There is so many names and different subgenres. Thrash, groove, metalcore, deathcore, death metal, doom metal, black metal, gothic metal, speed metal, power metal. I mean, it kinda makes it seem like black sabbath and judas priest are the only heavy metal bands, ya know what i mean? So what is considered heavy metal?
maylene and the sons of disaster great band
Blackfoot always had a good hard metal edge to them. Pantera, of course. Derek Miller is a newcomer with a hard southern sound, even though he's Canadian. I was hard pressed to believe he didn't grow up in sweaty bars across the Bible Belt.