Favorite Heavy Metal bands

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I love DIsturbed, I just never really considered them metal. The guitarist is heavily influenced by Iron Maiden though, so they get credit for that.

Finntroll, Six Feet Under, Cradle Of Filth, Amon Amarth

In no order....

Classic Metal:

Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Accept, Saxon, Diamond Head, Exciter, Dio, Def Leppard (On through the Night to Pyromania), Doro/Warlock, King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Heaven and Hell, Metal Church, Huntress, Ghost, In Solitude. 3 Inches of Blood

Glam Metal:

Motley Crue, W.A.S.P, Ratt, Quiet Riot (1st album)

Thrash Metal:

Metallica (first 3 albums), Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Exodus, Overkill, Testament, Death Angel, Sepultura (Max Cavalera era) Kreator, Sodom, Municipal Waste, Evile, Skeletonwitch, Cavalera Conspiracy, Sabbat, Warbringer, Black Breath

Death Metal:

Possessed (1st album), Death, Carcass, Deicide, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Kataklysm, Krisiun, (Melodic Death Metal): Arch Enemy, Soilwork (old), Amon Amarth, Wintersun, Dark Tranquillity, Mors Principium Est, At the Gates, Scar Symmetry, (Technical/Progressive Death): Nile, Spawn of Possession, Decapitated, Gojira, Opeth, (Blackened Death Metal): Behemoth, Goatwhore

Black Metal:

Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost, Emperor, Satyricon (first 3 albums), Absu, Dimmu Borgir, Watain, Dissection, Rotting Christ, Melechesh, ChthoniC (even though they've ditched the corpsepaint)

Power/Symphonic Metal:

Manowar, Helloween, Sabaton, Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, Gamma Ray, Iced Earth, Kamelot, Epica (Recently discovered them, and i like their new album so far)

Doom/Stoner/Sludge Metal:

Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, (Death/Doom): Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Woods of Ypres, (Stoner metal): Electric Wizard, Sleep, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Orange Goblin, (Sludge Metal): High on Fire, Crowbar, Kylesa, Baroness

Gothic Metal:

Type O Negative, Cradle of Filth (first 4 albums), Moonspell

Progressive Metal:

Queensryche, Mastodon, Strapping Young Lad/Devin Townsend Project, Symphony X, Hammers of Misfortune, Voivod

Folk Metal:

Agalloch, Wintersun, Korpiklanni, Alestorm, Tyr, Primordial, Slough Feg, Skyclad, Finntroll, Turisas

Industrial Metal:

Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory, Ministry, Godflesh

Metalcore:

Killswitch Engage (first 2 albums, don't mind the Howard Jones era), Sylosis, Chimaira (first 4 albums), God Forbid, Shadows Fall

Groove Metal:

Pantera, Machine Head, White Zombie, Devildriver, Lamb of God

Other non-metal acts i enjoy include Faith No More, Biohazard, Corrosion of Conformity and Suicidal Tendencies. And i tend to keep an open mind to metal, sod the elitists!

Basically Power Metal bands, I'm lazy like that about making a list.

Lexington Deville, you have a great list, especially in the metalcore genre (although I hate that genre name.) I recently got into Shadows Fall and LOVE The Art of Balance!

Afar as Shadows Fall go though I started with Somber Eyes to the Sky...production killed that...then Of One Blood...production better but lacks the dynamic range...so I am going to sell it and buy Fear Will Drag You DOwn. It made To Ashes sound incredible. AMazing what a little production can do.

Doom:
Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Cirith Ungol, Doomsword, Pentagram, Pale Divine, Iron Man, Pagan Altar, Paul Chain, Spirit Caravan, The Obsessed, Solitude Aeturnus, Orodruin, Witchfinder General, While Heaven Wept, The Gates of Slumber, Solstice

Heavy:
Manilla Road, Dio, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, Slough Feg, Angel Witch, Heavy Load, Crescent Shield, Crimson Glory, Manowar, Diamond Head, Huntress, Hammers of Misfortune, Judas Priest, Gotham City

Thrash:
Overkill, Heathen, Vio-lence, Dark Angel, Evildead, Exodus, Annihilator, Artillery

Sludge:
Crowbar, Down, Acid Bath, Graves at Sea, Buried at Sea, Yob, Corrosion of Conformity, 3d House of Beef,

Prog:
Blotted Science, Seventh Wonder, Spastic Ink, Psychotic Waltz, Vanden Plas, Circus Maximus

Death:
Bolt Thrower, Atheist, Gorod, Amon Amarth, Noumena, Ex Deo

Folk:
Agalloch, Elderfrost, Heidevolk, Tyr, Manegarm, Mithotyn, Fjoergyn, Thyrfing Kromlek

Power:
Blind Guardian, Edguy, Hammerfall, Bloodbound, Iron Fire, Innerwish, Kamelot

No drone such as sunn o))), Boris, sunn 0))) and Boris,merzbow, somewhat the melvins.

Tool is definitely my favorite metal band. Others are Mastodon, Electric Wizard, and Ufomammut.

In no particular order of preference or sub-genre:

Amon Amarth, Amorphis, At The Gates, Bathory, Black Label Society, Blood Red Throne, Blood Tsunami, Bloodbath, Carcass, Emperor, Judas Priest, Megadeth, My Dying Bride, Opeth, Pantera, Rotting Christ, Zyklon. I like lots more stuff (both metal and many other genres) but those are some of my favourite metal bands