Zeppelin are not better, and i personally don't consider them to be metal at all. The rest of the bands you mentioned are pretty much traditional heavy metal bands, not the hard rock/hm bands of the 70's. How are Maiden and Mercyful Fate hard rock? The first JP album was HR, but can't even stand in the shadow of the great DP albums. Scorpions are also one of the greats, i'll give you that ... but i wouldn't say they're better than DP ... not even close imo. Anyway, i was actually asking for names of hr/hm bands from around the early 70's.
def leppard is garbage.
Lets complain about lyrics and materialism and then post some of the gayest 80's glam bands of all time.

... not geared towards you Luc.