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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Top 10 Most Influential Metal Bands

The music style of these bands have influenced the music style of the popular metal bands of today. Their contributions in the history of metal and evolution of metal music remains incompensable. If it were the best bands list, it would be very different. The 10 most influential bands in the metal scene are:



1. Iron Maiden
Up the irons!!
The metal gods have their influence on most of the bands at present regardless of whether they are black metal, melodeath, powermetal or anything. Their lyrics, music and vocals all together set a great impact on the metal music of today.

2. Black Sabbath
Bloody Sabbaths are the father of metal music who gave origin to such an amazing genre.

3. Judas Priest
They are characterized by their high pitched vocals, twin lead guitars, fast lead and rhythm guitar playing and dense bass and drums. Judas Priest has dominated the NWOBHM scene since its' inception.

4. Metallica


5. Motorhead


6. Death


7. Megadeth


8. Slayer


9. Manowar


10. Pantera

1 comments:

Brian said...

Replace Metallica with Diamond Head seeing that they totally ripped them off and would not exist without them. Maybe replace Pantera with Venom as Pantera would not exist w/o Metallica. Also Slayer is there coz of Venom. I also think Black Sabbath deserves first place even though I prefer Maiden.

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