Top Ten Best American Metal Bands
They may all be good, but compared to Metallica all of these bands are armatures: fact. If it wasn't for Metallica none of them would exists. Hands down best band, metal or not. They really know how to write music, especially for today's standards. And there doing the best they can for how old they are now, considering some of there songs are played faster than the recorded version. Metallica, keep writing awesome tasteful music! Love you guys!
"Not What They Used To Be" would only be accurate before Death Magnetic came out. That album is total thrash metal like their old stuff and its an extremly underrated album. Just listen to All Nightmare Long, it's so awesome!
Just voted to get them above korn. Korn is good but not above great bands like pantera, megadeth, slayer, anthrax, dio, etc.
This band is just awesome. I just love them... Can't believe their so down in the list!
How are posers like Avenged Sevenfold and slipknot above megadeth?
M. Shadows is one of a kind vocalist and I love his higher vocal range, falsetto and he can growl like any other metal band which in my opinion better than james hedfield and corey taylor. That is just make a7x better than Metallica but I am agree Metallica nust be topple them out since Metallica is one of my favourite metal band ever and dream theatre shoild be in second place
I love A7X but how in the world are they above Testament? Testament has god AKA Alex SKolnick but A7X did have Jimmy, and have Syn, Matt, Zacky, and Johnny but Testament should have been at least number 1 and A7X should number 2, and Metallica sucks, Megadeth should be above Metallica
Why is not Slayer number one? They are definitely the best thrash metal band and both Megadeth and Metallica are thrash. Slayer has realeased the best thrash metal album (Reign in Blood) and definitely deserve to be number one.
My list
1. Slayer
2. Megadeth
3. Dio
Avenged Sevenfold above Slayer? There is no hope for the Metal community
Every member is incredibly influential and brought something to metal
Pantera is the best. Rex is a bad ass bassist. Vinnie Paul can wail on the drums and has an amazing sound. You know his drumming. Phil is the greatest front man hands down. Just saw the PHA and the illegals. Awesome... but Dimebag is metal. He's the best. Period. Notice metal fell off after that idiot ruined metal. I saw Pantera. Along with most of this list. No one can come close to Pantera. The connection between the fans and the band may never be duplicated. Slayer is close in that category but they lack the ferocious vocals of Phil and the amazing guitar of Dime. Pantera influences all new metal and set the bar when Far beyond Driven debuted at #1.
Do I even have to explain why Dio is the greatest American metal band? Dio's voice is overwhelmingly powerful, the riffs are cool as hell and the songs have great lyrics. No doubt, the greatest American metal band ever.
Slipknot AND Avenged Sevenfold above the legendary Dio? I have lost faith in the metal community.
With vocals like that Dio is the Boss. Plus he was in Black Sabbath and I love them
Their music is beautifully complex, and yet heavy at the same time. They also have a variety of songs with different styles - all of which are amazing. Surely they should take first place
The hell is going on in this list!
It's a disgrace to all the legendary bands on this list that A7X, Slipknot and Korn arerated above them. Shame on you.
Why only the fifth place, I mean like the others all pretty cool but DT gives us chillings, gives us masterpieces and makes us believe they're gods. Yay
Death made 7 decent albums (many of them much more than decent) and Metallica only made 3.5 decent albums. Come on, I can't believe how extremely overrated that band is. Death on the other hand made true, good quality Metal.
Ridiculously good riffs, extreme heaviness, overall musical profficiency, very good lyrics (towards the end of their career), and no sell outs.
Chuck Schuldiner was always true to Metal, making brilliant music and giving Metal a new meaning, and for that I thank him
Recommended songs: Crystl mountain, Misanthrope, Zombie Ritual, Pull the Plug, Spirit Crusher, the Philosopher, Cosmic Sea, Flesh and the Power it holds
Slipknot is one of the best bands I have ever heard. I'm a big country music fan but Slipknot and Misfits have pulled me into this whole world of music. I love Slipknot!
Slipknot is so amazing. the best song in my opinion is Eyeless, My Plague, or Wait and bleed. The best album is slipknot. If you like Nu-Metal go on to iTunes and check them out.
Slipknot rocks no matter what. Stay (sic) everyone! R.I.P. Paul Gray.. Slipknot is the best band! And Limp Bizkit sucks!
They should easily be top 10. Joey Belladonna and Scott Ian are legendary together
Ok this pisses me off. Besides Metallica, which is debatable, the next four bands are a7x, slipknot, disturbed and korn. Where is pantera, slayer, lamb of god? In my opinion those should be the top 3 not crappy emo/nu metal hard rock like the stuff that's listed
Lamb of God over A7X. Seriously, who is voting here? Little 8th graders? Do you not realize the talent that Lamb of God possess? Randy is probably ten times the vocalist M. Shadows is.
LOG Is the most talented on the list. Obviously people think its little 8th graders voting but I'm in year 9. I know good music when I. Hear it
As much as I want to give this to Disturbed... I have to give it to Korn. Metallica copied off of other metal bands such as Juda Priest and black sabbath, in reality bringing nothing new to the table of metal. Bands such as cannibal corpse and Death were just too heavy for non metalhead. So when Korn came around they introduced something heavy enough for for REAL metal heads and something soft enough for non metal heads the perfect combination. And it is true if Korn never came around Slipknot would never have made it maybe not even disturbed. I love disturbed and Slipknot but THIS IS JUST THE COLD HARD TRUTH. And avenged sevenfold DEFINITELY would not have made it without KORN. Why are they even on this list they are closer to emo than ACTUAL metal.
Overkill #56?... After dozens of mediocre bands, some of them not even metal? Shame on this list.
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One of the most unique and influential acts of recent metal.
Their songs have emotion and meaning and they deliver it through their music.
Come on this should be in the top 5!
This should be in the top ten, this shows true American brutal death metal band