Heavy metal music, a genre of music

A metal is a chemical element that readily conducts electricity and heat, forms cations, and bonds ionically with non-metals. Metal may also refer to:

Metals, two of the seven basic tinctures in heraldry

Metallicity, the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium in matter

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, a documentary about the birth of metal and its sub-genres

"Metal", a song on Gary Numan's album The Pleasure Principle

Metal (classical element), in Chinese Taoism

Metal (Annihilator album)

Metal (Preston Reed album)

Metal (pavement), or road metal, the crushed rock used for railway roadbeds and embankments