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So WHat's the 100 best Metal Bands? It can be any genre of Metal, e.g. Metal, Heavy, Thrash, Gothic/symphonic, glam, etc...
1) Led Zepplin
2) Iron Maiden
3) Metallica
4) Megadeth
5) Arch Enemy
6) Children of Bodom

GOOOO!!!!!!

Dunno how many we can pick, but you got 6 listed, I'll round it out to 10.

7.) Anthrax
8.) Motorhead
9.) Judas Priest
10.) White Zombie

#11. Slayer

#12) W.A.S.P.
#13) Thergothon
#14) King Diamond
#15) Yngwie Malmsteen
#16) Venom
#17) Anvil
#18) Bathory

19 Kreator
20 Sepultura
21 Testament
22 Destruction
23 Sodom
24 Heathen
25 Agent Steel

26. Amon Amarth
27. Black Sabbath
28. Dark Traquillity
29. In Flames
30. Lamb of God
31. Mastodon
32. Mercyful Fate
33. Nightwish
34. Queensryche
35. Symphony X
36. Shadows Fall
37. Iced Earth
38. Manowar
39. Protest the Hero
40. Corrosion of Conformity

41. Carcass
42. Celtic Frost
43. Black Sabbath
44. Jesu
45. Eyehategod

46) Within Temptation
47) Graveworm

Also, You choose up to 1-6 :wink:

The only one I like (outside of Led Zeppelin):

48) Boris

49) AC/DC
50) Pantera
51) Wolfsbane

The NWOBHM gets a huge nod here:

52: Raven (THE most popular and top of the heap at one time)
53: White Spirit
54: Tygers Of Pan Tang
55: Tank
56: Gaskin
57: Jaguar  And some of the American efforts:


American bands:
58: Ded Engine
59: Nuclear Assault
60: Trauma (Cliff Burton's pre-Metallica band)

61.) Cannibal Corpse
62.) Deftones
63.) Killswitch Engage
64.) Black Sabbath
65.) Danzig

#27...

good call on Danzig though

so next should be 65 now?

65) Budgie

You're up to 65 and no BLUE CHEER?  Or is it 67?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM

nice, blue cheer should be 66 (I think)

67) Meshuggah


next is 68

we've got to make 100... seems easier said than done. I'm struggling, and I used to be really into metal :teddyr:

68. Dokken

69. Quiet Riot

I will admit that I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to metal.

70.) Il Nino
71.) Korn
72.) Disturbed

And, would Motley Crue be 'metal' or more of a 'rock/hard rock' band?  Cause I'd put them at 73.

Sure, Happy: 73) MOTLEY CRUE

74) KISS

more thrash metal
75 Stone
76 Paradox
77 Artillery
78 Forbidden
79 Exodus
80 Accuser

These guys had a spot in the top ten of One-Hit-Wonders, but were hugley popular in their own homeland. I got to see them back in 1985, and dare I say that Loudness gave me one of Crazyest Nights of my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-sspKzRx4

81) The Agonist
82) Hatesphere
83) Parkway Drive

84) Septic Flesh
85) Soilwork
86) Dimmu Borgir

87) Annihilator
88) Exhorder
89) Gorguts
90) Pestilence

91: Armored Saint  (if they haven't been mentioned already).

Here's a nice clip from the Raising Fear album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iMJ-oAPVRY&feature=related

92) Nightrage

93:  Candlemass  Love him or hate him, Messiah Marcolin has an unbelievable voice, and this band would be welcome in either Heaven or Hell.  This song is called Tales Of Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNTlnq588Q

94: Ronnie James Dio!  I'm suprised none of us have gotten to him yet. Oneof the greatest vocalists  who ever lived. R.I.P. Ronnie.

95: The Rods.  Ronnie's cousin Dave "Rock" Feinstein's outfit from Cortland NY. Their drummer, Carl Canedy, discovered Anthrax in a club in upstate NY back in the day (or so was said.)  This one's called "Rockin And Rollin' Again."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rNr1GOL8dM

96: Death Angel.  Thash simply cannot be complete w\o these Filipino rockers based in San Francisco, CA.

