The best METAL BAND of all times

Legend:Iron maiden
Old:Judas priest
Newrimal fear
Teenage metal that most people hateisturbed
Thrash:slayer
Just love em:mettalica

Def Leppard.

HAH!

No, Metallica's the best, they have persevered.

Guns 'n' friggin Roses was awesome, dust off the tapes and cd's, and give them a listen again, you won't regret it...

And of course, no one can compare with Sabbath and Zepplin.

I want to mention a whole bunch of bands...
Like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Brutal Truth, Painkiller, Helmet, Godflesh, Monster Magnet and blahblahblah, but...

"The best METAL BAND of all times"...


Try listen to this if you get a chance to do so:

Slayer - Hell Awaits (from the "Decade of Aggression" album)

Make sure you hear exactly that version (and turn up the volume).
When those chords from the main riff starts going, together with the drums and bass.... wooooaaahh... orgasmic... monster-riff...

Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
Bon Jovi?

Well, there goes the thread....

Lol Whats that suppose to mean? Seriously I think Bon Jovi is the best Metal band.

I also Forgot

WhiteSnake

Wow!! great thread!! Crossing a bunch of genres. I'll start off chronologically, you can't discuss metal without mentioning Led Zep or Black Sabbath. Hmmm...I think metal hit it's peak in the 80s (Slayer and Metallica), then sort of went to sheeit since. I hate butt rock, but I have to admit that Bon Jovi, Def Lep, Motley, Judas, Iron, played a big role in the 80s (the best musicians of the big-hair genre were the Scorpions, by the way). How can we leave out Boston, and other heavy classic influences? Uhhhrrrhh. Gggggrrrrh. Here's my list (and it seems to reflect others'):

1) Slayer (hands-down the greatest)
2) Metallica (even though I hate them, their pre90s stuff rules)
3) Pantera (are supplement in the 90s...there was noone else!)

C'mon, this trio is going down in history. There is harder, faster, whatever, etc, etc
Change the order if you want, but these three define heavy metal.

P.S. I'm trying not to be biased either, I like other bands a lot more than these three. However, these three are the best metal bands ever.

Originally posted by Grey Fox

Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
Bon Jovi?

Well, there goes the thread....

Lol Whats that suppose to mean? Seriously I think Bon Jovi is the best Metal band.

I also Forgot

WhiteSnake

Bad Hair Day was 1 of their albums me thinks!

Originally posted by drunk

Originally posted by Grey Fox

Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
Bon Jovi?

Well, there goes the thread....

Lol Whats that suppose to mean? Seriously I think Bon Jovi is the best Metal band.

I also Forgot

WhiteSnake

Bad Hair Day was 1 of their albums me thinks!

HAHA!! Yeah, but guess what? That will be considered "retro" one day!! dam, I'm glad I'm bald.

[edit on 3/15/05 by poonchang]

well i don't know about all the classifications and what they mean but the all time best metal band, the one that i think really started it all is Iron Maiden. The metal band that i feel is the best is Slayer. And the one that really broke through to the rest of the world is Metalica up through the And Justice For All album.

In Order

The Scorpions
Iron Maiden
Helloween
Mark Knopfler

imo for my best metal bands
burzum
as i lay dying
metallica
children of bodom
HOW CAN YOU FORGET RAMMSTEIN!!!!
electric wizard

I can't edit my post so I'll make a new list

Iron Maiden
Iced Earth
Gamma Ray
Blind Guardian
Nightwish
Tierra Santa
The Scorpions
Mago De Oz
Dream Theater
Finntroll
James LaBrie
Blaze
Metallica
children of bodom
dark tranquility
My dying Bride
Helloween
Megadeth
Demons and Wizards
Edguy
Lacuna Coil
Liquid Tension Experiment
Bruce Dickinson


[edit on 5-25-2005 by websurfer]

Led Zeppelin, without a doubt, is the finest heavy-metal band that ever played. Of course, being one of the true originals in this genre didn't hurt either as they were able to shape and mold this pulse-pounding musical form. Plants' vocals, Bonham's incredible timing and Page's creative guitar virtuosity have left their indelible brand in the annals of popular music culture. A very close second, I would have to mention the music of Judas Priest. Rob Halford's vocals are clearly a standard by which all other HM frontmen are judged. Even during Halfords' decade long hiatus from Priest, he continued to be a major influence in Heavy Metal. Furthermore, Halford, with Judas Priest, set a fashion that has endured throughout the metal world -- leather! Musically, Priest's "double-axe" attack with guitarists Downing and Tipton also setet a standard for mind pounding duets. After Led Zeppelin and Priest, the rest seems to be, at least for me, poor imitations of the fathers of Heavy Metal.

wth, nobody mentioned Dimmu Borgir... bastards.

Originally posted by Lysergic
wth, nobody mentioned Dimmu Borgir... bastards.

Probably because most of there music after Stormblast was mediocre(and thats being very generous). Although with that said, i do like a few songs of theres which are post-Stormblast.

Burzum, Children of Bodom, Darkthrone and At The Gates for me.

SLAYER

I would have to go with these bands ...
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Megadeth

Don't know if I'd class Led Zepplin as metal but they were probably the best pure rock band ever. As for classic metal I'd have to say AC/DC or Judas Priest and for newer it would be StaticX, Union Underground or Powerman 5000.

Meshuggah
Strapping Young Lad
Death
Cynic
Sepultura

Could go on for ever....

wow where 2 start......i think alphabeticly is the best way 2 do it
the berzerker
cannibal corpse
cradle of filth
deicide
dimmu borgir
dismember
zepplin
morbid angel
napalm death
otep
slipknot
system of a down

probly more but thats all i got on my PC atm....recently lost 40 gigs of music...still recomplieing collection

SYSTEOM OF A DOWN WHOOOOOO!!!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!