Best Heavy Metal bands and best songs?

I'll lead off with the obvious...

Iron Maiden and The Number of the Beast and Run to the Hills.

CRANK IT UP. You know you wanna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAzyx8EsKU

I might not be a big fan of Iron Maiden (prefer Metallica or Pantera even) but Run To The Hills is a great song. I just love to play it on bass or drums though I hardly have enough energy to play it on drums

Audioslave - Cochise. Simply awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRmsozHKL3c

I like that song. Audioslave are pretty damn good but I was disappointed when I watched a DVD with one of their concerts. The vocals were crap.

I like that song. Audioslave are pretty damn good but I was disappointed when I watched a DVD with one of their concerts. The vocals were crap.

It's a classic, I'm going to see Chris Cornell on the 5th September @ Rock City, Nottingham the vocals better be spot on then or I'll be proper pissed off.

I like that song. Audioslave are pretty damn good but I was disappointed when I watched a DVD with one of their concerts. The vocals were crap.

It's a classic, I'm going to see Chris Cornell on the 5th September @ Rock City, Nottingham the vocals better be spot on then or I'll be proper pissed off.

I hope they'll be spot on because I've always thought that Cornell has a great voice so I hope he's superb live. Have fun on 5th september

I like that song. Audioslave are pretty damn good but I was disappointed when I watched a DVD with one of their concerts. The vocals were crap.

It's a classic, I'm going to see Chris Cornell on the 5th September @ Rock City, Nottingham the vocals better be spot on then or I'll be proper pissed off.

I hope they'll be spot on because I've always thought that Cornell has a great voice so I hope he's superb live. Have fun on 5th september

Cheers mate.

Not really a big fan of Metal and therefore the ones I do like tend to be fairly mainstream and obvious ones. SO without further ado I would say the ones I do like are (also I am not including stuff like Zeppelin as Metal as I consider that to be a) Rock and a class above Metal

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner

AC/DC - let There be Rock

Motorhead - Ace of Spades (an appearance on The Young Ones is worth 1,000,000 album sales and three world tours!)

Iron Maiden- Fear of the Dark, Run to the Hills

Metallica - One, Seek and Destroy

Pantera - Suicide Note

Deep Purple - Speed King, HIghway Starr

If Deep Purple counts as metal: Child In Time, Fireball

More ponce rock, not metal but it certainly was a great few years of my early teens listening to this stuff/crap. its a right of passage for any teenage boy to like rock at some stage!!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DVTktiEVboU

for those that havent read 'The Dirt' - read it. Now!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pieI3ctfMfM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ITwtMEc_FwI

to be fair some of this stuff led me onto Janes Addiction, Faith No More etc which in turn led me to The Pixies and Husker Du so it all worked out for the best!

Does Guns n Roses count as Metal? If so they surly have to go down as one of the best.

audioslave is rubbish, cannot believe that 3/4 of a great band would go on to do audioslave

Do the Welsh wonders "Goldie Lookin' Chain" count as metal?

Hard to tell the best but these are certainly amongst my favourites

METALLICA - Wherever I may Roam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8bixXnEDY

RATM - Know Your Enemy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7LliDGIImA

TOOL - Hooker With a Penis

TOOL - Jimmy

I've finally seen Tool live two weeks ago and it was f**king awesome

Love "Wherever I May Roam" too. Great song and it's really nice to play on drums or guitar (though I haven't learnt the entire song yet ).

Calling Mike O...waiting for the definitive list from you, mate!

PS: Moos, here's something just for you, mate. Should put a smile on your face!

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Manowar - Hail and Kill, Power of my Sword, Today is a Good Day to Die

Helloween - Future World, Revolution Now

Judas Priest - Painkiller, Night Crawler, Touch of Evil

Also some others that don't immediately come to mind...

Is Deep Purple really metal? I suppose Highway Star is messy enough.

Anything by AC/DC or GNR for me, although some of my favourite GNR songs wouldn't be classed as metal.