Defining Heavy Music
This Periodic Table of Metal is more than a different take on the Metal Family Tree as seen on Metal Evolution and Banger.tv. Where Sam Dunn got visually tired of all the emerging "microgenres", the world of heavy music doesn't stop to evolve, whether someone decides to pursue different things, like different music or not.
Even during the making of the Periodic Table of Metal, new genres emerged and declined. So this is very much a living, breathing beast of a database. But I could not have created this without the help of: