Thread: Top 10 Favorite Metal Bands

List your top 10 metal bands of all time.

1. Metallica
2. Soundgarden
3. Black Sabbath
4. Korn (forgot about them the other day)
5. Guns 'n' Roses
6. Ozzy Ozbourne
7. AC/DC
8. Judas Priest
9. Pantera (A few songs I like, like I said...I'm more of a rock guy than a hardcore metal fan)
10. Led Zeppelin

1. Pantera - the kings of American metal
2. Fear Factory - made techno metal sounds really good
3. Queensryche - Prog-metal, but VERY good at it.
4. Slayer - Best speed metal EVER
5. Iron Maiden - Classic
6. Black Sabbath - the fathers of it all
7. Anthrax - awesome thrash band
8. Death - did they ever release a bad album?
9. Motorhead - Godfathers of speed metal
10. Sepultura - Always evolvong and always kicking a$$

A few more...

11. Venom - without these guys, there would be no Anthrax/Slayer/Metallica
12. Morbid Angel - Heaviest Death Metal ever.
13. Overkill - most underrated metal band ever
14. Testament - A little off in the 90's, but anything prior was awesome
15. Judas Priest - no need to say more

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

List your top 10 metal bands of all time.

What if you don't have 10? Also are we talking about 80's and early 90's Metal or some of the new stuff as well?

If we are talking late 70's to early 90's and not including any crossover stuff like punk-metal or grunge-metal, here is my list.

1. Metallica
2. AC/DC
3. GNR
4. Anthrax
5. Slayer
6. Megadeath

Metallica
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Cradle Of Filth
Acid Bath
Slayer
Megadeth
Slayer
Ozzy
Sepultura

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

What if you don't have 10? Also are we talking about 80's and early 90's Metal or some of the new stuff as well?

If we are talking late 70's to early 90's and not including any crossover stuff like punk-metal or grunge-metal, here is my list.

1. Metallica
2. AC/DC
3. GNR
4. Anthrax
5. Slayer
6. Megadeath

There are about a million variations of metal, but I figure metal is what the listener thinks it is. If one of your all time favorites is a new band...so be it. it's your list.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

There are about a million variations of metal, but I figure metal is what the listener thinks it is. If one of your all time favorites is a new band...so be it. it's your list.

Actually, I will be making the decision on what is and what is not metal

Originally Posted by MissouriBronc

Actually, I will be making the decision on what is and what is not metal

We're screwed then. Might as well just go ahead and say the Jackson 5 is allowed on the list.

Let's put it this way...whatever is on your list...it should give your mother a headache. If she wants to dance too it...you're in the wrong thread.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

There are about a million variations of metal, but I figure metal is what the listener thinks it is. If one of your all time favorites is a new band...so be it. it's your list.

Well I don't consider grunge to be metal, nor do I consider the crossover rap metal stuff like Limp Bisket, Korn, etc. to be metal and I like most of this stuff more than metal. My senior year of high school and first two years of college was the grunge/alternative period which killed metal (which at that time had turned into Glam-metal, shit like Nelson and Poison).

Also have any of you guys seen Ministy live? They were louder and crazier than any metal concert I ever went to.

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

Well I don't consider grunge to be metal, nor do I consider the crossover rap metal stuff like Limp Bisket, Korn, etc. to be metal and I like most of this stuff more than metal. My senior year of high school and first two years of college was the grunge/alternative period which killed metal (which at that time had turned into Glam-metal, shit like Nelson and Poison).

Also have any of you guys seen Ministy live? They were louder and crazier than any metal concert I ever went to.

I saw them a long time ago in California. The shit was crazy. They had a screen up in front of the stage and everything. I couldn't see them in Texas for the longest time because Al Jourgensen got busted for manufacturing heroin on his Texas ranch and wasn't allowed to perform in Texas for a long time. Only recently could they do it again and I saw them not too long ago and while it was good...it was much tamer.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

I saw them a long time ago in California. The shit was crazy. They had a screen up in front of the stage and everything. I couldn't see them in Texas for the longest time because Al Jourgensen got busted for manufacturing heroin on his Texas ranch and wasn't allowed to perform in Texas for a long time. Only recently could they do it again and I saw them not too long ago and while it was good...it was much tamer.

Yea, he's getting old. I saw them three times, the best was at Lolapalooza in 1992, I think. They had come out with the Psalms 69 CD (which was their most commercially popular album I think) and just blew the minds of the crowd that was there to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam. They got fined for playing too loud, my ears rung for two days.

The thing I remember the most was there was two mosh pits and one of them was in the field area behind the seats (outside ampetheater) around a bonfire. Freaking crazy.

Gonna Throw a bit of Prog Metal in my list:

1. DREAM THEATER
2. SYMPHONY X
3. IRON MAIDEN
4. FEAR FACTORY
5. TOOL
6. Metallica
7. Pantera
8. Motorhead

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

Yea, he's getting old. I saw them three times, the best was at Lolapalooza in 1992, I think. They had come out with the Psalms 69 CD (which was their most commercially popular album I think) and just blew the minds of the crowd that was there to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam. They got fined for playing too loud, my ears rung for two days.

The thing I remember the most was there was two mosh pits and one of them was in the field area behind the seats (outside ampetheater) around a bonfire. Freaking crazy.

Alot of the big metal concerts in Dallas are at a place that has a huge lawn area. There are always a few fires lit with 6 or 7 different mosh pits out there. I took my wife once and she said it reminded her of the Armageddon. Fires and brutality...she might have been right.

In no particular order...

Savatage
Metallica
Queensryche
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Ted Nugent
Iron Maiden


Some not metal, but honorable mention:

Led Zeppelin
Rush