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Aerosmith Aerosmith was one of the most popular hard rock bands of the '70s, setting the style and sound of hard rock and heavy metal for the next two...
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Dream Theater The technically proficient guitar playing of John Petrucci elevated Dream Theater to the upper echelons of contemporary heavy metal. While its...
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Peter Gabriel As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel...
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Iron Maiden Known for such powerful hits as "Two Minutes to Midnight" and "The Trooper," Iron Maiden was and is one of the most influential bands of the heavy...
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Judas Priest Judas Priest was one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the '70s, spearheading the New Wave of British Heavy Metal late in the decade....
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Kiss Rooted in the campy theatrics of Alice Cooper and the sleazy hard rock of glam rockers the New York Dolls, Kiss became a favorite of American...
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Living Colour During the 1980s, rock had become completely segregated and predictable, the opposite of the late '60s/early '70s, when such musically and...
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Megadeth After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic...
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Metallica Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. Instead of playing...
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The Police Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky,...
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Primus Primus is all about Les Claypool; there isn't a moment on any of their records where his bass isn't the main focal point of the music, with his...
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Queen Few bands embodied the pure excess of the '70s like Queen. Embracing the exaggerated pomp of prog rock and heavy metal, as well as vaudevillian...
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Queensryche Although they were initially grouped in with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s, Queensrÿche...
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Talking Heads At the start of their career, Talking Heads were all nervous energy, detached emotion, and subdued minimalism. When they released their last album...
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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...
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Deep Purple Deep Purple survived a seemingly endless series of lineup changes and a dramatic mid-career shift from grandiose progressive rock to...
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Jimi Hendrix In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since....
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Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the blues -- it was how they incorporated...
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Pink Floyd Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special...
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Coheed and Cambria Although originally forming as a rock trio in 1995, New York's Coheed and Cambria officially took root in 2001, shedding their former name of...
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Dream Theater The technically proficient guitar playing of John Petrucci elevated Dream Theater to the upper echelons of contemporary heavy metal. While its...
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Iron Maiden Known for such powerful hits as "Two Minutes to Midnight" and "The Trooper," Iron Maiden was and is one of the most influential bands of the heavy...
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June Like other Chicago-area bands such as Fall Out Boy and the Academy Is..., June offered up an infectious mix of pop-punk and rock since forming in...
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Living Colour During the 1980s, rock had become completely segregated and predictable, the opposite of the late '60s/early '70s, when such musically and...
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Megadeth After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic...
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Metallica Metallica was easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth. Instead of playing...
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Primus Primus is all about Les Claypool; there isn't a moment on any of their records where his bass isn't the main focal point of the music, with his...
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Queensryche Although they were initially grouped in with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s, Queensrÿche...
