Metal Reviews

So I decided to put together a list of my 10 favourite bands (with 10 honourable mentions too). I was REALLY surprised at my own results! When it came down to putting one band over another and giving them a definite number on the top ten list....

I realised there's almost no metal on my list!! Weird...but thats the way it goes I guess. I still love metal, just not as much as this stuff:

1. Pink Floyd
2. The Mars Volta
3. Deep Purple
4. Metallica
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Yes
7. Marilyn Manson
8. The Stooges
9. Cake
10. Guns N Roses

Honourable Mentions (no particular order):

Led Zeppelin
Kreator
Cat Stevens
Anthrax (belladonna era)
Thin Lizzy
Jethro Tull
Rainbow
Black Sabbath
Megadeth
The Doors

How about all you guys? Is your 10 fav bands all metal? Or barely metal at all, like me?

mm?

It was the band that first got me obsessed with music when I was 11.

I have a very special place in my heart for them.

So lay off.



Besides I can honestly say I like all their full-lengths from beginning to end. Which is a rare thing for any band, so they deserve their place on my list and I'm not ashamed!!

Nomeansno, Neurosis, The Mars Volta, Converge, Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, The Lord Weird Slough Feg/Hammers of Misfortune, Colour Haze, King Crimson, Tool, and Jonas Hellborg all have big and consistently amazing discographies. not really in order but Nomeansno, The Mars Volta, and Neurosis are definitely my top 3.

1. Iron Maiden
2. Dream Theater
3. Arch Enemy
4. Judas Priest
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Van Halen
7. Queensryche
8. Nightwish
9. Scar Symmetry
10. Rush

(In no particular order)

1. Pink Floyd
2. Dream Theater
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Kamelot
5. Sonata Arctica
7. Leviathan
8. Opeth
9. Agalloch
10. Neurosis

Bruce Springsteen, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Nevermore, Dream Theater, Green Carnation, Ayreon and that's all I can think of.

1. Iron Maiden
2. Blind Guardian
3. Deep Purple
4. Rainbow
5. Blue Oyster Cult
6. Alice Cooper
7. Mercyful Fate/King Diamond
8. Sil Khannaz (Malaysian)
9. Death
10. Emperor

Honourable mentions
Black Sabbath
Kreator
Sodom
Immortal
Children of Bodom
Langsuyr (Malaysian)
Motorhead
Destruction

Judas Priest
Queensryche
Blind Guardian
Behemoth
Kreator
Emperor
Virgin Steele
Manilla Road
Solitude Aeturnus
Dismember

Tough to pick only ten.

Death
Arsis
Neurosis
Deathspell Omega
Suffocation
Negura Bunget
Nile
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Behemoth
Immolation

In Flames
Dark Tranquillity
Bad Religion
Daft Punk
Acid Bath
Iced Earth
Municipal Waste
Ensiferum
Agalloch
Comus

Honorable mentions to Death, Refused, Crotchduster, Electric Wizard, The Crown and Opeth. Hard to pick ten.

Blut Aus Nord
Deathspell Omega
Funeral Mist
Nile
Napalm Death
Testament
Anthrax
Protest the Hero
Sikth
The Mars Volta



I can't believe some of the names on my list.

Iron maiden
Slayer
Megadeth
Pantera
Cannibal Corpse
Manowar
Kreator
Black Sabbath
Metallica
Municipal Waste

I think...That's in no order btw.

1. Iron Maiden
2. Dream Theater
3. Kamelot
- Exodus
- Pagan's Mind
- Allen & lande
- Judas Priest
- Gluecifer
- Joe Satriani
- Foo Fighters

1. Nightwish
2. Savatage
3. Jon Oliva's Pain
4. Rush
5. Blind Guardian
6. Virgin Steele
7. Testament
8. Gamma Ray
9. Iced Earth
10. Dream Theater

4 to 10 get shifted about every now and then, but thats pretty much it right there.

As much of a cliche it is, I tend to have favorite albums rather than favorite bands. I suppose The Mars Volta are a cut above everyone else, mind, simply because I'm still head-over-heels in love with them after listening to them every day for 5 months.

impossible, but I'll try


No order;

Devin Townsend (SYL and solo)
Angra
Blind Guardian
Coheed and Cambria
Windir
XJapan
Megadeth
Behemoth
Helloween
In Flames

There are so many more that I want to add, but that is my list for now....

Agalloch
Windir
Primordial
Rotting Christ
Moonsorrow
Throes of Dawn
Necromantia
Ulver
Sigh
Opeth
Porcupine Tree

Thou Art Lord
Canvas Solaris
Blazing Eternity
Akercocke
Drudkh
Boards of Canada
Hollenthon
In the Woods
Winds
Necrophobic
Profanum
Tenhi
Emperor


And a bunch of ambient/Down-tempo stuff I can't remember their names.

*The list above are all favourites, fuck top 10.

In no order:

Death
Cynic
Rush
Iron Maiden
Blind Guardian
Sabbat (uk)
Sodom
Magnum/Bob Catley
Accept
Alchemist

But...

Skyclad
Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
Savatage/Jon Oliva's pain/ Dr. Butcher
Coheed & Cambria
Helloween
Destruction
Megadeth
Coroner
Voivod

Are also in my 10 list :(

Edit: And Metal Curch, and Angel Witch, and Merciful fate, and Kreator, and Slayer, and Megadeth and soooo many others. :( :( :(

i've noticed me leaning more towards albums recently too. it's mostly because if a band only has one great album, i'll listen to that one album way more than the albums of a band that has like 5 great albums.