Heavy Metal
 

please post if your a Heavy metal fan. None of that numetal junk today. Name your favorite Heavy Metal Bands only.
In No Order. Tho i really wouldn't considered led Zeppelin a Metal band but most do.

Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Metallica
Judas Priest
Pantera
Diamond Head
Motorhead
Rainbow
Def Leppard
Blue Oyster Cult
SlaYer
Megadeth
Danzig
Deep Purple
Van Halen

Megadeth
Dream Theater
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Motorhead
Pantera
Deep Purple
Testament
Cacophony
Dragonforce
Queensryche
Rush
Symphony X
Rainbow

are some of my favourite bands.

You have good taste in music, welcome to MB. :)

Metallica
Red Harvest
Nile
Hypocrisy
Dragonforce
Emperor
Slayer
Artillery
Rhapsody
Gamma Ray
Demons and Wizards
In Flames
Rammstein
Iron Maiden
At the Gates
Byzantine
Black Label Society
Dimmu Borgir
Necrohpagist
Opeth
Unearth
Lamb of God
Kamelot
Zeromancer
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Death
Wolf

Here is basically all the metal I have, you can just look through to see the Heavy Metal.

In Flames
Pantera
Metallica
Motorhead
Def Leppard
Cannibal Corpse
Lamb of God
Rammstein
Alice in Chains
Rush
Dream Theater
Wasp
Queensryche (I love their Operation Mindcrime album)
Dio
Anthrax
Skid Row
Deep Purple
Exodus (they're pretty good)
Manowar (love them to death)

I was never a really big fan of Judas Priest or Black Sabbath. I like their stuff but. . . I dunno. and that's about it.

Peace

Venom
Slayer (early stuff highly preferable) Judas Priest Ozzy Def Leppard (again, early) Iron Angel Iron Miaden VoiVod Cancer Darkthrone Dark Funeral Queensryche Absu Epica Immortal Riot Summoning

that's only a small portion

I take it that by heavy metal, you mean the entire metal genre, not just the heavy metal subgenre. My favourite metal bands ever are Opeth and Iron Maiden. So, here are my favs from most subgenres:

Prog/Tech Death:
Opeth
Cryptopsy
Atheist
Nile
Necrophagist
Quo Vadis
Akerc0cke
Death
Extol

Melodic Death:
Arch Enemy
Carcass
Dark Tranquillity
Scar Symmetry
Amon Amarth

Straight Death/Thrash:
Bloodbath
Obituary
Gorod
Megadeth
Pantera
Overkill
Metallica
Mekong Delta
Coroner
Dark Angel
Testament
Exhorder
Voivod
Slayer

Doom/Goth/Folk:
Candlemass
Cathedral
Katatonia
Imperia
Ensiferum
Wintersun
Black Sabbath

Heavy/Prog/Power:
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Bruce D1ckinson
Queensryche
Planet X
Dream Theater
Pain of Salvation
Mastodon
Tool
... and other bands which could be considered prog rock as well...
Iced Earth
Blind Guardian
Dragonforce
Kalmah - wtf genre is this?

Some of my favourite bands:

Mahavatar
In Flames
Pantera
Metallica
Motorhead
Lamb of God
Rammstein
Alice in Chains
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Dragonforce
:hphones:

Does anyone rate Saxon? A NWOBHM band. I wanna know before I blow 50cents on a cd of theirs.

I like them quite a bit, a few other people said they did in the thread on them, by a few I mean urban..=/. Still good stuff though.

Well one song

But 747 Strangers In The Night is a bloody good song