met
Rock
(Heavy) Metal
- Era
- 1968–present
- Origin
- Birmingham, UK
- Student playlists
- None yet
About this supergenre
Loud, distorted, virtuosic — Sabbath, Priest, Maiden through the splintered subgenres (thrash, death, doom, black, prog). Power and heaviness as music's central concerns.
Canonical reference: musicmap.info / met
Inside (heavy) metal · 13 subgenre s on a mini-timeline
Each subgenre at its emergence year, oldest at top. This is what students curate playlists for — the granular level. Click any subgenre chip from the main map and you land on its row here.
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- 2030s
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Classic Heavy Metal
1970
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NWOBHM
1979
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Speed Metal
1981
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Glam Metal
1983
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Thrash Metal
1983
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Doom Metal
1985
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Power Metal
1985
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Progressive Metal
1985
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Death Metal
1987
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Black Metal
1990
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Symphonic Metal
1995
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Folk Metal
1995
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Metalcore
1995
Connective tissue · 4 link s
How (heavy) metal relates to the rest of the map. Click any genre to follow the line.
Primary lineage
Direct parents and direct children — the main line.
Other influences
Cousin genres and indirect influences that shaped this supergenre.
Backlash / anti
Reactions against, not descents from — the genres this one defined itself against.
Student curations
No playlists for (heavy) metal yet.
This supergenre is waiting for a curator. If you're in MUSA 266 or MUSA 220 and this is your assignment, build a 5–10 track YouTube playlist and submit it through the course form.