Helped pioneer the heavy metal music genre with their downtuned guitars and dark lyricism
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Judas Priest
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Made innovations within heavy metal music and fashion by introducing duel guitarists and leather & stud fashion
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Iron Maiden
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Cradle of Filth
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Helped popularise black metal - for better or worse - in the late 90s and early 00s with lead vocalist's Dani Filth's shrieking vocals and gothic-literature inspired lyricism
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Carcass
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One of the UK's first grindcore and death metal bands alongside Napalm Death, would later release arguably the first melodic death metal album "Heartwork" in 1993
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Paradise Lost
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One of the first doom/death and gothic metal bands with their early 90s output
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Saxon
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My Dying Bride
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Godflesh
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Released arguably the first industrial metal album in 1989 with "Streetcleaner" and was an important influence and prototype for the post-metal movement that would follow in the late 90s and early 00s