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75Published editions
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12Signs. No immunity.

December 2024–November 8, 2026 · 75 editions. 900 selections. Plenty to answer for.

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Welcome to Metal Lair’s Metalhead Horoscope Archive, where astrology collides with heavy metal, rock legends, and Sabbatha Ashvale’s wicked sense of humor.

Explore our weekly metal horoscopes for all twelve zodiac signs, discover the Lucky Songs selected for each sign, and browse previous editions dating back to December 2024. From outrageous cosmic predictions to underground metal discoveries, this archive brings together the complete history of Metal Lair’s ongoing horoscope series.

You can also explore Born Under the Metal Stars, our directory of 200 influential rock and metal musicians organized by zodiac sign, featuring verified birthdays, musical affiliations, original Sabbatha commentary, and links to related Metal Lair coverage.

Whether you’re looking for your latest horoscope, a favorite musician’s birthday, or a deeper dive into metal’s cosmic connections, start exploring below.

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Fresh from the cosmic pit

12 signs · 12 Lucky Songs

November 2–8, 2026

Sabbatha celebrates 75 editions of cosmic carnage with a forecast about truth, integrity, and facing the music, twelve Lucky Songs, and Sagittarius as “The Unfiltered Thrashhole.”

The Zodiac Moshpit featuring twelve demonic zodiac characters surrounding a cosmic heavy metal zodiac wheel.

THE ZODIAC MOSHPIT: WHAT METAL GENRE IS YOUR STAR SIGN?

12 Signs. 12 Metal Genres. One Cosmic Identity Crisis.

The stars have spoken. Unfortunately, they sound like a Marshall stack falling down a staircase.

Every zodiac sign has its own particular brand of emotional instability, questionable decision-making, and musical superiority complex. Naturally, this makes astrology and heavy metal a match made somewhere considerably south of heaven.

So, what happens when we assign the twelve signs their own metal subgenres?

Nothing scientifically credible, obviously. But that’s never stopped an astrologer with a superiority complex and access to a record collection.

Find your sign. Discover your sonic destiny. And prepare to be personally attacked by the universe.

♈ ARIES

March 21 – April 19

THRASH METAL

The Human Circle Pit

Aries doesn’t enter a room. Aries stage-dives into it without checking whether anyone’s prepared to catch them.

Fast, aggressive, impatient, and permanently operating at 220 BPM, this sign considers slowing down a personal insult.

Cosmic diagnosis: You’re the reason the pit has a liability waiver.

♉ TAURUS

April 20 – May 20

DOOM METAL

The Immovable Riff

Taurus likes three things: comfort, consistency, and riffs so heavy they alter the Earth’s gravitational field.

A song lasting eleven minutes? Perfect. A tempo faster than 65 BPM? Absolutely unnecessary.

Cosmic diagnosis: You’ve been listening to the same riff since 1992, and frankly, you’re not finished with it.

♊ GEMINI

May 21 – June 20

PROGRESSIVE METAL

Two Personalities, Seventeen Time Signatures

Gemini is intellectually restless, conversationally dangerous, and incapable of leaving a perfectly good idea alone.

Naturally, your music requires twelve movements, four conceptual dimensions, and a drummer who understands advanced mathematics.

Cosmic diagnosis: You started explaining a Dream Theater song three hours ago. Nobody has escaped.

♋ CANCER

June 21 – July 22

MELODIC DEATH/DOOM

The Emotionally Devastated Headbanger

Cancer doesn’t merely experience feelings. Cancer builds an entire cathedral out of them and then sets it on fire.

You want music that understands grief, longing, betrayal, and the peculiar devastation of finding an old concert ticket in your jacket.

Cosmic diagnosis: You cried during the guitar solo. Again. The guitarist wasn’t even trying to be sad.

♌ LEO

July 23 – August 22

POWER METAL

The Main Character of the Apocalypse

Leo was born for the spotlight and considers modesty an unfortunate personality disorder.

You demand soaring vocals, ridiculous guitar solos, dragons, explosions, and preferably a wind machine positioned directly in front of your hair.

Cosmic diagnosis: You came to watch the concert and somehow became its headliner.

♍ VIRGO

August 23 – September 22

TECHNICAL DEATH METAL

The Blast-Beat Quality Inspector

Virgo notices everything. Every missed note, every questionable drum fill, every musician who apparently considers rehearsal optional.

You crave precision, impossible arrangements, and riffs that require a spreadsheet to understand.

Cosmic diagnosis: You corrected the drummer’s timing from the audience. He was playing a different song.

♎ LIBRA

September 23 – October 22

SYMPHONIC METAL

Beauty, Brutality, and Absolutely No Decisions

Libra desires harmony, elegance, and emotional balance. Unfortunately, Libra also wants orchestral arrangements, crushing guitars, and a vocalist who can summon the heavens and the underworld simultaneously.

You spend forty minutes selecting the perfect album, then listen to something else.

Cosmic diagnosis: You couldn’t decide between heaven and hell, so you bought tickets to both.

♏ SCORPIO

October 23 – November 21

BLACK METAL

The Walking Occult Warning Label

Scorpio doesn’t have secrets. Scorpio has classified documents buried beneath an abandoned monastery.

You prefer darkness, mystery, atmosphere, and music recorded somewhere that probably violates several building codes.

Cosmic diagnosis: Your idea of emotional vulnerability is removing your corpse paint in front of someone.

♐ SAGITTARIUS

November 22 – December 21

FOLK / VIKING METAL

The Intoxicated Cosmic Explorer

Sagittarius wants freedom, adventure, ancient mythology, and absolutely no one asking when they’ll be home.

You hear a traditional instrument and immediately start planning an expedition to a remote mountain village.

Cosmic diagnosis: You left for a music festival in June. Your family assumes you’ve joined a Viking settlement.

♑ CAPRICORN

December 22 – January 19

TRADITIONAL HEAVY METAL

The Iron-Fisted Traditionalist

Capricorn respects discipline, craftsmanship, and the sacred architecture of a proper guitar riff.

You believe great metal requires commitment, endurance, and musicians who can actually play their instruments.

Cosmic diagnosis: You still own every Iron Maiden album on physical media, alphabetized and insured.

♒ AQUARIUS

January 20 – February 18

INDUSTRIAL METAL

The Cybernetic Troublemaker

Aquarius is rebellious, unconventional, technologically obsessed, and deeply suspicious of anything considered normal.

You enjoy distorted machinery, electronic experimentation, and songs that sound like a factory developing sentience.

Cosmic diagnosis: You’ve already replaced the drummer with a machine. The machine has filed a complaint.

♓ PISCES

February 19 – March 20

ATMOSPHERIC POST-METAL

The Underwater Existential Crisis

Pisces lives somewhere between reality, imagination, and a beautifully devastating twelve-minute instrumental.

You prefer enormous walls of sound, haunting melodies, and albums that feel like staring into the ocean while contemplating every decision you’ve ever made.

Cosmic diagnosis: You’ve been emotionally processing the same instrumental passage for six months. The song hasn’t started yet.

THE FINAL COSMIC VERDICT

Your zodiac sign doesn’t determine your musical taste. Your record collection and your questionable life decisions handle that perfectly well.

But whether you’re a thrashing Aries, a doom-soaked Taurus, or a Scorpio who treats daylight like a personal attack, the universe has apparently assigned you a soundtrack.

Don’t like your genre?

Take it up with the stars. Sabbatha is not accepting complaints.

Stay loud. Stay strange. And never trust a horoscope that doesn’t come with distortion.

Sabbatha Ashvale | Metal Lair

For entertainment purposes only. The stars have not been peer-reviewed, and frankly, neither has Sabbatha.

BORN UNDER THE METAL STARS

200 Legendary Musicians. 12 Zodiac Signs. Find Your Cosmic Counterpart.

The stars didn’t make these legends. But Sabbatha Ashvale has some theories. Discover the rock and metal icons who share your zodiac sign, explore their birthdays, and find out what our resident cosmic troublemaker has to say about them.

200 unique rock and metal musicians across twelve zodiac signs. Sabbatha’s commentary is astrology-inspired humor, for entertainment.

Choose a zodiac sign, then a musician to open their profile. Select either heading again to close it.

Aries

7 musicians
Alexi Laiho

Children of Bodom / Bodom After Midnight

Guitar and vocals

/ Aries

His leads could race the keyboards without sacrificing the hook. Children of Bodom made virtuosity sound like it had stolen a car and was enjoying the handling.

Donita Sparks

L7 / The Stellar Moments

Vocals and guitar

/ Aries

L7 never sounded like they were waiting to be liked. Her riffs have the pleasing economy of a door slammed at exactly the right moment.

Marta Jandová

Die Happy / solo artist

Vocals

/ Aries

Die Happy's riffs have a vocal counterpart that can throw its weight around without sacrificing the tune. Marta makes the hook feel earned, rather than pasted over the bruises.

Maynard James Keenan

Tool / A Perfect Circle / Puscifer

Vocals

/ Aries

He delivers Tool’s puzzles as though the answer is obvious and your question is interrupting something. I advise listening twice before offering your theory.

Mikael Åkerfeldt

Opeth / Bloodbath

Vocals and guitar

/ Aries

An Opeth song can offer you a velvet chair, remove the floor, then explain the family curse in a different time signature. I always accept the invitation.

Miyako

Lovebites

Guitar, keyboards and composition

/ Aries

The piano and guitar speak to each other in her writing, which helps explain Lovebites' melodic architecture. The solo may sprint, but somebody has actually checked where the stairs go.

Trey Azagthoth

Morbid Angel

Guitar

/ Aries

Morbid Angel's guitar vocabulary suggests the floor plan was drawn in another dimension. The solos don't simply escape the riff; they reveal what has been living underneath it.

Taurus

11 musicians
Bill Ward

Black Sabbath

Drums

/ Taurus

Listen beneath Sabbath's weight and there is a drummer who swings. The riffs learned to lumber because the hands behind them could dance. Doom's family history is less stiff than some descendants admit.

Charlotte Wessels

Solo artist / formerly Delain

Vocals

/ Taurus

Leaving Delain did not deprive her songs of scale; it gave their darker corners more room. Reinvention sounds considerably better when it arrives with this much melody and bite.

Chuck Schuldiner

Death / Control Denied

Guitar and vocals

/ Taurus

He helped build death metal, then kept asking it harder questions. Even the riffs had to evolve or risk being the least intelligent thing in the room.

Danny Carey

Tool

Drums

/ Taurus

He makes odd metres feel physical before you can calculate them. Your body understands the groove; your arithmetic is welcome to catch up later.

Devin Townsend

Solo artist / Strapping Young Lad

Vocals and guitar

/ Taurus

He can build a wall of sound, put a choir on top and still find room for an absurd joke. Cosmic grandeur is better company when it knows how ridiculous it looks.

Gary Holt

Exodus / Slayer

Guitar

/ Taurus

Exodus riffs have a particular knack for sounding like an argument that has already reached the car park. Gary understands the value of a hook you can also use to remove a door.

Johan Hegg

Amon Amarth

Vocals

/ Taurus

He can make a room full of strangers believe they are qualified to row a longship. I would check the weather first; he has already ordered the chorus.

Kim Gordon

Sonic Youth / Body/Head / solo artist

Bass, guitar and vocals

/ Taurus

Sonic Youth never needed her to make the noise behave. She gave it nerve, friction and a stare that could curdle a board meeting. Tuning was only part of the argument.

Kim McAuliffe

Girlschool

Guitar and vocals

/ Taurus

Girlschool's riffs get to the point before the gatekeepers finish clearing their throats. Decades of doing the work make a rather convincing answer to anyone still surprised by the lineup.

Mike Portnoy

Dream Theater / The Winery Dogs / Liquid Tension Experiment

Drums

/ Taurus

He can organise a sprawling prog arrangement from behind enough drums to furnish a small village. Counting along is optional; being confidently wrong is almost inevitable.

Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails / How to Destroy Angels

Vocals and multi-instrumentalist

/ Taurus

Gemini

28 musicians
Ann Wilson

Heart / solo artist

Vocals

/ Gemini

She can make “Barracuda” bite through another decade of imitation. The lesson is simple: lungs are useful, but conviction is what leaves the teeth marks.

Chino Moreno

Deftones / Crosses / Team Sleep

Vocals and guitar

/ Gemini

He sings through Deftones’ weight as though there is a dream trapped inside it. The result is beautiful, until you notice what the dream is doing to the walls.

Cristina Scabbia

Lacuna Coil

Vocals

/ Gemini

Her clean vocals give Lacuna Coil’s darkness a human pulse. Not every haunted cathedral needs another growl; sometimes it needs someone who can make the sorrow sing.

