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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Labels
  1. 1
    Progressive rock, Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Death metal, Progressive metal, Technical death metal, Doom metal More
    Stockholm
    Still Life, Morningrise, Ghost Reveries, Apostle In Triumph, Opeth's untitled ninth studio album, Burden, Blackwater Park, Demo '91, Blackwater Park / Deliverance, My Arms, Your Hearse, The Roundhouse Tapes, Still Day Beneath the Sun, Deliverance, The Candlelight Years, Watershed, In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003, Orchid, The Grand Conjuration, Damnation, Opeth Box Set, Opeth The Wooden Box, Heritage, The Drapery Falls More
    Koch Records, Century Media Records, Peaceville Records, Roadrunner Records, Candlelight Records, Music For Nations More
  2. 2
    Heavy metal, Alternative metal, Metalcore, Nu metal, Melodic death metal More
    Gothenburg
    Subterranean, Whoracle, Reroute to Remain: Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity, A Sense of Purpose, Used and Abused: In Live We Trust, 8 Songs, Lunar Strain, The Quiet Place, Colony, The Jester Race / Black-Ash Inheritance, Come Clarity, The Tokyo Showdown: Live in Japan 2000, Trigger, The Jester Race, The Mirror's Truth, Best Flames, Alias, Soundtrack to Your Escape, Clayman, 10th Studio album, Sounds of a Playground Fading, Lunar Strain / Subterranean, Cloud Connected, Artifacts of In Flames, Black-Ash Inheritance, Used & Abused... In Live We Trust, DEMO '93, Come Clarity - EP, Deliver Us More
    Koch Records, Century Media Records, Nuclear Blast, Regain Records, Ferret Records More
  3. 3
    Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal, Progressive metal
    New York
    Falling Into Infinity, The Making of Scenes From a Memory, The Silent Man, Score: 20th Anniversary World Tour, When Dream and Day Unite, Awake Demos 1994, Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs), A Dramatic Turn of Events, Mosaic, When Demos and Singles Unite, Gigantour 2005, Through Her Eyes, 1996-12-14: Old Bridge, New Jersey, When Dream and Day Unite Demos 1987-1989, The Majesty Demos 1985-1986, Live at the Marquee, Falling Into Infinity Demos 1996-97, 1998-05-18: Los Angeles, CA, USA, Awake, Octavarium, Images and Words Demos 1989-1991, Cleaning Out the Closet, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Hollow Years, A Change of Seasons, Scenes from a Memory, Train of Thought, A Sort of Homecoming, Live at Budokan, Systematic Chaos, Images and Words: Live in Tokyo, The Awake Demos 1994, The Number of the Beast, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, The String Quartet Tribute to Dream Theater, Chaos in Motion 2007–2008, Progressive Nation 2008, Live Scenes From New York, Another Day, Majesty Demos, Images and Words, A Rite of Passage, The Covers 2, 1995-10-28: Tokyo, Japan, Once in a LIVEtime, When Dream and Day Reunite, Acoustic at the Electric Factory, Made in Japan, New York City 3/4/93, Uncovered 2003-2005, Dream Theater's Greatest Hit, 5 Years in a Livetime, Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York, Instrumental III: No Sleep Since Brooklyn, Lifting Shadows, Instrumental II: Your Brain on Our Music, Trial of Singles, Through Her Eyes, Subconscious: Gold Edition, Stranger Than Fiction, Instrumental I, Lie, Wither, Live at the Marquee, The Making of Falling Into Infinity, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Antiquities, Precious Dreams More
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Elektra Records, Atlantic Records, Roadrunner Records, Atco Records, East West Records More
  4. 4
    Heavy metal, Death metal, Progressive metal, Metalcore, Technical death metal, Deathcore, Mathcore More
    North Carolina
    Between the Buried and Me, The Silent Circus, Between the Buried and Me, The Great Misdirect, Best Of, Alaska, Colors, The Anatomy Of, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, Demo, Colors, Colors More
    Victory Records, Metal Blade Records, Lifeforce Records
  5. 5
    Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Melodic death metal
    Halmstad
    Anthems of Rebellion, The Root of All Evil, Black Earth, Revolution Begins, Tyrants of the Rising Sun, Khaos Legions, Burning Bridges, Wages of Sin, Burning Angel, Live Apocalypse, Dead Eyes See No Future, Burning Japan Live 1999, Stigmata, Manifesto of Arch Enemy, Wages of Sin, Doomsday Machine, Tyrants of the Rising Sun: Live in Japan, Arch Enemy Bootlegs, Rise of the Tyrant More
    Century Media Records, Regain Records
  6. 6
    Heavy metal, Black metal, Speed metal, Symphonic metal, Power metal, Melodic death metal, Neo-classical metal More
    Espoo
    Trashed, Lost & Strungout, Hatebreeder, Hate Me!, In Your Face, Follow the Reaper, Skeletons in the Closet, Something Wild, Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout Live, Trashed, Lost & Strungout, Hate Crew Deathroll, Downfall, Blooddrunk, Children of Bodom, Hellhounds on My Trail, Relentless Reckless Forever, Blooddrunk, Bestbreeder From 1997 to 2000, Tokyo Warhearts, You're Better Off Dead!, Chaos Ridden Years: Stockholm Knockout Live, Are You Dead Yet?, Are You Dead Yet?, Needled 24/7, Are You Dead Yet?, Children of Bodom's 6th Studio Album More
    Century Media Records, Nuclear Blast, Spinefarm Records
  7. 7
    Heavy metal, Technical death metal, Melodic death metal, Deathcore
    Oakland
    The Price of Existence, Hate, Malice, Revenge, Awaken the Dreamers, This Is Where It Ends More
    Nuclear Blast
  8. 8
    Heavy metal, Progressive metal, Technical death metal, Melodic death metal, Deathcore, Mathcore More
    Encino
    Akeldama, Planetary Duality, Akeldama
    The End Records
  9. 9
    Heavy metal, Death metal, Progressive metal, Metalcore, Technical death metal, Deathcore, Mathcore More
    Chicago
    Rosecrance, The New Reign, A Higher Place, The Discovery
  10. 10
    Heavy metal, Death metal, Metalcore, Extreme metal, Melodic death metal, Deathcore More
    Detroit, Waterford Township
    Deflorate, Ritual, Majesty, A Cold-Blooded Epitaph, What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse, Miasma, Unhallowed, Nocturnal, Nocturnal More
    Metal Blade Records

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  1. Noble
    Best Metal Bands of All Time at 6/07/2010 8:56 PM
    Should be a best of death metal list.
  2. John Barryman
    Best Metal Bands of All Time at 5/07/2010 9:18 AM
    what makes metal bands appealing to your ears?
  3. Clark Benson
    Best Metal Bands of All Time at 5/07/2010 9:13 AM
    you need to kick it old school at least a bit if you are gong to label "alltime" - the real matt damon, being about 40yrs old, would have more than one band who was even kicking it in the 80s, let alone the glorious Sabbath/UFO 70s :)
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