This is really hard- Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Sabbath and Pantera are all amongst my fave bands. If I really had to choose though, it would probably be Maiden...

iron maiden, helloween and metallica

^ It's good, this is one of the few polls I've seen with a decent judgement and variety on choices.

Right lets go through the list....

Iron Maiden - Good for the first 6 years
Judas Priest - Most of my favourite of theirs was in the 70s
Black Sabbath - Crap in the 80s
Slayer - Solid during the 80s , don`t think their stuff since is up to much
Twisted Sister - Good fun , but nothing really long lasting
Anthrax - Could give or take them , Spreading The Disease , Among The Living , Persistence Of Time & the Public Enemy stuff was good but I hated everything else
Quiet Riot - Their best songs were covers , mind you I wouldn`t mind hearing the 2 albums they put out in Japan in the late 70s when Randy Rhodes was in the band
Pantera - Never really warmed to them
Metallica - I liked their first 3 albums but i`ve never thought they were anything special
Poison - No , just no.

On the basis of 80s material i`d say it`s between Maiden & Slayer.
I`ll go for Maiden.

me too!

Liar

Oh piss. Urban why? :laughing:

*gets amnesia* what are you talking about? i love copper maiden

i don't have one.

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What a useful post.