Dianne van Giersbergen

Ex Libris / DIANNE / formerly Xandria

Vocals

/ Gemini

Ex Libris gives her soprano proper dramatic work instead of asking it to decorate a riff. These are characters with histories, not high notes looking for a chandelier.

Doro Pesch

Doro / Warlock

Vocals

/ Gemini

Her commitment to metal makes trends look like visitors who forgot why they came. Warlock gave us the battle cry; she has never misplaced it.

Fuki

Unlucky Morpheus / DOLL$BOXX / solo artist

Vocals

/ Gemini

Unlucky Morpheus can move at a speed that makes the bar lines nervous. Fuki still sends the melody cleanly through it. Operatic drama has every right to overtake you in the fast lane.

Jeff Becerra

Possessed

Vocals and bass

/ Gemini

Possessed made “Death Metal” sound like a declaration of intent. His voice still gives the term the unpleasant impression that it means exactly what it says.

Kenny Hickey

Type O Negative / Silvertomb

Guitar and vocals

/ Gemini

Type O Negative's green fog had very real guitar edges. Kenny supplied weight, grit and the occasional vocal counterpunch. Even a gothic cathedral needs somebody who knows where to put the nails.

Kerry King

Slayer / solo artist

Guitar

/ Gemini

Those solos sound like the guitar is trying to escape the song through a window. Somehow the riff is waiting downstairs with the getaway car.

Kiko Loureiro

Angra / Megadeth / solo artist

Guitar

/ Gemini

Angra gave his playing room for Brazilian rhythms and classical detail; Megadeth demanded a different kind of precision. He can cross both bridges without flattening what makes either interesting.

Kim Deal

The Breeders / Pixies / solo artist

Bass, guitar and vocals

/ Gemini

A bass line, a sideways melody, an unforced vocal: Kim can do more with those than plenty of bands manage with a rented orchestra. Cannonball still rolls beautifully over inflated egos.

King Diamond

King Diamond / Mercyful Fate

Vocals

/ Gemini

A King Diamond record is a haunted house where the narrator plays every ghost. The falsetto is the part of the inspection report that says you should move.

Kjetil Nordhus

Green Carnation / Tristania / Trail of Tears

Vocals

/ Gemini

He gives Green Carnation’s long, dark journeys a voice worth following. An hour-long piece is a serious commitment; a convincing narrator helps you forget to check the clock.

Kristin Hayter

Lingua Ignota / Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

Vocals and piano

/ Gemini

She can make a hymn sound like both testimony and cross-examination. I would confess early; that piano is not interested in a plea bargain.

Mario Duplantier

Gojira

Drums

/ Gemini

Gojira's power comes from how the drums shape the riff, not just how hard they hit it. Mario gives a groove enough mass to move a whale and enough detail to notice its breathing.

Midori Tatematsu

Lovebites

Guitar

/ Gemini

Lovebites gives her speed a proper sparring partner, and her leads attack without losing their shape. Shredding is much more persuasive when the song survives the duel.

Nergal

Behemoth / Me and That Man

Vocals and guitar

/ Gemini

He made Behemoth’s blasphemy sound meticulously rehearsed. If you are going to scandalise the heavens, at least arrive with arrangements worthy of the complaint.

Nicko McBrain

Iron Maiden

Drums

/ Gemini

Iron Maiden's long journeys need more than a gallop; they need a drummer who can make every turn breathe. Nicko gives the epic its human swing, even when Eddie is being thoroughly unreasonable.

Sahil Makhija

Demonic Resurrection / Demonstealer

Vocals, guitar and multi-instrumentalist

/ Gemini

He helped build an extreme-metal institution in India and still found time to make the kitchen dangerous. The riffs are ferocious; at least dinner has a recipe.

Sandra Nasić

Guano Apes

Vocals

/ Gemini

Guano Apes needed a voice that could surf the groove and then tear through it. Sandra supplied both. Open Your Eyes remains sound advice, especially when the chorus is coming at you.

Sean Yseult

White Zombie / Star & Dagger

Bass

/ Gemini

White Zombie’s horror show needed a bass line that could actually move. She gave the monster hips, which is considerably more useful than another theatrical scream.

Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie and the Banshees / The Creatures

Vocals

/ Gemini

She made the strange sound authoritative. A whole gothic wardrobe can imitate the silhouette, but it takes that voice to tell the shadows where to stand.

Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac / solo artist

Vocals

/ Gemini

She made a breakup song into required reading for the people who inspired it, then had them provide the accompaniment. That is how you conduct a séance with a rhythm section.

Suzi Quatro

Solo artist / The Pleasure Seekers

Bass and vocals

/ Gemini

She wore the bass like it was the job, because it was. Every generation that acts surprised by a woman driving a rock band owes her back pay.

Tom Araya

Slayer

Bass and vocals

/ Gemini

He gives Slayer’s chaos a human voice without making it reassuring. When that opening scream lands, the audience becomes a very enthusiastic evacuation drill.

Tom Morello

Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave

Guitar

/ Gemini

He makes a guitar impersonate machinery, turntables and an emergency broadcast. When the riff arrives, it usually has a very specific complaint about who owns the machinery.

Wendy O. Williams

Plasmatics / solo artist

Vocals

/ Gemini

Some performers push boundaries; she brought tools. The Plasmatics understood that a stage could be a demolition site, provided someone remembered the chorus.

Yui Mizuno

Babymetal (2010–2018)

Vocals and dance

/ Gemini

Her work in Babymetal's original trio helped turn an improbable combination into a language audiences understood immediately. The fox god's choreography had very real human timing behind it.

Cancer

19 musicians
Anette Olzon

The Dark Element / formerly Nightwish

Vocals

/ Cancer

Imaginaerum needed a storyteller who could make its carnival inviting before the machinery turned sinister. Anette understood the assignment. I still wouldn't trust that ticket seller.

Chris Cornell

Soundgarden / Audioslave / Temple of the Dog

Vocals and guitar

/ Cancer

He could lift a melody out of Soundgarden’s twisted rhythms without smoothing away their edges. That voice makes difficulty sound instinctive, which is deeply unfair to the rest of us.

Chuck Billy

Testament

Vocals

/ Cancer

He can make a thrash chorus feel like it was carved into stone. Air-guitaring the mic stand is simply an efficient way to supervise the riff department.

Courtney Love

Hole

Vocals and guitar

/ Cancer

Live Through This understood that a hook can be beautiful and furious in the same breath. Anyone still treating Hole's songwriting as a footnote should try writing those choruses.

Debbie Harry

Blondie

Vocals

/ Cancer

She made punk attitude, disco precision and pop instinct share a microphone. Genre purists have been standing outside that club arguing ever since.

Eivør Pálsdóttir

Solo artist / Clickhaze

Vocals, guitar and composition

/ Cancer

Her voice can make a vast stage feel like a cave with something ancient listening inside. I recommend the live experience. Your sensible explanation of those sounds can wait until afterwards.

Flo Mounier

Cryptopsy

Drums

/ Cancer

Cryptopsy's changes arrive like trapdoors, and Flo somehow knows which floor comes next. None So Vile remains a fine way to discover that your sense of rhythm needs emergency lighting.

Geezer Butler

Black Sabbath

Bass and lyrics

/ Cancer

Sabbath's bass didn't merely shadow the riff; it moved around it, making the darkness feel alive. Add the lyrics and you have a man doing rather more than holding the low end.

George Fisher

Cannibal Corpse / Corpsegrinder

Vocals

/ Cancer

Cannibal Corpse needs an enormous voice with impeccable timing, and he supplies both. The windmill is impressive too, but I prefer to leave the neck physics to qualified professionals.

John Petrucci

Dream Theater / Liquid Tension Experiment

Guitar

/ Cancer

His solos are engineered with enough care to support a bridge. The annoying part is that he remembers to put a melody across it.

Mari Hamada

Solo artist

Vocals

/ Cancer

Her high notes have the force of a headline, but the hard-rock songs underneath do the lasting work. A long career is easier to understand when you listen beyond the spectacular altitude.

Matt McGachy

Cryptopsy

Vocals

/ Cancer

Moa Kikuchi

Babymetal

Vocals and dance

/ Cancer

Babymetal's precision depends on more than the riffs. Moa makes the vocal and movement cues land like part of the percussion. Try calling that effortless after doing the entire set yourself.

Ronnie James Dio

Dio / Rainbow / Black Sabbath

Vocals

/ Cancer

He could make a dragon sound more believable than most singers make a love affair. Two raised fingers, one enormous voice, and suddenly we all had a religion.

Sakis Tolis

Rotting Christ

Vocals and guitar

/ Cancer

He gives Rotting Christ’s riffs the gravity of a ritual without forgetting the song. I trust a chant more when it can survive without the incense.

Selene Vigil

7 Year Bitch

Vocals

/ Cancer

7 Year Bitch didn't require a velvet voice to deliver a precise hit. Selene made abrasion articulate. Some messages deserve to arrive with the envelope already on fire.

Sharon den Adel

Within Temptation

Vocals

/ Cancer

Within Temptation built cathedrals out of hooks, and Sharon supplies the voice that makes you look up. I would attend this service, provided the collection plate accepts earplugs.

Thomas Gabriel Fischer

Celtic Frost / Hellhammer / Triptykon

Vocals and guitar

/ Cancer

That famous grunt is practically punctuation for extreme metal. He made ugliness expansive enough to hold ambition, dread and the occasional genuinely unsettling experiment.

Tomas Haake

Meshuggah

Drums and lyrics

/ Cancer

Meshuggah can make your head follow one pulse while your feet file a formal complaint. Tomas keeps the whole disagreement coherent. Counting is useful; surrendering to the groove works too.

Leo

16 musicians
Alissa White-Gluz

DragonForce / Blue Medusa; formerly Arch Enemy and The Agonist

Vocals

/ Leo

Leo asked for a spotlight. Alissa brought a roar that could repossess the sun. I advise the other constellations to check their monitors and stay out of her frequency.

Anna Murphy

Cellar Darling / formerly Eluveitie

Vocals, hurdy-gurdy and flute

/ Leo

Cellar Darling makes the hurdy-gurdy sound perfectly at home beside heavy guitars. Apparently the future of prog had an old instrument in its luggage and better ideas than the customs officer.

Bruce Dickinson

Iron Maiden / solo artist

Vocals

/ Leo

Cui Jian

Solo artist

Vocals, guitar and trumpet

/ Leo

Nothing to My Name helped give Chinese rock an unmistakable public voice. A song can open a space that official speeches cannot. That is a useful kind of volume.

Dimebag Darrell

Pantera / Damageplan

Guitar

/ Leo

Those pinch harmonics sound like a wild animal discovering electricity. The groove underneath is why the rest of us willingly stand in its path.

James Hetfield

Metallica

Vocals and rhythm guitar

/ Leo

That right hand has enforced stricter discipline than any school I attended. A single downstroke and even my bad habits start marching in time.

Jennifer Finch

L7 / The Shocker

Bass and vocals

/ Leo

Her bass helped give L7's glorious racket its hips and its shove. Grunge revisionists may polish the family portrait; I prefer the version with muddy boots on the furniture.

Keiko Terada

Show-Ya

Vocals

/ Leo

Show-Ya's hard rock has never needed its bite translated. Keiko gives the songs a commanding centre, the sort that makes a festival audience remember it came here to be shouted at properly.

Max Cavalera

Soulfly / Cavalera Conspiracy / Sepultura

Vocals and guitar

/ Leo

He turned raw thrash aggression into grooves that could move entire fields of people. The riffs keep finding new ground to break, preferably with their boots.

Nili Brosh

Solo artist / Danny Elfman / Dethklok

Guitar

/ Leo

From instrumental solo work to Dethklok's live chaos, her precision survives some very different weather. The notes arrive clean even when the scenery suggests everyone should be running.

Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin / solo artist

Vocals

/ Leo

That voice could make a blues phrase sound like it had climbed out of mythology. He then kept exploring, an excellent way to avoid becoming your own tribute act.

Serj Tankian

System of a Down / solo artist

Vocals and keyboards

/ Leo

He can turn a melody into a sneer, a lament and a political interruption in the same breath. System of a Down never did believe a chorus should behave.

Skin

Skunk Anansie

Vocals

/ Leo

She can turn a melody from exquisite to confrontational without losing its shape. That is a voice with cheekbones, steel and absolutely no intention of asking permission.

Tarja Turunen

Tarja / Nightwish

Vocals

/ Leo

She brought an operatic soprano into metal and made the guitars behave like an orchestra with a disciplinary problem. The chandeliers never recovered.

Taylor Momsen

The Pretty Reckless

Vocals

/ Leo

That voice sounds far too weathered to need an introduction from her acting résumé. The Pretty Reckless brought amplifiers; the old typecasting can leave through the fire exit.

