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Pretty Maids　

Danish hard rock band the Pretty Maids were formed in 1981 by singer Ronnie Atkins and guitarist Ken Hammer; adding guitarist Pete Collins, bassist John Darrow, and drummer Phil More ..more

Poodles (Rock)　

Firehouse　

Firehouse arrived at the tail end of the pop-metal explosion of the late ’80s and early ’90s, releasing their first album in 1991. Featuring the combined talents of vocalist C.J. Snare, Mic ..more

Finntroll　

Finnish metal sextet Finntroll describe their music as trollish hoedown metal, which is to say that it combines the extreme elements of death metal with traditional Finnish folk melodie ..more

Fear Factory　

Fear Factory were one of the first bands to fuse the loud, crushing intensity of death metal with the cold harshness of industrial electronics and samples, producing a more varied sonic palet ..more

Fair Warning　

Bullet For My Valentine　

Since their inception in 2003, the Welsh quartet Bullet for My Valentine have been taking cues from ’80s metal bands and the punk-infused metal of the new millennium to make melodic, metal ..more

Bring Me The Horizon　

Fronted by a tattooed clothing designer and influenced by death metal, grindcore, and emo, Bring Me the Horizon aren’t the average deathcore band. The group was formed in 2004 from the ashes of sev ..more

Blue Oyster Cult　

Blue Oyster Cult was the thinking man’s heavy metal group. Put together on a college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close relationship with a series of literary figures ( ..more

Blue Murder　

Blue Murder features Carmine Appice on drums, John Sykes of Whitesnake fame on guitar, and Tony Franklin, who played with The Firm, on bass. Great supergroup playing some heavy riffs ..more

Blind Guardian　

Forming in the small German town of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of gothic- and fantasy-tinged European power metal with the velocity and technical precision of speed metal. Members { ..more

Blackmore's Night　

Legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (b. April 14, 1945, Weston-super-Mare, England) shifted his musical focus away from hard rock in the late 1990s and started conce ..more

Black Veil Brides　

Formed in 2006, Black Veil Brides originally came together in Cincinnati, Ohio. Primarily the brainchild of vocalist Andy Six, the band combines cathartic metalcore/screamo with a dark, gothic i ..more

Black Sabbath　

Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late-’60s acts like Cream, Blu ..more

Black Dahlia Murder　

Detroit’s the Black Dahlia Murder, named for the infamous 1947 slaying of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, aka the Black Dahlia, actually sounds like they should live in Scandinavia, whence originates ..more

Black Country Communion　

A band featuring four veteran heavy-hitters of British and American hard rock, Black Country Communion are rooted in an alliance between bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) and blues- ..more