Top 10 Black Metal Bands

The 10 best black metal bands are:

1. Darkthrone
2. Mayhem
3. Emperor
4. Celtic Forest
5. Immortal
6. Burzum
7. Cradle of Filth
8. Dimmu Borgir
9. Behemoth
10. Enslaved

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Top 10 Cradle of Filth Songs

The 10 best songs from the English black metal band (COF) are:

1. Cruelty Brought thee Orchids
2. Nymphetamine (fix)
3. From The Cradle To Enslave
4. Malice Through The Looking Glass
5. Hallowed Be thy Name (Iron Maiden covere)
6. Dusk And Her Embrace
7. Funeral In Carpathia
8. Saffron's curse
9. Bathory Aria
10. Absinthe with Faust / Gabrielle

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Top 10 Iron Maiden Songs

The English Heavy metal band Iron Maiden has been constantly producing good music after its formation in 1975. The 10 best iron maiden songs are:

1. Wasting Love
2. Fear Of the Dark
3. The Trooper
4. Hallowed be thy Name
5. 2 AM 
6. Como Estias Amigo
7. Strange worlds
8. No prayer for dying
9. Mother Russia
10. Phantom Of the Opera

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Top 10 Children of Bodom Songs

You can never be a metal freak until you listen Children Of Bodom's songs. The 10 best Children of Bodom (COB) Songs are:

1. Bodom After Midnight
2. Lake Bodom
3. Are you dead yet?
4. In Your Face
5. Bed Of Razors
6. Six Pounder
7. Every Time I Die
8. Chidren Of Bodom
9. Banned From Heaven
10. Hate Me

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Top 5 Metallica Instrumentals

Not the top 10 but a list of top 5 instrumental songs by metallica this time:

1. Orion (Master Of Puppets):
It was played at Cliff Burton's funeral after he passed away on September 27, 1986. Cliff Burton had played a large role in writing this song. Cliff Burton used his bass in such a way that there are 2 bass solos in this song that are commonly confused as guitar solos. The first begins at 1:42 and continues on until 2:13. The second is found much later in the song after the bass Interlude. It begins at 6:36 and continues until 6:55. The opening sounds were achieved by Cliff using a wah wah pedal on his bass. Kirk, James and Cliff all show the hight of their soloing skills.

2. To Live is to Die ( And Justice For All ):
This song that makes you want to cry is a tribute to Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a tour bus crash. It is an instrumental except the spoken word piece near the end - a poem that Cliff wrote before he died.These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing,each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,and hell walks laughing.

3. The Call Of Ktulu ( Ride the Lightning):
It was inspired by the story "The Call Of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft. It was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton and original Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine. Metallica recorded this with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for their 1999 album S&M. That version won a Grammy for best rock instrumental. The intro to Hangar 18 by Megadeth is actually all of the arpeggios from the intro, and later on in the song strummed and held like chords. The verse and chorus to Hangar 18 are harmonized, but they're still the same notes taken out of Ktulu. The only difference between Hangar 18 and Ktulu are the solo parts. The reason they spelt it "Ktulu" instead of "Chtulhu" might have been because Lovecraft wrote that no mortal man could write or speak the name of the beast. 'The thing that should not be' can be seen as a continuation for the call of Ktulu. Ktulu was the name of a Dungeons and Dragons character used by Cliff Burton - as stated in Metallica's book "So What".

4. Pulling Teeth ( Kill em' All ):
The whole song is a bass instrumental played by Cliff Burton. This song is regarded as one of the greatest bass performance of all time. The whole song is played by bass guitar but still it sounds great. This song is also known as "Anesthesia"

5. Suicide and Redemption ( Death Magnetic):
Beginning with the bass you expect it to be as good as orion or better but this may disappoint you. Simply, this song is not good as an instrumental and when you are listening, it constantly brings the feeling that the song lacks vocals. The only memorable part of the song would be the melodic solo by Hetfield towards the middle of the song.

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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

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Top 10 Metal Bands

You shall never know how vast is this genre called Metal music unless you start listening to it. It is constantly evolving and the bands possess wide variation in their music. Whatsoever the best 10 metal bands of all time:

1. Opeth
2. Iron Maiden
3. Metallica
4. Evergrey
5. Megadeth
6. Pantera
7. Black Sabbath
8. Dream Theater
9. Nightwish
10. Cradle of Filth

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