Top 5 metal bands!

[The DSM]

1.Hammerfall
2.Blind Guardian
3.Slayer
4.Dimmu Borgir
5.Dragonforce

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Right:
1.System of a Down
2.Opeth
3.Mastodon
4.Tarot
5.Metallica

Just from curiosity, how many people consider Hollywood undead a metal band, they're rap.

 

[Vuljatar]

Metallica
Megadeth
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath


In no particular order.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

1. Lamb of God
2. In Flames
3. Gojira
4. Heaven Shall Burn
5. Opeth

 

[Cretgren]

I would have to say Nightwish and Kamelot as my two favorite.

 

[spankcakes]

Weeellll... I'll join in then.

1. IRON MAIDEN(Yeah old, but still going on!)
2./3. Megadeth/Metallica(Oh yeah. This gonna cause some ruckus, but I like both bands.)
4. Mastodon(The only recent metal band, that I like.)
5. Black Sabbath(The forefathers of metal..?)

 

[PrimoThePro]

1. Dethklok
2. Five Finger Death Punch
3. Cancer Bats
4. LoG
5. Amon Amarth
I wouldn't actually consider NiN to be metal. They are totally awesome, and I really dig their sound, but I just feel that they should get their own genre. Maybe I'm just biased cuz I prefer more of a death metal sound.
(My above list takes into consideration people's taste around here.)

 

[blindthrall]

1. Nevermore
2. Pantera
3. Black Sabbath (Did you youngings forget who started it?)
4. Lamb of God
5. Metallica if we ignore the past ten years, Slayer if not.


I like Reznor, but he's not metal, NIN's industrial. Sepultura gets an honorable mention.

 

[spankcakes]

1
3. Black Sabbath (Did you youngings forget who started it?)

No, some of us didn't, but shamefully, most of kids don't know that much about them...

 

[blindthrall]

1
3. Black Sabbath (Did you youngings forget who started it?)

No, some of us didn't, but shamefully, most of kids don't know that much about them...

I see you did remember. I was tempted to put Ozzy instead because of Randy Rhodes.

 

[MattZero]

1. All That Remains
2. Bury Your Dead
3. Killswitch Engage
4. Avenged Sevenfold
5. Mudvayne

I listen to the older bands but the newer guys are better in my opinion.

 

[Not Good]

Dear lord these lists are just rage-bate for real metalheads.

SHO IS

Meshuggah
Opeth
Cynic

*FACEFIST*

I'm gonna do another top five for overrated and shitty bands I've seen on here:

1. Lamb of God: not the best recent metal band by an AU, that answer would be Coffins
2. Avenged Sevenfold: also no where near the best metal band also:
[HEADING=1]AVENGED SEVENFOLD'S DRUMMER DYING WAS AN ACT OF GOD NOW I'LL NEVER HAVE TO HEAR THAT TERRIBLE BAND EVER AGAIN[/HEADING]
3. Slipknot: not only boring, but popular with the kiddies
4. Anything labeled as "prog" (i.e. Dream Theater, Cynic, Opeth, Meshuggah): the lack of nuance and the loss of any real song structure does not make the best band evar.
5. Gojira: Very Meh from what I've heard.

also inb4 that's like, your opinion man. Anyone who listened to metal before playing Guitar Hero would know for a second how terrible you have it.

 

[Not Good]

Dear lord these lists are just rage-bate for real metalheads.

SHO IS

Meshuggah
Opeth
Cynic

4. Anything labeled as "prog" (i.e. Dream Theater, Cynic, Opeth, Meshuggah): the lack of nuance and the loss of any real song structure does not make the best band evar.

Prog Metal isnt Br00tal enough for you?
And Prog metal has song structures, so i dont know where your coming from.


Fine fine, ill change my list.

Black Sabbath.
Gorguts.
Metallica.
Death.
Suffocation.


Does that satisfy?

4. Pantera
5. Rage Against the Machine

Was on your list, so you really cant bash me when you put those terribad bands on your list, which dont really experiment unlike the prog metal bands. And it just seems overall your one of those metalheads that cant appreciate alot of expermentation in metal, which Meshuggah and Cynic do.

I guess I should have said "Prog metal lacks coherent song structure, or is simple song structure fucked up by a bunch of wankers and drum fills." You can have tempo changes, amazing drums and great solo work, but when you push beyond gain and go to distortion, you're just trying too hard. I forgot to mention the terribad lyrics. also you can't have over-the-top tempos(22/8) just to CHUGGA yourself out of them. That's cheating. At least when Jazz left song structure in the dust they kept a fucking BEAT.

also at least Pantera kicks ass and Rage is political. I'd take Dimebag and Morello over any prog guitarist because they at least have some taste instead of just doing scale exercises all over the place.

 

[Aerodynamic]

I see some good lists, others a trash.

Mines go by
1.Agalloch
2.Pelican
3.Electric Wizard
4.Judas Priest
5.Kyuss

 

[Mr. Self Destruct]

That was harder than I thought it would be:

Mastodon
Cancer Bats
Children of Bodom
Bullet for my Valentine
Avenged Sevenfold


I do not like iron maiden or lamb of god, I thought you would like to know this, Escapist :I