It has been a while since ive made a list, so for my next list im going to make, it shall be the top 20 greatest metal bands. this is just the heads up, the actual list shall come by the end of the day.
note: nothing about this list is official at all, but has been compiled by me, and many other fellow music critics around my local area
I'm just going on personal favorites rather than influence. 1. Vanden Plas 2. Symphony X 3. Evergrey 4. Seventh Wonder 5. Kamelot 6. Sonata Arctica 7. Eternal Tears of Sorrow 8. Opeth 9. Ihsahn 10. Porcupine Tree 11. Adagio 12. Epica 13. Leprous 14. Avantasia 15. Conception 16. ARK 17. Above Symmetry 18. Haken 19. To-Mera 20. Cain's Offering
Whatever happened to Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest? Or Nightwish, which kind of sparked off an entire sub genre?
Zeppelin really isn't metal. Nightwish also arguably has predecessors, though not withing metal. New Trolls for example was a band in the 70s that made use of classical and symphonic elements. Really there is a small italian school of symphonic rock from that era. As well as the British band Renaissance's song Mother Russia. Given it's entirely possible that Nightwish was not aware of any of these bands, given a lot of its influence seems to be taken from musical theater.
I think the big four should be the top four, Metallica, Slayer,Megadeth, and Anthrax. the can't be beat!
The big four are really the important ones of the Thrash scene. The Thrash scene of course has huge influence, but I think it's important to factor in NWOBHM bands as well, particularly Iron Maiden, which had a much greater influence on the development of a lot of more European centered subgenres, particularly Power Metal, since my preference is with the European scene largely I'd probably consider Iron Maiden more important if anything. Though I think there are a lot of unspoken influences that people often don't think about. Fate's Warning and Queensryche are critical in the development of progressive metal and even Mike Portnoy points out that these bands were doing Dream Theater before Dream Theater was. Conception had quite an influence on both power metal and European progressive metal, though once again they are sort of an unsung hero. The only one particularly known from that band is Roy Khan as he continued onto Kamelot. Also while not really much of a metal player Allan Holdsworth has a huge influence on metal, as long as rock, he was Eddy VanHalen's favorite guitarist if I recall.
If sabbath and deep purple are the fathers of heavy metal then Queen is the mother. Queen was really the only ones getting rid of the bull**** combining speed and punk rock into a precursor to heavy metal and even speed metal.
If sabbath and deep purple are the fathers of heavy metal then Queen is the mother. Queen was really the only ones getting rid of the bull**** combining speed and punk rock into a precursor to heavy metal and even speed metal.
I agree Queen is oven an under appreciated precursor to metal. Even the vocal harmonies they use, while you're not going to see things like that in your typical thrash song, especially on European metal scene slightly more recently you see a whole bunch of Queen influence in the vocals. I mean, Sonata Arctica's White Pearl, Black Oceans being a particularly obvious example of Queen influence (though you really see it with Sonata a lot with the later albums).
Though it's funny listening to Stone Cold Crazy now with speed metal in mind, granted, even for my own guitar playing skills it is not so fast.
