As mainstream rock continues its ongoing identity crisis, heavy metal and hard rock have found a place as one of, if not the fastest-growing genres in the music industry, according to a new report that Billboard shared last week.

According to TuneCore, a popular independent digital music distributor, a record earning of $1.5 billion in download and streaming revenue was earned by songwriters and copyright holders around the world in 2018. The report, which breaks down the revenue statistics by both genre and country of publication, heavy metal of all genres saw a notable 154% increase in streaming in 2018, out-earning a 133% increase seen by J-Pop, and 68% increase in R&B/Soul genres. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, TuneCore copyright holders across all genres earned $83 million in the first financial quarter of 2019, marking a 21% increase over the first quarter of 2018. And who says there’s no money in recorded music these days?

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With new albums on the way from high-profile hard rock acts like Tool and Slipknot expected later this year, those numbers will only grow as fans of the hard-hitting genre continue to prove they’re arguably the most dedicated in the global music community.

Hard rock fans around the country also continue to headbang and mosh in celebration of new festivals set to take place later this year, including the inaugural Exit 111 Fest and Sonic Temple Festival both scheduled for this summer.

[H/T Loudwire]