金属乐的激流金属

“鞭击金属”又叫“激流金属”。 速度极快，具有相当快速的反复节拍(riff)，电吉他粗麻的音色刷出剽悍的和弦，极具破坏力及压迫感的速踩双大鼓，主唱粗暴狂吼式的唱腔配合电吉他快速的节奏急速地唱出几乎无旋律的曲调。“鞭击金属”以来自旧金山湾区的重金属乐队最具代表性。
代表性乐队：Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Speak English Or Die, Watchtower, Death Angel, Flotsam And Jetsam, Testament, Exodus, Nuclear Assault, Sacred Reich, Destruction, Kreator, Coroner, Overkill, Iced Earth, Annihilator, Dark Angel, Possessed, Holy Moses, Legion Of The Damned, Deathrow, Exumer, Voivod, Whiplash, Living Death, Iron Angel, Meliah Rage, Metal Church, Holy Terror, Anacrusis, Darkness, Artillery, Morbid Saint, Vio-Lence, Exumer, Forbidden, Demolition Hammer, Onslaught, Sadus, Razor, Deathrow, Protector, Assassin, Poison, Slaughter, Stone, Heathen, Nocturnal Breed, SHAH.