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Heavy Pettin' are a Glasgow heavy metal and hard rock band that emerged during the early 1980s with a glossy, hook-driven take on British melodic metal. Formed in 1981, the group arrived after the first explosion of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal but shared that era's appetite for sharp guitars, powerful vocals, and road-tested energy. Their debut album Lettin Loose put them in conversation with bands such as Def Leppard, UFO, and early Bon Jovi, using big choruses and twin-guitar flash without abandoning a rougher club-band foundation. Heavy Pettin' fit metal and hard rock scope through riff-based songwriting, high-register vocals, and a sound designed for loud stages rather than pop polish alone. Later releases pushed further toward commercial hard rock, but the band's best work keeps the spark of early British metal in its guitar attack and urgent tempos. They never became as globally dominant as some peers, yet their name remains familiar to fans of melodic hard rock, NWOBHM-adjacent records, and Scottish heavy music history. Heavy Pettin' are a reminder that the era's underground was wider and more regionally varied than the handful of arena names that usually define it.
Heavy metal band from Peine, Germany, formed in 2017. Their playfully named outfit delivers serious, riff-heavy traditional metal from the Lower Saxony region.
Drawing from Oryol's metal heritage, this heavy metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2015. Anthemic choruses and driving rhythms characterize their particular brand of metal.
Heavy Rain is a heavy metal band from Poland, active since 2023 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Brooklyn's Heavy Reign blend neoclassical metal's formal rigor with progressive metal's exploratory tendencies, a pairing that yields music of unusual compositional ambition from this 2022 New York City act. They bring a concert hall sensibility to music built on distorted guitars and dynamics.
Heavy Sentence is a heavy metal band from Manchester, United Kingdom, active since 2017 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Heavy Smasher is a traditional heavy metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, formed in 2018. The quartet — featuring Nildo Gomes on vocals, Nando Smasher and Diego Quântico on guitars, and Luís Paulo on bass — debuted with the EP Smasher And Loud in 2018 before releasing their self-titled full-length album in 2021, recorded at VTM Studio in Fortaleza. Drawing on classic influences including Dio, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest, the band pursues a sound rooted in the NWOBHM tradition.
Heavy Vibration Studio PL is a doom metal act from Birmingham, United Kingdom, active since 2020 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Heavy Water is a heavy/speed metal act from Szczecin, Poland, active since 2013 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Poland scene.
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