from Glam Metal to Blackened Metal to Thrash Metal even to Melodeath
Why not? Most of the metal I listen to are starters anyway, so you should have no problem getting into them: Alestorm All That Remains As I Lay Dying Avantasia Bleeding Through Blind Guardian Children of Bodom Dark Moor Dream Evil Dream Theater Edguy Faith No More Firewind Hammerfall Helloween In Flames Kamelot Killswitch Engage Megadeth Nevermore Gamma Ray Nocturnal Rites Primal Fear Shadows Fall Soilwork Sonata Arctica Stratovarius Symphony X Trivium Unearth Wintersun NOTE: I also included Metalcore bands that have prominent metal influences.
Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne Pantera Slayer Metallica Megadeth
Judas Preist Metallica Def Leppard KISS Iron Maiden
Nile Kamelot Death Morbid Angel Obituary Insomnium (early works of) Cradle Of Filth Agalloch At The Gates Kreator Carpathian Forest Entombed Carcass Cynic Dimmu Borgir Bolt Thrower Impaled Agathodaimon Dark Tranquility Leviathan Emperor This is mostly Death Metal, and some Black Metal...
Yes, Black Sabbath IS (together with Judas Priest) the first heavy metal band! When you are talking about heavy metal do you mean Traditional (70s and 80s) Heavy Metal such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Ozzy? Or do you mean the whole Metal genre with its subgenres? Do you feel comfortable with listening to Extreme Metal (hard metal with screaming vocals)? I ask you because I presume you are pretty new to metal. Here are some awesome bands with clean vocals that are not too hard to start with: Heavy Metal (traditional): Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Iced Earth. Gothic Metal: Epica, After Forever, Leaves' Eyes, Octavia Sperati, Tristania, Sirenia. Symphonic/Melodic Metal: Edenbridge, Nightwish. Power Metal: Demons And Wizards, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, Kamelot. Folk Metal: Skyclad, Midnattsol. Progressive Metal: Dream Theater, Sonata Arctica, Opeth. I don't include Nu-Metal such as Slipknot and Korn since I don't consider it to be metal. :)