Vernon Reid

Living Colour

Guitar

/ Leo

Living Colour's riffs can be immediate while the guitar conversation underneath remains wildly adventurous. Vernon proves a huge hook doesn't require a small musical vocabulary. The door is open; bring better questions.

Virgo

17 musicians
Andreas Kisser

Sepultura

Guitar

/ Virgo

His playing can pivot from a jagged thrash attack to a groove with actual breathing room. Precision is more frightening when it knows when to stop.

Chrissie Hynde

The Pretenders

Vocals and guitar

/ Virgo

Her rhythm guitar and phrasing know exactly how much space a song needs. Then that voice walks in, cool enough to make everyone else reconsider their entrance.

Dave Mustaine

Megadeth

Guitar and vocals

/ Virgo

Dino Cazares

Fear Factory / Brujeria / Divine Heresy

Guitar

/ Virgo

Fear Factory's tightly locked guitar and drum patterns made the machine feel personal. The picking hand is doing enough work here to qualify for its own dystopian labour dispute.

Dolores O'Riordan

The Cranberries

Vocals and guitar

/ Virgo

She could turn a vowel into a wound and make a chorus travel the world. Zombie doesn't need another layer of muscle. The original already knows where it hurts.

Doug Pinnick

King's X / KXM

Bass and vocals

/ Virgo

King's X gives the bass a deep voice and the vocals a deeper soul. Those harmonies can lift you while the groove keeps your boots on the ground. A useful arrangement for a sceptic like me.

Fernanda Lira

Crypta / Nervosa

Bass and vocals

/ Virgo

She anchors Crypta with a bass and delivers the verdict through a growl. Apparently keeping the machinery running and announcing the apocalypse are compatible job descriptions.

Freddie Mercury

Queen / solo artist

Vocals and piano

/ Virgo

He could turn a crowd into his backing choir with a few notes and a raised arm. Most of us cannot get three people to agree on where to have dinner.

Gene Hoglan

Dark Angel / Death / Strapping Young Lad / Testament

Drums

/ Virgo

The Atomic Clock is an excellent nickname, although actual clocks rarely have this much personality. His precision can support Death's complexity or Strapping Young Lad's overload without turning either into homework.

Igor Cavalera

Sepultura / Cavalera Conspiracy / Petbrick

Drums

/ Virgo

Sepultura's rhythmic vocabulary expanded when he let different kinds of percussion into the argument. Roots made a huge point of that. Heavy doesn't have to march in borrowed boots.

Joan Jett

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts / The Runaways

Vocals and guitar

/ Virgo

The industry closed the door, so she built her own label and turned the rejection into a chorus. I recommend this approach to both business and exorcism.

Kobi Farhi

Orphaned Land

Vocals

/ Virgo

Orphaned Land's blend of metal and Middle Eastern traditions reaches beyond a decorative flourish. Kobi gives its stories a human centre. A bridge is more useful when people can actually cross it.

Lita Ford

Solo artist / The Runaways

Guitar and vocals

/ Virgo

She carried the Runaways’ guitar fire into a solo career and kept the solo worth waiting for. The leather was never the most dangerous thing in the room.

Mia Zapata

The Gits

Vocals

/ Virgo

Listen to the Gits and hear the blues tearing through punk's jacket seams. That voice deserves to lead every conversation about her. Put the records on before you write the legend.

Reba Meyers

Code Orange / solo artist

Guitar and vocals

/ Virgo

Code Orange's violence hits harder because she understands contrast as well as impact. A melody can be a weapon too; it just waits until you've stopped bracing yourself.

Rob Halford

Judas Priest / Fight / Halford

Vocals

/ Virgo

Shirley Manson

Garbage

Vocals

/ Virgo

She makes immaculate pop hooks sound like they have evidence against you. Garbage is an excellent name for a band that refuses to throw away its sharpest edges.

Libra

11 musicians
Al Jourgensen

Ministry / Revolting Cocks

Vocals, guitar and keyboards

/ Libra

Ministry makes the news sound as hostile as it often deserves to. Those grinding loops are what happens when the industrial equipment starts reading the political section.

Alex Skolnick

Testament / Alex Skolnick Trio

Guitar

/ Libra

The jazz work doesn't excuse him from thrash; it makes the phrasing more interesting when he returns. Testament's solos can have good manners and still leave teeth on the floor.

Cammie Beverly

Oceans of Slumber

Vocals

/ Libra

Oceans of Slumber gives her vast, troubled water to cross, and she never mistakes volume for depth. Doom with this much soul can break your heart without slowing its pulse.

Elize Ryd

Amaranthe

Vocals

/ Libra

Amaranthe's three-vocalist traffic system ought to require a control tower. Elize gives its pop hooks enough lift to clear the growls without leaving the heavy machinery behind.

Emma Ruth Rundle

Solo artist / Marriages / Red Sparowes

Vocals and guitar

/ Libra

Her songs leave enough silence for the damage to become audible. Then the guitar enters, and you realise the silence was the comparatively merciful part.

Ihsahn

Emperor / solo artist

Vocals, guitar and keyboards

/ Libra

He helped make black metal imperial, then kept opening doors into progressive music. Apparently a throne is most useful when you refuse to stay seated on it.

Joe Duplantier

Gojira

Vocals and guitar

/ Libra

He found a way to make concern for the planet sound like the planet throwing furniture. Those pick scrapes are nature declining another meeting.

Joey Belladonna

Anthrax

Vocals

/ Libra

His melodic lift lets Anthrax's thrash hit with a grin instead of a permanent scowl. Heavy metal can sprint and sing at the same time. Some of us enjoy the extra oxygen.

Lzzy Hale

Halestorm

Vocals and guitar

/ Libra

Her voice sounds like the encore started a fight with the opening song. I would advise restraint, but Halestorm has made a persuasive case against it.

PJ Harvey

Solo artist

Vocals, guitar and multi-instrumentalist

/ Libra

She can change the landscape of a record without losing the unsettling authority of her voice. Rid of Me still sounds like an invitation you should read very carefully before accepting.

Tamu Murata

Nemophila

Drums

/ Libra

Nemophila's shifts from hook to attack need a drummer who can make the change feel inevitable. Tamu keeps the floor steady while the rest of the room starts throwing things.

Scorpio

13 musicians
Angela Gossow

Arch Enemy

Vocals

/ Scorpio

She made the assumption that women could not deliver death-metal vocals expire in public. The growl did the explaining; everybody else could update their paperwork.

Chelsea Wolfe

Solo artist

Vocals and guitar

/ Scorpio

She can make a whisper feel heavier than a wall of amplifiers. Finally, someone who understands that a haunted room does not need to shout its credentials.

David Ellefson

Megadeth / Dieth

Bass

/ Scorpio

Peace Sells announced its intentions before the guitars arrived. That bass line is a useful reminder that four strings can introduce an entire worldview without asking for a solo spot.

Jessicka Addams

Jack Off Jill / Scarling.

Vocals

/ Scorpio

Jack Off Jill could make a nursery rhyme feel like evidence. Then Scarling. smeared the mirror differently. Sweetness is far more interesting when it has something sharp behind its back.

Kathleen Hanna

Bikini Kill / Le Tigre / The Julie Ruin

Vocals

/ Scorpio

Bikini Kill turned the microphone into an invitation and a confrontation. Girls to the front wasn't a decorative slogan. It rearranged the room, which is more than most rock manifestos manage.

Kirk Hammett

Metallica / Exodus

Guitar

/ Scorpio

Metallica's best leads need a melody you can remember inside all that attack. Kirk has supplied plenty. You may now put down the wah-pedal joke and actually listen to the solo.

Laura Jane Grace

Against Me! / solo artist

Vocals and guitar

/ Scorpio

She writes with the urgency of someone refusing to let anyone else narrate her life. The acoustic guitar is no guarantee that the room will remain comfortable.

Mariangela Demurtas

Ardours / Tristania

Vocals

/ Scorpio

Tristania's darkness gained a different grain when her voice entered it. Ardours lets that smoky edge breathe. Not every gothic room needs another operatic curtain.

Noora Louhimo

Noora Louhimo Experience / formerly Battle Beast

Vocals

/ Scorpio

Those Battle Beast choruses never needed a polite introduction. Noora could launch one over a festival field and make the back row feel personally summoned. Subtlety can wait outside.

Prika Amaral

Nervosa

Guitar and vocals

/ Scorpio

Nervosa's engine has survived enough lineup changes to make a lesser band a spreadsheet. Prika keeps the riffs moving forward. Continuity is considerably more convincing at thrash speed.

Ruyter Suys

Nashville Pussy

Guitar

/ Scorpio

Nashville Pussy treats good taste as a speed bump. Ruyter's guitar has already cleared it, showered the road with sparks and made a persuasive case for taking the long way home.

Steve Di Giorgio

Sadus / Death / Testament

Bass

/ Scorpio

His fretless bass makes extreme metal's low end speak in curves while the guitars throw angles. Proof that technical music can growl, glide and still refuse to sit quietly in the corner.

Yoshiki

X Japan / The Last Rockstars

Drums and piano

/ Scorpio

He can move from orchestral piano to explosive drumming as if the emotions simply require different furniture. X Japan never confused restraint with a lack of ambition.

Sagittarius

20 musicians
Alejandra Villarreal

The Warning

Bass and backing vocals

/ Sagittarius

In a power trio, the bass has nowhere to disappear. Ale gives the Warning both weight and motion, leaving the tired phrase just the bassist in a small, unmarked grave.

Amy Lee

Evanescence

Vocals and piano

/ Sagittarius

She gave the grand piano a permanent place in the storm. Those melodies make despair sound magnificent, which is inconvenient when you were trying to have a quiet sulk.

Charlie Benante

Anthrax / Pantera

Drums

/ Sagittarius

The drums are only part of his contribution to Anthrax's machinery. Those riffs and arrangements explain why the man at the back keeps steering the argument at the front.

Corey Taylor

Slipknot / Stone Sour / solo artist

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Fenriz

Darkthrone

Drums and multi-instrumentalist

/ Sagittarius

Jimi Hendrix

The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Band of Gypsys

Guitar and vocals

/ Sagittarius

He made an electric guitar seem embarrassed by how little it had attempted before. Feedback stopped being a fault and started receiving proper artistic credit.

Lena Scissorhands

Infected Rain

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Her shift from a clean melody to a scream feels like the same person finally dropping the polite introduction. Infected Rain is a very apt forecast.

Luana Dametto

Crypta / formerly Nervosa

Drums

/ Sagittarius

Crypta's drums give the riffs both a spine and something to fight against. The precision is impressive; the fact that it still feels vicious is the point.

Maria Brink

In This Moment

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Marty Friedman

Megadeth / Cacophony / solo artist

Guitar

/ Sagittarius

His bends refuse to travel by the most obvious route. That is why the melodies stay with you after the speed has worn off. A wrong turn can be exquisite when you know the road.

Meg White

The White Stripes

Drums

/ Sagittarius

Her drums gave the White Stripes their dangerous space. The people counting missing fills somehow missed the songs. I prescribe seven nation armies and a temporary ban on explaining groove.

Mille Petrozza

Kreator

Guitar and vocals

/ Sagittarius

Kreator's evolution never required him to put the anger into storage. The sharper melodic writing simply gives it more routes into your skull. Efficiency, at last, with a worthy objective.

Nita Strauss

Solo artist / Alice Cooper

Guitar

/ Sagittarius

Her solos have the precision of a blade and the grin of someone delighted to own it. Technical proficiency is much more entertaining when it enjoys itself.

Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath / solo artist

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Sagittarius sees a warning sign and assumes it is the tour itinerary. Give that impulse a microphone and you get the Prince of Darkness. My crystal ball has requested a quieter dressing room.

Paz Lenchantin

A Perfect Circle / Pixies / Entrance

Bass, violin and vocals

/ Sagittarius

Bass, violin and vocal harmony are different ways of shaping a song's nerves. Paz knows when to pull and when to leave them exposed. Range needn't arrive wearing a neon sign.

Shaun Morgan

Seether

Vocals and guitar

/ Sagittarius

Seether's hooks carry gravel instead of gloss. His voice can make a familiar chord progression sound like it has spent the night somewhere unpleasant and is finally ready to discuss it.

Suzuka Nakamoto

BABYMETAL (SU-METAL)

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Her clear, commanding voice makes BABYMETAL’s collision of pop and metal hold together. The sceptics can debate the packaging; she has an arena to address.

Tal Wilkenfeld

Solo artist / Jeff Beck

Bass and vocals

/ Sagittarius

Her bass conversations with Jeff Beck show what happens when listening is as impressive as playing. I love a virtuoso who can leave a space without immediately filling it with a certificate.

