TOUGHEST QUESTION EVER ON THIS FORUM

[aliasp]

Warrant

 

[Social Distortion]

Black Sabbath was the first metal band, so I guess that makes Sabbath the winner. My personal best metal bands ever are Megadeth, Pantera and Anthrax, though.

 

[Salvatore]

Sabbath, Cream and Led zep set it all in motion. And you can't forget Robert Johnson.

 

[T_man357]

Black Sabbath
AC/DC
Iron Maiden

All excellent anwsers.. I'd throw in...

Metallica
Pantera
Suicidal Tendencies

 

[Parviainen]

IRON MAIDEN! UP THE IRONS!!!

 

[BIGPHAT442]

Since the question is not favorite, I have to say Black Sabbath. Riffs of doom.

 

[Canucklehead]

Sabbath all the way. Songs like War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and Paranoid set the standard that metal bands are still trying to live up to.

Honourable mentions go to Judas Priest, Metallica (their new stuff leaves a lot to be desired, but their albums from the 1980s are fantastic), and Iron Maiden.

 

[spacebeer]

Metal - JUDAS PRIEST

HARDROCK - AC/DC

 

[Social Distortion]

Sabbath, Cream and Led zep set it all in motion. And you can't forget Robert Johnson.

Man, except Sabbath, you're talkin' blues!

 

[KY_Fried442]

Maiden & AC/DC

 

[lovehunter]

Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.

 

[TacoBellJunkie]

Stryper!

1.Anthrax
2.Iron Maiden
3.Pantera

 

[schenkadere]

If your talking greatest has to be Maiden or priest... or sabbath

But my fav would be Dream Theater atm

I agree, Priest, Maiden and Sabbath...early Priest stuff is brilliant and Sabbath really started it all and Maiden added the musicianship.

 

[metal_thrashing_kansan]

actually i am all the way sabbath on this 1

Agreed. We probably would not be discussing metal if they had not come around. Either that, or it would all be 15 years later and we would all be discussing who had the highest hair....

 

[Thrillho]

The Who maybe?

 

[schenkadere]

Maiden & AC/DC

I never really thought of AC/DC as metal...they're just too blues based...they're more hard rock.

 

[schenkadere]

Now by greatest I assume you mean most important, most significant and most influential...that has to be Sabbath. I think anything else would just be favorites.

 

[Whiplash402]

I never really thought of AC/DC as metal...they're just too blues based...they're more hard rock.

i agree

 

[prime666]

sabbath

 

[spitzs lazy eye]

Yes...and no. My only hesitation would be drawing the line between hard rock and heavy metal. If we can agree that AC/DC is heavy metal, then my vote goes to them.

Yeah its a difficult one these days with so many catagories. I say if Sabbath is metal so is ACDC. I think this question has to be broken down in dacades. They and others definately inspired 80s thrash as Anthrax has inspired some of this newer shit. Its like rumours on a production line, by the end its a whole different story. Just to quote Ozzy "theres so many metals today. Heavy metal, thrash metal..........aluminium metal" and that was in the early nineties.