Featured bands

	Band	Style	Country	Formed	Split	Fans
1	Within Temptation 1996-	Gothic metal Symphonic metal Alternative metal	The Netherlands	1996	-	1104
2	Venom 1979-	First wave of black metal Heavy metal	United Kingdom	1979	-	610
3	Diablo Swing Orchestra 2003-	Avantgarde metal Symphonic metal	Sweden	2003	-	508
4	Bullet For My Valentine 1998-	Melodic metalcore	United Kingdom	1998	-	433
5	Electric Wizard 1993-	Doom metal Stoner metal	United Kingdom	1993	-	427
6	Protest The Hero 2001-	Metalcore Progressive metalcore	Canada	2001	-	305
7	Rapture 1998-	Melodic death metal Doom metal	Finland	1998	-	211
8	Charon 1992-2011	Death metal Suomi metal	Finland	1992	2011	187
9	Airbourne 2001-	Hard rock	Australia	2001	-	168
10	Atreyu 1998-	Melodic metalcore Alternative metal	USA	1998	-	140
11	Killing Joke 1979-	Post-Punk Darkwave Industrial metal	United Kingdom	1979	-	127
12	Metsatöll 1999-	Heavy metal Folk metal	Estonia	1999	-	124
13	Winterfylleth 2007-	Atmospheric black metal Pagan black metal	United Kingdom	2007	-	122
14	Celesty 1998-	Power metal	Finland	1998	-	119
15	Kiuas 2000-	Power metal	Finland	2000	-	110
16	Entwine 1999-2019	Suomi metal	Finland	1999	2019	105
17	Shining (NOR) 1999-	Jazz Experimental Jazz Avantgarde metal Alternative metal	Norway	1999	-	102
18	Machinae Supremacy 2000-	Power metal	Sweden	2000	-	100
19	For My Pain 1999-	Suomi metal	Finland	1999	-	79
20	Royal Thunder 2006-	Heavy metal Stoner metal	USA	2006	-	76
21	Dragonlord 2000-	Symphonic black metal	USA	2000	-	63
22	36 Crazyfists 1994-	Alternative metal Metalcore Melodic metalcore	USA	1994	-	49
23	Dreamshade 2006-	Melodic death metal	Switzerland	2006	-	47
24	Viikate 1996-	Melodic heavy metal	Finland	1996	-	43
25	The Browning 2005-	Metalcore Trancecore	USA	2005	-	35
26	Emigrate 2005-	Industrial metal	Germany	2005	-	34
27	Brother Firetribe 2002-	Melodic hard rock	Finland	2002	-	32
28	Deals Death 2008-2016	Gothenburg metal	Sweden	2008	2016	32
29	Essence 2005-	Thrash metal	Denmark	2005	-	30
30	End Of You 2003-	Suomi metal	Finland	2003	-	28
31	Naildown 2003-	Melodic death metal	Finland	2003	-	25
32	Saattue 2001-	Melodic doom metal Melodic death metal	Finland	2001	-	19
33	Profane Omen 1999-	Groove thrash metal Alternative metal	Finland	1999	-	17
34	Enochian Crescent 1995-2012	Black metal	Finland	1995	2012	16
35	Arise 1996-2010	Death metal Thrash metal	Sweden	1996	2010	13
36	Agonizer 1998-	Heavy metal	Finland	1998	-	11
37	Pain Confessor 2002-	Melodic death metal	Finland	2002	-	10
38	Spiders 2010-	Hard rock Heavy metal	Sweden	2010	-	7
39	Primal Rock Rebellion 2011-	Heavy metal Alternative metal	United Kingdom	2011	-	6
40	Sethian 1998-	Hard rock Suomi metal	Finland	1998	-	6
41	Sparzanza 1996-	Stoner metal Stoner rock	Sweden	1996	-	6
42	Benea Reach 2003-2014	Metalcore Progressive death metal	Norway	2003	2014	4
43	Krokodil 2011-	Progressive sludge metal	United Kingdom	2011	-	4
44	The Crescent 2012-	Black metal	Finland	2012	-	3

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2.	My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
3.	Ingested The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams
4.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
5.	Cistvaen At Light's Demise
6.	The Vision Bleak Weird Tales
7.	Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex Of The Worlds
8.	Hamferð Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
9.	Belore Eastern Tales
10.	Benighted Ekbom

1.	Death Symbolic
2.	Megadeth Rust In Peace
3.	Judas Priest Painkiller
4.	Metallica Master Of Puppets
5.	Opeth Blackwater Park
6.	Metallica Ride The Lightning
7.	Black Sabbath Paranoid
8.	Iron Maiden Powerslave
9.	Death The Sound Of Perseverance
10.	Agalloch The Mantle