Travis Ryan

Cattle Decapitation

Vocals

/ Sagittarius

Wacław Kiełtyka

Decapitated / Machine Head

Guitar

/ Sagittarius

Decapitated's riffs demand a frightening degree of control without losing the impact of the hit. Vogg makes technicality feel like pressure. Nobody asked the machinery to be this articulate.

Capricorn

23 musicians
Amalie Bruun

Myrkur

Vocals and multi-instrumentalist

/ Capricorn

Myrkur's folk melodies and blackened shadows share more roots than the genre police would like. I suggest they take a walk in the woods and stop issuing parking tickets to ghosts.

David Bowie

Solo artist / Tin Machine

Vocals and multi-instrumentalist

/ Capricorn

Capricorn ambition, but make it extraterrestrial. Most people build a career; Bowie built several identities and made the planet keep up. I suspect even his reinventions had a five-year plan.

Dirk Verbeuren

Megadeth / Soilwork / Bent Sea

Drums

/ Capricorn

From Soilwork to Megadeth, his drumming makes difficult parts sound alarmingly natural. I suspect the secret is practice, which is deeply inconvenient for everyone hoping to buy it in pedal form.

Janis Joplin

Big Brother and the Holding Company / solo artist

Vocals

/ Capricorn

She sang as if the blues had grabbed her by the collar. You can study the notes, but the nerve required to expose them like that is harder to teach.

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin / The Yardbirds

Guitar

/ Capricorn

He understood that the space around a riff could be as seductive as the riff itself. Even the acoustic passages seem to know something the curtains are hiding.

Jonathan Davis

Korn / solo artist

Vocals and bagpipes

/ Capricorn

He gave nu metal a voice that sounded genuinely cornered. Adding bagpipes did nothing to make the room less unsettling, which I take as a sound artistic decision.

Julie Christmas

Made Out of Babies / Battle of Mice / solo artist

Vocals

/ Capricorn

She can move from unsettling intimacy to a scream that changes the room's dimensions. Mariner makes excellent travel music, assuming your destination is the part of space that bites.

Lars Ulrich

Metallica

Drums

/ Capricorn

His best contribution is often the decision that makes a Metallica song work as a whole. Arrangement is less photogenic than a drum clinic, but the chorus remembers who put the door there.

Lemmy Kilmister

Motörhead / Hawkwind

Bass and vocals

/ Capricorn

Capricorn’s work ethic arrived wearing boots and carrying a bass. While everyone else climbed the mountain, Lemmy plugged into it. My reading says the mountain is still ringing.

Morgan Lander

Kittie / Karkaos

Vocals and guitar

/ Capricorn

Kittie’s riffs never needed anyone’s permission to be heavy. She supplies both the roar and the guitar, which saves time when the gatekeepers demand a second opinion.

Pat Benatar

Solo artist / partnership with Neil Giraldo

Vocals

/ Capricorn

Her voice could take a radio hook and give it the force of a challenge. Anyone mistaking polish for softness should stand nearer the chorus.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith Group / solo artist

Vocals and songwriting

/ Capricorn

Horses let poetry kick the stage door open without wiping its feet. Patti didn't need to make literature respectable to rock listeners. She made respectability seem like the boring part.

Peter Steele

Type O Negative / Carnivore

Vocals and bass

/ Capricorn

He could make a romantic lament sound like a building settling into its grave. Then the joke would land, because nobody was less fooled by the gothic grandeur than its owner.

Poppy

Solo artist

Vocals

/ Capricorn

She can place a spotless pop hook beside a metal breakdown and make both look guilty. Genre purists keep demanding identification; she keeps returning with a different face.

Sabina Classen

Holy Moses / Temple of the Absurd

Vocals

/ Capricorn

She was tearing through thrash long before anyone needed a committee to discuss women in extreme metal. That rasp is history refusing to sit quietly in the museum.

Schmier

Destruction / Headhunter

Bass and vocals

/ Capricorn

Destruction's voice sounds perfectly suited to the band's name, but the bass keeps the wreckage organised. Chaos is more satisfying when somebody remembers where the downbeat went.

Scott Ian

Anthrax / S.O.D.

Guitar

/ Capricorn

Anthrax's rhythm guitar has to bounce as hard as it bites. Scott's right hand makes that apparent contradiction work. The beard is memorable; the pocket is why you're moving.

Shin Joong-hyun

Add4 / Shin Joong-hyun and Yup Juns

Guitar, vocals and composition

/ Capricorn

He helped give Korean rock a psychedelic vocabulary of its own. Beautiful Rivers and Mountains sounds like a place worth defending, and considerably bigger than the people who tried to silence it.

Simone Simons

Epica

Vocals

/ Capricorn

Tamás Kátai

Thy Catafalque / Gire

Multi-instrumentalist and vocals

/ Capricorn

Thy Catafalque can move from black-metal force to folk melody to electronics without asking a border guard. I respect a composer who treats genre as paperwork.

Till Lindemann

Rammstein / solo artist

Vocals

/ Capricorn

He delivers Rammstein’s words like each syllable has its own steel casing. The flames are spectacular, but the consonants already sound like a fire-code violation.

Tosin Abasi

Animals as Leaders

Guitar

/ Capricorn

He makes eight strings sound less like extra equipment than extra dimensions. My fingers have submitted a formal objection on behalf of ordinary geometry.

Tuomas Holopainen

Nightwish / Auri

Keyboards and composition

/ Capricorn

A Nightwish song can require an orchestra, a choir and a serious conversation about running time. Tuomas supplies the vision that makes the excess feel like a world rather than a shopping list.

Aquarius

17 musicians
Cliff Burton

Metallica / Trauma

Bass

/ Aquarius

He made the bass step out of the basement and deliver the sermon. Anyone calling it a background instrument should be sentenced to repeat “Orion” until enlightened.

Daniela Villarreal

The Warning

Guitar and vocals

/ Aquarius

The Warning's riffs need to carry a trio, not hide in an army of overdubs. Dany makes them broad enough for the room and sharp enough to leave a mark.

Dave Lombardo

Slayer / Fantômas / Testament / Mr. Bungle

Drums

/ Aquarius

Slayer's propulsion was only one use for that imagination. Fantômas makes it clear the hands can follow ideas far stranger than a straight sprint. The metronome is merely a junior colleague.

Derrick Green

Sepultura

Vocals

/ Aquarius

His voice gives Sepultura’s percussion-heavy machinery a formidable centre of gravity. That is no small job when the rhythm section sounds capable of relocating a continent.

Eddie Van Halen

Van Halen

Guitar and keyboards

/ Aquarius

He made astonishing technique sound like a good time. That grin is the detail imitators miss while they are busy negotiating with their fretboards.

Freddy Lim

Chthonic

Vocals and erhu

/ Aquarius

Chthonic brings Taiwanese history and identity into extreme metal's theatre. His voice makes that perspective impossible to mistake for borrowed scenery. The local story can be the most powerful thing in the room.

Fredrik Thordendal

Meshuggah / Special Defects

Guitar

/ Aquarius

Those leads bring an alien, liquid quality to Meshuggah's machinery. The rhythm may resemble a locked door, but the solo has already slipped through a crack you hadn't noticed.

Kaoru

Dir En Grey

Guitar

/ Aquarius

Dir En Grey's shifting structures need a guitarist who can make atmosphere and violence inhabit the same song. Kaoru supplies architecture with unstable walls, which is exactly why I keep going back inside.

Kyo

Dir En Grey / sukekiyo

Vocals

/ Aquarius

Dir En Grey's voice can move from fragile melody to a sound your instincts would prefer not to identify. The range serves the drama. This isn't a talent show; the room is supposed to change.

Liv Kristine

Solo artist / Theatre of Tragedy / Leaves' Eyes

Vocals

/ Aquarius

Theatre of Tragedy made the contrast between her clear voice and those cavernous growls feel like a conversation across a grave. Romance, finally, with adequate acoustics.

Matt Heafy

Trivium / Ibaraki

Vocals and guitar

/ Aquarius

He brings a guitar teacher’s precision to music that still wants to start a pit. The homework is demanding, but the practical examination involves headbanging.

Orianthi

Solo artist / Alice Cooper

Guitar and vocals

/ Aquarius

Her bends have enough vocal character to make a second microphone seem wasteful. The flash gets your attention; the phrasing explains why you stayed after the solo.

Paulina Villarreal

The Warning

Drums and vocals

/ Aquarius

Pau can drive the song from the drum stool and still take its lead vocal. I appreciate a musician who makes multitasking sound dangerous instead of like a productivity seminar.

Quorthon

Bathory

Vocals, guitar and multi-instrumentalist

/ Aquarius

He helped give black metal its teeth and Viking metal its horizon. Most musicians struggle to establish one landscape; he left entire genres arguing over the map.

Tainá Bergamaschi

Crypta

Guitar

/ Aquarius

Crypta's guitar attack requires discipline as much as distortion. Tainá supplies the kind of tightly held menace that makes a riff feel heavier before anyone reaches for the volume knob.

Tina Bell

Bam Bam

Vocals

/ Aquarius

Before Seattle became a marketable wardrobe, Bam Bam had Tina Bell at the microphone. Her power makes the historical oversight sound ridiculous. Apparently some chroniclers needed louder hearing aids.

Yossi Sassi

Orphaned Land / Yossi Sassi and the Oriental Rock Orchestra

Guitar and bouzoukitara

/ Aquarius

The bouzoukitara is a rather convincing answer to the question of whether another guitar variation is necessary. His phrasing makes the cultures converse instead of just posing together for the album sleeve.

Pisces

18 musicians
Adrian Smith

Iron Maiden / Smith-Kotzen

Guitar and vocals

/ Pisces

His leads tend to sing before they show off. In Iron Maiden's crowded guitar conversation, that melodic patience cuts through beautifully. The best sentence isn't always the fastest one.

Akira Takasaki

Loudness

Guitar

/ Pisces

Loudness brought Japanese metal's guitar fire to a global audience without waiting for an invitation. His solos still have that glorious combination of control and the suspicion that something may catch alight.

Amanda Somerville

Trillium / Kiske-Somerville / Avantasia

Vocals

/ Pisces

Her credits wander through symphonic metal like a particularly well-connected ghost. Trillium proves the voice behind so many grand productions can command a house of its own.

Anneke van Giersbergen

The Gathering / solo artist / VUUR

Vocals and guitar

/ Pisces

Her voice can make a heavy passage feel weightless without removing a single ounce of it. I distrust levitation generally, but this one has excellent phrasing.

Burton C. Bell

Fear Factory / Ascension of the Watchers / solo artist

Vocals

/ Pisces

His switch between harsh attack and clean melody gave Fear Factory's machinery a vulnerable human occupant. The contrast matters: a warning siren hits differently when you can hear someone behind it.

Courtney LaPlante

Spiritbox / iwrestledabearonce

Vocals

/ Pisces

She can float a melody over a crushing riff, then become the crushing part herself. Spiritbox makes the transition sound less like a trick than a warning.

Dorthia Cottrell

Windhand / solo artist

Vocals and guitar

/ Pisces

Windhand lets her voice drift through immense riffs without becoming another piece of furniture. Her solo work proves the haunting remains when you unplug the haunted house.

Fabienne Erni

Eluveitie / Illumishade

Vocals and harp

/ Pisces

Eluveitie's folk-metal sweep and Illumishade's more modern shapes give her voice different terrain. She finds the melodic path through both without turning either into background scenery.

Floor Jansen

Nightwish / After Forever / ReVamp

Vocals

/ Pisces

She can move from intimacy to symphonic force without sounding like she has changed instruments. I suspect the orchestra checks her breathing before deciding how brave to be.

John Tardy

Obituary

Vocals

/ Pisces

Obituary proved a voice could become part of the decay itself. His delivery doesn't sound interested in tidying up the consonants. I wouldn't ask the swamp to improve its diction either.

Kurt Cobain

Nirvana

Vocals and guitar

/ Pisces

He could bury a pop melody under distortion and still have the whole world singing it. An extremely inconvenient talent for anyone hoping the underground would stay underground.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Hole / The Smashing Pumpkins / solo artist

Bass and vocals

/ Pisces

Her bass could anchor somebody else's storm, but her solo records built weather of their own. Out of Our Minds is a fine destination if your map has become too sensible.

Nancy Wilson

Heart

Guitar and vocals

/ Pisces

The opening of “Crazy on You” is a useful reminder that an acoustic guitar can carry a knife. She makes elegance and attack sound like close relatives.

Randy Blythe

Lamb of God

Vocals

/ Pisces

His delivery makes Lamb of God’s tightly locked grooves sound ready to tear loose. That is the useful tension: the band builds the cage, and he tests every bar.

Steve Harris

Iron Maiden / British Lion

Bass

/ Pisces

His bass gallop makes the rest of the band sound pursued by an army. The man writes epics, then supplies the horses himself.

