Heavy Metal music was first developed in the United Kingdom.
 Their first two LPs  Fresh Cream (1966) and Disraeli Gears (1967)  are regarded as essential prototypes for the future style of heavy metal
==== Black metal ====The first wave of black metal emerged in Europe in the early and mid-1980s, led by the United Kingdom's Venom, Denmark's Mercyful Fate, Switzerland's Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, and Sweden's Bathory

