Dies ist eine Auflistung der Bands und Begriffe, die das Buch Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music von William Phillips und Brian Cogan enthält:
- Accept
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- Agalloch
- Airheads
- Alabama Thunderpussy
- Alcatrazz
- Alcohol
- Alice Cooper
- Alice in Chains
- The Amboy Dukes
- Amon Amarth
- Amps
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Angel Witch
- Anthrax (Band)
- Anvil (Band)
- April Wine
- Arch Enemy
- Armored Saint
- Asphalt Ballet
- At the Gates
- Autograph (Band)
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Badlands (Band)
- Bad News
- Bang Tango
- Bathory
- Beatallica
- Behemoth (Band)
- Biohazard (Band)
- Black Label Society
- Black Metal
- Black Sabbath
- Blitzkrieg (Band) (wird im Buch unter dem Namen Blitzkreig geführt)
- Bloodstock
- Blue Cheer
- Blue Murder
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Body Count (Band)
- Tommy Bolin
- Bolt Thrower
- Bon Jovi
- Boris (Band)
- Britny Fox
- Buckcherry
- Budgie (Band)
- BulletBoys
- Burning Witch
- William S. Burroughs
- Burzum