Your top metal artists of ALL TIME!!

Hey guys! I just got to thinking, and I realized something... I want more metal. I just really, really want to hear all the metal that there is out there, and I want to hear it from every subgenre and niche and etc. that there is. The problem is, I always feel like I am forgetting a band or a hundred. Then, when someone mentions them, I think to myself "Grr, why don't I have them, too?!".

Anyway, this has led me to want to ask all of you to give your favorite artists. I would say "Top 25" or something, but I find that number very limiting. If you want to rattle off 5 of your obsessions or a hundred of your top picks, then go right ahead! I just want to hear what everyone loves, and hopefully find some new stuff I enjoy a lot.

I'm going to kick it off with some of my favorites, and I'm also going to give my favorite album from each of them (or maybe their most definitive album, depending on my mood). Y'all can do that, too, but artists are all that are truly necessary here. Just go wild with it!

• Dio -- Strange Highways
• Symphony X -- The Damnation Game
• Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
• Iron Savior -- Interlude
• Blind Guardian -- Imaginations From The Other Side
• Persuader -- Evolution Purgatory
• Kreator -- Terrible Certainty
• Testament -- Souls Of Black
• Carcass -- Heartwork
• Death -- Symbolic
• Manegarm -- Vargstenen
• Metallica -- Master Of Puppets
• Mastodon -- Blood Mountain
• Savage Circus -- Dreamland Manor
• Nightwish -- Century Child
• Lost Horizon -- A Fire To The Ground Beneath
• Psychotic Waltz -- Bleeding
• Queensryche -- Operation: Mindcrime
• Rainbow -- Rising
• Demons & Wizards -- Touched By The Crimson King
• Diablo Swing Orchestra -- Butcher's Ballroom
• Dark Empire -- Distant Tides
• Children Of Bodom -- Hatecrew Deathroll
• Cryonic Temple -- Immortal
• Ayreon -- The Human Equation
• Battleroar -- To Death And Beyond
• Axel Rudi Pell -- The Crest
• Falconer -- Falconer
• Hammerfall -- Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
• Iron Mask -- Shadow Of The Red Baron
• Pantera -- Cowboys From Hell
• Savatage -- Edge Of Thorns
• Rhapsody Of Fire -- Power Of The Dragonflame
• Grendel -- A Change Through Destruction
• Cynic -- Focus

In no particular order, and it is quite possible I forgot/repeated a few, but those are all of my favorites there. Now, it's your turn!

Tons, when you have over 7000 cds you have many favs.

Wargod52

Maiden, Priest, Savatage. The holy trinity.

Wargod48 wrote:

Tons, when you have over 7000 cds you have many favs.

Wargod52

Someday, man, I hope to get that many! -stares off into sunset-

And there's a good list, Lari! Short and sweet

I don't know if I have anything very different on my list but these are constantly my favorites and their albums are always fighting for space on my Ipod
Vengeance Rising
Gojira
Killswitch Engage
Nevermore
In Flames
Blood Has Been Shed
Black Sabbath
DIO
Becoming the Archetype
After the Burial
Grave Digger
Symphorce
Brainstorm
Crowbar
Chimaira
For Today
Fishbone
Godgory
Halford
Judas Priest
Unearth
All that Remains
Nevermore
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Scar Symmetry
Shadow's Fall
Arch Enemy
Soilwork
Testament
Living Colour
ZAO
Hammerfall

It's too hard to think of 'em all...

Sabbath
Trouble
Metallica (early)
Megadeth (early)
Testament
Coroner
Crowbar
Pantera (87 - 92)
Suicidal Tendencies
The Crucified
Ozzy (early)
Dio (early)
Sacred Reich
Savatage (w/criss)
Sepultura (w/max)
Anthrax
Overkill

I'll leave out the ones I like that you've already mentioned, and try to do mostly lesser known...I have others like Testament, and Voivod and Carcass..But you know them already....

