True Metal   Listen I dont wana start a war here but Manowar call themselves True Metal also if you need proof read this  True Metal is a term coined by the US power metal band Manowar in the s It was originally used to combat the commercialized glam and pop metal styles of the time It came into wider use in the s as newer subgenres such as numetal and alternative metal came into existence It is used to differentiate between these nontraditional styles and longestablished and integritous forms of Heavy Metal such as thrash metal power metal death metal black metal doom metal and the NWOBHM among others Jay