Tatiana Shmailyuk

Jinjer

Vocals

/ Pisces

She switches from smoky poise to a roar without giving the riff time to object. Jinjer’s rhythmic traps are bad enough; then she opens the other door.

Tom Angelripper

Sodom / Onkel Tom

Bass and vocals

/ Pisces

Sodom's bass and bark make thrash feel stubbornly physical. The drinking songs are a different outlet for the same directness. Not every German institution requires a formal dress code.

Tony Iommi

Black Sabbath / Heaven & Hell

Guitar

/ Pisces

He found the weight inside a riff and left the rest of us trying to lift it. Doom metal is still paying rent in the space between his notes.

Twelve signs / Twelve kinds of trouble

Choose Your Sign

You know who you are. The rest of the pit has probably noticed, too.

75 archive entries

Aries

The barricade negotiator

Treats the opening riff as a legally binding invitation to charge. Your five-year plan is getting to the front.

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75 archive entries

Taurus

Keeper of the sacred pressing

Knows which vinyl master sounds warmer and will explain it until the venue closes. Change is acceptable only if the new riff is heavier.

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75 archive entries

Gemini

The genre defector

Came for doom, left in a grindcore shirt. Your playlist has more plot twists than the band’s reunion announcement.

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75 archive entries

Cancer

The pit medic

Carries spare earplugs and enough emotional baggage for the whole tour. Checks on fallen strangers before returning to the breakdown.

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75 archive entries

Leo

The unofficial headliner

Booked a general-admission ticket and somehow expected a spotlight. Every mirror is a soundcheck.

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75 archive entries

Virgo

The setlist auditor

Spotted the missed beat before the drummer did. Has a spreadsheet for gigs and a separate spreadsheet judging the first one.

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75 archive entries

Libra

The battle-jacket diplomat

Can settle a subgenre argument but cannot choose a shirt. Both bands deserve your support; your wardrobe deserves hazard pay.

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75 archive entries

Scorpio

The basement ritualist

Doesn’t explain the lyrics. Just turns the volume up and makes sustained eye contact.

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75 archive entries

Sagittarius

The festival escapee

Bought a ticket before checking the country. Somewhere between the second stage and the night bus, responsibility lost your number.

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75 archive entries

Capricorn

The tour-budget warlord

Someone has to book the van, pay the deposit and tell the bassist to wake up. Somehow that person also has the best boots.

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75 archive entries

Aquarius

The impossible time signature

Your favourite band has seventeen listeners and a song written for a broken radiator. Calls it accessible.

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75 archive entries

Pisces

The breakdown romantic

Cried during the acoustic interlude, then demanded the heaviest song in the catalogue. Feelings are just riffs without distortion.

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The sign-by-sign back catalogue

75 published editions for each sign. Newest first.

Aries — 75 editions
Taurus — 75 editions
Gemini — 75 editions
Cancer — 75 editions
Leo — 75 editions
Virgo — 75 editions
Libra — 75 editions
Scorpio — 75 editions
Sagittarius — 75 editions
Capricorn — 75 editions
Aquarius — 75 editions
Pisces — 75 editions
Everyone gets a turn

Your sign. On blast.

55 indexed roast appearances, from early disclaimer jokes to full-blown metalhead character studies. Find your rap sheet.

Aries — 4 roast appearances

The biggest guy in the pit

September 7–13, 2026

Tour bus driver

June 1–7, 2026

Pyrotechnician

March 1–7, 2026
Taurus — 5 roast appearances

Monitor engineer

March 8–14, 2026
Gemini — 4 roast appearances

A&R manager

Published March 15, 2026Archive note: repeated March 8–14 heading

Sacrificial Zodiac Roast

December 7–13, 2025
Cancer — 4 roast appearances

Tour bus driver

March 22–28, 2026

The aunt staying a few days

December 14–20, 2025
Leo — 3 roast appearances

Opening band frontperson

March 29–April 4, 2026
Virgo — 4 roast appearances

The Metalhead “Karen”

October 12–18, 2026

Head of security

April 6–12, 2026
Libra — 5 roast appearances

The Headliner Called. They Want Their Fucking Spotlight Back.

October 19–25, 2026

Backup guitarist

April 13–19, 2026

Rhythm guitarist

February 1–7, 2026
Scorpio — 5 roast appearances

Set crew manager

July 27–August 2, 2026
Sagittarius — 5 roast appearances

The Unfiltered Thrashhole

November 2–8, 2026

Keyboard player

August 3–9, 2026

Lighting director

February 15–21, 2026

Rhythm guitarist

November 23–29, 2025
Capricorn — 8 roast appearances

Video director

August 10–16, 2026

Vocal coach

May 4–10, 2026

Keyboard player

February 22–28, 2026

Micromanaging coworker

October 5–11, 2025

Boss — disclaimer roast

Week of September 1, 2025

Boss — disclaimer roast

August 24–30, 2025

Boss — disclaimer roast

August 17–23, 2025
Aquarius — 4 roast appearances

Tour videographer

August 17–23, 2026

Content manager

May 17–23, 2026
Pisces — 4 roast appearances

Band photographer

May 25–31, 2026

The crybaby ex — disclaimer roast

September 8–14, 2025
The complete back catalogue

Metalhead Horoscope Archive: All Editions

Choose a year. Revisit a forecast. Judge the stars with hindsight.

2026 — 40 editions

Archive note: The March 15, 2026 post is a separate forecast with a repeated March 8–14 source heading. Both entries remain. Source dates have not been rewritten.

2025 — 32 editions
2024 — 3 editions
Let the riffs decide

Lucky Songs

Twelve signs. Twelve discoveries.

Start with November 2–8, then dig through the years. Your next favourite band may have been assigned to someone else’s sign.

Open the latest 12 songs

Original credits and unusual spellings are retained. December 15–22, 2024 entries have no invented artist credits.

2026 · 480 selections

November 2–8, 2026

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesDarkest HourSalvationListen
TaurusAs I Lay DyingThe Cost to StayListen
GeminiXavlegHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaListen
CancerImminenceCrestfallenListen
LeoSaxonMedusaListen
VirgoCloakNigredoListen
LibraWardrunaHelvegen IIListen
ScorpioEntheosHell Is a Part of MeListen
SagittariusSuicide SilenceGracelessListen
CapricornEnslavedI Am IceListen
AquariusStfurAvatar of DeathListen
PiscesThe End of MelancholyWitchListen
October 26–November 1, 2026

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September 7–13, 2026

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August 31–September 6, 2026

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August 17–23, 2026

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August 10–16, 2026

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August 3–9, 2026

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July 13–19, 2026

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July 6–12, 2026

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June 29–July 5, 2026

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June 22–28, 2026

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June 15–21, 2026

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June 1–7, 2026

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May 25–31, 2026

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May 17–23, 2026

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May 4–10, 2026

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April 13–19, 2026

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April 6–12, 2026

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March 1–7, 2026

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February 22–28, 2026

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February 15–21, 2026

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February 8–14, 2026

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February 1–7, 2026

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January 25–31, 2026

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ScorpioLorna ShoreIn DarknessListen
SagittariusBlackbraidPetrichor (Seduced by Conquering Darkness)Listen
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January 17–23, 2026

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LibraMayhemLife is A Corpse You DragListen
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SagittariusHumanity’s Last BreathGodhoodListen
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January 4–10, 2026

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CancerNox ResonatiaThe Shape You Left Me InOriginal edition
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AquariusNahumMantraOriginal edition
PiscesAmira ElfekyForever OverdoseOriginal edition

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December 28, 2025–January 3, 2026

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AriesSunn O)))Eternity PillarsOriginal edition
TaurusStoned JesusShadowlandOriginal edition
GeminiCenobiaDevour MeOriginal edition
CancerSoenDiscordiaOriginal edition
LeoLacuna CoilLayers of TimeOriginal edition
VirgoNita StraussVictoriousOriginal edition
LibraBlackbraidGod of Black BloodOriginal edition
ScorpioCryptopsyBlasphemy Made FreshOriginal edition
SagittariusType O NegativeEverything DiesOriginal edition
CapricornSanguisugaboggRepulsive DemiseOriginal edition
AquariusGojiraAnother WorldOriginal edition
PiscesMammothThe EndOriginal edition
December 21–27, 2025

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CancerAmorphisCrowned in CrimsonOriginal edition
LeoPowerwolfAlive or Undead LiveOriginal edition
VirgoEpicaMenace of Vanity (Live)Original edition
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ScorpioLacuna CoilHosting The ShadowOriginal edition
SagittariusCoheed And CambriaOne Last MiracleOriginal edition
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December 14–20, 2025

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CancerIotunnWaves BelowOriginal edition
LeoVisions of Atlantis & WarkingsPirates & KingOriginal edition
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LibraLord of The LostWinters Dying HeartOriginal edition
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CapricornUnverkaltDie AuslöschungOriginal edition
AquariusLikTheyOriginal edition
PiscesRotten SoundIdealistOriginal edition
December 7–13, 2025

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AriesMetal FactoryDominationOriginal edition
TaurusHoaxedWhere The Seas Fall SilentOriginal edition
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CancerBlood Red ThroneVermicular HeritageOriginal edition
LeoEximperitusThe Untimely Fruit of the UnsaidOriginal edition
VirgoThe Zenith PassageFleshbound ReliquaryOriginal edition
LibraAlter BridgePlaying AcesOriginal edition
ScorpioKreatorSatanic AnarchyOriginal edition
SagittariusOv SulfurVast EternalOriginal edition
CapricornIntoxicatedWar ClubOriginal edition
AquariusUUHAIKhar KhulzOriginal edition
PiscesNecrofierServants of Darkness, Guide My Way!Original edition
November 30–December 6, 2025

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AriesSylosisThe New FleshOriginal edition
TaurusHell BoulevardPitch BlackOriginal edition
GeminiDangerous ToysRattle My CageOriginal edition
CancerBlut Aus NordShadows Breath FirstOriginal edition
LeoLynch MobLift Your Soul UpOriginal edition
VirgoThe Old Dead TreeTime Has ComeOriginal edition
LibraDead SunNighttime ButterflyOriginal edition
ScorpioDevilhuskVitriolOriginal edition
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CapricornRotten SoundIdealistOriginal edition
AquariusOpethParagraph 3Original edition
PiscesAlly NicholasKillingOriginal edition
November 23–29, 2025

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AriesMetal ChurchF.A.F.O.Original edition
TaurusRitual ArcanaSubtle FruitsOriginal edition
GeminiLamb of GodParasocial ChristOriginal edition
CancerEnshineShimmeringOriginal edition
LeoOf Mice and MenFlowersOriginal edition
VirgoCourse of FateAcolyteOriginal edition
LibraBehölderTower Of The Broken GodOriginal edition
ScorpioConvergeLove Is Not EnoughOriginal edition
SagittariusRob ZombieHeathen DaysOriginal edition
CapricornAnnisokaySilent AnchorOriginal edition
AquariusShinedownSearchlightOriginal edition
PiscesTwenty One PilotsSeven Nation Army (cover)Original edition
November 16–22, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesMezzrowSleeping CataclysmOriginal edition
TaurusFrayleHereticOriginal edition
GeminiPoppyBruised SkyOriginal edition
CancerKatatoniaA World Without HeroesOriginal edition
LeoThe Violent HourSex and CigarettesOriginal edition
VirgoJohnny BasedOne Step (Closer)Original edition
LibraSeetherLost All ControlOriginal edition
ScorpioEnthronedAshen AdvocacyOriginal edition
SagittariusHeriotCommander of PainOriginal edition
CapricornFimbul WinterMounds of StoneOriginal edition
AquariusSakis TolisOrkizomeOriginal edition
PiscesMegadethI Don’t CareOriginal edition
November 9–15, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesEvergreyOxygenOriginal edition
TaurusBodysnatcherBlade Between The TeethOriginal edition
GeminiCasketsLost In The ViolenceOriginal edition
CancerKaunis KuolematonMaailman Ainut IhminenOriginal edition
LeoLynch MobSaints And SinnersOriginal edition
VirgoSoenMercenaryOriginal edition
LibraDymytrySun Of A Broken GodOriginal edition
ScorpioLamb of GodSepsisOriginal edition
SagittariusCenobiaThrone Of WantOriginal edition
CapricornHÉRNeedles And BarkOriginal edition
AquariusThe Old Dead TreeTime Has ComeOriginal edition
PiscesArchspireRelentless MutationOriginal edition
November 2–8, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesDeath AngelWrathOriginal edition
TaurusDistantDesolationOriginal edition
GeminiCelldweller & SWARMFakebreakerOriginal edition
CancerAvatarDon’t Go in The ForestOriginal edition
LeoRoman CandleThis Band Has Left Me To Places I Wouldn’t Go With A GunOriginal edition
VirgoKreatorTränenpalastOriginal edition
LibraSamaelBlack Matter ManifestoOriginal edition
ScorpioSkin StripperAngel of DeathOriginal edition
SagittariusTriviumStruck DeadOriginal edition
CapricornStill RemainsThe Wound and The WeaponOriginal edition
AquariusRotten SoundBrave New WorldOriginal edition
PiscesStillbirthTrapped in DarknessOriginal edition
October 26–November 1, 2025 — Halloween edition

