What's your 10 favourite metal bands

[DoubleBlade]

1) Cradle of Filth
2) Dimmu Borgir
3) Children of Bodom
4) Sonata Arctica
5) Nightwish
6) Anthelion
7) Chthonic
8) Meza Virs
9) Galneryus
10) X Japan

 

[dir]

maeeettuuuuul!!!!

Darkthrone (minimal punk black buzz)
Revenge (warblackgrind insanity!!!)
Impiety (kingz of psyko-sick evile)
Enslaved (progressive psych-black genius)
Isis (gods of post-metal)
Neurosis (the FATHERS of all that is post-metal today)
Boris (stoner-doom-drone-garage greats, and Wata worra goddess!!!)
Sunn 0))) (taking the spirit of metal/the riff and timestretching to eternity at max volume!!)
Opposition Party (seminal punks who went metaaal)
Napalm Death (the first 2 albums and Peel sessions are must gets)

great taste bro, about the same as me.

boris
agalloch
gojira
mastodon
metallica (master of puppets + ride the lightning, so influential...)
unsane
between the buried and me
iron maiden
russian circles/pelican/isis

 

[spongebob_squarepanties]

Helloween(kai And Kiske Era)
Gamma Ray
Edguy
Iron Savior
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Dream Theater
Epica
Xjapan
Edenbridge

 

[theunknown]

1. Metallica
2. Iron Maiden
3. Slayer
4. Loudness
5. Dream Theatre (dont really dig the voice though)
6. Children of Bodom
7. Dimmu Borgir
8. Pantera
9. Sodom
10. Sentenced

top 5 are routine playing bands in my mp3. the rest i dont listen much

 

[zamir666]

Trivium
Megadeth
Machine Head
Metallica
Pantera
The Haunted
Iron Maiden
Bullet For My Valentine
In Flames
Black Sabbath

 

[subversion]

the respect i give to my fav bands, i do not rank them. so here they are in no order of merit:

*Mayhem
*Satyricon
*1349
*Marduk
*Funeral Mist
*Frost
*Cynic
*Morbid Angel
*Dim Mak
*Hate Eternal

 

[cliffburton]

Metallica
Megadeth
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Helloween
Loudness
Ozzy Osbourne
Dio
Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[panz3rr]

1. Immortal
2. Behemoth
3. Kreator
4. Unleashed
5. Obituary
6. Vader
7. Nile
8. Decapitated
9. Malevolent Creation
10. Death

 

[jameshetfieldkirkhammet]

Metallica
Megadeth
Black Sabbath
Pantera
Trivium
Children of Bodom
Ozzy Osborne
Black Label Society
Iron Maiden
Machine Head

 

[fuzzmusick]

Nile
Nevermore
Sunn O)))
Electric Wizard
Earth
S.O.A.D
Evoken
Today Is The Day
S.Y.L
Sleep

If to add one more, i'd put in FUNERAL..

 

[rocksteady]

slayer
testament
anthrax
exodus
laaz rockit
defiance
holy terror
forbidden
violence
annihilator

 

[Deathrash]

Anthrax
Autopsy
Evildead
Faith Or Fear
Forbidden
Hexx
Laaz Rockit
Nasty Savage
Pantera
Vio-Lence

 

[InfernoxDeath]

Here's the the Top 10 after all your posts combined and tabulated the number of favourites... No surprises to be honest...

1. Iron Maiden, Metallica - 8 Votes
3. Children of Bodom - 7
4. Pantera, Black Sabbath - 6
6. Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, Megadeth - 5
9. Dimmu Borgir, Lamb of God, Slayer - 4

Lingering below...

3 Votes - Trivium, Norther, Nile, Kalmah, In Flames, Dream Theatre, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Arch Enemy, All That Remains.


Continue the posts...

 

[Evilshit]

1)ChthoniC (All Time Favourite!!)
2)Emperor
3)Mayhem
4)Dissection
5)Hellhammer
6)Vesania
7)Dark Tranquility
8)Angelcorpse
9)Moonspell
10)Watain

 

[fenderrules]

METALLICA
Megadeth
Trivium
Anthrax
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Children Of Bodom
Black Label Society
Lamb Of God
Arch Enemy

....and System Of A Down! nah just kidding lol

 

[rocketshellsinc]

top 10

1) Opeth
2) Kalmah
3) In Flames
4) Scar Symmetry
5) Ensiferum
6) Dream Theater
7) Dark Tranquility
8) Old Man's Child
9) Rhapsody (of Fire)
10) Dissection

 

[InfernoxDeath]

1)ChthoniC (All Time Favourite!!)
2)Emperor
3)Mayhem
4)Dissection
5)Hellhammer
6)Vesania
7)Dark Tranquility
8)Angelcorpse
9)Moonspell
10)Watain

Evilshit! This is Robin here!

 

[AlphaShred]

ups MetallicA! \m/ :mrgreen:

 

[nitrovo]

I'm surprised with all the slipknot fans.
Who have awesome lists, but ruin it with slipknot

Metallica
Exodus
Iron Maiden
Skid Row
My Dying Bride
Municipal waste
Nuclear Assault
Megadeth
Razor
Bathory

That's just a rough list, some of those bands change over time.

 

[fuzztremecho]

not in order of merit

mercyful fate
king diamond
loudness
megadeth
sarcofago
sepultura
entombed
blasphemy
silent sorrow
EYESORE
impiety