Featured bands
| Band | Style | Country | Formed | Split | Fans | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
|
Black Sabbath
1968-2017
|
Doom Heavy Hard rock |
United Kingdom | 1968 | 2017 | 2552 |
| 2 |
|
Blind Guardian
1984-
|
Power Speed |
Germany | 1984 | - | 2176 |
| 3 |
|
Behemoth
1991-
|
Black Blackened death |
Poland | 1991 | - | 1885 |
| 4 |
|
Be'lakor
2004-
|
Melodic death | Australia | 2004 | - | 1242 |
| 5 |
|
Bathory
1983-2004
|
Viking black First wave of black |
Sweden | 1983 | 2004 | 1050 |
| 6 |
|
Burzum
1989-
|
Black Dark Ambient Ambient |
Norway | 1989 | - | 1050 |
| 7 |
|
Bloodbath
1998-
|
Death | Sweden | 1998 | - | 941 |
| 8 |
|
Bolt Thrower
1986-2016
|
Death Grindcore |
United Kingdom | 1986 | 2016 | 584 |
| 9 |
|
Between The Buried And Me
2000-
|
Progressive metalcore | USA | 2000 | - | 502 |
| 10 |
|
Borknagar
1995-
|
Melodic black Progressive black |
Norway | 1995 | - | 464 |
| 11 |
|
Black Label Society
1998-
|
Heavy | USA | 1998 | - | 448 |
| 12 |
|
Bullet For My Valentine
1998-
|
Melodic metalcore | United Kingdom | 1998 | - | 402 |
| 13 |
|
Belphegor
1991-
|
Black Death |
Austria | 1991 | - | 385 |
| 14 |
|
Before The Dawn
1999-2013
|
Gothic Melodic death |
Finland | 1999 | 2013 | 381 |
| 15 |
|
Baroness
2003-
|
Sludge Stoner rock Progressive rock |
USA | 2003 | - | 348 |
| 16 |
|
Bruce Dickinson
1989-
|
Heavy | United Kingdom | 1989 | - | 346 |
| 17 |
|
Blut Aus Nord
1994-
|
Atmospheric black Industrial |
France | 1994 | - | 333 |
| 18 |
|
Barren Earth
2007-
|
Melodic death Progressive |
Finland | 2007 | - | 285 |
| 19 |
|
Beyond Creation
2005-
|
Technical death Progressive death |
Canada | 2005 | - | 270 |
| 20 |
|
Benighted
1998-
|
Brutal death Blackened death Grindcore |
France | 1998 | - | 215 |
| 21 |
|
Born Of Osiris
2003-
|
Progressive deathcore | USA | 2003 | - | 182 |
| 22 |
|
Black Sun Aeon
2008-2013
|
Melodic death Doom |
Finland | 2008 | 2013 | 173 |
| 23 |
|
Battlelore
1999-
|
Folk Power |
Finland | 1999 | - | 164 |
| 24 |
|
Battle Beast
2008-
|
Heavy | Finland | 2008 | - | 157 |
| 25 |
|
Blotted Science
2005-
|
Progressive Instrumental |
USA | 2005 | - | 154 |
| 26 |
|
Batushka
2015-
|
Black | Poland | 2015 | - | 151 |
| 27 |
|
Blackfield
2000-
|
Progressive rock Avantgarde rock |
Israel | 2000 | - | 148 |
| 28 |
|
Blue Öyster Cult
1967-
|
Hard rock | USA | 1967 | - | 145 |
| 29 |
|
Bal-Sagoth
1989-
|
Symphonic black Power |
United Kingdom | 1989 | - | 140 |
| 30 |
|
Benediction
1989-
|
Death | United Kingdom | 1989 | - | 134 |
| 31 |
|
Bring Me The Horizon
2004-
|
Metalcore Deathcore Post-hardcore Alternative rock |
United Kingdom | 2004 | - | 130 |
| 32 |
|
Brymir
2006-
|
Extreme folk | Finland | 2006 | - | 122 |
| 33 |
|
Blood Red Throne
1998-
|
Death | Norway | 1998 | - | 121 |
| 34 |
|
Blood Stain Child
2000-
|
Extreme power Trancecore Melodic death |
Japan | 2000 | - | 116 |
| 35 |
|
Brainstorm
1989-
|
Power | Germany | 1989 | - | 115 |
| 36 |
|
Blackmore's Night
1997-
|
Folk rock | United Kingdom | 1997 | - | 114 |
| 37 |
|
Beherit
1989-
|
Black Ambient |
Finland | 1989 | - | 110 |
| 38 |
|
Behexen
1994-
|
Black | Finland | 1994 | - | 101 |
| 39 |
|
Bilocate
2003-
|
Blackened death Death doom Extreme progressive |
Jordan | 2003 | - | 101 |
| 40 |
|
Beseech
1992-
|
Gothic | Sweden | 1992 | - | 96 |
| 41 |
|
Bloodbound
2004-
|
Power | Sweden | 2004 | - | 95 |
| 42 |
|
Brujeria
1989-
|
Grindcore Death |
Mexico | 1989 | - | 94 |
| 43 |
|
Babymetal
2010-
|
J-Pop Melodic death |
Japan | 2010 | - | 92 |
| 44 |
|
Blackguard
2001-
|
Gothic Folk Power |
Canada | 2001 | - | 91 |
| 45 |
|
Beast In Black
2015-
|
Heavy Power |
Finland | 2015 | - | 88 |
| 46 |
|
Boris
1992-
|
Drone doom Psychedelic stoner |
Japan | 1992 | - | 88 |
| 47 |
|
Blindead
1999-
|
Progressive Post-metal |
Poland | 1999 | - | 87 |
| 48 |
|
Bloodshot Dawn
2003-
|
Melodic death | United Kingdom | 2003 | - | 87 |
| 49 |
|
Brutal Truth
1990-2014
|
Grindcore | USA | 1990 | 2014 | 84 |
| 50 |
|
Black Crown Initiate
2013-
|
Progressive death | USA | 2013 | - | 82 |