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesSoulflyNo Pain = No PowerListen
TaurusThe Acacia StrainAcolyte of the OneListen
GeminiIngestedNefarious TonguesListen
CancerMammothSame Old SongListen
LeoPusciferSelf EvidentListen
VirgoThe Halo EffectDance With the DevilListen
LibraFoo FightersAsking for a FriendListen
ScorpioAdeptBlood CovenantListen
SagittariusAbysmal DawnCradle of AfflictionListen
CapricornConjurerAll ApartListen
AquariusStellar CircuitsBury The AshesListen
PiscesOnus PrimeCould You Love Me in My DarknessListen
October 19–25, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesGaereaHellboundListen
TaurusSunn O)))Eternities PillarsListen
GeminiCrystal LakeCrossing NailsListen
CancerDanheimYggdrasil ⅡListen
LeoSabatonImpalerListen
VirgoDespised IconThe ApparitionListen
LibraErdlingManaListen
ScorpioSpiteLooking GlassListen
SagittariusAgnostic FrontMatter of Life & DeathListen
CapricornCentinexSymphony of ScreamsListen
AquariusIce Nine KillsThe Laugh TrackListen
PiscesIndarThalassophobiaListen
October 12–18, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesKreatorSeven SerpentsListen
TaurusAlter BridgeWhat Lies WithinListen
GeminiRob ZombiePunks and DemonsListen
CancerFrayleBooListen
LeoTestamentHigh NoonListen
VirgoCarach AngrenThe Resurrection of KaribaListen
LibraLiving Dead GirlSuccubusListen
ScorpioSanguisugaboggHeinous TestimonyListen
SagittariusDead HeatThe OrderListen
CapricornBlack Label SocietyBroken and BlindListen
AquariusHattersonConfusionListen
PiscesDelta HateNo Use To You.Listen
October 5–11, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesMegadethTipping PointListen
TaurusOrbit CultureInfernaListen
GeminiHooded MenacePortrait Without A FaceListen
CancerLamb of GodSepsisListen
LeoSoulflyStorm The GatesListen
VirgoEnsiferumFrom Order To ChaosListen
LibraGaereaSubmergedListen
ScorpioEllendeZerfallListen
SagittariusEquilibriumI’ll Be ThunderListen
CapricornTestamentInfanticide A.D.Listen
AquariusIgorrrDaemoneListen
PiscesAmorphisFog To FogListen
October 2025 forecastArchive note: published September 28

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesImmortalThe Call of the WintermoonListen
TaurusAgallochLimbsListen
GeminiAt The GatesForever BlindListen
CancerInsomniumWhile We SleepListen
LeoEmperorInto the Infinity of ThoughtsListen
VirgoNeurosisStones from the SkyListen
LibraDark TranquillityThereInListen
ScorpioMorbid AngelChapel of GhoulsListen
SagittariusAbsuNever Blow Out the Eastern CandleListen
CapricornKatatoniaLeadersListen
AquariusArch EnemyNo Gods, No MastersListen
PiscesJudas PriestBeyond the Realms of DeathListen
September 21–27, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesMunicipal WasteBreathListen
TaurusHorrendousThe BlazeListen
GeminiHellripperGoat Vomit NightmareListen
CancerSo HideousSouvenir (Echo)Listen
LeoGloryhammerHoly Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic FrostListen
VirgoObsidian TideThe Undying FlamesListen
LibraZeal & ArdorDeath to the HolyListen
ScorpioImmolationWhen The Jackals ComeListen
SagittariusAlien WeaponryKai TangataListen
CapricornRevocationOf Unworldly OriginListen
AquariusIgorrrParpaing (feat. George Fisher)Listen
PiscesHarakiri for the SkySing for the Damage We’ve DoneListen
September 14–20, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesAngelcorpseInto The Storm of SteelListen
TaurusBell WitchMirror ReaperListen
GeminiAntichristThrash ’Til DeathListen
CancerMournful CongregationThe Paling CrestListen
LeoMezzrowKing of The Infinite VoidListen
VirgoAeternusExistentialist HunterListen
LibraSoenLucidityListen
ScorpioCeltic FrostInto The Crypts Of RaysListen
SagittariusAmon AmarthRide For VengeanceListen
CapricornBathoryEnter The Eternal FireListen
AquariusOranssi PazuzuSaturaatioListen
PiscesAgallochDead Winter DaysListen
September 8–14, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesGreen CarnationMy Dark Reflections of Life and DeathListen
TaurusGreen CarnationThe Burden is Mine…AloneListen
GeminiFractal GatesIllusional DementiaListen
CancerGhost BrigadeArchitect of New BeginningsListen
LeoDaylight DiesSolitary RefinementListen
VirgoIn MourningColossusListen
LibraAmenraA Solitary ReignListen
ScorpioWoods of YpresKiss My Ashes (Goodbye)Listen
SagittariusNovembers DoomThe Day I ReturnListen
CapricornDark TranquillityFor Broken WordsListen
AquariusEternal Tears of SorrowDirgeListen
PiscesSwallow the SunNew MoonListen
Week of September 1, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesWhitechapelHymns in DissonanceListen
TaurusScalpEGODEATHListen
GeminiSleep TokenDamoclesListen
CancerDeftonesMy Mind Is a MountainListen
LeoTallahWhat We KnowListen
VirgoArchitectsEverything EndsListen
LibraKillswitch EngageForever AlignedListen
ScorpioThe Acacia StrainHoly MoonlightListen
SagittariusGrand CadaverThe Rot BeneathListen
CapricornGhost BathRose Thorn NecklaceListen
AquariusThe HauntedIn Fire RebornListen
PiscesSIGNS OF THE SWARMClouded RetinasListen
August 24–30, 2025

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AriesGoatwhoreBaring Teeth For RevoltListen
TaurusWindhandOrchardListen
GeminiCynicHow Could IListen
CancerSwallow the SunCathedral WallsListen
LeoGorgutsPleiades’ DustListen
VirgoMastodonDivinationsListen
LibraTestamentInfanticide A. I.Listen
ScorpioDisectionWhere Dead Angels LieListen
SagittariusAgallochThe Astral DialogueListen
CapricornBathoryTwilight of the GodsListen
AquariusIhsahnCelestial ViolenceListen
PiscesAlcestPercées de lumièreListen
August 17–23, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesWitcheryLegionListen
TaurusKhemmisA Conversation with DeathListen
GeminiVoivodOverreactionListen
CancerDraconianDeath, Come Near MeListen
LeoGrand MagusLike the Oar Strikes the WaterListen
VirgoSoenLucidityListen
LibraCult of LunaEchoesListen
ScorpioBehemothBlow Your Trumpets GabrielListen
SagittariusDark FortressBaphometListen
CapricornPrimordialEmpire FallsListen
AquariusGamma RayRebellion in DreamlandListen
PiscesNe ObliviscarisAnd Plague Flowers the KaleidoscopeListen
August 11–17, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesAnnihilatorPhoenix RisingListen
TaurusAll That RemainsThe Waiting OneListen
GeminiMetallicaNothing Else MattersListen
CancerKnocked LooseSuffocate (feat. Poppy)Listen
LeoSlipknotAll Out LifeListen
VirgoTombsObsidianListen
LibraBlack TuskBring Me DarknessListen
ScorpioInsomniumShadows of The Dying SunListen
SagittariusBABYMETALThe Road of ResistanceListen
CapricornDream TheaterAlong For The RideListen
AquariusDeathIndividual Thought PatternsListen
PiscesDevin TownsendSeventh WaveListen
Published August 3, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesKreatorThe Strongest of The StrongListen
TaurusPallbearerFoundations of BurdenListen
GeminiTherionAlchemy of The SoulListen
CancerXandriaSacrificiumListen
LeoStratovariusHunting High and LowListen
VirgoNecrophagistStabwoundListen
LibraPeripheryScarletListen
ScorpioGorgorothProfetens ÅpenbaringListen
SagittariusKorpiklaaniSpirit of the ForestListen
CapricornPersefoneLiving WavesListen
AquariusRosettaAu Pays NatalListen
PiscesWolves in the Throne RoomBorn from the Serpent’s EyeListen
July 27–August 1, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesWhitechapelHymns in DissonanceListen
TaurusArch EnemyBlood DynastyListen
GeminiDragon SkullChaos Fire VengeanceListen
CancerGoreSepsisListen
LeoSpiritboxTsunami SeaListen
VirgoSleep TokenDamoclesListen
LibraSweetBeastIllusionListen
ScorpioJinjerDuélListen
SagittariusMalevolenceIf It’s All The Same to YouListen
CapricornPraga KhanRemove The ArmorListen
AquariusKratornasRavaged by HurakaanListen
PiscesNightrageFalse GodsListen
July 20–26, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesRotting ChristFire And FlameListen
TaurusIron MaidenThe AlchemistListen
GeminiCattle DecapitationFinish ThemListen
CancerCradle of FilthHer Ghost in The FogListen
LeoHateSovereign SanctityListen
VirgoMortem SolisThe Hermit SongListen
LibraKrypteiaChaos ImperiumListen
ScorpioBorn of OsirisThrough ShadowsListen
SagittariusKittieOracleListen
CapricornJudas PriestThe SentinelListen
AquariusVoid of VisionGhost in The MachineListen
PiscesNe ObliviscarisPainters of the Tempest (Part II)Listen
Published July 13, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesOrbit CultureDeath Above LifeListen
TaurusSylvaineNowhere, Still SomewhereListen
GeminiDVNEPleromaListen
CancerBe’lakorIndelibleListen
LeoGhostThe Future id A Foreign LandListen
VirgoIotunnMistlandListen
LibraCloakInvictusListen
ScorpioEnslavedCaravans to the Outer WorldsListen
SagittariusKardashevGlass PhantomsListen
CapricornThe Halo EffectHow The Gods KillListen
AquariusSoenIncendiaryListen
PiscesParadise LostSerpent On The CrossListen
Published July 7, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesBlack SabbathSymptom of The UniverseListen
TaurusBlack SabbathInto The VoidListen
GeminiBlack SabbathSpiral AtchitectListen
CancerBlack SabbathChildren of The GraveListen
LeoOzzy OsbourneNo More TearsListen
VirgoOzzy OsbourneI Don’t KnowListen
LibraBlack SabbathFairies Wear BootsListen
ScorpioBlack SabbathWar PigsListen
SagittariusOzzy OsbourneRoad To NowhereListen
CapricornBlack SabbathChangesListen
AquariusOzzy OsbournePerry MasonListen
PiscesBlack SabbathPlanet CaravanListen
Published June 28, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesPanteraRevolution is My NameListen
TaurusGojiraBorn For One ThingListen
GeminiMastodonMore Than I Could ChewListen
CancerWhile She SleepsKnow Your WorthListen
LeoDioStand Up And ShoutListen
VirgoCandlemassSolitudeListen
LibraMegadethLiarListen
ScorpioPolarisAbove My HeadListen
SagittariusStratovariusFantasyListen
CapricornDream EvilThe Book of Heavy MetalListen
AquariusSunn O)))My WallListen
PiscesMetal ChurchResetListen
June 22–June 28, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesHalestormLove Bites (So Do I)Listen
TaurusGojiraRemembranceListen
GeminiSoilworkOverloadListen
CancerStatic-XPush ItListen
LeoAnnihilatorKing of the KillListen
VirgoThe Reign of TyrantsCleanse the HiveListen
LibraLamb of GodWalk With Me in HellListen
ScorpioMetallicaMaster of PuppetsListen
SagittariusAirbourneRunnin’ WildListen
CapricornMastodonMarch of the Fire AntsListen
AquariusMeshuggahFuture Breed MachineListen
PiscesOpethGhost of PerditionListen
Published June 3, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesBolt ThrowerThe KillchainListen
TaurusShadows FallStill I RiseListen
GeminiAcceptTwist of FateListen
CancerBoundariesRealize And RebuildListen
LeoEluveitieRebirthListen
VirgoSlipknotEyelessListen
LibraAether RealmOakListen
ScorpioAs I Lay DyingMoving ForwardListen
SagittariusAvantasiaReach Out For The LightListen
CapricornKiller Be KilledInner Calm From Outer StormsListen
AquariusOpethUniversal TruthListen
PiscesThulcandraHail The AbyssListen
April 20–26, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesKillswitch EngageEmbrace The JourneyListen
TaurusOmState of Non-ReturnListen
GeminiRhapsodyDawn of VictoryListen
CancerSepulturaInner SelfListen
LeoEvileThe UnknownListen
VirgoFractal UniverseA Clockwork ExpectationListen
LibraShadows FallThe Art of BalanceListen
ScorpioSacred ReichManifest RealityListen
SagittariusAvatarA Secret DoorListen
CapricornFreedom CallWarriorsListen
AquariusKrypteiaChaos ImperiumListen
PiscesBad OmensCareful What You Wish ForListen
April 7–12, 2025

