I disagree. Even though lists from us are bound to be absurd and may likely be composed mostly of obscure bands with 20 fans, any list made by someone on here will probably include something close to 25 metal bands on it, which means I'll agree with it a hell of a lot more than Yahoo's list which included a whopping 7 or so.
You know, this board doesn't seem like the type to do this kind of thing, but I think it'd be freaking great if we'd do a little poll to find out Ultimate Metals' top 25 metal bands of all-time. I see this kind of stuff on a lot of other boards. Everybody could just post their Top 20 "objective" list of the best metal bands of all-time and then we tally the votes and post the top 25 bands who got the most votes. I'd be happy to do the tallying myself if the mods will promise they won't close the thread...