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Bands - mostly Metal or Rock, listed A-Z.

Record Companies at bottom.

AC/DC - Australian Hard Rock band

Aerosmith - Rock legends from Boston, Massachusetts

The Almighty - Scotland's best Metal band.

Anathema - Liverpool-based band with Doom/Gothic Metal roots.

Anthrax - New York's finest Thrash Metal band.

Apollyon Sun - Swiss avant-garde Dance/Metal band

Sebastian Bach - Canadian hard rock vocalist, ex-Skid Row now solo

Beastie Boys - The bratty boys from Brooklyn who became Beverly Hills Buddhists.

Black Sabbath - Birmingham's best ever export.

Bloodhound Gang - East Coast wise guys.

Brujeria - Mexican devil-worshipping, drug-dealling banditos - or so they'd have you believe!

Buckcherry - The re-birth of LA Rock is here! Heavily influenced by the old LA bands, and AC/DC.

Corrosion Of Conformity - Very cool rock/metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Cradle Of Filth - British Black Metal band from Hadleigh, Suffolk.

The Cult - Successful Rock band from Manchester, who now reside in the Los Angeles area.

Bruce Dickinson - novellist, fencer, radio presenter... oh yeah, and he also sings apparently!

Emperor - Norwegian Black Metal Band who've calmed down a lot since the early 1990s.

Faith No More - San Francisco Funk-Metallers.

Fear Factory - Cyber-Metallers from Los Angeles, California

Fields Of The Nephilim - Cult Goth Rock band... from Stevenage of all places!

Guns 'N' Roses - Classic Hard Rock band who collapsed under their own success.

Iron Maiden - The best British Heavy Metal band ever!

Judas Priest - Birmingham's other Metal band.

Marilyn Manson - the Antichrist Superstar himself, actually comes from Florida and not Hell.

Megadeth - Pheonix-based Thrash Metal band.

Metallica - San Francisco-based Arena Rockers!

Moonspell - Portuguese Gothic Metal band.

Mötley Crüe - Los Angeles hair rockers

Motörhead - Louder than Everyone Else!

My Dying Bride - Bradford-based Gothic Metal band.

Offspring - Punk-influenced rock band from Orange County, California

Ozzy Osbourne - The King of Heavy Metal - Orginally from Birmingham, now lives in Buckinghamshire AND California

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell... well Texas and Louisiana actually.

Paradise Lost - Gothic Metal band from Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Ramms+ein - Insane German Industrial band

David Lee Roth - 'The Benny Hill of rock 'n' roll'

Rotting Christ - Greek Extreme Metal band.

Samael - Swiss avant-garde Metal band.

Joe Satriani - This guitar wizz taught Steve Vai annd Kirk Hammet.

Sepultura - Former Brazilian Thrash Gods - not the same without Max Cavalera though!

Sisters Of Mercy - Goth Rock band, originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire

Skid Row - New Jersey-based Metal band, only ever released three albums

Slayer - Californian Titans of Thrash Metal

Dee Snider - Former lead singer with Twisted Sister, now -a-days he's a radio DJ and film writer, as well as a singer

Type O Negative - Gothic Metal band from Brooklyn, New York

Steve Vai - Guitar wizz, ex-David Lee Roth band and ex-Whitesnake, now solo

Van Halen - Hard rock band with two Dutch-American brothers on guitar and drums

Rob Zombie - An American-made monster

Zyklon - Norwegian avant-garde Metal band - includes Zamoth (aka Samoth) from Emperor

RECORD COMPANIES

American Records - Formerly known as Def American - Slayer, Danzig, Black Crowes, etc.

Century Media - German label - Moonspell, Rotting Christ, Samael, Stampin' Ground, SYL, Tiamat, etc

Earache - Nottingham label - Cathedral, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, etc

Music For Nations - Yorkshire-based company - Anathema, Cradle Of Filth, Entombed, etc.

Peaceville - Lancashire-based company - Katatonia, My Dying Bride, etc.

Roadrunner Records - New Mexico label - Death, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Type O Negative, etc.

Sanctuary - British label - COC, Rob Halford, Megadeth, Slash's Snakepit, etc.

© EdRok 2001