Image: Slipknot [Official Press Image], Bullet For My Valentine [Cat Eye Photography]
Who needs a zodiac sign? With our overview, you can see which metal, rock, or core band shares your birth year! If you’re lucky, several of your favorite groups might be included. This time, we’re covering 1980–1999, but don’t worry — Part 2 is already in the works.
Hot tip: 1981, 1994, and 1999 were some of the strongest years, featuring acts like Slayer, System Of A Down, Limp Bizkit, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, and more…
For bands like Slipknot, Green Day, Deftones, and Hatebreed, it’s up to you to track them down!
1980
- Depeche Mode
- Mötley Crüe
- Queensrÿche
- Agnostic Front
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Bad Religion
- Overkill
- Grave Digger
1981
- Metallica
- Slayer
- Anthrax
- Ministry
- Napalm Death
- Cro-Mags (oder 1982)

1982
- Die Ärzte
- Die Toten Hosen
- Kreator
- Faith No More
- Dio
- Warlock
- Rage
- Sodom
- W.A.S.P.
1983
- Megadeth
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Bon Jovi
- Testament
- Vader
- Death
1984
- Sepultura
- Mayhem
- The Offspring
- Blind Guardian
- Helloween
- Soundgarden
- Stratovarius
1985
- Guns N’ Roses
- Dream Theater
- White Zombie
- King Diamond
- Carcass
1986
- Green Day
- Darkthrone
- Pixies

1987
- Nirvana
- Alice In Chains
- Meshuggah
- Skid Row
- Danzig
- Primordial
1988
- Deftones
- Paradise Lost
- Nine Inch Nails
- Cannibal Corpse
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Madball
- Pennywise
- Sublime
1989
- Doro
- Type O Negative
- Fear Factory
- The Cranberries
- Dark Tranquility
- Entombed
- Moonspell
1990
- Tool
- In Flames
- Amorphis
- My Dying Bride
- Pearl Jam
- Lamb Of God
- Immortal
- Body Count
- At the Gates
- Opeth
- Satyricon
- Carnifex
1991
- Rage Against The Machine
- Oasis
- Machine Head
- Cradle Of Filth
- Behemoth
- HIM
- Dying Fetus
- Nevermore
- Mercenary
- Rancid

1992
- Blink-182
- Amon Amarth
- Children Of Bodom
- Subway To Sally
- Broilers
- Edguy
- Gorgoroth
- Stone Sour
- Weezer
1993
- Korn
- Billy Talent
- Papa Roach
- Dimmu Borgir
- Dark Funeral
- Rhapsody Of Fire
- The Hives
- HammerFall

1994
- System of a Down
- Limp Bizkit
- Hatebreed
- Foo Fighters
- Muse
- Sevendust
- Donots
- Lacuna Coil
- Placebo
- Tenacious D
1995
- Slipknot
- Heaven Shall Burn
- Nickelback
- Evanescence
- Biffy Clyro
- Godsmack

1996
- Linkin Park
- Sum 41
- Arch Enemy
- Gojira
- Nightwish
- Within Temptation
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Rob Zombie
- Mudvayne
- Dropkick Murphys
- Alkaline Trio
- Good Charlotte

1997
- Halestorm
- Soulfly
- Caliban
- Flogging Molly
- Primal Fear
- Yellowcard
1998
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Thirty Seconds To Mars
- Black Label Society
- Gorillaz
- Atreyu
- Underoath
- Walls of Jericho
- Chimaira
- Thrice

1999
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Killswitch Engage
- Sabaton
- Rise Against
- Trivium
- A Perfect Circle
- DragonForce
- Taking Back Sunday
- Faun