Essence-Lost in violence .....Thrash
Alestrom-Both .....powermetal?
The Alien Blakk Bekoming.....the strangest thing I've ever heard
Overkill-Years of Decay, Iron Bound....thrash
Anihilated-Scorched Earth Policy....thrash
Armed forces-Take on the Nation........american power metal
Artillery-By Inheritance....thrash
Ceremonial Perfection-Alone in the End...Melodeath
Equilibrium-Sagas.....Folk metal
Eradicator-The atomic Blast...thrash
Lazarus AD-The onslaught....thrash
The Force-Possesed By metal....thrash
Guillotine-Blood Money....thrash
Havok-Both.....thrash
Hydra Vein-Rather death than false Faith.....thrash
Invection-Demented Perception, Derealization.....thrash
Manditory-Lend me your Ears....thrash
Memorain-Reuced to Ashes....thrash
Powermad-Absolute Power, EP....thrash
Ravage-The End of Tomorrow.....thrashy powery metal
Sabaton-All.....power/war metal
Scared to Death-Deathstruction....german thrash
Tuck From Hell-Thrashing....thrash
Vaakevandring....black metal
Torment Tool-Dawn Of war...thrash

DRI-"thrashzone"
Voivod-"dimension hatross"
Celtic Frost-"To mega therion"
Laaz rockit-"annhilation principle"
The accused"The curse of martha splatterhead"

Stender wrote:

The accused"The curse of martha splatterhead"

Nice one. I was listening to splatter rock on cassette this whole week

powermacho wrote:

Stender wrote:

The accused"The curse of martha splatterhead"

Nice one. I was listening to splatter rock on cassette this whole week

Tommy sent me an email that said they will be playing close by in Portland sometime this summer possibly. I cant waitttt.

Immortal
Sigh
Hawkwind
Sodom
Death Angel
Accusser
Paradox
Blessed Death
Living Death
Nile
Melt Banana
Vektor
Defender
Angel Dust etc etc etc

Nice, guys! Keep 'em coming!

I've been listening to as much as I have time for from what y'all have posted, and I'm LOVING IT.

Iced Earth (particularly w/Matt Barlow, though Glorious Burden is pretty good too)
Opeth
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Blue Oyster Cult
Early Man
Nevermore
Galactic Cowboys
Agalloch

These immediately come to mind...

This could be a very cool thread for bands I might like that I am missing,,

If it is a more obscure or lesser known band, if some of y'all want to put the style it most closely resmebles that would be cool,...Not my thread so, if not that's cool too...

Saint Deamon
Dionysus
Narnia
Divinefire
Rob Rock
Pyramaze
Impending Doom
Angra

That's enough for now.

Coram Deo wrote:

This could be a very cool thread for bands I might like that I am missing,,

If it is a more obscure or lesser known band, if some of y'all want to put the style it most closely resmebles that would be cool,...Not my thread so, if not that's cool too...

A capital idea! If anyone else has good ideas such as this, then throw 'em out there, don't be shy!

In no particular order:

Accept
UDO
Helloween
Black Sabbath
Kiss
Saxon
Megadeth
Metallica
Kreator
Stryper
Annihilator
Overkill
Ravage
Nazareth (Not very metal but i am a huge fan)
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Exodus
Toxik
Exciter
Razor
Rage
Running Wild
Voivod
Oath to Vanquish
Sodom
Metal Church
Forbidden
Ozzy Osbourne
Sonata Arctica
Firewind
Sepultura
Sinner
Primal Fear



Just to mention a few...

