What are the best Heavy Metal bands

Panzer Grenadier · Post by **Panzer Grenadier** » 2004-11-12 10:11pm

Here are the ones I have listened to in depth

Metallica- I know its really fashinobale to hate this band, and mostly thats lars ulrich's own fault, but their early albums up to black album really did kick a lot of ass.

Megadeth- I'm listening to Rust in peace, and Countdown to Extinction right now, they are really excellent thrash metal. They have also consistently released good albums unlike metallica

I have also heard a couple songs from Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath but I don't know enough about these bands to comment. I was wondering what you guys thought were some other good metal bands.

Wong Fei Hong · Post by **Wong Fei Hong** » 2004-11-12 10:15pm

In Flames - Good Swedish Death Metal

Annihilator - some of the best metal I've heard.

Exodus and Testament are pretty good thrash, and Therion used to be good before they became symphonic.

Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are just classics, like Judas Priest.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-11-12 10:16pm

You must listen to Slayer. I recommend the albums "Reign in Blood" and "South of Heaven". Fast, heavy, and evil.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-12 10:16pm

Anthrax
Pantera
Rammstein

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-11-12 10:23pm

Blind Guardian. They pwn all.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2004-11-12 10:41pm

Uriah Heep.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-11-12 10:45pm

Rob Zombie. And I second Rammstein.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2004-11-12 10:51pm

aerius wrote:You must listen to Slayer. I recommend the albums "Reign in Blood" and "South of Heaven". Fast, heavy, and evil.

I always thought Slayer sounded kinda cheesy. *shrugs*

Right now I'm listening to Killswitch Engage.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2004-11-12 10:52pm

Panzer Grenadier wrote:Here are the ones I have listened to in depth

Metallica- I know its really fashinobale to hate this band, and mostly thats lars ulrich's own fault, but their early albums up to black album really did kick a lot of ass.

Megadeth- I'm listening to Rust in peace, and Countdown to Extinction right now, they are really excellent thrash metal. They have also consistently released good albums unlike metallica

I have also heard a couple songs from Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath but I don't know enough about these bands to comment. I was wondering what you guys thought were some other good metal bands.

Those are the ones I like. Also used to listen to Testament.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-12 11:07pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:I always thought Slayer sounded kinda cheesy. *shrugs*

DIE!!

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-11-12 11:25pm

Fuck Metallica. Rob Zombie kicks arse.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-12 11:28pm

Superman wrote:Fuck Metallica. Rob Zombie kicks arse.

Aw, fuck you. You take the 5 most badass RZ songs against the 5 best Metallica songs, and Zombie will come up short. Not that I don't like RZ, but he's no old-skool Metallica.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-11-12 11:58pm

Old school Metallica is fucking overrated. I'm sick of everyone thinking that 80's speed metal is somehow the holy cow of fucking metal. It sucked, Metallica sucked and they still suck.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-13 12:01am

Bat-ter-ry....

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-11-13 12:03am

In the words of Ozzy, "where's the fucking melody?"

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-11-13 12:17am

Kirk is God. Face-melting guitar solos. Thrash metal isn't melody based anyway.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-11-13 12:28am

Metallica fucking rocks if you're deaf

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-11-13 12:46am

Kirk is God.

Randy Rhoades would have taken Kirk any day...

Falkenhayn · Post by **Falkenhayn** » 2004-11-13 12:47am

Dream Theatre-five guys+Berkeley School of Musci= Insane metal band. 7 songs on a 69 minute CD.
Otep- Pretty much what you'd expect hell to sound like.
Second InFlames
Fear Factory-Nasty Doublebass, and oh so industrial.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-11-13 01:48am

Judas Priest
Hellhammer (as in the prototype of Celtic Frost, not the drummer of Mayhem)
Bal-Sagoth

BTW - In Flames isn't Death Metal, it's a genre called "Gothenburg Metal" which consists of speed metal with growly vocals which went mallcore on recent albums. Actual Swedish Death Metal is bands such as Dismember, early Entombed, Necrophobic, Sacramentum and their ilk.

If you want actual really good Death Metal, try Demilich.

Faabio · Post by **Faabio** » 2004-11-13 03:37am

Almost all of the above mentioned are good or very good, but The Best? Manowar easily imho. They just got the attitude to be Number one

Captain Kruger · Post by **Captain Kruger** » 2004-11-13 08:47am

1992, San Francisco's Cow Palace:

Corrosion of Conformity, Testament, Iron Maiden

Best metal concert I ever went to.

I never could get into the pure thrash thing. I think even the heaviest most pissed off music needs to have some kind of melody to it. Although anything, absolutely anything was better than the crime against music known as glam rock. Hair spray, spandex, lipstick...*shivers* *pukes*

I have to give an honorable mention to one of the new bands: Disturbed. Flat out kick ass shit!

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-11-13 10:46am

i don't know about their music, but any stright men who pose for an album cover like this deserve some..uh.. recognition.

*shudder

Captain Kruger · Post by **Captain Kruger** » 2004-11-13 10:54am

Col. Crackpot wrote:i don't know about their music, but any stright men who pose for an album cover like this deserve some..uh.. recognition.

*shudder

I could have very happily gone the rest of my life without my eyes being tormented by that picture.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-11-13 11:40am

Manowar is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of Heavy Metal, that should explain their appearance.

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