top 5 metal bands

Early Era:
Maiden
Sabbath
Priest
Rainbow
Zepp

The New Era:
Pantera
Metallica
Slayer
Megadeth
Faith No More (Some metal in there, my fav band)

Modern:
System of a Down

Sorry, very hard to make a top 5.
 
I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about Maiden but never got into them (or even heard much of their stuff at all). I think I was too young.

For me it's:

Metallica
Korn
Megadeth
A Pefect Circle/Tool
Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine

I know NIN and RATM aren't considered metal by many but fuck that, they do a lot of neo-metal shit. I'd say Marilyn Manson but dude was just too wierd for me. :D
 
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Down
Anthrax
Pantera
Type O Negative

I know that's 6, but that's because...fuck you. That's why.
 
Mortician
Carcass
Broken Hope
Repugnant Stench
Putrid Pile

I wouldn't say the best of all time, but some of the favs.
Metallica is the shit though, well anything prior to the black album (obviously)
 
Avenged Sevenfold (especially Waking the Fallen and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet album)
Slipknot
Tool
Lamb of God
Pantera
Korn

anybody else like Avenged Sevenfold? and btw, I'm new
 

maredsous

You avin' a laugh?
^^^ welcome to the board :wave2:. personally i don't like anything they did after waking the fallen.
 
thanx man, yeah, they don't have the same sound, i'm hoping that the album Nightmare will bring them back to their old stuff.
 

L3ggy

Special Operations FOX-HOUND
G N' R
Ozzy
Sabbath
DIO
Maiden
 
i would like to edit my list...i've never considered tool a metal band (not sure why) but seeing as how others do my revised list in no particular order is:
amon amarth
tool
emperor
Pantera
zyklon
 
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