What is the best metal band?

[DivideBYZero]

Van Halen(DLR only)

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
amuse me

of the ones listed:

Judas priest>Iron Maiden>Metallica>Tool

Metallica 10 years ago. Today THEY SUCK!

So I voted for Tool. They are awesome. Panterra is more metal, but I enjoy Tool much more.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

How can you possibly put Tool on the list without Korn? Korn is much more successful and longer running than Tool, Megadeth or Iron Maiden.

 

[ThaPerculator]

I vote for Fear Factory...

or, wait...

GWAR (live show only) 😀 :evil:

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

How can you possibly put Tool on the list without Korn? Korn is much more successful and longer running than Tool, Megadeth or Iron Maiden.

Tool isn't even metal, they are industrial rock.

Fear Factory is border line between metal and Hardcore Techno, especially Remanufactor

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

How can you possibly put Tool on the list without Korn? Korn is much more successful and longer running than Tool, Megadeth or Iron Maiden.

Megadeth has been around since the mid-80s (shortly after Mustaine was showed the door by Metallica), definately longer than Korn. Also, success!=good. Ashlee Simpson has sold a lot of CDs, doesn't make her good.

 

[NuKe9]

Children of Bodom

 

[BillyBatson]

between metallia or tool, i went with metallica

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

How can you possibly put Tool on the list without Korn? Korn is much more successful and longer running than Tool, Megadeth or Iron Maiden.

Megadeth has been around since the mid-80s (shortly after Mustaine was showed the door by Metallica), definately longer than Korn. Also, success!=good. Ashlee Simpson has sold a lot of CDs, doesn't make her good.

Being alive != long running. Coming out with new CDs that are top of the chart, year after year after year does.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: edro13
Korn or Slipknot (for us younger folks)

I'm probably just as young as you and it doesn't give us an excuse to consider Korn or Slipknot good metal.

Metallica, Megadeath, Iron Maiden are my top 3.

How can you possibly put Tool on the list without Korn? Korn is much more successful and longer running than Tool, Megadeth or Iron Maiden.

Megadeth has been around since the mid-80s (shortly after Mustaine was showed the door by Metallica), definately longer than Korn. Also, success!=good. Ashlee Simpson has sold a lot of CDs, doesn't make her good.

Being alive != long running. Coming out with new CDs that are top of the chart, year after year after year does.

Coming out with new CDs at the top of the chart just means that they were at the very least popular, which != good, as stated above. Best does not mean a popularity contest.

Korn and Slipnot aren't even worthy of holding Metallica's, Megadeath's, or Iron Maiden's jocks.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Using your "loose" definition of "metal band," I'm gonna have to say GN'R 🙂

i dont personally consider Guns and Roses metal but they are definatly better than all of the ones on the list combined by a LONG shot

WTF are you smoking G-N-R sux ass compared to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.


Ausm

 

[Hecubus2000]

Slayer of course.

 

[Triumph]

I would vote Metallica, if it was broken down by pre-Load and post-Load, but it isn't. Otherwise, my list would be something like

old skool Metallica
Iron Maiden
Slayer

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: mjquilly
sabbath

sabbath with ozzy and metallica till black album

 

[nCred]

IMO Metallica>>Iron maiden>the rest

Slayer and Megadeth should really be on that list.

 

[qaa541]

Opeth is by far the most listenable (and varied) over and over again as far as I'm concerned.

Then its a toss up between Metallica/Megadeth/Pantera/Maiden/Slayer and other popular metal bands. (I would rank them all equally good in their own ways).

 

[spaceman]

Slayer.
end of discussion.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Iron Maiden > *

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Schneider879
Pearl Jam.

take your own life.

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: ZePHyRaNTHeS
Dream Theater. They're more progressive than metal though. I just call them "progressive metal".

Another one for DT.

They are kind of hit-and-miss in concert, though. I've seen shows where they are just having fun, and its a great show. I saw them at the Riviera in Chicago last summer, and they were so blah. Nobody interacted, they hardly acknowledged each other, and Portnoy was not his usually goof-off self.

 

[JDMnAR1]

Really depends on your definition of "best" - are you talking commercial appeal, album sales, musical ability, longevity, innovation, live performance, etc? Likewise, there are so many different styles out there that it is difficult to really get an apples to apples comparison. No way would any true metal fan put a Megadeth [circa Killing is My Business...] (or any other "speed" band) in the same category as an Iron Maiden [circa Powerslave] - they are just too different. You could definitely get away with comparing that same Megadeth to a Metallica [circa Ride the Lightning] and get a much more valid comparison.

Anyway, there are so many from the glory days of my youth 😀 that haven't even been mentioned yet - bands like Anthrax, Armored Saint, Saxon, Venom, Overkill,, Metal Church and so on. Picking just one as "the best" is pretty much impossible.

I would say my top three old school would be (in no particular order): Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest

If I had to pick my favorites now, would probably go with Sevendust and Disturbed

 

[Gothgar]

someone needs to send James Hetfield a big ass bottle of Whiskey, with a note : "You know what to do"

Then he will prolly start making good music again...

 

[InterpolAgent]

this question is an oxymoron

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
Tool isn't even metal, they are industrial rock.

Fear Factory is border line between metal and Hardcore Techno, especially Remanufactor

Who can keep up with 50,000 genres? I hate it when I go to tag a CD I'm ripping and have 50 choices.. Phish for example - rock, blues, jazz, psychadelic rock, grassroots, folk, pop (?), etc... Ugh. I classify my collection into rock, classic rock, metal, rap, r&b, blues, jazz, classical and electronica. Go much past that and no two albums fit into the same genre, and no two people agree on which genre one is.