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Originally, there was a band called Alice Cooper led by a singer named Vincent Damon Furnier. Under his direction, Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood, and huge boa constrictors, all coordinated by the heavily made-up Furnier. By that time, Furnier had adopted the name for his a... Read More

Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, MC5, Frank Zappa, The Who, The Kinks, The Stooges, The Amboy Dukes and The Yardbirds

Alice in Chains, Guns N' Roses, Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Mötley Crüe, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Soundgarden, Van Halen, Hanoi Rocks, Coheed and Cambria, Queens of the Stone Age, Iron Maiden, David Lee Roth, Ratt, Misfits, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, W.A.S.P., Chris Cornell, Skinny Puppy, Twisted Sister, Wall of Voodoo, The Damned, Monster Magnet, Cradle of Filth, The Dead Boys and Melvins