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- Feb 9, 2007
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1: Metallica
2: HIM
3: Cradle of Filth
4: Cannibal Corpse
5: Burzum
6: Dimmu Borgir
7: Children of Bodom
8: The Misfits
9: The 69 Eyes
10: Slayer
Metallica isn't very innovative compared to Slayer, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate and countless others, and their music also isn't nearly as good. I wouldn't put them anywhere near the top 10 metal artists.
Bah, like it or not Metallica are directly more influential than just about any other metal band except for maybe Iron Maiden & Black Sabbath. They're definitely more influential on the more um, "modern" side of things.
Judas Priest is the most directly influential metal band aside from Black Sabbath. It's blatantly obvious that they not only influenced Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, and every other heavy/thrash/power metal band, but they're also clearly the catalyst for metal to strip away the blues influence of Black Sabbath and become much faster and distinctive as a genre separate from rock music.
Slayer was much more influential both on thrash metal and also on extreme metal than Metallica, with Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood being by far two of the most important albums in extreme metal and a clear cornerstone for the evolution of death metal.
In the grand scheme of things, Metallica probably played more of a role in influencing the mainstream popularity metal than they did in influencing entire genres.
lol @ the statement about two slayer albums being "by far" the most important albums in extreme metal. Please avoid presenting incredibly opinionated statements as absolute facts. I mean I could say some pornogrind album is clearly the best album of all time but I'd be an idiot, wouldn't I?
You have a good point about Priest. They did more or less put the balls in metal. I don't see what else they could be called "innovative" for, though. Once they found their sound, they pretty much stuck to it. Metallica did a lot more evolving within their sound.