List of speed metal bands

This is a list of speed metal bands. Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from NWOBHM and hardcore punk roots. It is described by AllMusic as "extremely fast, abrasive, and technically demanding" music.

List of bands

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• 3 Inches of Blood ^[1]
• Abattoir ^[2]
• Acid ^[3]
• Agent Steel ^[4]
• Agony
• Aion
• Aisenshi
• Alltheniko ^[5]
• Almafuerte
• Angel Dust ^[6]
• Animetal
• Annihilator ^[7]
• Anthrax ^[8]
• Anvil ^[9]
• Artillery
• Attaxe
• Atomkraft ^[10]
• Blasdead
• Blind Guardian ^[11]
• Bombarder
• Bullet ^[12]
• Bulldozer ^[13]
• Cacophony ^[14]
• Cage
• Carnivore ^[15]
• Cellador ^[16]
• Chorny Kofe
• Cranium ^[17]
• Cruise
• Crystal Viper
• Damien Thorne ^[18]
• Deliverance ^[19]
• Destruction
• Dorsal Atlantica
• Dorso ^[20]
• DragonForce ^{[21] [22]}
• Early Man ^[23]
• Enforcer ^[24]
• Excalion
• Exciter ^[25]
• Fantom Warior
• Flotsam and Jetsam ^[26]
• Gamma Ray ^[27]
• Gang Green ^[28]
• Grave Digger ^[11]
• The Great Kat ^[29]
• Grinder ^[30]
• Hawaii
• Heathen ^[31]
• Heavenly ^[32]
• Heaven's Force
• Heller
• Hellhammer ^[33]
• Hell's Kitchen
• Helloween ^[34] (early)
• Hellripper ^[35]
• Helstar ^[36]
• Heretic
• Hibria ^[37]
• Hirax
• Impaler ^{[38] [39]}
• Impulse
• Intruder ^[40]
• Iris
• Iron Angel ^[41]
• Jag Panzer
• Jaguar
• Juggernaut
• Kat ^[42]
• Kylähullut
• Lethal
• Liege Lord ^[43]
• Lionsheart
• Living Death
• Loudness
• Malice ^[44]
• Maninnya Blade
• Manticora
• Massacration
• Master ^[45]
• Metal Church ^[46]
• Memorain
• Metalium
• Metalucifer ^[47]
• Misery Chastain
• Motörhead ^[48]
• Mystic Prophecy
• Nasty Savage
• Necrodeath
• Nostradameus ^[49]
• Overload
• Overkill L.A.
• Paradox ^[50]
• Paragon
• Piledriver
• Powermad ^[51]
• Pharaoh Overlord
• Pretty Maids
• Racer X ^[52]
• Rage ^[53]
• Raven ^[54]
• Razor ^[55]
• Redshark ^{[56] [57]}
• Reverend
• Rigor Mortis ^[58]
• Riot V ^[59]
• Risk
• Rob Rock
• Running Wild ^[11]
• Rusty Eye
• S.A. Slayer
• Sacred Oath
• Sacred Steel
• Saratoga
• Savage Circus
• Savage Grace ^{[60] [61]}
• Scanner ^[62]
• Seax ^[63]
• Sex Machineguns ^[64]
• Seventh Avenue
• Silver Fist
• Skull Fist ^[65]
• Stone
• Stormwarrior
• Stress ^[66]
• Striker ^[67]
• Temple of Blood
• Tokyo Yankees
• Trauma ^[68]
• Tremonti ^[69]
• Tren Loco
• Turbo
• Ultimatum
• Unlucky Morpheus
• Vastator
• V8 ^[70]
• Vendetta
• Venom ^[71]
• Venom Inc. ^[72]
• Viper ^[73]
• Voivod ^[74]
• Warfare ^[75]
• Warlock
• Warrant ^[76]
• Watchtower
• Whiplash ^[77]
• Wild Dogs
• Wizard
• Wolf
• X Japan ^[78]
• Znowhite ^[79]
• Zoetrope

See also

• List of heavy metal bands by genre

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External links

• Media related to Speed metal at Wikimedia Commons