Best of Metal

Grindcore:

1. Napalm Death

2. Brutal Truth

3. Terrorizer

4. Repulsion

5. Nasum

6. Phobia

7. Agoraphobic Nosebleed

8. Pig Destroyer

9. Insect Warfare

10. Wormrot

New wave of Thrash Metal:

1. Municipal Waste

2. Toxic Holocaust

3. Havok

4. Hatchet

5. Vektor

6. Warbringer

7. Evile

8. Violator

9. Lich King

10. Gamma Bomb

Old school 80’s era Thrash:

1-4 : Gotta have the big four: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax

5-7 Gotta have big three from Germany: Destruction, Kreator, and Sodom

8-10: I’m gonna go with Testament, Overkill, and Forbidden

Heavy Metal:

1. Iron Maiden

2. Judas Priest

3. Black Sabbath

4. Motorhead

5. Dio

6. Motley Crue

7. Led Zeppelin

8. Saxon

9. Manowar

10.  Deep Purple

Black Metal:

Gotta go with bands that paved the way: 1-4 Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost

5-10: Mayhem, Immortal, Burzum, Emperor, Darkthrone, Dissection

Industrial Metal:

1. Ministry

2. Prong

3. Rammstein

4. NIN (Nine Inch Nails)

5.  Godflesh

6. KMFDM

7.  Skinny Puppy

8.  Fear Factory

9. Killing Joke

10. CombiChrist

Some of the better known Death Metal bands for the beginning metal fan:

1. Death

2. Cannibal Corpse

3. Morbid Angel

4. Obituary

5. Suffocation

6.  Immolation

7. Deicide

8.  Carcass

9. Bolt Thrower

10. Sepultura

Some of the most popular Swedish Death Metal Bands:

1. At The Gates

2. Bloodbath

3. Grave

4. Dismember

5. Unleashed

6. Hypocrisy

7.  In Flames

8.  Opeth

9.  Entombed

10. Katatonia

Technical Death Metal:

1. Necrophagist

2. Spawn of Possession

3.  Origin

4. Gorod

5. Brain Drill

6. Nile

7. Obscura

8. Psycroptic

9. The Faceless

10.  Domination Through Impurity

Doom Metal:

1. Candlemass

2. Solitude Aeturnus

3.  My Dying Bride

4. Anathema

5.  Novembers Doom

6.  Goatsnake

7.  Pentagram

8.  Witchfinder General

9.  Yob

10. Mournful Congregation

Sludge Metal:

1. Crowbar

2.  Down

3.  Eyehategod

4.  Buzzoven

5. Melvins

6.  Acid Bath

7. Kylesa

8.  Baroness

9. Superjoint Ritual

10.  Iron Monkey

 

Stoner Metal:

1.  Sleep

2.  Electric Wizard

3.  Kyuss

4.  Bongzilla

5. High on Fire

6. Orange Goblin

7.  Queens of the Stone Age

8.  Om

9.  Fu Manchu

10.  Monster Magnet

Nu Metal:

1.  Korn

2.  Disturbed

3. Linkin Park

4.  System of a Down

5.  Papa Roach

6.  P.O.D.

7.  Drowning Pool

8.  Slipknot

9.  Godsmack

10.  Coal Chamber

Power Metal:

1.  Blind Guardian

2. Hammerfall

3. Helloween

4.  Gamma Ray

5.  Iced Earth

6.  Stratovarius

7.  Dragonforce

8.  Twisted Tower Dire

9.  Rhapsody of Fire

10.  Sonata Artica