best metal band of all time (metallica not allowed)

[Short Drive]

Two words: Jimi Hendrix

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[talleymonster]

I think we're forgetting about somebody.......

 

[Chris_Dog]

MMM Bopp!!!

I was thinking Hendrix too.

I don't think you should leave out Metallica. I am sure that Lars is not the only ****** bag in a popular band. Separate the artist from the art sort of thing.

 

[talleymonster]

MMM Bopp!!!

I was thinking Hendrix too.

I don't think you should leave out Metallica. I am sure that Lars is not the only ****** bag in a popular band. Separate the artist from the art sort of thing.

Very true. Look at the Gallagher brothers from Oasis.

 

[the_bird]

I think we're forgetting about somebody.......

DUDE! Do you think those chicks are legal yet?










Wait, what? Those are dudes? AH, ****!

 

[Tankenator]

cause of that napster business. fu lars

I vote for MOTOR HEAD

I saw them at rams head live in inner harbor like a month ago, awesome show--loud as hell..buddy lost his windows ce phone in the pit (dont ask....) but otherwise great!!!

 

[Flyin' Lion]

I'm a big fan of AC/DC personally, but for some obscure references:

Manowar
Overkill
Dangerous Toys (saw them in concert with Testament)
Anyone ever heard of Lord Tracy (one album wonder)?
Killer Dwarfs

 

[milracing]

Anybody see that Metallica documentary? What a whiny bunch of turds they turned into! Jeez..... Not metal but what the heck happened to Clapton? All he plays is elevator music now. Ever since he got clean and his son died (sorry). My personal feeling is that he is wealthy enough to afford good clean consistent heroin. He can decrease the chance of an od with the consistency and some bad effects from it being pure. He can afford to always use alcohol swabs and lessen the track marks. He should start using again! Artistic sacrifice! For the people! Seriously. He used to Rock!

 

[pen25]

iron maiden

 

[pen25]

hard to decide.

Metal ---> King Diamond/Mercyful Fate.
Awesome live shows and albums are always well produced. The King IS King.

Progressive Metal ----> Tie: Fates Warning & Redemption
Prog Rock ----> Kansas
Thrash ----> Anthrax
Loudest ---> Spinal Tap
Freaking cool and under appreciated ---> Mudvayne. Lacuna Coil. Five Finger Death Punch. Straight Line Stitch. Type O Negative. Pist On. Armored Saint.

Whiners ---> Metallica.

agrred except for the first though they were great bands. but iron maiden is in that grouping. even thier newest album is good now that Bruce is back. BTW you missed one band there and id have to say over all the best band ever




wait for it






pink floyd:fro:

 

[pen25]

I think we're forgetting about somebody.......

haha these kids are tools. though they did pull tweens in by the hand full. when they did the mayfest here a couple years bacl all the tweeners grew up to twenties and still couldnt believe these girls were all still in love with these kids.

mmmmBop bop bop hahaha

 

[pen25]

ok i have just listened to 3 of Dragonforce and they sound allot like Maiden and some of the glam rock bands.. i can listen to these guys but they dont beat iron maiden by any means.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s]YouTube - DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBY9Q39C1bs]YouTube - Iron Maiden - Flight Of Icarus (Music Video 1983)[/ame]

steve harris and adrian smith and on top of that you have Bruce dickensons voice and nico mcbrain slapping the skins. way under rated as a drummer. and shoot even dave murry can rip the strings.

anyway i digress. i have expended my musical tastes in the last 20 years that i can honestly say all music to me is good. but the greats are the ones i can still slip some head phones on and just listen to them in any order. i love to pull up my digital library and just tell music match to play in jukebox mode for 3 hours and include all genre and have it pick from metal to rap to classic rock to pop to country with a little frank and cash tossed in for good luck.

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

Deep Purple and Zeppelin? I thought we were talking about metal.

Slayer, hands down.

:rockin:

Hell yes. Slayer is metal. They have been shredding for a very very long time. And their most recent album is proof that their age has not slowed them down (unlike Metallica)...

