The 25 Best Heavy Metal Bands

The 25 Best Heavy Metal Bands
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/69730/the-25-best-heavy-metal-bands

Not a bad list at all. Hard to argue when the vast majority of the major players are there (however out of order they may be!)

Yeah, I saw this yesterday.

I would re-label it "25 Most Influential Heavy Metal Bands". Then I think the list is more accurate

As lists go, I thought this was one of the better ones.

Folks in the 40 ish age bracket will say one thing
and so on down the line....

The person offered thier opinion and it's kewl they took the time to even do it period. Have to remmeber that is all it is, an opinion.

James B. wrote:

Folks in the 40 ish age bracket will say one thing
and so on down the line....

The person offered thier opinion and it's kewl they took the time to even do it period. Have to remmeber that is all it is, an opinion.

I enjoyed reading his little write-ups on each band. I wouldn't agree with all of them, but still a cool list. Spinal Tap were an odd inclusion IMO.

Spinal Tap was my main quarrel with the list. Great movie but not appropriate for this list IMO>

Ult said...

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I enjoyed reading his little write-ups on each band. I wouldn't agree with all of them, but still a cool list. Spinal Tap were an odd inclusion IMO.

I was gonna comment down those same lines about his lil notes but I have a habit of rabbit trailing stuff....so I kept it short and sweet.

the Spinal Tap was odd but it made it interesting if thier intent was to motivate dialouge besides just offering a list ?

Laterz

it's cool that he enjoys the music enough to complile such a list. obviously mine would look much different, but respect all the same.

Strange list. Very strange.

Spinal Tap was odd, but it seems to be a good list. It's too anticlimactic. You already know who's No.1 before you read it.

Interesting a list, his opinion on it isnt too bad. Personally though, Id like to actually see a bigger subgenre spanning list when it comes to this. I know most people arent overly eclectic when it comes to the more extreme forms especially, but Napalm Death deserves to be on any metal best list.

The good band are there I wouldn't have include some of them. The position are totally wrong exept for Black Sabbath. There's some great band missing.

tohostudios wrote:

Spinal Tap was my main quarrel with the list. Great movie but not appropriate for this list IMO>

Yeah. I kinda wondered about that one as well. I think it is one of the better articles though. He nailed the bigger acts pretty well which shows he has some common metal sense. The others I would remove from the list would be Alice in Chains, Pantera, Kyuss, Aerosmith and Jimi Hendrix. My list would look something like (and I lean towards pm bands):


1. Black Sabbath
2. Iron Maiden
3. Judas Priest
4. Dio
5. Metallica
6. Slayer
7. Helloween
8. motorhead
9. Kiss
10. Alice Cooper
11. Van Halen
12. Megadeth
13. Death
14. Anthrax
15. Dimmu Borgir
16. Symphony X
17. Motley Crue
18. Queensryche
19. Testament
20. Exodus
21. Yngwie
22. Rush
23. Hammerfall
24. Dream Theater
25. Rhapsody

Good to see Kyuss in there.

Hugely important to the history of Heavy Metal yet criminally overlooked, really only talked about in musician and critics cricles much like that of King's X.

So that right there tells me this guy know's his stuff.

ultmetal wrote:

The 25 Best Heavy Metal Bands
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http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/69730/the-25-best-heavy-metal-bands[/quote[/url]] seems more like a popularity contest on the way it was judged.

I guess we can all have our top 25 metal bands and most would be very different from one another. More than half the bands on that list wouldn't even qualify on my top 50, let alone top 25. It's fun to read them though.

His list was all over the place.

Come on removing Jimi Hendrix? Exact33...Considere that you have no more respect from me!

GrandNational wrote:

I guess we can all have our top 25 metal bands and most would be very different from one another. More than half the bands on that list wouldn't even qualify on my top 50, let alone top 25. It's fun to read them though.

That's why I'd retitle that list as "most influential" because there are bands listed that I don't really like but I can appreciate their impact on heavy music.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that saw Alice In Chains (Facelift and Dirt IMO) as being metal. I always thought of those two albums as alternative metal, but I know I'm in the minority on that.

AceFrehley655 wrote:

Come on removing Jimi Hendrix? Exact33...Considere that you have no more respect from me!

I have always considered hendrix to be rock. Didnt bust on him for not being good - just not metal

Alex

exact33 wrote:

AceFrehley655 wrote:

Come on removing Jimi Hendrix? Exact33...Considere that you have no more respect from me!

I have always considered hendrix to be rock. Didnt bust on him for not being good - just not metal

Alex

Yeah but he's probably the one that influenced most of the metal band. Maybe your right but I would include him in the most influencing metal artist.

Decent list. I agree that it should have been renamed most influential. I would say that the Who, Megadeth, and Anthrax should be on there.

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17) Kiss: They may never get the respect they crave. But they've got the sales they always wanted. If any band can be said to be a retail industry, it's Kiss. While so many bemoan the fate of the music business since music is so often distributed free these days, Kiss were already making merchandise a key monetary hub in their organization while others were busy building up their reputations with critics. Now grab your Kiss lunchbox and set it down on your Ace Frehley dinette set with those Peter Criss utensils to nicely cut up that Gene Simmons Bologna and Paul Stanley Liverwurst. I don't even own this paragraph. Gene Simmons does.

That had me laughing my @$$ off!

Pretty good list, actually. He covers most styles, the bands that are generally given credit for spawning those styles, etc. I'd obviously have a MUCH different list, but you got to give the dude some credit for such a varied list.

Priest should be higher on any metal list.