Heavy metal may refer to:

• Heavy metal (chemistry), any chemical element within the upper range of atomic weights
• Heavy metal music, a style of rock music

• Heavy Metal (magazine), an American fantasy magazine based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant
  • Heavy Metal (film), a 1981 animated film based on the magazine
  • Heavy Metal 2000, its sequel
• Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad, a book about Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Heavy Metal (G.I. Joe character), a character from the G.I. Joe universe
• Heavy Metal (Marvel Comics), a group of villains of the Marvel Universe
• "Heavy Metal" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Heavy Metal, ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Erick Casas
• Heavy Metal (cricket), an incident in a 1979 cricket match involving Dennis Lillee
• A colloquial term for either wide-body aircraft, or all airliners in general (see Heavy (aviation))
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim, a 1984 mecha anime series
• Detroit Heavy Metal, a nickname for 1960s US built muscle cars
• Heavy Metal in Baghdad, documentary film about an Iraqi heavy metal band named Acrassicauda

In music

• "Heavy Metal" (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song), from the album Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• "Heavy Metal Kings", a single by hip hop duo Jedi Mind Tricks
• "Heavy Metal", a song by Sammy Hagar

In video games

• Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.², a 2000 computer game for Mac and PC by Gathering of Developers
• Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, a 2001 arcade game for Sega NAOMI and Dreamcast by Capcom
• Heavy Metal Truck, the pre-release name of Monster Truck Madness
• HeavyMetal, a series of commercial software titles designed to complement Classic BattleTech

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