 

[Jaybird]

I am a big fan of Black Sabbath Both w/ Ronnie and OZZY, Metal? Maybe not..... But still an all time favorite.
Maybe Godsmack, Disturbed or TOOL? Can’t decide

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

I jumped on Slayer. I love Slayer. Hell, I have a Slayer motorcycle helmet... Sirius' Hard Attack had the 100 most metal songs countdown earlier this year. Number one was Slayer's "Rain in Blood." yeah baby!

I also love a lot of Death Metal and Black Metal but I wouldn't call any of them the best metal bands ever because although they are pushing the extremes now, they haven't been on the scene for that long.

I would have put my vote for Pantera, but have you heard their first albums??? I'm talking pre-Cowboys From Hell... That makes glam rock sound good. And glam rock ****ing sucks! There I said it....

I would have put my vote for Sepultura, but without Max, they ****ing suck. They wouldn't be half bad if they changed their name, but as long as they carry the Sepultura name without both Cavalera brothers... they are a hack.

As for Dragonforce.... They are the coolest/worst band ever, but good god can those guys play! I think they were all music teachers and decided to make a metal band that showcased all their talents. Some of their songs bring it home perfectly. Some of their songs remind me of a fight for the spotlight between all of the players. That video rules though. I love the dueling guitar solos where the one guy takes pulls off his beer waiting for his turn to shred. :rockin:

Led Zep and Sabbath deserve major respect. They inspired metal. I can't call them the best ever, but I can't deny their influence.

But wtf do I know...?

 

[phissionkorps]

To me, Maiden is like the Dragonforce of the 70s. What they did was ridic then, but now so many people have done it, that you need to go further to really stand out. Maiden has/had great guitar, but its not on the level of Dragonforce. Maiden I can listen to and chill....but all the Dragonforce solos are so fast and all over the place my brain just shuts down from how awesome/fast it is. Even that "mario noise" at 3:21 was made with a guitar. A lot of Maiden solos are 2 notes taking turns. Yeah it sounds good, but not mind-blowingly so. Also gotta give Sam from Dragonforce props for drinking a beer in that vid in between his turns. The solo scene in this vid is pretty funny

I am a big fan of Black Sabbath Both w/ Ronnie and OZZY, Metal? Maybe not....

Finally someone mentions Dio . Whatcha mean maybe not? Sabbath was the first metal band all the way.

As far as Slayer goes...personally I liked God Hates Us All I guess that makes me the only one lol.

 

[Jaybird]

Disturbed is godawful. I was that good at guitar in 7th grade.

Lets hear it Brother!!!! I love watching someone play.... When their good.
Show off a bit for us.
JJ

 

[fratermus]

Udo.
He was a crazy man.

And really, really small.

I saw Accept in, uhhh, Stuttgart if I remember correctly. Germans got pretty fired up for Accept. Not quite as nutso as for the Scorps, but it was out of control.

 

[FishinDave07]

^ LOL! "It goes to eleven"

But yeah, a bunch of the bands mentioned could've been considered "metal" for the time they were around. I hate to break it to some of the "seasoned" HBTers but there's different metal now, than then. And even then there are many cross-over type bands (metal and _____ fill in the blank). Slayer, Pantera, etc are metal.

As I lay Dying is pretty darn good

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnEVnqEss4]YouTube - As I Lay Dying - 94 hours[/ame]

Their bass player is Chuck Norris' son, c'mon, you cant go wrong!

Another one is, meh, DragonForce. They are like "epic, knights in shining armor" metal but, meh, i guess:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywxm6zLEjFY]YouTube - DragonForce - Operation Ground And Pound[/ame]

Lamb of God is pretty metal

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWB6rmSd4I]YouTube - Lamb of God - Laid to Rest[/ame]

And lastly Unearth, They are Metal/HARDcore

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnubiAyN-6o]YouTube - Unearth- Giles[/ame]

That is all.

EDIT: Holy crap! 6 posts flew in before mine. Too slow i guess.