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AriesScorpionsWind of ChangeListen
TaurusI PrevailThere’s Fear In Letting GoListen
GeminiAll That RemainsTwo WeeksListen
CancerHatebreedPerseveranceListen
LeoAbyssusUnleash the StormListen
VirgoAgallochIn the Shadow of Our Pale CompanionListen
LibraLamb of GodWalk With Me in HellListen
ScorpioOpethUniversal TruthListen
SagittariusTetrarchYou Never ListenListen
CapricornSystem of A DownSnowblindListen
AquariusKrypteiaChaos ImperiumListen
PiscesSlowdiveSo TiredListen
Published March 29, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesBolt ThrowerThe KillchainListen
TaurusFellowshipGlory DaysListen
GeminiChastainWe Must Carry OnListen
CancerAd InfinitumNew DawnListen
LeoHelloweenEagle Fly FreeListen
VirgoTýrThe EdgeListen
LibraIn This MomentLegacyListen
ScorpioMotörheadAce of SpadesListen
SagittariusDragonforceA Quest For TruthListen
CapricornControl DeniedExpect The UnexpectedListen
AquariusJudas PriestTrial By FireListen
PiscesAnnihilatorPhoenix RisingListen

2024 · 36 selections

December 29, 2024–January 4, 2025

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesNervosaEndless AmbitionOriginal edition
TaurusDevin TownsendSunshine And HappinessOriginal edition
GeminiBlack SabbathChangesOriginal edition
CancerCryptopsySlit Your GutsOriginal edition
LeoBring Me The HorizonThroneOriginal edition
VirgoStratovariusDestinyOriginal edition
LibraWoods of YpresTraveling AloneOriginal edition
ScorpioI PrevailThere’s Fear In Letting GoOriginal edition
SagittariusDream TheaterAnti-Procrastination SongOriginal edition
CapricornSpiritboxPerfect SoulOriginal edition
AquariusThe Great Old OnesMe The DreamerOriginal edition
PiscesCrippled Black PhoenixWe Forgotten Who We AreOriginal edition
December 20–27, 2024

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SignArtistLucky SongListen
AriesWarbringerTotal WarOriginal edition
TaurusKatatoniaJourney Through PressureOriginal edition
GeminiTesseractNocturnOriginal edition
CancerDimmu BorgirProgenies of the Great ApocalypseOriginal edition
LeoGravediggerYesterdayOriginal edition
VirgoNecrophagistSymbiotic in TheoryOriginal edition
LibraBorn of OsirisIn DesolationOriginal edition
ScorpioRotting ChristPrimal ResurrectionOriginal edition
SagittariusTýrBlood of HeroesOriginal edition
CapricornDethklokI Ejaculate FireOriginal edition
AquariusVoivodRipping HeadachesOriginal edition
PiscesWolves in the Throne RoomMountain MagicOriginal edition
December 15–22, 2024

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AriesArtist not creditedWar EnsembleOriginal edition
TaurusArtist not creditedInto the VoidOriginal edition
GeminiArtist not creditedBy The Pain I See in OthersOriginal edition
CancerArtist not creditedLove You to DeathOriginal edition
LeoArtist not creditedThe TrooperOriginal edition
VirgoArtist not creditedNea CulpaOriginal edition
LibraArtist not creditedpendulumOriginal edition
ScorpioArtist not creditedBlow Your Trumpets GabrielOriginal edition
SagittariusArtist not creditedOverkillOriginal edition
CapricornArtist not creditedFade To BlackOriginal edition
AquariusArtist not creditedKingdomOriginal edition
PiscesArtist not creditedDeliveranceOriginal edition
For the deep divers

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607 artist credits. Every appearance kept, including the one-hit discoveries and joint credits. Pick a letter and follow the noise.

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A

Absu — 1 appearance
  • Never Blow Out the Eastern Candle · Sagittarius · October 2025 forecastArchive note: published September 28
Abysmal Dawn — 1 appearance
Abyssus — 1 appearance
Accept — 2 appearances
Ad Infinitum — 1 appearance
Adept — 1 appearance
Aeternus — 1 appearance
Aether Realm — 1 appearance
Agalloch — 4 appearances
Agnostic Front — 2 appearances
Ain Sof Aur — 1 appearance
Airbourne — 1 appearance
Alcest — 1 appearance
Alien Weaponry — 1 appearance
All Shall Perish — 2 appearances
All That Remains — 2 appearances
Ally Nicholas — 1 appearance
Alter Bridge — 2 appearances
Amaranthe — 1 appearance
Amenra — 1 appearance
American Monster — 1 appearance
Amira Elfeky — 1 appearance
Amon Amarth — 4 appearances
Amorphis — 2 appearances
Analepsy — 1 appearance
Angelcorpse — 1 appearance
Annihilator — 3 appearances
Annisokay — 1 appearance
Anthrax — 3 appearances
Antichrist — 1 appearance
APOCÆLYPSE — 1 appearance
Arankai — 2 appearances
Arch Enemy — 2 appearances
Architects — 3 appearances
Archspire — 5 appearances
Armored Saint · 1 appearance
Ars Goetia — 1 appearance
Artificial Brain — 1 appearance
As I Lay Dying — 2 appearances
At The Gates — 3 appearances
Atavistia — 1 appearance
Atlas — 1 appearance
Atreyu — 1 appearance
August Burns Red — 1 appearance
Avantasia — 1 appearance
Avatar — 2 appearances
Axe Dragger — 1 appearance
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B

Beast in Black — 1 appearance
Black Altar — 1 appearance
BABYMETAL — 1 appearance
Bad Omens — 1 appearance
BAEST — 1 appearance
Banisher — 1 appearance
Barbaric Oath — 1 appearance
Bathory — 2 appearances
Be’lakor — 1 appearance
Behemoth — 3 appearances
Behölder — 1 appearance
Bell Witch — 1 appearance
Belphegor — 1 appearance
Benighted — 1 appearance
Beyond Creation — 1 appearance
Black Label Society — 2 appearances
Black Sabbath — 9 appearances
Black Spikes — 1 appearance
Black Tusk — 1 appearance
Blackbraid — 3 appearances
Bleed The Witch — 1 appearance
Blood Red Throne — 1 appearance
Blue Medusa — 2 appearances
Blut Aus Nord — 1 appearance
Bluttgott · 1 appearance
Bodysnatcher — 2 appearances
Bolt Thrower — 2 appearances
Born of Osiris — 2 appearances
Boundaries — 2 appearances
Bring Me The Horizon — 1 appearance
Burial Plot — 1 appearance
Butcher Babies — 2 appearances
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C

Caelestia — 1 appearance
Cage Fight — 1 appearance
Cancer Bats — 1 appearance
Candlemass — 1 appearance
Carach Angren — 1 appearance
Carnifex — 1 appearance
Carnivore A.D. — 1 appearance
Caskets — 1 appearance
Castle — 1 appearance
Catcher And The Rye — 1 appearance
Cattle Decapitation — 1 appearance
Celldweller — 1 appearance
Celldweller & SWARM — 1 appearance
Celtic Frost — 1 appearance
Cenobia — 4 appearances
Centinex — 1 appearance
Chaoseum — 1 appearance
Chastain — 1 appearance
Cloak — 2 appearances
Cloven Hoof — 1 appearance
Clutch · 1 appearance
Coheed And Cambria — 1 appearance
Combichrist — 1 appearance
Comeback Kid — 1 appearance
Conjurer — 1 appearance
Conspyre · 1 appearance
Consvmer — 1 appearance
Control Denied — 1 appearance
Converge — 4 appearances
Coroner — 1 appearance
Corrosion of Conformity — 1 appearance
Course of Fate — 1 appearance
Cradle of Filth — 2 appearances
Crippled Black Phoenix — 3 appearances
Crown Magnetar — 2 appearances
Cryptopsy — 3 appearances
Crystal Lake — 1 appearance
Cult of Luna — 2 appearances
Cynic — 1 appearance
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D

Dawn of Demise · 1 appearance
Deaf Haven — 1 appearance
Darkest Hour — 2 appearances
Dangerous Toys — 1 appearance
Danheim — 1 appearance
Dark Fortress — 1 appearance
Dark Funeral — 1 appearance
Dark Tranquillity — 2 appearances
Darkthrone — 1 appearance
Daylight Dies — 1 appearance
Dead Heat — 1 appearance
Dead Poet Society — 2 appearances
Dead Sun — 1 appearance
Death — 1 appearance
Death Angel — 1 appearance
Death Cassette · 1 appearance
Death Crown — 1 appearance
Deftones — 1 appearance
Dehydrated — 1 appearance
Delta Hate — 1 appearance
Demonic Resurrection — 1 appearance
Demonpussy — 1 appearance
Depravity — 1 appearance
Desolation — 1 appearance
Despised Icon — 1 appearance
Detartrated — 1 appearance
Dethklok — 1 appearance
Devil Master — 1 appearance
Devildriver — 1 appearance
Devilhusk — 1 appearance
Devin Townsend — 4 appearances
Devourment — 2 appearances
Dieth · 1 appearance
Dimmu Borgir — 3 appearances
Dio — 1 appearance
Dir En Grey — 1 appearance
Disection — 1 appearance
Disfiguring The Goddess — 1 appearance
Distant — 3 appearances
Doro · 1 appearance
Down — 3 appearances
Draconian — 1 appearance
Dragon Skull — 1 appearance
Dragonforce — 1 appearance
Dreadsight — 1 appearance
Dream Evil — 1 appearance
Dream Theater — 2 appearances
Drown in Sulphur — 1 appearance
Drudkh — 1 appearance
Duskveil — 1 appearance
DVNE — 1 appearance
Dymytry — 1 appearance
DYMYTRY PARADOX — 1 appearance
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E

Eihwar — 4 appearances
Eisbrecher — 1 appearance
Eivør — 2 appearances
Ellende — 1 appearance
Eluveitie — 1 appearance
Emperor — 1 appearance
Endseeker — 1 appearance
Enshine — 1 appearance
Ensiferum — 1 appearance
Enslaved — 3 appearances
Enterprise Earth — 1 appearance
Entheos — 3 appearances
Enthroned — 1 appearance
Epica — 2 appearances
Equilibrium — 1 appearance
Eradikator — 1 appearance
Erdling — 1 appearance
Eternal Drak — 1 appearance
Eternal Tears of Sorrow — 1 appearance
Evanescence — 2 appearances
Evergrey — 1 appearance
Evile — 1 appearance
Evoken — 1 appearance
Exhuman — 1 appearance
Exhumed — 1 appearance
Eximperitus — 2 appearances
Exist — 1 appearance
Exodus — 2 appearances
Extinct — 1 appearance
Exumer — 2 appearances
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F

Fracturus — 1 appearance
Falchi — 1 appearance
Fallen Letters — 1 appearance
Fear Factory — 1 appearance
Fear of Domination — 1 appearance
Fellowship — 1 appearance
Fimbul Winter — 3 appearances
Fit For An Autopsy — 1 appearance
Five Fingers — 1 appearance
Flea — 1 appearance
Fleshcrawl — 1 appearance
Flotsam & Jetsam — 1 appearance
Foo Fighters — 2 appearances
Fractal Gates — 1 appearance
Fractal Universe — 1 appearance
Frayle — 2 appearances
Freedom Call — 1 appearance
Frost Black — 1 appearance
Frozen Crown — 1 appearance
Frozen Soul — 2 appearances
Full House Brew Crew — 1 appearance
Fuming Mouth — 1 appearance
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G

Gaerea — 4 appearances
Gamma Ray — 1 appearance
Get The Shot — 1 appearance
Ghost — 1 appearance
Ghost Bath — 1 appearance
Ghost Brigade — 1 appearance
Gloryhammer — 1 appearance
Goatwhore — 1 appearance
Godflesh — 1 appearance
Godless — 1 appearance
Gojira — 3 appearances
Gore — 2 appearances
Gorgatron · 1 appearance
Gorgoroth — 1 appearance
Gorguts — 1 appearance
Gothminister — 1 appearance
Grand Cadaver — 1 appearance
Grand Harvest · 1 appearance
Grand Magus — 1 appearance
Grave Digger · 1 appearance
Gravedigger — 1 appearance
Gravery — 1 appearance
Green Carnation — 4 appearances
Grimskog — 1 appearance
GRUNTS — 1 appearance
Grymheart · 1 appearance
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H