And i too want to listen to all the bands and albums in the world...

here is a medium sized collection of favorites and bands/albums i think really deserve a listen. i left off bands i saw in the original post since this is primarily for the purpose of recommending bands. in no particular order:

hmm, this is long enough to need rough categories...


thrash (including blackened thrash, crossover, etc):

the crucified - the pillars of humanity
force of darkness - darkness revelation
DRI - dealing with it!
coroner - no more color
witchaven - terrorstorm
miserycore - civilization torture
realm - endless war
nekromantheon - we're rotting
minotaur - power of darkness


doom (including death doom, etc):

virgin black - elegant...and dying
as i lay dying [austria] - incessant desire for palatable flesh


prog:

ephemeral sun - broken door


death (including blackened death, power/death, etc):

uncanny - splenium for nyktophobia
vader - litany
spawn of possession - noctambulant
belphegor - lucifer incestus
shadows of paragon - through the valley within
suidakra - lays from afar
atheist - unquestionable presence
immortal souls - under the northern sky
eluveitie - spirit
deströyer 666 - unchain the wolves
kalmah - swamplord
sympathy - arcane path
enshrouding - arise new army
malevolent creation - envenomed
nile - annihilation of the wicked
possessed - seven churches
norther - dreams of endless war


black (including folk/black, industrial black, etc):

nihlotep - surrogate panoptic quantal regality
moonsorrow - verisäkeet
arckanum - kostogher
thyrfing - vansinnesvisor
vulvark - vulvark [lp, as the ep is also self-titled]
vreid - i krig
alkonost - between the worlds
marduk - opus nocturne
armagedda - ond spiritism: djæfvulens skalder
cirith gorgor - firestorm apocalypse - tomorrow shall know the blackest dawn
kvelertak - kvelertak
menhir - ziuwari
taake - over brjoergvin graater himmerik
nyktalgia - peisithanatos
slechtvalk - at the dawn of war
kampfar - mellom skogkledde aaser
deathspell omega - paracletus
t3chn0ph0b1a - grave new world

extreme metal/avant garde:

kekal - 1,000 thoughts of violence


hope this helps some, its rather long...

Thanks, guys! And Gilbert, being a huge fan of Nazareth is perfectly natural

Also, rawr!, don't worry about length, the more the merrier!

Too many to choose from to be honest. I dont normally keep cds if I dont like them.

I added genre to my first post......

few more:

Black Moor-The Conquering...Thrash
The Absence-Riders of the Plauge...Melodeath, thrash
Contradiction-The essence of anger....thrash
Dente-Decline...thrash
D.A.D.-No fuel left for the pilgrims....lighter metal
Warrior Soul-Last Decade Dead Century....Original Metal...
Warpath-Damnation....Thrash

Enjoy!

some of my current favorites...

Regurgitate
Magrudergrind
Mortician
Asphyx
Tsjuder
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Immolation
Last Days Of Humanity
Nasum
Vulvectomy
Gut
Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
C*ck and Ball Torture
Pathology
Lymphatic Phlegm
Haemorrhage
Aborted
Rompeprop
Gaf

some more classic 80's metal releases:
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire
Sword - Metalized
TT Quick - Metal of Honor
Accept - Restless & Wild
Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown
Metal Church - s/t
Gillan - Double Trouble
U.D.O.-Holy
Raven - All for One
Anvil - Metal On Metal
Exciter - Violence & Force
Motorhead - Overkill (technically 1970's)
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Queensryche - The Warning
Sacred Warrior - Obsession
Recon - Behind Enemy Lines
Armageddon - The Money Mask
Saint - Times End
Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
W.A.S.P. - s/t
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Helstar - Nosferatu
Krokus - Headhunter
Liege Lord - Master Control
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Crimson Glory - Transcendance
King Diamond - Abagail

exact33 wrote:

Too many to choose from to be honest. I dont normally keep cds if I dont like them.

Same here, but here's a few:

Racer X
Damn The Machine
Dio
Yngwie Malmsteen
Raven
Saxon
Tony Macalpine
Vinnie Moore
Ozzy (early)
Metallica (early)
Megadeth

exact33 wrote:

Too many to choose from to be honest. I dont normally keep cds if I dont like them.

I usually don't either, but in a way, I feel like I want to I mean, I just kinda want to get EVERYTHING, so I'm looking for good and bad. My original list is just from the stuff that fits on my 16gb ipod; if i had more space, then I'd have a much longer list, because my ipod is always on