Top 5 metal bands!

[Tonimata]

Well, I suppose

1: Metallica
2: Disturbed
3: Bullet for My Valentine (really like their last album)
4: Megadeth
5: Judas Priest

 

[JBarracudaL]

Pain of Salvation
Cynic
Ensiferum
Windir
Motorhead

 

[new_age_reject]

another list thread!

Sculptured
Cynic
Burzum
Electric Wizard
Rosetta

You mentioned Cynic first.
You win.
P.s. I hate list threads and I love too much metal to list a top 5.

 

[The Riff]

Well, I suppose

1: Metallica
2: Disturbed
3: Bullet for My Valentine (really like their last album)
4: Megadeth
5: Judas Priest

Disturbed and Bullet is not metal.
Disturbed is Nu-metal and bullet is Emo

 

[LetheanLilith]

Lol, I mainly like symphonic metal..
anyway, my list.
Dream Theater.. well, they're alternative metal but they're amazing so they ought to be on this list.
Metallica (older stuff, not new :B)
Sonata Arctica for sure.
Kamelot.
strapping young lad haven't listened to much of their music but it's great so far so yeah.

 

[Kajt]

In no particular order:
Metallica
Children of Bodom
Disturbed
Iron Maiden

 

[Torque669]

1. Metallica
2. The Sword (If you count Power Metal)
3. Killswitch Engage
4. Exodus
5. Mercyful Fate

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Bloodbath
Death
Hypocrisy
Carcass
Edge of Sanity

 

[ArKadian47]

Alestorm
Dragonforce
Dethklok
Metallica
MAYBE Tyr or Fintroll, if I listened to them

 

[zipzi]

blind guardian
freedom call
demons & wizards

 

[metal_for_brains]

No order

1. Metallica
2. Behemoth
3. Lamb of God
4. Iron Maiden
5. Pantera

 

[Scypemonk]

Why are half the bands listed in this thread Nu Metal?
That's not metal.
Well, as long as we're being lenient, I'll include a couple of -core bands.

Once again, in no order:
Nasum
Marc A. Pullen
August Burns Red
Crimson Moonlight
Miseration

Another Sauerbraten player i presume?

Anyway my list in no paticular order:

Pantera
Megadeth
Lamb of God
Marc A. Pullen
Red Warsawa (but only because their music is so bad it's good)

 

[Not Good]

[HEADING=1]FUCK YOUR LIST THREAD!!! FUCK YOUR BANDS!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH

NOW PREPARE YOUR SKULL FOR FUCKING[/HEADING]

 

[SpartanSasuke]

1. All Shall Perish
2. The Faceless
3. Between the Buried and Me
4. The Black Dahlia Murder
5. As Blood Runs Black

 

[Not Good]

1. All Shall Perish
2. The Faceless
3. Between the Buried and Me
4. The Black Dahlia Murder
5. As Blood Runs Black

[HEADING=1]GAY METALCORE[/HEADING]

 

[theonlywildman]

1.SOAD
2.Slayer
3.Austrian Death Machine
4.Korn
5.Dethklok

 

[SpartanSasuke]

ive heard of them too( seven is one of my favorite songs)

 

[ProfessorLayton]

1: Strapping Young Lad
2: Lamb of God (Yeah, I know. Pretty generic choice but they show up on my Pandora a lot and I like their songs.)
3: Rammstein
4: Powerman 5000
5: Alestorm

Honorable mentions: In Flames, Meshuggah, Testament, Turisas, Dio, Children of Bodom.

I've got tons more but I can't remember them. Unfortunately I could only remember my most generic bands.

 

[VitalSigns]

Despised Icon
Whitechapel
Salt The Wound
Suicide Silence
Pantera