97: Wrath, another Bay Area thrash outfit.  Anyone remember Insane Society?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdiCmDwy2ZA

yeah Ive got 'Frollick In The Park' by Death angel on vinyl somewhere, good shout

95) Deviated Instinct - influential but underrated uk grind-core/doom-core early 90s band

5 left... I bet we've all forgotten some really obvious band that should be in here......

Death Angel also have 2 new albums out. One the put out in 2005 called The Art Of Dying  and one from closer to 2010, called Killing Season.  They've actually gotten harder in their sound, and both albums were very well recieved by the music media.  Not bad for a group that hadn't had an album since 1990.

Youtube has a few of their never songs, like Dethroned and Buried Alive.

nice, will check.

i notice quite a few oldskool bands that were silent since early 90s have put new albums out. Pestilence did, and also Athiest have their first album sionce 93 coming out soon

might as well add them

96) Athiest - like a thrash version of Dream Theater almost

edit:fail. Happy already posted Motorhead #8...sorry

97: Metal Church with original vocalist David Wayne. Watch The Children Pray and Gods Of Wrath were great songs!

98.) Diamond Head---did anyone mention them?  I don't think I saw them listed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgv587ooNM

No THE CARPENTERS, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, WILLIAM SHATNER, or PAT BOONE yet?

(http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/.aaaboone.jpg)

99.) Inactive Messiah
100.) Hollenthon

HAHA!  Almost forgot about that album from Pat Boone!  That actually had some good arrangements on it!  And from what I remember reading, Boone said he actually found Ronnie James Dio to be very personable when they worked together. Nice to see that they got along, the results can be heard in the album. A good fun time!

What about removing Shadows Fall because they're really horrible live and putting Light This City in there instead?

And I call myself a NWOBHM fan....that's one that got away :buggedout:

Yes, Diamond Head was a big influence on Metallica as well as one of the leaders of the pack, like Raven, Saxon and The Tygers Of Pan Tang, to name a few.

I'm surprised they got overlooked.  Quite a good band, least in my mind.  I also like Tygers of Pan Tang. 

I'm surprised that Accept weren't mentioned.  :question:

naw...everyone gets equal say on here...you got in too late  :wink:

we could have a 'bands that missed the cut' though

Accept, as mentioned above...maybe Helloween?? how about Trouble..(anyone remember those guys?)

True!  We should have our Headbanging licenses revoked. 

Udo Dirkschneider was a very unlikely entry into the scene..he just didn't look the part, but man could he do it!  "Balls To The Wall"!

I sure as hell remember Trouble. They kick SERIOUS ASS! Speaking of doomier bands, how about The Obsessed, or Paradise Lost, St. Vitus, etc...?

yeah...I think this thread should continue. Paradise Lost, I heard some early stuff around 92-ish that was really good. never heard much since then tbh. loads of bands from the 'early days' of metal (which for me is like late 80s but obviously before then as well) not mentioned. it's only a list, but...

I'm wondering about the validity of Van Halen in a list like this. obviously they're most known for 'Jump' which is a pop song basically. A cheesy pop song. but some of their other stuff is really heavy and very 'metal' like their first couple of albums and in particular the 'Balance' album they did with Sammy Hagar years later. They should be in this list IMO

Where would CKY fit on the Metal chart?

"96 Quite Bitter Being" by CKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ7qOCDFYQ

"Flesh Into Gear" by CKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k802qVfVSH4&feature=channel

Vastly underrated group that gets almost NO play by a lot of press.

:DISENGAGETHESIMULATOR

Great song. 

Kinda wish people would like, not overlook them. :teddyr: :hatred:

Been listening to them since cky2k came out. Always thought they were really great.

Love em. 

Bam owns a bar about a half hour from here.  They're from West Chester, a college town a short 30 minute ride away.  It's not uncommon to run into sombody from Viva La Bam or CKY.