam 2007-	Melodic death metal Oriental folk metal Symphonic death metal	Canada	2007	-	113
40	Exumer 1985-	Thrash metal	Germany	1985	-	111
41	Vesania 1997-	Symphonic black metal	Poland	1997	-	110
42	Lazarus A.D. 2005-	Thrash metal	USA	2005	-	109
43	Satan 1979-	New wave of British heavy metal Heavy metal Thrash metal	United Kingdom	1979	-	109
44	Skyforger 1991-	Blackened folk metal Pagan black metal	Latvia	1991	-	104
45	Whiplash 1984-	Thrash metal	USA	1984	-	100
46	Cirith Ungol 1972-	Heavy metal Doom metal	USA	1972	-	97
47	Ancient 1992-	Melodic black metal	Norway	1992	-	95
48	Iotunn 2015-	Progressive metal Power metal Melodic death metal	Denmark	2015	-	95
49	Dååth 2000-	Thrash metal Death metal Industrial death metal	USA	2000	-	90
50	Crimfall 2007-2018	Symphonic folk metal	Finland	2007	2018	87

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