Xandria is a German symphonic metal band founded by Marco Heubaum in 1994. Originally a project, Heubaum later restarted the project as a band in 1999, and has gone through various lineup changes. The German vocalist Lisa Middelhauve joined for the debut album, co-writing both music and lyrics for the band until her departure in 2008. Middelhauve reunited briefly with the band in 2010 following the departure of the band's second vocalist Kerstin Bischof, but left again shortly after. Manuela Kraller joined the band as the new vocalist in 2010.
Morgoth was a German death metal band that was formed in 1987 by Rüdiger Hennecke and Carsten Otterbach in Meschede.
Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band formed by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre.
Disbelief is a German heavy metal band from Hesse. Their music is rooted in death metal, but has melancholic tendencies.
Persefone is an Andorran progressive death metal band formed in October 2001. The band's name is derived from Persephone, a figure in Greek Mythology.
Johanna Charlotte Wessels is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is best known as the former lead vocalist for the symphonic metal band Delain.
Metal Rules, also known as Metal-Rules, is a heavy metal webzine established in 1995 by owner and editor EvilG. Based in the province of Newfoundland, Canada, the site was founded to promote "Real Metal," which is one of the world's largest and longest-running heavy metal websites. As of 2024, the site lists an international staff of 16 members, and half a dozen additional contributors from around the world, including Canada, the United States, England, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Malaysia, Estonia, and most recently, India. As of March 2007, the site was receiving between 1.2 and 1.5 million page views per month, and had 4,400 registered forum users and more than 2,000 newsletter subscribers.
Gloryhammer is a British power metal band founded by keyboardist Christopher Bowes, lead vocalist of the band Alestorm. Each member of the band represents a character in the story concept. Band members appears on stage in armour and costumes to represent their respective characters.
Dianne van Giersbergen is a Dutch spinto soprano singer. She is the founder and frontwoman of the progressive metal band Ex Libris, and she was the vocalist of German symphonic metal band Xandria from 2013 to 2017.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016.
Bio-Cancer is a Greek thrash metal band from Athens, formed in late 2010.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020.
Wind Rose is an Italian power metal band founded in 2009 in Pisa, Tuscany. The band has released six studio albums, most recently Trollslayer in October 2024. The band play primarily a combination of power metal and folk metal accompanied by orchestration and vocal harmonies, with lyrical themes inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially Tolkien's Dwarves, from which the band also gets their aesthetic; because of this, the band's sound has been referred to as dwarven metal.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2021.
Richard John Beato is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has lectured on music at universities.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2022.
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2024.
Nestor is a Swedish rock band from Falköping.
