Your 5 Favorite Heavy Metal Bands?

Feel free to define "heavy metal" how you see fit (Jethro Tull is acceptable! ).

 

Helmet
Prong
Sepultera
Fudge Tunnel
Corrosion of Conformity

 

Black Sabbath
Metallica
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Scorpions

About as traditional as one can get.

 

Sabbath
Budgie
Maiden
Priest
Motorhead

 

Metallica
Tool
Mastodon
Megadeth
Black Sabbath

 

Kix
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Kiss
Ratt

 

Good ones!!

I love every one of those bands! But can Helmet be considered heavy metal? Can any of those? Sepultura maybe. This why including heavy metal as descriptor makes it so difficult.

Mine:

(basing it on what “heavy metal” means to me)

Black Sabbath
Venom
Motörhead (or are they hard rock or just “rock n roll” according to Lemmy)
16 (again, a grey area)
Blue Öyster Cult (another grey area)

 

See, to me, Scorpions and Budgie aren’t metal bands. That said, I’m not going to be the sub genre police here.

 

Metallica
Maiden
Priest
Scorpions
AC/DC
Tough not list Sabbath & Slayer.Not so much that one is better to me but I listen to these five the most often.I still feel like I`m leaving out something important no matter wich list I come up with.

 

Motörhead

Motörhead

Motörhead

Motörhead

Motörhead

(although they're arguably not metal, like Godshifter suggests...)

 

Slayer
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Korn
Pantera
Slipknot

 

Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Motorhead
Blue Cheer
Steppenwolf? (since "Born To Be Wild" is supposedly the 1st metal song)

I'm not the biggest heavy metal fan.

 

Opeth
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Dream Theater

...probably. Tough one...

 

Iron Maiden
AC/DC
Motley Crue
Black Sabbath
Scorpions

 

Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Motorhead (well, they play Rock n Roll not heavy metal, but still counting it)

 

Metallica
Judas Priest
Queensryche
Dokken
Tesla

 

I am hoping this thread will finally nail down the term "heavy metal' world peace will follow.

 

KISS
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Whitesnake
W.A.S.P.

 

Dokken would make my top 10...so thumbs up!

 

I've changed my mind, they're:
Piledriver
Powerlord
Wehrmacht
Oz
Persian Risk
@GodShifter

 

Celtic Frost
Voivod
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Megadeth

 

Budgie
Gillan
Judas Priest
Deep Purple MK 2
Led Zep
Savatage

I cheated

 

Motörhead
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Ozzy (with Randy Rhoads)
Dio (with Vivian Campbell)

 

Tool
Lamb of God
Meshuggah
Sepultura (before Max left)
Slayer or Pantera (can't decide between the two)

None of whom are really 'heavy metal'.