ALL-TIME GREATEST METAL BANDS

1. Black Sabbath
2. Iron Maiden
3. Deep Purple
4. Slayer
5. Metallica
6. Megadeth
7. Judas Priest
8. Death
9. Motorhead
10. Kiss
11. Blue Oyster Cult
12. Venom
13. Ozzy Osbourne
14. Opeth
15. Celtic Frost
16. Emperor
17. Motley Crue
18. Entombed
19. Mastodon
20. Bathory
21. Tool
22. Rainbow
23. Testament
24. Sepultura
25. Carcass
26. Pantera
27. Scorpions
28. Exodus
29. Thin Lizzy
30. Converge
31. At the Gates
32. UFO
33. Marilyn Manson
34. Morbid Angel
35. Dio
36. Mercyful Fate
37. Soundgarden
38. Kreator
39. Neurosis
40. Queensryche
41. Darkthrone
42. Cannibal Corpse
43. Therion
44. Slipknot
45. Mayhem
46. Alice in Chains
47. Korn
48. Immortal
49. Dark Tranquillity
50. Nightwish
51. Def Leppard
52. Voivod
53. Helloween
54. Danzig
55. Gojira
56. My Dying Bride
57. Diamond Head
58. Behemoth
59. Guns N Roses
60. Enslaved
61. Obituary
62. Napalm Death
63. Katatonia
64. Suffocation
65. Deicide
66. Melvins
67. Overkill
68. Deftones
69. Meshuggah
70. Poison
71. Montrose
72. The Dillinger Escape Plan
73. Rotting Christ
74. Deafheaven
75. In Flames
76. Candlemass
77. Soilwork
78. High on Fire
79. Uriah Heep
80. Saint Vitus
81. Saxon
82. Sleep
83. Killswitch Engage
84. Lamb of God
85. King Diamond
86. Dimmu Borgir
87. Agalloch
88. Sodom
89. Iced Earth
90. Cathedral
91. Skid Row
92. System of a Down
93. Dissection
94. Necrophagist
95. Children of Bodom
96. Cobalt
97. Periphery
98. Sigh
99. The Ocean
100. Immolation
101. Between the Buried and Me
102. White Zombie/Rob Zombie
103. Arch Enemy
104. Paradise Lost
105. Flotsam and Jetsam
106. Ghost
107. Type O Negative
108. Budgie
109. Anthrax
110. Angra
111. Stone Sour
112. Lorna Shore
113. Amon Amarth
114. Death Angel
115. Machine Head
116. Gamma Ray
117. Twisted Sister
118. Marduk
119. Cryptopsy
120. Blind Guardian
121. Dream Theater
122. Ratt
123. Disturbed
124. Isis
125. Anvil
126. Hammerfall
127. Michael Schenker Group
128. Sentenced
129. Autopsy
130. Warrant
131. Accept
132. Dokken
133. Trivium
134. Edge of Sanity
135. Bloodbath
136. Pentagram
137. Trouble
138. Quiet Riot
139. Cynic
140. Mr. Big
141. Pig Destroyer
142. Vader
143. As I Lay Dying
144. DragonForce
145. August Burns Red
146. Whitechapel
147. Cryptic Slaughter
148. The Gathering
149. Baroness
150. Decapitated
151. Gorguts
152. Metal Church
153. Parkway Drive
154. Wachenfeldt
155. Destruction
156. Cult of Luna
157. Edguy
158. Suicide Silence
159. Dust
160. Helmet
161. Black Label Society
162. Runaways
163. All Shall Perish
164. W.A.S.P.
165. Burzum
166. Avenged Sevenfold
167. Angel Witch
168. Agony of Life
169. Chelsea Grin
170. Kix
171. L.A. Guns
172. Down
173. Nile
174. Thy Art is Murder
175. Cave In
176. Electric Wizard
177. Eyehategod
178. Satyricon
179. Carnifex
180. Tesla
181. The Black Dahlia Murder
182. Tristania
183. Despised Icon
184. Oceano
185. Kyuss
186. Stratovarius
187. Kvelertak
188. Amorphis
189. Annihilator
190. Wishbone Ash
191. Bolt Thrower
192. Born of Osiris
193. Anathema
194. Alter Bridge
195. Avantasia
196. Boris
197. Angelmaker
198. Omnium Gatherum
199. Extreme
200. Manowar
201. Nuclear Assault
202. The Crown
203. Exciter
204. Acid Bath
205. Haken
206. Cradle of Filth
207. Infant Annihilator
208. Sabaton
209. Rhapsody
210. The Acacia Strain
211. Savatage
212. Gorgoroth
213. Insomnium
214. Faster Pussycat
215. Fit for An Autopsy
216. Disciple
217. Conjurer
218. Vektor
219. Job for a Cowboy
220. Rammstein
221. Make Them Suffer
222. Powertrip
223. Bullet for My Valentine
224. Whitesnake
225. Krokus
226. Within Temptation
227. The Darkness
228. Great White
229. Nevermore
230. Cattle Decapitation
231. Sunn O)))
232. Kardeshev
233. Dark Funeral
234. Battalions
235. Sanctuary
236. Underoath
237. Beherit
238. Ulver
239. Employed to Serve
240. Godflesh
241. Bring Me the Horizon
242. Exhorder
243. Ceremonial Oath
244. Arcturus
245. Powerwolf
246. Cirith Ungol
247. Venom Prison
248. Faith No More
249. Lacrimosa
250. Godsmack
251. Absu
252. Ensiferum
253. Stryper
254. Kamelot
255. Living Color
256. Blood Incantation
257. Body Count
258. Within Destruction
259. Axel Rudi Pell
260. Sonata Arctica
261. P.O.D.
262. Septicflesh
263. Hanoi Rocks
264. Imperial Triumphant
265. Halestorm
266. Municipal Waste
267. The Halo Effect
268. Ministry
269. Limp Bizkit
270. GWAR