Heavy metal branch
Heavy metal
Root Heavy metal
- Emerged
- 1970
- Origin
- Birmingham, England
- Subgenres
- 72
It split off from hard rock and blues rock when Black Sabbath tuned down and wrote riffs on the tritone. Volume, riff and a code of its own - every branch below starts here.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 7
Key acts
- Black Sabbath
- Judas Priest
- Iron Maiden
- Metallica
Branches into
- Alternative metal
- Black metal
- Death metal
- Doom metal
- Folk metal
- Glam metal
- Grindcore
- Industrial metal
- Kawaii metal
- Metalcore
- Neoclassical metal
- Nu metal
- NWOBHM
- Power metal
- Progressive metal
- Proto-metal
- Speed metal
- Symphonic metal
- Thrash metal
- Traditional heavy metal