Top 5 metal bands!

[Satosuke]

Ok, first of all, anyone mentioning Nu Metal in here needs to get a clue. That's not metal; that's just crap thinly veiled as metal with all of the inherent stereotypes and none of the talent.

Anyway, my personal top 5 are:
1. Ayreon
2. Falconer
3. Blind Guardian
4. Queensryche
5. Iron Maiden

 

[Mondo_Generator]

In no particular order.

1. Alice in Chains.
2. Kyuss.
3. Kamelot.
4. Death.
5. Soundgarden. (I consider them to be Metal)

 

[Entropy_kC]

In Flames
Children of Bodom
Killswitch Engage
Metallica
Hammerfall

The problem with this thread is that there are different types of metal: there's a large variation between the most growly and hardcore and the most melodic. For example, the difference between songs like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hZXxrzsQOA] (warning: explicit) and something more famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDKcEPDQO4].

Edit: also thought I might share my pain; it's off-topic, but this is the off-topic forum. I was at Reading Festival last year and I didn't see Metallica when they headlined. I'm so gutted. I also missed The Unholy Alliance (In Flames, Lamb of God, Slayer and Children of Bodom at the time) when it was on my birthday a few years back. I am so fucking pissed off that I missed them.

 

[Ares Tyr]

1. Motorhead
2. Motorhead
3. Motorhead
4. Motorhead
5. Motorhead










But if we're talking like, any kind of metal or metal-influenced genre then, that I listen to often, then:

1. Motorhead
2. Decapitated
3. The Black Dahlia Murder
4. Animosity
5. Suicide Silence

 

[jdog345]

I think I might have posted already, but screw it.

1.Isis
2.Opeth
3.Between The Buried and Me
4.Mastodon
6.maudlin of the Well

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Spoiler

Miley Cyrus is pretty metal too.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

As usual, in no order:

Sonic Syndicate
In Flames
All That Remains
Pantera
Scar Symmetry

 

[gremily]

DragonForce
Slipknot
Black Label Society
Metallica
Black Sabbath

(not in order)

 

[socialtangent]

No particular order

1) Metallica
2) Korn
3) Disturbed
4) Psychostick
5) Megadeth

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

1. Machinae Supremacy
2. Machine Head
3. Metallica
4. Black Sabbath(I needed something so this wouldn't be full of bands with the starting letter of M.)
5. Nine Inch Nails

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

Hard.. Hard

1. I Killed the Prom Queen
2. Carnifex
3. Cannibal Corpse
4. All That Remains
5. Iron Maden.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

1. Children of Bodom
2. In Flames
3. John 5
4. Trivium
5. Dragonforce

 

[Nadlice]

In no order...
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Megadeth
God I can't bear to leave out Judas Priest, Wintersun, Amon Amarth, Alestorm, (early) Metallica, Arsis, Enfsiferum, Dethklok, Overkill, Dio, Testament, Helloween, Finntroll, Ozzy, or Pantera.

I hate list threads because I listen to too much metal... averaging 7-8 albums a day in the summer. I can't choose between Alestorm and Overkill. It's too hard.

Also, Im pretty sure nu metal origanated as a crossover of hip hop and metal. So if you can call punk rock rock, you can call nu metal metal. Although all nu metal has contributed to the genre is simplification and "underground popularity". I swear the some people at my school thought that Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold were underground, and that they were really really big metalheads for listening to them.

As for metalcore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjg8mmVUuxw. That is all.

Also, is grunge a derivative form of metal??? It does fit fairly well with some light doom...

I enjoy procrastinating on these forums.

Also SOAD (/Scars or Serj) is awesome, but not metal IMO.

 

[Ares Tyr]

Hard.. Hard

1. I Killed the Prom Queen
2. Carnifex
3. Cannibal Corpse
4. All That Remains
5. Iron Maden.

I like you.

Also I forgot, and should die for, my omission motherfuckin' SLAYER.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Metallica
Iron Maiden
Disturbed
Lamb of God
Nine Inch Nails

Pretty much just the first 5 metal bands that came to mind so the list isn't 100% accurate but I'd never be able to decide otherwise.

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

If I could add to my list, I'd add

BMTH
AILD
Early Disturbed (Sickness & Belive)
Whitechapel
I Declare War
Children of Bodom
Cradle of Filth
Kataklysm
Suicide Silence
Several others of which I can't think of.
(I listen to too much metal. xD)

 

[Cpt Morgan]

- Elysia
- Emmure
- Winds of Plague
- Parkway Drive
- The Acacia Strain
Hell yes.

 

[walkingdead127]

1. As I lay Dying
2. Haste the Day (1st album)
3. Children of Bodom
4. All That Remains
5. Iron Maiden