Mine?
 
 

I don't mean to undermine your list but I don't see any Kyuss or Queens of the Stone Age. Something must be wrong.

Time to get some real metal up in here.
 
 

I normally never post anything but the lack of any Nevermore on a metal post is blasphemy, imho :)
 
 
 
  

My top 2:
 

1. Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
2. Breaking the Law - Judas Priest

I'm pretty picky when it comes to music and even I can't norrow it down to 3 favorites, I'll just post a few that I like. . .  
 
Pavor - Furioso (The only Death metal band I listen too. All the rest get boring for me after a matter of just weeks. But I've being listening to this album for almost a year now)
 

" On a very deep personal level, the majority of this thread fails...and I feel the need to flag it for the failure that some of it contains.  Seriously...  Bullet for my Valentine? Job for a Cowboy? Carnifex? As I Lay Dying? BTMH? The Faceless? ...I just...I mean, I like Protest and Gojira and As I Lay Dying and a lot of the new metal wave that's around at the moment.  However, when someone says "greatest", I don't understand how this thread isn't possibly flooded with more Black Sabbath, Slayer, Anthrax, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Nile, Megadeth, Death, Nevermore, Metallica, etc.  A thread like this kind of makes me feel ashamed to be a metalhead...because it seems that people have forgotten that metal isn't about screaming intelligible bullshit that they try to call poetry into a microphone and play a guitar super fast while hitting the snare drum five thousand times in less than ten seconds.  "

" @jakob187 said:

" On a very deep personal level, the majority of this thread fails...and I feel the need to flag it for the failure that some of it contains.  Seriously...  Bullet for my Valentine? Job for a Cowboy? Carnifex? As I Lay Dying? BTMH? The Faceless? ...I just...I mean, I like Protest and Gojira and As I Lay Dying and a lot of the new metal wave that's around at the moment.  However, when someone says "greatest", I don't understand how this thread isn't possibly flooded with more Black Sabbath, Slayer, Anthrax, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Nile, Megadeth, Death, Nevermore, Metallica, etc.  A thread like this kind of makes me feel ashamed to be a metalhead...because it seems that people have forgotten that metal isn't about screaming intelligible bullshit that they try to call poetry into a microphone and play a guitar super fast while hitting the snare drum five thousand times in less than ten seconds.  "

Couldn't agree with you more "

Here's some of my favorites:
 

" I can't stand metal anymore. I went through a metal phase for awhile but then grew out of it."

" I normally never post anything but the lack of any Nevermore on a metal post is blasphemy, imho :)
 
 
 
  

  
  
 
 

    
  

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• "My Last Serenade" by Killswitch Engage
• "Take This Life" by In Flames
• "Blood and Thunder" by Mastodon
• "11th Hour" by Lamb of God

  By no means my top 3 these are just songs that I can always come back to because there awesome.

Yo why isn't Until it Sleeps by Metallica on this list

am i doin it right?  

" @jakob187: I agreed with you right up until you started namedropping bands like Killswitch Engage, Sikth, Lamb Of God, Demon Hunter, In Flames, etc as being the only metal bands these days that have written "great" songs. And then you continue insulting other equally awful but similar bands. Ugh, seriously?
 
I can understand your affinity for the classic bands but I'm completely baffled how somebody who listens to Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath can consider anything those bands you mentioned have written as "great". In Flames maybe, as long as we're talking songs like "Jotun" or "Artifacts of the Black Rain", but that's about it.
 
Where are bands like Candlemass, Amorphis, Nevermore, Opeth, Katatonia, Isis, Insomnium, Primordial, Moonsorrow, The Ocean, Reverend Bizarre, Symphony X, Sigh, Enslaved, Agalloch, Kalmah, Mercenary, etc? And this is just me randomly throwing out a handful of bands that have released several prominent and highly revered metal releases in the past 10 years. There's a lot more to be found beneath the surface of the mainstream metal-core movement. "

This thread had 666 views just now (im 667) 
 
thats METAWWWLLLL

I'm more of a symphony and power metal guy, so I would say probably Epica or Nightwish. I still appreciate other genres of metal, such as Metallica, Blind Guardian, Demons and Wizards, Dream Theater, Drist, Alestorm, Iced Earth, along with a couple of others.

  
  Here's my top 3: 

On second thought, how about I swap out Cryptopsy for some better music and bump protest the Hero to 2nd...

My top five at the moment (in no particular order):

The amount of metal I listen to is limited. Folk, black, and progressive metal are pretty good, but I'm mostly listening to other genres.