Any British metal bands?

I live in the UK and I find it easy to go onto music forums and places to find many American bands to my liking of all the types of music I'm into. But as I'm the other side of the pond it is hard to see them live. I'd quite like to find some British metal as I'm not really aware of any apart from the 'metalcore' ones which I'm not really a fan of. I find many British bands at the rock end tend be quite whiny or is fused with dance and I'd prefer to avoid those things. The metal I like I only seem to be able to find in American bands. I like stuff like Machine Head and Soulfly so the trash side of things is proabably to my liking. I also like rock, grunge, punk but my hard rock and metal only seems to be able to come from overseas. They don't have to be really new, but I am aware of the classics obviously like Iron Maiden and Sabbath. So bands closer to home which would be a bit more convenient and would do nicely :)