What are the top selling metal bands of all time?

[Rommyali]

If I had to base it off my opionion on who would be the best sellers in the metal genre it'd probably be metallica or ozzy

But i also wanna know if you can tell me who are the best sellers for death metal ( probably cannibal corpse ) or black metal,doom metal etc.

Thanks

 

[METchildrenALIofCAbodom]

yay Metallica

 

[Rommyali]

yay Metallica

I dont even know if they are though
just a guess

Nice username btw

 

[CF87]

Iron Maiden.

 

[VelociBrad]

Metallica
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath

in that order.

 

[waif]

Motley Crue!

 

[WCannibal]

Eindig. They're almost as popular as Tsatthoggua.

 

[JontRevolting]

Morbid Angel were supposedly the biggest selling underground band at one stage...who knows now though?

 

[JGMetalhead]

Probly Metallica, Ozzy, or Iron Maiden.

 

[scytheavatar]

From wikipedia:

Metallica - 100 million
Iron Maiden - 70 million
Black Sabbath - 50 million

Judas Priest - 35 million
Megadeth - 25 million

These are the significant ones as far as I know.

 

[JGMetalhead]

Alright I was about 2/3 correct there. Fair enough.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Metallica
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath

in that order.

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[DarkBliss]

Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir and At the Gates. I dunno.For BM and DM, I mean. Death?

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

This guy keeps posting such boring threads.

For DM it's probably something like Cannibal Corpse yeah.
For BM maybe Mayhem or something?

 

[Chimaera]

Cannibal Corpse are the most successful Death Metal band, according to Wikipedia.

 

[VelociBrad]

Can't find any info for best selling BM band, I'd guess it'd be something fairly accessible to the mainstream metal listener like Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth (if you want to consider them BM).

 

[PowerBlade]

Can't find any info for best selling BM band, I'd guess it'd be something fairly accessible to the mainstream metal listener like Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth (if you want to consider them BM).

I think they're the best selling of BM too.. But people say that they're symphonic black metal.. WTF?

 

[damnromulans]

Cradle of Filth is by FAR the highest selling BM band, assuming "commercial to the max theatrical vampire pr0n wheeeeeeeee black metal" still counts.

 

[Lateralus14]

I would assume In Flames would be in here somewhere.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir and At the Gates. I dunno.For BM and DM, I mean. Death?

Children Of Bodom? Dark Tranquillity? Cradle Of Filth?