Metal bands that don't suck.
 

Fell free to agree or disagree with the list, no flame wars.

Ok, metal bands that don't suck:

Down
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Death
Opeth
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Dio
Slayer
Megadeth
Pantera
Halford
Napalm Death.

Feel free to add your own. :rock

CONGRADULATIONS!!! YOU'VE JUST SAID METALLICA! :x

scratch Metallica and Megadeth and that is a decent list, also

Superjoint Ritual
Cannibal Corpse
Incantation
Dimmu Borgir
Dark Throne
Emperor
MayheM
Down
Pantera

Obituary first and foremost.
In Flames,
Arch Enemy
Bloodbath
The Crown
Unearth
Stratovarius
Rhapsody
Anal Cunt
Deranged
Avulsed
Carcass (well, older carcass, anyway)
Children of Bodom
Encabulos
Deicide
Gorefest
The Haunted
Kalmah
Nile
Mortician

The Crown <------------- these guys come from my hometown trollhättan, sweden.

cool right?

Nightwish

What the hell. Here we go, once again:

Doom Metal
Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Orphaned Land, Trouble, Pic, Pentagram, Solitude Aeturnus, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Paradise Lost (in Lost paradise), Anathema (first album), Veni Domine, Cathedral (Forest Of Equilibrium only), Esoteric, Godsend, Kyuss, Morgion, The Gathering(up to nightime birds).

Death Metal
Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Incantation, Dying Fetus, Malevolent Creation, Asphyx, Grave, At The Gates, Dismember, Vomitory, Entombed(Left Hand Path only), Arch Enemy, Testament (in Demonic era), Demilich, Death, Demigod, Yattering, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Cryptopsy, Morgoth, Theory In Practice, Cynic, Death, Atheist, Suffocation, Anacrusis, Tiamat, Opeth, Krisun, Origin.

Black Metal
In The Woods..., Arcturus, Ulver.

Thrash Metal
Metallica, Anthrax, Valley's Eve, Corrosion Of Conformity (Animosty era), The Haunted, Sacred Reich, Destruction, Kreator, Whiplash, Exodus, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Tankard, Artillery, Testament, Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Sodom, Dark Angel, Burn My Eyes era Machine Head, Grip Inc, Exodus, Floatsam and Jetsam.

Epic Metal
Manilla Road, Omen, Gargoyle, Candlemass (yes, again), first record Heir Apparent, Virgin Steele, maybe Blind Guardian too.

Heavy Metal
Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Blitzkrieg, Diamond Head, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Diamond Head, Angelwitch, Vardis, Fist, Omen.


Power Metal
Nevermore (Politics Of Ecstasy era), Helstar, Sanctuary, Helloween (up and including Keeper 2, especially Walls of Jericho and the Judas EP), Rage, Crimson Glory, Chroming Rose, Exxplorer (first record only), Mind Odyssey, Tokyo Blade, Jag Panzer, Gamma ray.

Progressive Metal
Fates Warning, Queensryche, Savatage, Psychotic Waltz, Watchtower, Pain Of Salvation, Shadow Gallery, Aghora, Maohni Moahna, Sieges Even, Dysrhythmia, Last Crack, latter day Heir Apparent, Maggelan, Spastic Ink, Vauxdvhil, Threshhold, Confessor, Lethal, Depressive Age, Quite Room, Mekong Delta, Jester's March, Believer, Abraxxas (I've only heard their e.p Shattered by a Terrible Prediction, but that very impressive prog-power), Cynic, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, Seer's Tear (much like Psychotic Waltz), Crimson Glory, Spiral Architect (Fates Warning vocals meet Watchtower zanyness), Lord bane, Anacrusis, Black Jester, Cacophony, Conception, Thought Industry, Kalaban, Mordred, Savior Machine, Tiles, Varga, Damn The Machine.


