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Tankard performing in 2017. Tankard is a German thrash metal band from Frankfurt, founded in 1982. [1] Alongside Kreator, Destruction and Sodom, Tankard is often considered one of the "Big Four" of Teutonic thrash metal.
Avatar is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed in Mölndal, Gothenburg in 2001. The band has released nine studio albums, the most recent being Dance Devil Dance in 2023. The band has had some success on US rock radio, most recently with "The Dirt I'm Buried In" peaking at number 1 of the same chart in August 2023, making it the song with the longest journey to number 1 in the last 20 years.
Metalcore is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. [1] Its subgenres include mathcore and melodic metalcore. [citation needed] This incomplete list includes bands described as performing any of these styles, including those who also perform other styles (with the exception of deathcore bands, which fuse metalcore with death metal and are listed separately
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. [2] With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness.
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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1981, [ 3 ] three of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands emerged ( Metallica , [ 4 ] Slayer [ 5 ] and Anthrax ), [ 5 ] to be joined on the scene in 1983 by Megadeth .
The band's music makes use of elements of metalcore and nu metal, while also incorporating more experimental aspects from genres like shoegaze, progressive metal and industrial music. Loathe have been nominated for Heavy Music Awards best UK breakthrough band and Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards best new band in 2018.
Demon Hunter is an American Christian metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed by brothers Don Clark and Ryan Clark in 2000. Ryan is the band's only remaining original member, as Don left in 2009. As of the 2010s, the band has sold over 600,000 albums. [6]
Absurd is a German black metal band [4] that has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz. [5]The band was founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg, Jarl Flagg Nidhögg and JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil (Dark Mark Doom) in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage.