Traditional heavy metal musicians
0
AC/DC
Australian hard rock band
1
Acid
2
Al Atkins
English heavy metal singer
3
Alice Cooper
American rock singer, songwriter and musician
4
Alter Bridge
American rock band
5
Andrew VanWyngarden
American musician
6
Arakain
Czech musical group; metal band
7
Aria
heavy metal band formed in 1985 in Moscow, Russia
8
Armored Saint
American heavy metal band
9
Arthemis
Power metal/heavy metal band
10
Atlantean Kodex
band
11
Avenged Sevenfold
American metal band
12
AxeHammer
band
13
Barbariön
14
Biff Byford
British singer
15
Black Flag
American hardcore punk band
16
Black Sabbath
British heavy metal band
17
Blackie Lawless
American singer, musician, and songwriter
18
Blaze Bayley
English singer, lyricist, and songwriter
19
Bloodbound
Swedish heavy metal band
20
Blue Öyster Cult
American hard rock band
21
Bobby Ellsworth
American singer
22
Bombus
Swedish heavy metal band
23
Bon Jovi
rock band from the United States
24
Brad Delson
American musician
25
Bruce Dickinson
English singer and songwriter
26
Bruce Kulick
American guitarist
27
Budgie
Welsh hard rock/heavy metal band
28
Bullet
band
29
Centaur
German heavy metal band
30
Chris Cornell
American singer, songwriter and musician
31
Claude Schnell
French-American musician
32
Cliff Burton
American heavy metal bassist
33
Clive Burr
British drummer
34
Corrosia Metalla
Russian music group that plays thrash metal
35
Crossfire
Belgian band
36
Daisuke Ishiwatari
Japanese video game developer
37
Danzig
American heavy metal band
38
Das Pack
39
Dave Mustaine
American musician and songwriter
40
Dave Williams
singer
41
David Coverdale
English rock singer-songwriter
42
Dawnbringer
band
43
Deep Purple
English rock band
44
Devil Doll
Slovenian-Italian experimental rock band
45
Doro
German singer and frontwoman of Warlock
46
Eddie Van Halen
American rock musician
47
Enforcer
band
48
Eric Adams
American singer, guitarist and keyboardist
49
Eric Burdon
English singer-songwriter
50
Erkki Seppänen
Finnish singer
51
Exoristoi
Greek band
52
Faithful Breath
band
53
Flemming Rasmussen
Danish producer
54
Forensick
55
Gary Moore
Northern Ireland guitarist, songwriter and record producer
56
Geddy Lee
vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush
57
Ghost
Swedish hardrock band
58
Gorky Park
Russian band
59
Guns N’ Roses
American hard rock band
60
Heavy Pettin
61
Hevisaurus
Finnish musical group; heavy metal band aimed at children
62
High Spirits
band
63
Holy Dragons
band
64
Ian Gillan
English musician
65
Ian Hill
British musician
66
Iron Maiden
English heavy metal band
67
Jag Panzer
band
68
Jake E. Lee
American musician
69
James Hetfield
American guitarist and singer
70
James LoMenzo
American musician
71
Jason Newsted
American musician
72
Jeffrey Dunn
British guitarist
73
Jeordie White
American singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter and producer
74
Joe Elliott
British singer; lead singer of Def Leppard
75
Joe Perry
American musician
76
Joe Satriani
American musician
77
Joey Kramer
American rock drummer
78
Joey Tempest
Swedish singer
79
John Norum
Norwegian-Swedish guitarist
80
Jon Bon Jovi
American singer, musician, and songwriter
81
Judas Priest
British heavy metal band
82
Judicator
American power metal band
83
Jutta Weinhold
German singer
84
Jörg Fischer
German Metal guitarist
85
Kelly Johnson
Rock musician
86
Kevin Ridley
British musician and sound engineer
87
Kid Rock
American singer-songwriter and rapper
88
Killer
Belgian band
89
Kirill Pokrovsky
Russian musician and composer (1965-2015)
90
Lemmy
British rock musician (1945-2015)
91
Leverage
Finnish band
92
Malcolm Young
Australian guitarist
93
Malice
American musical group
94
Mark Tornillo
American singer
95
Marty Friedman
American musician
96
Messiah Force
97
Mic Michaeli
Swedish musician
98
Mike Inez
American musician
99
Mille Petrozza
German singer and guitarist
100
Myles Kennedy
American musician
101
Nazareth
Scottish hard rock band
102
Neil Murray
British musician
103
Night Demon
Heavy metal band from California
104
Non-Fiction
band
105
Olve Eikemo
Norwegian musician
106
Omen
American heavy metal band
107
Ozzy Osbourne
English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
108
Peavy Wagner
German musician
109
Phil Collen
British musician, rock guitarist
110
Powerwolf
German power metal band
111
Pretty Maids
Danish hard-rock/heavy metal band
112
Probot
band
113
Queen
British rock band (1970-)
114
Rabid Bitch of the North
band from Belfast
115
Rainbow
English rock band
116
Reb Beach
American rock musician
117
Rebel Meets Rebel
band
118
Reckless
119
Rex Brown
American musician
120
Richard Christy
American musician and radio personality
121
Ritchie Blackmore
British guitarist and songwriter, guitarist of the band Deep Purple
122
Rob Halford
English heavy metal singer
123
Rock Aid Armenia
British charity band, supergroup
124
Ron McGovney
American musician
125
Ronnie James Dio
American heavy metal singer
126
Ross the Boss
American musician
127
Rudolf Schenker
German rock guitarist and songwriter
128
Saratoga
Spanish metal band
129
Savage
British heavy metal band
130
Scorpions
German rock band
131
Scott Columbus
American musician, best known as drummer of the heavy metal band Manowar
132
Scott Ian
American musician
133
Seventh Avenue
German Christian Metal band
134
Simon Wright
English drummer
135
Sinawe
band
136
Skull Fist
band that plays traditional heavy metal
137
Slade
British rock band
138
Slash
British-American musician
139
Solemnity
German heavy metal band founded 1998 in Augsburg
140
Spellcaster
band
141
Status Quo
rock band from England
142
Stefan Hüskens
German drummer
143
Steppenwolf
Canadian-American rock group
144
Steve Harris
English musician, founder and bassist of Iron Maiden
145
Steven Adler
American musician
146
Tarja Turunen
Finnish opera/symphonic rock singer
147
The Hu
Mongolian rock band
148
The Poodles
band
149
The Rods
American band
150
The Sweet
British glam-rock band
151
Thin Lizzy
Irish rock band
152
Thrasher
153
Tommy Lee
American drummer
154
Trance
German heavy metal band
155
Twisted Tower Dire
US heavy metal band
156
Udo Dirkschneider
German heavy metal singer
157
Unisonic
German band
158
Unto Others
American heavy metal/Gothic rock band
159
Vanadium
Italian heavy metal band
160
Vanderbuyst
161
Vince Neil
American singer and musician, member of Mötley Crüe
162
Visigoth
Epic Heavy Metal band from Salt Lake City
163
Wendy O. Williams
American Vocalist and Actress (1949-1998)
164
White Skull
Italian power/heavy metal band
165
Whitesnake
British hard rock band
166
Wildside
American band
167
Wolf Hoffmann
German heavy metal guitarist
168
Züül
band