 

[bru-er]

I would have put my vote for Pantera, but have you heard their first albums??? I'm talking pre-Cowboys From Hell... That makes glam rock sound good. And glam rock ****ing sucks! There I said it....

I would have put my vote for Sepultura, but without Max, they ****ing suck. They wouldn't be half bad if they changed their name, but as long as they carry the Sepultura name without both Cavalera brothers... they are a hack.

++ Have you seen the pics of dime during those years??? WTF was that. I do like everything after Cowboys (inclusive), but I actually like the stuff after Vulger the best. Cowboys and Vulger were too much of the canned metal from the late 80's early 90's. Once they found there sound it was cool because it was different, and man it was brutal.

I think Max was what made Sepultura. I like some of the Soulfly - mainly the vocals.

 

[Freezeblade]

Black Sabbath of all the "classic" metal bands I think, as they spawned my favorite sub-genre of metal, doom metal. Slow, pondering, textural and epic. Bands such as Ulver (well, my fav album by them at least, "Bergtatt"), Agalloch, Candlemass, In the Woods, and Doomsword. Although my fav metal band would probably be Agalloch, folk-influenced doom metal. Fantastic stuff.

 

[Mutilated1]

Good Lord...

Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath -- those are not metal bands.

"Acid Rock" would be the correct genre.

 

[Freezeblade]

Good Lord...

Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath -- those are not metal bands.

"Acid Rock" would be the correct genre.

I don't know, I'd classify Black Sabbath as more Proto-doom, and listening to some of it, I'd call it more "metal" than LZ or DP due to the instrumentation, scooped mids in the distortion, and overall heavyness. Of course, it really matters on the album one is speaking of.

 

[yashicamat]

I am appreciating Metallica a lot more recently. Although it doesn't appear to the casual listener as heavy metal, numbers like "Nothing Else Matters" are full of feeling without the need to go mental on the guitar.

 

[FireBrewer]

Freaking cool and under appreciated ---> Mudvayne. Lacuna Coil. Five Finger Death Punch. Straight Line Stitch. Type O Negative. Pist On. Armored Saint.

Whiners ---> Metallica.

MEGATHIS!! Love Mudvayne. And I liked Metallica up until after the black album. Definitely whiners.

A question of who's the "best" metal band is like asking which beer is the best. But I'll put my vote in for Pantera. RIP Dimebag.

Surprised nobody's mentioned Dethklok yet. Cartoon metal band, I know, but I think the show's hilarious and the CD is ****ing sweet! You want machine gun drumming? Gene Hoglan delivers:

 

[niquejim]

Good Lord...

Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath -- those are not metal bands.

"Acid Rock" would be the correct genre.

And add 4oz's of wheat to a beer and it's a hefe, right

I don't know, I'd classify Black Sabbath as more Proto-doom, and listening to some of it, I'd call it more "metal" than LZ or DP due to the instrumentation, scooped mids in the distortion, and overall heavyness. Of course, it really matters on the album one is speaking of.

Black Sabbath has influenced every dark metal band since 1970

 

[MikeFlynn74]

wait wait wait---------

Someone else knows about Lacuna Coil? Holy crap!

Mudvayne gets a vote from me too!

 

[Schwind]

Lamb of God is the best current metal band. And now that Randy has lightened up on the sauce they put on a hell of a show. Pantera was my favorite in high school. Opeth is on heavy rotation in the truck. Every album is amazing. Its like those guys put on a symphony and then kill everything in their path. F-ing beautiful.

Oh and Megadeth is sh*t. Dave Mustaines voice makes me want to take a bath with a toaster.

 

[thataintchicken]

Opeth is on heavy rotation in the truck. Every album is amazing. Its like those guys put on a symphony and then kill everything in their path. F-ing beautiful.

Opeth rules my iPod currently. Saw them with Dream Theater not that long ago. Incredible show.
Coheed and Cambria is growing on me as well. While not really metal, they are awesome in concert.

There is so much good music in the metal genre. Pity that some folks prefer to draw lines and draw conclusions rather than appreciate what is out there.

 

[chainsawbrewing]

savatage. they've been my favorite since around 1992