Metal
Explore a comprehensive roster of legendary metal musicians and celebrities, from trailblazers to modern-day icons. Discover the lives, careers, and music that have shaped this genre's enduring legacy.

Russell Allen
USA
USAAmerican singer, vocalist of the progressive metal band Symphony X

Sabina Classen
Germany
GermanyVocalist of German thrash metal bands Holy Moses and Temple of the Absurd.

Josh Brainard
USA
USAAmerican musician, member of the band On a Pale Horse

Anders Colsefni
USA
USAAmerican musician and singer

Devin Garrett Townsend
Canada
CanadaCanadian singer, guitarist and producer.

Edwin Borsheim
USA
USAVocalist of Kettle Cadaver, a metal band from the USA

Jonathan Davis
USA
USAAmerican musician, frontman of the nu metal band Korn

Rob Zombie
USA
USAAmerican metalhead

Bad Wolves
USA
USAAn American heavy metal rock band

Tamas Katai
Hungary
HungaryHungarian musician and composer

Johnny Christ
USA
USABass player of the band "Avenged Sevenfold"

Mike Patton
USA
USAAmerican vocalist

James Root
USA
USAMusician, guitarist of American bands "Slipknot" and "Stone Sour".

Gidget Gein
USA
USAAmerican musician, actor and artist

Fred Durst
USA
USAAmerican vocalist, best known as the founder of the rapcore group Limp Bizkit.

Max Cavalera
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian vocalist and guitarist of Italian origin.

Corey Todd Taylor
USA
USAFrontman and vocalist of the American band "Slipknot"

Biff Byford
Great Britain
Great BritainFrontman of the British heavy metal band Saxon.

Keith Emerson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish musician, keyboardist and composer, founder of the group "ELP"

Kaisa Jouhki
Finland
FinlandFinnish singer, vocalist of the band Battlelore

Michael Franti
USA
USAAmerican poet, musician and composer

Dimebag Darrell
USA
USAHe was a guitarist in the metal bands Pantera and Damageplan.

William DuVall
USA
USAAmerican musician, known as the main vocalist and rhythm guitarist in the band Alice in Chains, who joined the group after the death of Layne Staley.

Richard Kruspe
Germany
GermanyGerman musician, lead guitarist of the German industrial metal band Rammstein

Tarja Turunen
Finland
FinlandFormer vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish

Robbin Lantz Crosby
USA
USAAmerican musician, one of the leading guitarists of the glam metal band 'Ratt'

Apocalyptica
Finland
FinlandMetal band

Kenneth Hickey
USA
USAAmerican musician, guitarist of the gothic metal band Type O Negative

Paul Di'Anno
Great Britain
Great BritainVocalist of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden

Detonator
Russia
RussiaMetal band

Paul Dedrick Gray
USA
USAAmerican musician, member of the band 'Slipknot'

Galder
Norway
NorwayNorwegian composer, guitarist and vocalist

Yens Uhansson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish keyboardist and power metal pianist.

Tony Ayommy
Great Britain
Great BritainMusician

Sean Kinney
USA
USAAmerican musician, drummer for Alice In Chains

Toni Kristian Kakko
Finland
FinlandVocalist, main lyricist of the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica/

Barney Greenway
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish musician, vocalist of Napalm Death

Dead
Sweden
SwedenVocalist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem

Udo Dirkschneider
Germany
GermanyRock musician, vocalist and one of the founders of the heavy metal band "Accept"

Brandon Flowers
USA
USAAmerican performer, member of the group “The Killers”.

Alex Van Halen
USA
USAAmerican drummer

ohanna Wessels
Netherlands
NetherlandsVocalist of the Dutch band Delain

David Draiman
USA
USASongwriter, vocalist and frontman of the American alternative metal band Disturbed. David is at position 42 in the Hit Parade “Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time”

Reginald Arvizu
USA
USABassist of the band Korn.

Oliver Sykes
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish musician, lead vocalist of the metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon

Paul Bostaph
USA
USAHis career began playing drums in 1984 when he was 20 years old, and since then he has worked with bands such as Forbidden (originally known as Forbidden Evil), Slayer, Testament, Exodus and Systematic. Metal-Rules.com profiles Bostaph

Adept
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwedish post-hardcore/metalcore band

Mike Mangini
USA
USAAmerican musician, drummer

Peter Criss
USA
USAMember of the group KISS

Giorgia Gueglio
Italy
ItalyItalian singer, vocalist of the group Mastercastle since 2008.