I voted for Cradle of Filth! The only song I ever liked by them is "She mourns a lengthening shadow", which isn't metal at all, but ambient!
On top of making crappy music they seem so corny! To me it seems like some manager/A&R guy thought to himself "Hey, this black metal stuff is getting pretty popular. Maybe I can find/make a band and they can earn me loads of money" and he stumbled across Cradle of Filth. Okay, I know this isn't the case as I've heard they released a demo tape back in 1990 or something, but you get the point.
If you use corpse paint I think you should ry to look scary and not like the Addams Family or some circus freaks. They make me more wanna laugh than make me wanna get scared.
I don't mind Tool that much. I don't think I'm gonna buy any of their records, but their pretty much okay I would say, although their concert at last years Roskilde Festival sucked big-time!!!
I've never heard a single song by Cannibal Corpse that I like, but I don't know if I would call them gay. Their music is terrible IMO, but they don't seem gay to me, just crappy.