Best Metal Bands

Ablaze My Sorrow
Agalloch
Agathodaimon
Alice in Chains
Am I Blood
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Anal Cunt
...And Oceans
Angel Dust
Arch Enemy
Arcturus
Armored Saint
At the Gates
Ayreon

Black League, The
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Borknagar
Brave

Carmen, Eric
Chapel Blaque
Chasm, The
Children of Bodom
Construcdead
Cradle of Filth
Crown, The
Crown of Thorns, The

Dark Funeral
Dark Tranquillity
Death
Deathwitch
Deep Purple
Deicide
Destruction
Demons & Wizards
Dimmu Borgir
Dissection
Domine
Doors, The
Dornenreich
Dragonlord
Dream Theater

Ebony Tears
Edguy
Einherjer
Elenium
Emperor
Enslaved
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Evergrey

Fate's Warning
Fear Factory
Finntroll
Force
Foreigner

Grave Digger
Gregorian
Grieg, Edvard
Guess Who, The

Haggard
Hate Eternal
Haunted, The
Hectate Enthroned
Hypocrisy

Iced Earth
Immortal
In Aeternum
In Flames
Insision
Iron Maiden

Journey

Kamelot
Kansas
Kataklysm
Katatonia

Lee, Brandon
Limbonic Art
Lorde of All Desires
Lumsk
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Mactatus
Mancini, Henry
Megadeth
Megaherz
Merauder
Metal Church
Metallica (Ride the Lightning, ...And Justice for All, Master of Puppets, Kill 'Em All)
Ministry
Moonlight Awakening
Mortician
Mortiis (Pre-The Smell of Rain)
My Dying Bride

Nightwish
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Novembers Doom

Obtained Enslavement
Opeth
Osbourne, Ozzy

Pain
Pain of Salvation
Pantera
Power Quest
Primitive Radio Gods
Profane Omen

Queen

Rhapsody

Samael
Satyricon
Savatage
Sentenced
Skyclad
Skyfire
Smashing Pumpkins, The
Soilwork
Solitude Aeturnus
Sonata Arctica
Steel Attack
Stratovarius
St. Madness
Symphony X

Talisman
Tanist
Tartaros
Testament
Thales
Thanatos
Theory in Practice
Therion
Thyrfing
Tool
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Turmion Kätilöt
Turmoil
Type O Negative

Ulver
Under Black Clouds
Union Underground, The
Unloco

Vehemence
Vinterland
Vintersorg

War
Wars of Winter
Whitesnake
Winds
Witchery
Withered Earth
Withering Surface

Zager and Evans
Zombies, The

There are probably more...
 
Ajattara
Amorphis
Benediction
Black Sabbath
Children Of Bodom
Circle of the Children
Cradle Of Filth
Cryhavoc
Dark Funeral
Destruction
Dimmu Borgir
Edguy
Embraze
Ensiferum
Eternal tears of sorrow
Finntroll
Gamma Ray
Grave digger
Graveworm
Helloween
Hollenthon
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Impaled Nazarene
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Machine Head
Mezar Kabul
Moonsorrow
Nightwish
Norther
Omnium Gatherum
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Powergod
Sepultura
Sinergy
Slayer
Sodom
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Symphony X
The Kovenant
Throne Of Chaos
Thy Serpent
W.a.s.p.
 
In Flames
Children Of Bodom
Arch Enemy
Dark Tranquillity
Sinergy
Soilwork
Primal Fear
Divine Souls
Dimmu Borgir
Warmen
:D
 
some of my favorites....
Children Of Bodom
Agathodaimon
my dying bride
impaled nazarene
eternal tears of sorrow
iced earth
marduk
 
IRON MAIDEN
AT THE GATES
Children of Bodom
Carcass
Death
Dark Tranquillity
Arch Enemy
Testament
Stratovarius
Blind Guardian
Soilwork
Iced Earth
Venom
Kreator
Sodom
In Flames
Helloween
Dream Theater
Dying Fetus
Dismember
Opeth
Sentenced
VAN HALEN