Speed Metal Bands
Hey everyone,
I'm opening this discussion because i'm looking for speed metal bands to discover. In fact it seems that only a few are known to me while it is the most awesome metal genre. I know that what defines speed metal is more or less subjective but here are the bands I know and consider as speed metal:
- Agent steel (of course!!) and pretty much every Cyriis bands (sceptre, black reign etc and the fallowing bands he's been in)
- Savage Grace
- Abattoir
- Exciter
- Forbidden
- Heathen
- The two first Omen albums
- Helloween's Walls of Jericho album
Then of course the modern band Evil Invaders
They are not much but I have almost every album and ep of each band and would really like to discover other band as awesome !
So if you have names or as for Omen and Helloween, some albums that you consider as speed metal, please hit me up with it !
Cheers brothers!
Guess this TShirt!
Recent Comments
I have one already but the pins at back are damaged. Would love another.
Whats on back?
That is a very cool concept and that you added it to your jacket is even cooler!
I want to like this patch but the glittery red logo doesn't do it for me.
Is this homemade? Looks sick- You definitely design some of the best boots out there! 😎
I'd love to find some original pressings from this band, it's damn near impossible these days.
Very nice, glad to see some love for ISD on here \m/
I never realized that bootlegslay could be a play on tshirtslayer.- He doesn't need to because I'm gonna win it :P
- Won't post to UK 😡
- good luck \m/
- Been looking for this one! You'll see me on the eBay auction for sure \m/
Didn't really know that.
Geiles Teil!
cool Boot....!!!
Metal forums
- Live Gig Review: The 69 Eyes Dance with the Manhattan Devils at the Gramercy Theatre on 4/12/24. new
- What Are You Listening To Right Now!
- Rank your top 5 Guitar players of all time
- possible scammer alert - Not Kvlt Records
- Ever Heard of Thunder Store Popayan ? Shirt Printer
- Roadburn 2024
- False posting?
- Live Gig Review: At One with Darkest Hour at the Meadows on 4/05/24.
- Live Gig Review: Live Gig Review: The Last Act of Demolition from Girlschool at the Gramercy Theatre on 3/30/24.
- Someone stole METAL SAVAGE's jacket picture...
- Remove iron on glue
- Live Gig Review: The Gramercy Theatre Beholds the Heathen Hammer of Tyr on 3/29/24.
- Bands unavailable on most Streaming Services
- Live Gig Review: New York Grooves Alongside Ace Frehley at Sony Hall on 3/28/24.
- Your favorite horror movies
Top Collectors
(24797)- (6982)
- (6132)
- (5685)
- (5528)
- (4650)
- (4511)
- (4239)
- (4226)
- (4202)
- (4171)
- (3147)
Recent Trades / Sells
- -> - Kiss hotter than hell 2003 patch 83
- - Metallica rubber patch
- - Sphinx "Ruthless power" patch
- - Sepultura Arise rubber patch
- ->
- ->
- ->
View stats on all 34,092 traded or sold items
Nater90 on
Warrant - The Enforcer
Riot - Thundersteel
Razor - Evil Invaders
mokonokos on
Nice man thank you! Shame on me I didn't know Warrant and just checked them out.
Nater90 on
Most welcome mate, Plenty of bands out there, We can't know them all haha. Enjoy!
Iron Animal on
ah Speed metal... my speciality!
the first 2 Blind Guardian Albums are pure Speed metal
Iron Angel - Hellish crossfire
Avenger (pre-Rage) - Prayers of steel
Tröjan
Blood Money - Red Raw and Bleeding
if you can count it as Speed Metal -> Living Death
Regicide - Welcome to the Family
KAT - Metal and Hell
Fact - as a matter of Fact (!!!)
Stranger - The Bell (!!!)
Sudden Death - Killer (song)
Atilla - Rolling Thunder
Evil Blood - Empire of Death
Deathmask - Split the Atom
Victim - Power Hungry
S.A. Slayer - Go for the Throat
Breaker - Dead Rider
Prowler - Black Fire
Vampyr - Sinner
MP - Bursting Out (!!!)
