List your top 10 favorite bands!

[Dead-Pan]

No particular order:

Pantera
Pissing Razors
Fear Factory
Coal Chamber
Whitechapel
Dying Fetus
Humanity's Last Breath
Meshuggah
Slipknot
Oblige

 

[nafnikufesin]

A couple of these are more hard rock than metal, but often get lumped in with metal, so I'll include them. A band made my list if I would be a day one buyer of their next album even without having heard anything off it, because I trust that I'm going to like it.

Testament
Motorhead
Lamb of God
AC/DC
Machine Head
Corrosion of Conformity (with Pepper)
Airbourne
Any band with John Bush singing
Slayer
Confused Little Girl

 

[themikeisalie]

1. Dio
2. Helloween
3. Angra
4. Edguy
5. Sonata Arctica
6. Iron Maiden
7. Rhapsody of Fire
8. Def Leppard
9. Queensrÿche
10. Stratovarius

 

[nerdwerld]

This was hard to narrow it down, but here is a list that can change since my tastes and preferences change everyday.

1. Dio, Dio era Sabbath,Dio era Rainbow, Elves just everything Dio has ever done.
2. Black Sabbath (all eras equally)
3. Iron Maiden
4. Judas Priest
5. Blind Guardian
6. Iced Earth
7. Sigh
8. Deep Purple
9. X Japan
10. Tyr

 

[spacecorpse75]

Metallica - 1st four albums)

Inquisition

Bolt Thrower - Warmaster is my fave!

Slayer

Black Sabbath

Carcass

Vektor - best new band.

Arcturus

Sodom

Unleashed

 

[xenophobe]

In no particular order:

Death Metal

Spawn of Possession
Immolation
Suffocation
Cryptopsy
Gorguts
Malevolent Creation
Iniquity
Nile
Origin
Disgorge (all 3 of them lol)


Black Metal

Dissection
Possessed
Anorexia Nervosa
Aborym
Crionics
Emperor
Samael
And Oceans
Anaal Nathrakh
Zyklon


Thrash

Vio-lence
Forbidden
Exodus
Slayer
Death
Destruction
Kreator
Dark Angel
Epidemic
Testament


Female vocals

Tristania
Atrox
Lacuna Coil
Dismal Euphony
The Sins of Thy Bleoved
Theater of Tragedy
Aghora
After Forever
Portishead
Evanescence


Notable mentions:

Pink Floyd

Judas Priest

Buckethead

Black Sabbath / Ozzy

Peter Gabriel

Jennifer Charles (anything she does is godly)

A lot of other stuff.


So... I can't pick a top 10 at all. lol

 

[Häxprocess]

In no particular order :

- Pink Floyd
- Opeth
- Porcupine Tree
- Gojira
- S.U.P.
- Strapping Young Lad
- The Doors
- Enslaved
- Tool
- Envy

 

[pmlewis99]

In no order:
Iron maiden
Blind guardian
Rhapsody
Eluvetite
Alestorm
Finntroll
Korpiklanni
Tyr
Ancient bards
Equilibrium

So hard to chose tho

 

[silverblood]

In no particular order as it changes constantly and I can't really pick a top 10
Sentenced
Eluveitie
Soilwork
Nile
Iced Earth
Therion
ETHS
Rammstein
Pain
Down

 

[MetalliFio]

My list changed a bit since the last time.

- Freedom Call
- Korpiklaani
- Orphaned Land
- Derdian
- Astralion
- Magic Kingdom
- Turisas
- Ensiferum
- Wintersun
- Omnium Gatherum

That will probably change in few months as I am discovering some bands I didn't know at each edition of the 70K tons of metal cruise

 

[TheLover]

1.Three Days Grace (post-grunge,alternative rock/metal)

2.Children Of Bodom (melodeath,power metal)

3.Linkin Park (alternative rock/metal,nu metal)

4.Korn (nu metal) :Smokedev:

5.Disturbed (alternative metal,nu metal)

6.In Flames (melodeath,gothernburg metal)

7.Rage Against The Machine (alternative metal,rap metal) :hotjump:

8.System of a Down (alternative metal) :Smokin:

9.Hollywood Undead (Rap rock/metal,alternative rock/metal)

10.Sum 41 (Punk,Punk Rock)

my top 10...umm..i think..

Wow thats a lot of diversity there

 

[TheLover]

Morbid Angel
Bloodbath
Cattle Decapitation
Cannibal Corpse
Obituary
Dying Fetus
Disgorge
Death
Origin
Illdisposed

 

[metalheadspirit]

1- children of bodom
2 iron Maiden
3 Metallica
4 morbid angel
5 epica
6 Acrassicauda
7 opeth
8 slayer
9 ozzy
10 Thy light

 

[Cnaiür urs Skiötha]

Taking into account only bands that seem to be active:

Blind Guardian
Persuader
Tad Morose
Ashes of Ares
Stratovarius
Dream Theater
Axenstar
Pyramaze
Winterstorm
Avantasia

Could go on with others like Brainstorm, Harmony, Black Fate, Angra, Vanishing Point, Circle of Silence etc. etc.