Haemoth — 1 appearance
Haken — 3 appearances
Halestorm — 1 appearance
Harakiri for the Sky — 1 appearance
Harlott — 1 appearance
Hate — 2 appearances
Hatebreed — 4 appearances
Hatterson — 1 appearance
Heathen — 1 appearance
Heidnir — 1 appearance
Hell Boulevard — 1 appearance
Helloween — 1 appearance
Hellripper — 1 appearance
The HU — 1 appearance
HÉR — 1 appearance
Her Blood — 2 appearances
Heriot — 1 appearance
Hesperia — 1 appearance
Highly Suspect — 1 appearance
Hoaxed — 1 appearance
Holissstik — 1 appearance
Holy Wars — 1 appearance
Hooded Menace — 1 appearance
Hornets of Fall — 1 appearance
Horrendous — 1 appearance
Hulder — 1 appearance
Humanity’s Last Breath — 1 appearance
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I

ignite — 1 appearance
I Prevail — 2 appearances
Iapetus — 1 appearance
Ice Nine Kills — 1 appearance
IGNEA — 2 appearances
Igorrr — 2 appearances
Ihsahn — 1 appearance
Imminence — 4 appearances
Immolation — 3 appearances
Immortal — 1 appearance
Impending Doom — 1 appearance
Impure Wilhelmina — 2 appearances
In Mourning — 1 appearance
In This Moment — 3 appearances
Indar — 1 appearance
Infected Rain — 1 appearance
Ingested — 3 appearances
Insomnium — 4 appearances
Intoxicated — 1 appearance
Invocation Ritual — 1 appearance
Iotunn — 3 appearances
Iron Maiden — 1 appearance
Ironstone — 1 appearance
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J

Jiluka — 1 appearance
Jinjer — 1 appearance
Johnny Based — 1 appearance
Johnny Idol — 1 appearance
Judas Priest — 3 appearances
Jungle Rot — 2 appearances
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K

Kal-El — 1 appearance
Kamelot — 2 appearances
Kardashev — 1 appearance
Karnivool — 1 appearance
Kasck — 1 appearance
Katatonia — 3 appearances
Kaunis Kuolematon — 1 appearance
Kerry King — 1 appearance
Khemmis — 2 appearances
Killer Be Killed — 1 appearance
Killswitch Engage — 2 appearances
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — 1 appearance
King Parrot — 1 appearance
Kittie — 2 appearances
KMFDM — 2 appearances
Knife · 1 appearance
Knocked Loose — 2 appearances
Korpiklaani — 1 appearance
Kratornas — 1 appearance
Kreator — 5 appearances
Krypsis — 3 appearances
Krypteia — 3 appearances
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L

Lacuna Coil — 2 appearances
Lamb of God — 7 appearances
Lamentari — 1 appearance
Lamentaria — 1 appearance
Leatherwitch — 1 appearance
Leaves Eyes — 1 appearance
Lex Legion — 1 appearance
Lik — 1 appearance
Lilith’s Demise — 1 appearance
Living Dead Girl — 1 appearance
Living Weapon — 1 appearance
Loathe — 1 appearance
Locus Noir — 1 appearance
Lord of The Lost — 1 appearance
Lorna Shore — 2 appearances
Lucifena · 1 appearance
Lynch Mob — 2 appearances
LÝSIS — 1 appearance
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M

Malefic Throne — 1 appearance
Malevolence — 1 appearance
Mammons Throne — 1 appearance
Mammoth — 3 appearances
Marilyn Manson — 1 appearance
Massacre — 1 appearance
Mastodon — 7 appearances
Mavira — 2 appearances
Mawiza — 1 appearance
Mayhem — 2 appearances
Meat For The Beast — 1 appearance
Megadeth — 5 appearances
Mental Cruelty — 1 appearance
Meshuggah — 1 appearance
Metal Church — 2 appearances
Metal Factory — 1 appearance
Metallica — 2 appearances
Mezzrow — 2 appearances
Midnight Cowgirls — 1 appearance
Ministry — 2 appearances
Miscreance — 2 appearances
Misery Index — 1 appearance
Mogwai feat. Iggy Pop · 1 appearance
Monstrosity — 1 appearance
Moonspell — 2 appearances
Morbid Angel — 1 appearance
Morbid Intent — 1 appearance
Morbid Worm — 1 appearance
Mork — 1 appearance
Mortem — 1 appearance
Mortem Solis — 1 appearance
Motionless In White — 2 appearances
Motoki — 1 appearance
Motörhead — 1 appearance
Mournful Congregation — 1 appearance
Mouth Ulcers — 3 appearances
Municipal Waste — 1 appearance
My Brain Is Wet — 1 appearance
Måneskin · 1 appearance
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N

Nahum — 1 appearance
NAILS — 1 appearance
Nargaroth — 2 appearances
Ne Obliviscaris — 2 appearances
Necrocosm — 1 appearance
Necrofier — 1 appearance
Necrophagist — 2 appearances
Necrotted — 1 appearance
Necrowhorex — 1 appearance
NervoChaos · 1 appearance
Nervosa — 4 appearances
Netherwilds — 3 appearances
Neurosis — 2 appearances
Nicholas Cage Fighter — 1 appearance
Nightrage — 1 appearance
Nihilanth — 1 appearance
Nine Inch Nails — 1 appearance
Nita Strauss — 1 appearance
No Cure — 1 appearance
No Preachers — 1 appearance
Nordjevel · 1 appearance
Novembers Doom — 1 appearance
Novulent — 2 appearances
Nox Resonantua — 1 appearance
Nox Resonatia — 1 appearance
Nun Slaughter — 1 appearance
Nytt Land — 2 appearances
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O

Obscura — 1 appearance
Obsidian Tide — 1 appearance
Oceans — 2 appearances
Of Mice and Men — 1 appearance
Okkultist — 1 appearance
Om — 1 appearance
Onus Prime — 1 appearance
Opeth — 4 appearances
Ophidian Rite — 1 appearance
Oranssi Pazuzu — 1 appearance
Orbit Culture — 5 appearances
Ov Sulfur — 1 appearance
Ozzy Osbourne — 4 appearances
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P

Peelingflesh · 1 appearance
Polyphia — 1 appearance
Power Trip — 1 appearance
Paleface Swiss — 1 appearance
Pallbearer — 1 appearance
Pantera — 1 appearance
Paradise Lost — 2 appearances
Perennial Isolation — 1 appearance
Periphery — 3 appearances
Perpetual Paradox — 1 appearance
Persefone — 1 appearance
Pig — 1 appearance
Polaris — 1 appearance
Ponte Del Diavolo — 1 appearance
Poppy — 3 appearances
Powerwolf — 1 appearance
Praga Khan — 1 appearance
Precious Blood — 1 appearance
Primordial — 1 appearance
Primus — 1 appearance
Prong — 1 appearance
Provenance — 1 appearance
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets — 1 appearance
Psycroptic — 2 appearances
Puscifer — 2 appearances
Pyrexic Implosion — 1 appearance
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R

Ramtha — 1 appearance
Rectoplasm — 1 appearance
Red Method — 2 appearances
Revocation — 2 appearances
Rhapsody — 1 appearance
Ritual Arcana — 1 appearance
Rob Zombie — 4 appearances
Roman Candle — 1 appearance
Rosetta — 1 appearance
Rot Nest — 1 appearance
Rotnest — 1 appearance
Rotten Sound — 3 appearances
Rotting Christ — 2 appearances
Russian Circles — 1 appearance
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S

Sabaton — 2 appearances
Sacred Reich — 1 appearance
Sakis Tolis — 1 appearance
Saliva — 1 appearance
Samael — 2 appearances
Sanguisugabogg — 2 appearances
Saor — 1 appearance
Savage Mania — 1 appearance
Saxon · 1 appearance
Scalp — 1 appearance
Scarlean · 1 appearance
Scordatura — 1 appearance
Scorpions — 1 appearance
Seether — 1 appearance
Sepultura — 4 appearances
SFINX — 1 appearance
Shadows Fall — 2 appearances
Sheri Moon Zombie — 1 appearance
Shinedown — 1 appearance
SIGNS OF THE SWARM — 1 appearance
Six Feet Under — 2 appearances
Skin Stripper — 1 appearance
Skindred — 2 appearances
Slaughter To Prevail — 3 appearances
Sleep Token — 2 appearances
Sleeperbuild — 1 appearance
Slipknot — 3 appearances
Slowdive — 1 appearance
So Hideous — 1 appearance
Soen — 7 appearances
Soilwork — 1 appearance
Soulfly — 2 appearances
Spiritbox — 2 appearances
Spite — 2 appearances
St. Agnus — 1 appearance
Staind · 1 appearance
Static-X — 1 appearance
Stellar Circuits — 1 appearance
Stfur · 1 appearance
Still Remains — 2 appearances
Stillbirth — 1 appearance
Stitched Up Heart — 2 appearances
Stoned Jesus — 3 appearances
Stonewall Slim — 1 appearance
Stratovarius — 3 appearances
Suffication — 1 appearance
Suicide Silence — 2 appearances
Sun Don’t Shine — 1 appearance
Sunn O))) — 5 appearances
Swallow the Sun — 2 appearances
Swarm — 1 appearance
SweetBeast — 1 appearance
Sylosis — 3 appearances
Sylvaine — 1 appearance
System of A Down — 1 appearance
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T

Tallah — 1 appearance
Tam Gdzie — 1 appearance
Temple of The Void — 1 appearance
Terror — 1 appearance
Tesseract — 1 appearance
Testament — 3 appearances
Tetrarch — 1 appearance
The 69 Eyes — 1 appearance
The Acacia Strain — 2 appearances
The Claypool Lennon Delirium — 1 appearance
The End of Melancholy · 1 appearance
The Great Old Ones — 1 appearance
The Halo Effect — 3 appearances
The Haunted — 1 appearance
The Hellflowers · 1 appearance
The Konsent — 1 appearance
The Old Dead Tree — 2 appearances
The Pale Mourning — 1 appearance
The Pretty Reckless — 2 appearances
The Reign of Tyrants — 1 appearance
The Rolling Stones — 3 appearances
The Vampire Lestat — 1 appearance
The Violent Hour — 1 appearance
The Warning — 1 appearance
The Zenith Passage — 1 appearance
Theosophy — 1 appearance
Therion — 2 appearances
This Is Desolation — 1 appearance
Threat Signal — 1 appearance
Thrown — 1 appearance
Thulcandra — 1 appearance
Thy Catafalque — 1 appearance
To Obey a Tyrant — 1 appearance
TodoMal — 1 appearance
Tom Morello — 2 appearances
Tombs — 1 appearance
Tony Iommi — 2 appearances
Transylvania — 1 appearance
Trivium — 2 appearances
True Fear — 1 appearance
Tsalmaveth PA — 1 appearance
Twenty One Pilots — 1 appearance
Type O Negative — 1 appearance
Týr — 2 appearances
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U

Untitled With Drums — 1 appearance
Unverkalt — 3 appearances
UUHAI — 1 appearance
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V

Valid Soul — 1 appearance
Velvet Witch — 1 appearance
Vended — 1 appearance
Venom — 2 appearances
Via Doloris — 1 appearance
Visions of Atlantis & Warkings — 1 appearance
Vlad in Tears — 1 appearance
Void of Vision — 1 appearance
Void Sector · 1 appearance
Voivod — 2 appearances
Vomitory — 2 appearances
Vredehammer — 1 appearance
Vulgar Mephitis — 1 appearance
Vulvodynia — 1 appearance
Vurtist — 1 appearance
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W

Walls of Jericho — 1 appearance
Warbringer — 1 appearance
Wardruna · 1 appearance
Warfiend — 1 appearance
Waste — 1 appearance
Wasted — 1 appearance
While She Sleeps — 1 appearance
Whitechapel — 3 appearances
Windhand — 1 appearance
Witchery — 1 appearance
Wolfbrigade — 1 appearance
Wolves in the Throne Room — 2 appearances
Woods of Ypres — 2 appearances
Worm — 2 appearances
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X

Xandria — 3 appearances
Xavleg · 1 appearance
Xorsist — 1 appearance
XOX — 1 appearance
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Y

Yes · 1 appearance
Yngwie Malmsteen — 2 appearances
Yoth Iria — 1 appearance
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Z

Zeal & Ardor — 2 appearances
Zornheym — 1 appearance
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Cyrillic

Мещера — 1 appearance
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