Progressive Rock
Altura, Anekdoten, Asia, Bedful of Metaphysicians, Cairo, Can, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Caravan, Camel, Clockhammer, David Cross and assorted bands, Cynic, deathORGAN, Al Di Meola and assorted bands, Einsturzende Neubauten, Eloy, ELP, Enchant, Exodus (polish, not american thrash band), Experimental, Fates Warning, Fish (first solo record only), Garden Wall, Gentle Giant, Gordian Knot, Allan Holdsworth, IQ, Ithaka, King Crimson - get everything, Kraftwerk, Leviathan (USA), Lucifer Was, Maggelan, Magma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Marillion, Nektar, Mike Oldfield, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Psychotic Waltz, Quill, Rush, Shadow Gallery, Sieges Even, Soft Machine, St. Elmo's Fire, Supertramp, Tangerine Dream, Thinking Plague, Univers Zero, Van der Graaf Generator, Voivod, Watchtower, Yes, Frank Zappa.

Gothic, generally
Fields Of The Nephilim, Garden Of Delight, Cassandra's Complex, Sisters Of Mercy, Joy Division, Bauhaus.

Ambient, Minimal or otherwise
Eno, Rene Aubry, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames.

Punk, Hardcore, etc
Snot, Dead Kennedys, The Offspring, Subhumans, Dirty Rotten Imbecilles, Grief, Eye Hate God, Iron Monkey, Converge, Discharge, Boy Hits Car, At The Drive-In, Raging Speedhorn, Crumbsuckers, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Killing Joke, Blind Idiot God, Britney Spears, Conflict, Crass.

Industrial
Swans, Throbbing Gristle, NON, God.

Grind
Vomitorial Corpulence, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Extreme Noise Terror, Napalm Death, Crephallic Carnage, 7 minutes of Nausea, Nasum, Discordance Axis, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer.

Noise
Merzbow, DeadGuy, Anal Cunt, Today Is The Day.



These bands do not suck.

Pig Destroyer--fuck yeah.
What about Kataklysm with Sylvain on vocals? "Maelstrom 2010" is probably one of the most fucking incredible songs ever written.
Also, Anal Blast.

Helm, you've got some mighty good taste, man.

Yeah Helm you do have some good taste there, I like stuff along the same lines just i like some newer stuff, yes i love slipknot and a couple other newer bands. I HATE rap-metal though, biggest pile of shit ever.

Thanks dudes. I haven't heard Anal Blast, but judging by the name they can't be that bad.

Zorak: Rap metal had it's moments. Primus, RATM, some RHCP, but nothing that I liked so much as to put on my list, like Britney Spears. Definately not the biggest pile of shit in my book. I mean, there are some real turds, but I think that award goes to moronic norwegian TRVE black metal.

Woo Hoo! More bands to try. Thanks Helm. :rock

Everyone knows that the Metallica of the 80's and early 90's is the best metal band ever.

Wrong. Are we forgetting the rest of the thrash movement? Megadeth? Sepultura? Come on. I'm a musical retard, and even I know that there were better things then METALLICA.

Hey MayeM and Dark Throne are good, Emperor kicks ass. but besides them not muc helse good came out of the movement.

Are we forgetting the death metal that is derivative of thrash?

Yeah Death was originally supposed to be thrash with even more agression. Mayhem, darkthrone, the two bands you mentioned are some of the most stupid music I've ever heard.

Well i ment good by black metal standards which are pretty low :lol
you can sometimes decipher their lyrics and the guitar sounds cool every now and then. and the one dude from mayhem ate the other guys brains, so that is so fucked up it makes them interesting.

Sounds like a Cannibal Corpse song... :lol

yeah only in real life. Dead, the lead singer i think (i don't really knwo any of the bandmembers names) blew his head off wit ha shotgun. Another guy in the band with a norwegian name snuk into the house before the police got there and took peices of hsi brain and skull, eh then madea necklace of the skull and ate some of the brains.

Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Jag Panzer
Aventasia
Rhapsody
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Helloween
Nightfall
Death
Children of Bodom
Dark Tranquility
Hammerfall
Ozzy Osbourne
Statavarious


That's all that comes to mind right now.

I forgot
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
and Dimmu Borgir

Now thats all I can think off.

Ozzy and Aventasia are the only ones there that haven't been mentioned already. :/

Rammstein has songs that are Heavy Metal or something

:lol