Ironhead on
Three letters...
ADX
Name another band that released 3 perfect SPEED METAL albums in a row. Oh right there aren't any!
Iron Animal on
Exciter.
4 in a Row
Iron Animal on
Razor. (if you count it as Speed)
they had actually 5 in a row.
Iron Animal on
Living Death
Ironhead on
I definitely wouldn't count Unveiling the Wicked speed metal, neither Razor on Evil Invaders and onwards, definitely not Living Death on Protected from Reality... Of course there are dozens of borderline thrash/speed bands and records like Iron Angel, Holy Terror (the debut), early Razor etc., and that's why I save the term speed metal for the ones that are definitely not thrash, like Agent Steel, ADX, H-Bomb, Rotor (HUN), Astaroth (ITA), with cleaner vocals with actual melodies in them & more lead guitars.
Yngwie Mangosteen on
Anthrax fistful of metal ?
MorbidTales7 on
Piledriver - Metal Death Racer
Warhead - Speedway
Hallows Eve - Metal Merchants
DarkValkyrieofDeath on
Annihilator? idk, im more of a techdeath fan when i want fast
MorbidTales7 on
& for the more extreme side ...
Bulldozer - Another Beer (It's what I need)
Voivod - Ripping Headaches
Exorcist - Riding to Hell
DeathByMetalAus... on
Perhaps Forced Entry - Uncertain future
invisible-horizons
-First 3 Rage albums and the Avenger stuff of course.
-Risk - The Daily Horror News (Thrash/Speed)
-Paradox - Product Of Imagination
-Sweet Cheater - Immortal Instant
-Atlain
-Strangers's first album only
-Helloween early
-Warrant - The Enforcer
-Stormwind
-Vampyr
-Iron Angel
-Living Deatb early
-Grinder - Dawn For the Living (Thrash / Speed)
-Vectom
-MP - Bursting Out
-U.D.O. - Time Bomb( similar to Painkiller)
-Grave Digger - The Reaper
-Paragon
-Tyrant - German band
If you like your Speed Metal more Melodic like Helloween , than check out:
-Not Fragile - Hard to be Alive (like Helloween - circa 84/86 and from the same era and Hamburg scene as Running Wild, Helloween, and Mania.)
-Mephisto - really great stuff!
-Chroming Rose - Louis XIV and Garden of Eden (same vocalist from the first Stranger album
-Rage / Avenger - 83-93
-Mania - Wizard of a Lost Kingdom (especially) and Changing Times
-Early Blind Guardian (88-92) and Lucifer's Heritage
-Reactor - Rather Dead Than Dishonoured
-Attack - Destinies Of War
-Scanner - First 2 albums
-Airwolf - Victory Bells
-Angel Dust - To Dust You Will Decay
-Pillow Killz(like early Blind Guardian)
-Heavenward - Within These Dreams (the demos kick major ass as well! Totally underrated and unheard of band that needs more recognition!)
-Abraxas - like Keepers-era Helloween with a Prog influence (awesome and underrated band with the same vocalist from Mania!)
-Final Prophecy - Beyond Reality Demo
-Jester's March - Not really Speed Metal, but very comparable to Helloween, Scanner, Abraxas, etc. especially on their Audience to the King demo (has the vocalist from Scanner's Hypertrace) and Beyond. Absolutely great pieces of Metal right here!
-Crows - Not pure Speed Metal, but in the same vein as Jester's March, Abraxas, Angel Dust
-Heavens Gate - 89-92 (some stuff is debatable).
-Running Wild
Others that aren't German:
-ADX for sure!
-Abattoir
-Agent Steel
-Defender
FinnishSalute on
Don't listen to much trad/speed, but Midnight and Speedwolf are a couple great bands!
I also recommend checking out Sacral Rage - Illusions in Infinite Void. Greek speed/thrash/whatever, its awesome.